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George Santayana had irrational faith in reason - I have irrational faith in TV.
Chuck Todd interviews me about alternate histories
Hey, it's rare that I review a 20+ minute movie, and even more rare (as in never before) a "Director's Cut" of a movie I've reviewed before. But I can almost never resist a time-travel narrative, and seeing as how I enjoyed Decades Apart, literally a week less than a year ago (here's my review), I couldn't resist the brand new "Noir" aka Director's Cut of Andrew Di Pardo's little movie.
The story, in case you didn't read my review last year or see the movie, is about a phone call from a train station in 1953 that lands in a home in 2018. The caller is Diane. The receiver is Nathan, who takes the call on the landline kept in the house for his grandmother. The conversation that ensues is savvy, tender, deep, and endearing.
It also occurred to me, as I was just watching this new cut, that the story of a possible couple who get to know each other only via phone, separated not by miles but something much more impenetrable -- decades -- has special relevance to our pandemic times, perhaps now just beginning to come to an end, as more and more of us get vaccinated, after more than a year in which the only way most of us could relate to each other, unless we already were living together, was via Zoom. When Nathan rushes over to the train station near the end of the movie to finally see and with any luck embrace Diane, they can talk and see each, but their hands, as they reach out to touch, are separated by some temporal barrier far more potent than social distancing.
Now the old-fashioned phone, as media theorists (including me as a doctoral student) realized back in the 1970s, is a profoundly personal, even intimate, instrument, in which the speaker's mouth goes right into the listener's ear. That's much more personal, all the time, than a Zoom or any video conversation usually is. So because of that, Diane and Nathan already have a lot going for them.
And there's a power in this Director's Cut, as in the pre-pandemic original, that stems from this telephonic connection, and makes you believe that Diane could be talking to the future, and Nathan to the past. It's what I had in mind when I wrote "If I Traveled to the Past" (I wrote the lyrics, John Anealio wrote the music) in 2010, and recorded it for Old Bear Records in late 2018 (released in 2020). It's what I had in mind in every time travel novel and short story I've ever written.
Deborah Hahn was good as Diane, and Martin Tylicki as Nathan, as they were in the original (of course they were, it's the same performance). The original is still on Amazon, and I saw the new Noir Cut on YouTube. I have no idea if that link will work for you, or how long, but with any luck you won't have to travel too far into the future to see it.
Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time - digital, CD, vinyl
“Welcome Up” (words and music by Paul Levinson, 1968, 2018)
Hiding behind a raindrop
Shyly opening her sweet milk-chocolate eyes
Sleepily peeking out from dreams nine times her size
Welcome up
Stories below her window
She sees people puttering like pebbles on the street
Sunshine buttering the sidewalk ‘neath their feet
Welcome up
Always reaching for the source
Always reaching something lost
Gliding beyond the same drop
Stars are clear as day although it’s just past noon
Moons are plentiful and every crow’s in tune
Soaring above the sunbow
Light’s an avenue for worlds that may found
Life is teeming there in every crazy sound
Welcome up
Always reaching for the source
Always reaching what was lost
Riding until she can’t stop
Never in reverse, her trip is set on send
What is the universe and just where does it end?
Where does it end?
“If I Traveled to the Past” (words by Paul Levinson, music by John Anealio, 2010)
If I traveled to the past
to change your mind
so you loved me then, and you loved me now,
would I have known to travel back in the first place?
If I traveled back so fast
that the world was blind
could I slip through time, could I slip the vine
of paradox that turns the best into the worst case?
It ain’t simple, it ain’t right
To turn the sun into the darkest night
If I could make it work, just one time
I could have it all, I could have you mine
If I traveled to the past
I would never tell
a single soul, my lips would be sealed
except when they brushed against your sweet face
If I traveled to the past
to change your mind
so you loved me then, and you loved me now, how
would I have known to travel back in the first place?
It ain’t simple, it ain’t right
To turn the sun into the darkest night
If I could make it work, just one time
I could have it all, I could have you mine
If only I could travel back through time
If only I could travel back through time ….
“Samantha” (words and music by Paul Levinson, 2005, 2018)
Samantha, can’t ya see
There’s no way lovin’ me’s
Gonna work for you
Yeah that’s sad but true
Samantha, fantasy
Is so sweet when it’s free
But our bill’s past due
Not much we can do
You come from an alternate dimension
That’s what makes you so appealing
That’s what puts me on the ceiling
You come from an infinite extension
They’ll pull you back there any time
Pull you back there on a dime
Samantha, dance with me
But don’t think that we’ll be
On the floor next year
Cause you won’t be near
Samantha, chances we
Could drift way out to sea
And it won’t be clear
If you’re really here
Your love just won’t survive inspection
Doesn’t matter what we’re feeling
All that matters is what’s real and
Your love’s just an astral projection
I can’t do the time
You can’t do the crime
Against reality
Samantha can’t you see
That we’re inside out
We can’t twist and shout
No, no, Samantha …
“Tau Ceti” (words by Paul Levinson, music by John Anealio, 2010)
Tau Ceti
oh ya let me
go too fast, throw my past
to the winds and the fates of a sheer empty space
Tau Ceti
your doors met me
open wide, broke the ride
in the swirls to the gates of an unfathomed place
(bridge)
Everything’s bright at the speed of light
But I can’t tell if it’s cloudy or clear
Plato said we can only know what we already know
But he never took a spaceship out here
Tau Ceti
no force set me
on this course, found and lost
I came to your chill of my own free will
Tau Ceti
don’t forget me
when I leave, just a leaf
that blew through the halls of your soft cosmic squalls
“Picture Postcard World” (words and music by Paul Levinson, 1968)
Two people lounging in an air-conditioned room
filled with pushbutton perfume
and plastic petals always in full bloom
Two people gazing at a 98-inch screen
living color fills the scene
in electric shades of morning blue serene
(chorus)
We live in a picture postcard world
We do
They sent us a picture postcard, girl
It’s true
Where everything’s perfect but
nothing is real
Though our lives seem ideal
We’re unable to feel
Two people taking breakfast with a high-tech shake
just like grandma used to make
And for dinner there’ll be cybernetic steak
Two people playing hard at all the latest sports
Up and down the plasma courts
A sound mind must dwell in a sound body of course
(repeat chorus)
Two people …
“I Knew You By Heart” (words by Paul Levinson, music by Peter Rosenthal, 2000)
The breeze that blew through your hair
when we passed on the street
The way you smiled when I stared
like you knew that we’d meet
It’s like we’ve been there before
But we’ve got to have more
It’s long overdue that we start
(chorus 1)
I knew you by heart
I knew you by heart
I knew you (by heart)
The sun that plays on your face
when I’m touching your cheek
The way it falls into place
every time that we speak
It’s way too strange to explain
but we’re right as the rain
It’s like we were never apart
(chorus 2)
I knew you by heart
No learning curve babe with you
I knew just what I should do
The first time out there’s no doubt
I knew you by heart
No point in playing a part
No point in being too smart
I loved you right from the start
I knew you (by heart)
(bridge)
Some day, something could go wrong
It’s true
No way that it could last too long
Cause you, you, you, you, you
(chorus 3)
Would know me by heart
No learning curve babe with you
I knew just what I should do
The first time out there’s no doubt
I knew you by heart
No point in playing a part
No point in being too smart
I loved you right from the start
I knew you by heart…
“Alpha Centauri” (words by Paul Levinson, music by Peter Rosenthal, 2000)
Think of a place
far away as can be
and I’d still be thinking of you
Way out in space
beyond any sea
You’d still be the dream that was true
(chorus)
‘Round Alpha Centauri
You’re still the most beautiful star
Around Alpha Centauri
Our love can reach that far
Our love can reach that far
Light years from home
far away as can be
but I could be back in a flash
Worlds that I’ve known
mean nothing to me
Hey baby, you don’t have to ask
(repeat chorus)
(bridge)
From Alpha Centauri
I send you my story
’til I am no longer away
‘Round Alpha Centauri
there’s no need to worry
My love will grow stronger each day
(repeat chorus)
“Cloudy Sunday” (words by Paul Levinson, music by Linda Kaplan Thaler, 1968)
Cloudy Sunday
I wake to find you gone
Cloudy Sunday
The bed I sleep upon is strangely smooth and white
touched only by me and the empty night
Cloudy Sunday
A fog upon my brain
Cloudy Sunday
condenses into rain and tears begin to swell
But you couldn’t tell that I loved you well
(bridge)
So we loved each other in passing
But I’ll keep searching for something more lasting
Like the poet, looking, for the once in a lifetime rhyme
Cloudy Sunday
I glimpse a distant form
Cloudy Sunday
I sense that she is warm but question what I feel
Reflection of me or something more real
Cloudy Sunday …
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Where to get most of this music: Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time: digital, vinyl, CD
Welcome to LightOnLightThrough, Episode 122, in which I play for you the entire interview, along with the music, which Patrick Rands did with me the other day (January 21, 2020) on his show Abstract Terrain on WZBC Radio out of Boston (Newton, MA, to be more exact). You may recall that Patrick interviewed me in 2005 about Twice Upon A Rhyme and all the other music I had out in various corners of the world back then. That interview became episode 79 on Light On Light Through in 2010. The new interview spotlights my new album Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time, being released right now on digital. vinyl, and CD by Old Bear Records (see links below; limited vinyl being distributed by Light In the Attic). Patrick also plays some lesser known songs from Twice Upon A Rhyme, and all kinds of demos and singles of my music over the years he's dug up in his inimitable way. Enjoy -- and here's the playlist if you want to follow along:
1. "Samantha" Paul Levinson (words & music by Paul Levinson, 2018) from Welcome Up, Old Bear Records, 2020
2. "Alpha Centauri" Paul Levinson (words by Paul Levinson, music by Peter Rosenthal, 2000) from Welcome Up, Old Bear Records, 2020
3. "Alpha Centauri" Peter Rosenthal (words by Paul Levinson, music by Peter Rosenthal, 2000) studio demo
4. "Picture Postcard World" Paul Levinson (words & music by Paul Levinson, 1968) from Welcome Up, Old Bear Records, 2020
5. "Picture Postcard World" The Definitive Rock Chorale (words & music by Paul Levinson, 1968) single released on Decca Records, 1968
6. "If I Traveled to the Past" Paul Levinson (words by Paul Levinson, music by John Anealio, 2010) from Welcome Up, Old Bear Records, 2020
7. "Welcome Up" Paul Levinson (words & music by Paul Levinson, 2018) from Welcome Up, Old Bear Records, 2020
8. "Tau Ceti" Paul Levinson (words by Paul Levinson, music by John Anealio, 2010) from Welcome Up, Old Bear Records, 2020
9. "Cloudy Sunday" Paul Levinson (words by Paul Levinson, music by Linda Kaplan, 1968) from Welcome Up, Old Bear Records, 2020
10. "Cloudy Sunday" Linda Kaplan (words by Paul Levinson, music by Linda Kaplan, 1968) studio demo
11. "Antique Shop (The Coming of Winter)" Paul Levinson (words by Paul Levinson, music by Peter Rosenthal, 1968) from Twice Upon A Rhyme, HappySad Records, 1972
12. "I'm Seeing You in a Different Light" Paul Levinson (words by Paul Levinson, music by Ed Fox, 1969 ) from Twice Upon A Rhyme, HappySad Records, 1972
13. "Ring Around My Rosie" Protozoa (words & music by David Fox, 1968), single released on Buddah Records (produced by Paul Levinson, Herb Abramson, and Ed Fox), 1968
14. "My Pink Hippopotamus" Protozoa (words & music by David Fox, 1968), single released on Buddah Records (produced by Paul Levinson, Herb Abramson, and Ed Fox), 1968
15. "Merri Goes Round" Sundial Symphony (= Don Frankel & Robbie Rist) (words by Paul Levinson, music by Ed Fox, 1969), single released on Big Stir Records, 2019
16. "Merri Goes Round" Trousers (words by Paul Levinson, music by Ed Fox, 1969), single released on HappySad Records, 1969 and on Wizdom Records, 1969
17. "Hung Up On Love" The Other Voices (aka The New Outlook: Paul Levinson, Stu Nitekman, Ira Margolis) (words by Paul Levinson, music by Mikie Harris, 1968), single released on Atlantic Records, 1969
18. "Unbelievable (Inconceivable You)" The Vogues (words & music by Paul Levinson, 1968), unreleased single on Reprise Records
19. "Park at Night" Paul Levinson & Paul Gorman (words by Paul Levinson, music by Paul Gorman, 1963) studio demo
20. "Sunshine's Mine" The New Outlook (aka The Other Voices: Paul Levinson, Stu Nitekman, Ira Margolis) (words by Paul Levinson, music by Stu Nitekman, 1969) studio demo, 1966 (on Spun Dreams album, HappySad Records, 2010)
21. "Pictures on the Phone" Paul Levinson (words & music by Paul Levinson, 2020) home demo
Jeremy Thompson, Paul Levinson, Steve Padin, Chris Hoisington
Here's the set list for my 9 November 2019 (Saturday), 5:30-6pm performance at Philcon (in Cherry Hill, NJ, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel), room Plaza VI (Six) - the first public performance of songs from my new science fiction related album, Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time, produced by Chris Hoisington and to be released by Old Bear Records in early 2020:
If I Traveled to the Past (words by Paul Levinson, music by John Anealio)
Tau Ceti (Paul Levinson and John Anealio)
Samantha (Paul Levinson) Welcome Up (Paul Levinson)
Alpha Centauri (Paul Levinson and Peter Rosenthal)
Cloudy Sunday (Paul Levinson and Linda Kaplan)
I Knew You By Heart (Paul Levinson and Peter Rosenthal) Picture Postcard World (Paul Levinson)
The names in parentheses are the songwriters. I'll be singing all the songs, against backing tracks from my new album Welcome Up (to be released by Old Bear Records early in 2020) and two other songs from Twice Upon a Rhyme (Happysad Records, 1972). backing tracks for If I Traveled to the Past, Tau Ceti, Samantha, Alpha Centauri, Welcome Up, I Knew You By Heart, Picture Postcard World: guitars Jeremy Thompson, drums and keyboard Steven Carlos Padin, harmony and production Chris Hoisington, keyboard Anthony Hoisington, accordion Don Frankel
backing track for Cloudy Sunday: guitar Peter Rosenthal, piano Barbara Krupnick, harmony and production Chris Hoisington, production Paul Levinson more about my music:Reverbnation, Facebook, Bandcamp, Spotify
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The rest of the convention should be lots of fun, too. Here's my schedule:
Fri 6:00 PM in Executive Suite 623 (1 hour)
READINGS: PAUL LEVINSON, APRIL GREY, JAMES CAMBIAS (3723)
[Panelists: Paul Levinson (mod), April Grey, James L. Cambias] Note: I'll be reading from a brand new alternate-Beatles story, "It's Real Life," for the first time in public!
Fri 7:00 PM in Crystal Ballroom Promenade (Gaming) (1 hour)
AUTOGRAPHS: PAUL LEVINSON, APRIL GREY, JAMES CAMBIAS (3726)
[Panelists: Paul Levinson (mod), April Grey, James L. Cambias]
Sat 11:00 AM in Crystal Ballroom Two (1 hour)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS (3590)
[Panelists: Jeff Warner (mod), David Walton, Rebecca Robare, Anna
Kashina, Paul Levinson, Muriel Hykes]
Does “I think, therefore I am” apply to AI? Could it ever? How
could we tell if it happens
Sat 3:00 PM in Plaza V (Five) (1 hour)
JEWISH SCIENCE FICTION (3530)
[Panelists: Simone Zelitch (mod), Paul Levinson, Aaron Feldman, B.
Lana Guggenheim, Daniel Kimmel, Alex Shvartsman]
Is it a subgenre of its own? Plenty of Jews write SF, and plenty of
non-Jews incorporate Jewish history and elements of the Jewish
supernatural into their work. What can we learn from this
classification, and does it enrich or limit how we read
Sat 5:30 PM in Plaza VI (Six) (30 mins) Paul Levinson mini-concert
Sat 11:00 PM in Crystal Ballroom Two (1 hour)
GAME OF THRONES (3600)
[Panelists: Charlie Robertson (mod), Michael A. Ventrella, Muriel
Hykes, Paul Levinson]
It wouldn't be inaccurate to say that *everybody* lost when it comes
to the HBO adaptation. How should the show have ended? How might the
ending of the novels differ
Sun 12:00 PM in Crystal Ballroom Two (1 hour)
HOW FAR CAN YOU SUSPEND SOMEONE'S DISBELIEF? (3514)
[Panelists: Elektra Hammond (mod), Paul Levinson, Lawrence Kramer,
Julie Ann Dawson, Robert E. Waters]
How much can you ask a reader to take on faith before they can't
take your story seriously any more? Are there ways to get readers
willing to accept more challenging changes and assumptions? What
authors have succeed at pushing the boundaries without pushing their
readers out of the story
Off in a few days to Batavia, NY - Old Bear Records - to record a brand new album of my science fiction related songs with Chris L. Hoisington producing ... my first album of new songs since Twice Upon A Rhyme in 1972! Watch my music page on Facebook for progress reports, including photos and video clips from the studio.
I wrote the words and music to most of these songs, and collaborated with Linda Thaler, John Anealio Mazzarella, and Peter Rosenthal on several songs in which I wrote the lyrics and one of those fine composers the music.
Here's a list of the songs I'll be recording:
"Alpha Centauri" (words by Paul Levinson, music by Peter Rosenthal, 2000)
"Cloudy Sunday" (words by Paul Levinson, music by Linda Kaplan Thaler, 1968)
"I Knew You By Heart" (words by Paul Levinson, music by Peter Rosenthal, 2000)
"If I Traveled to the Past" (words by Paul Levinson, music by John Anealio, 2011)
"Picture Postcard World" (words and music by Paul Levinson, 1968)
"Samantha" (words and music by Paul Levinson, 2018)
"Tau Ceti" (words by Paul Levinson, music by John Anealio, 2011)
"Welcome Up (Hiding Behind a Raindrop)" (words and music by Paul Levinson, 2018)
I'll be touring in the Spring and Summer, performing these songs, mostly at science fiction conventions. Watch here and on my Facebook music page for announcements.
Writing science fiction and songs have been two of my lifelong passions. This anthology combines them, with a selection of my science fiction and fantasy stories that has music as a theme, and my lyrics that deal with far-off suns, robots, and time travel.
Table of Contents Prologue =stories= Marilyn and Monet The Harmony The Kid in the Video Store Ian, Isaac, and John Saving Lennon (from The Loose Ends Saga) The Suspended Fourth Sam’s Requests The Singing Pottery (from The Silk Code) =songs= Evening's Evergreen Morning A Piece of the Rainbow The Lama Will Be Late This Year Alpha Centauri Lime Streets Tau Ceti If I Traveled to The Past I Fell in Love with a Robot The First House on Mars =alternate equation #1=
Elvis, Ed, and Einstein
Science fiction and music have been two of my passions every since I was kid in the 1950s, when stories about space and time travel, and rock 'n' roll, were in their first, separate golden ages. But, for me, they were intertwined. I'd hear Roy Orbison's "Only the the Lonely" playing on someone's transistor radio as I walked to the Allerton Avenue branch of the New York Public Library to nab a copy of Isaac Asimov's The End of Eternity. I loved them - still love them - both. The music and the stories somehow both speak to unlimited, soaring possibilities.
In the years that followed, I've written a lot of science fiction, and a lot of songs. But rarely have the two been interconnected. Last year, though, I wrote a the lyrics to "If I Traveled to the Past," a time travel love song, for which John Anealio wrote the music and recorded this demo.
And, also last year, I wrote a story that I had come with just the title of nearly 20 years ago: "Sam's Requests". It's like nothing else I've ever written - a story about a battle in deep space in the distant future, connected to music here on Earth in the early 1960s. The 15-year old in me and my present self were delighted when Buzzy Mag accepted it for publication, where you can read it, here, any time, for free. You've heard of space opera? I think of "Sam's Requests" as space rock 'n' roll.
Enjoy ... and I think I'm going to listen to David Bowie's "Space Oddity" now.
***August 2015: Paul Levinson and Peter Rosenthal in concert at LI-Con2 (Ronkonkoma, NY)
***December 2009: All 13 tracks of Twice Upon a Rhyme available on iTunes and Amazon
*** December 2010: Whiplash/Salvation Records releases vinyl re-pressing of Twice Upon a Rhyme sold in record stores in New York City, Los Angeles, London, Manchester (UK), and Tokyo ... re-issued in September 2011
reviews of Twice Upon a Rhyme:
“Tim Hardin meets The Zombies ... a real forgotten gem from 1972 that serves as perfect listening on a Saturday morning in November ... warm and peaceful.”
“Twice Upon a Rhyme (Happysad ‘72): I’ve seen multitudes of folkpsych wannabes hyped to the skies for their garage charm in euro lists that don’t hold a candle to this baby. “Forever Friday” is so amazing and lo-fi real I still get chills when I hear it. And the long track “The Lama Will Be Late This Year” sweeps whatever floor is left in this department.”
“... mixes the psychedelic pop of the ‘60s, a dash of Simon & Garfunkel and some expansive and imaginative arrangements which recall the Beach Boys or even Burt Bacharach in places. There’s a real warmth and love running through these cuts ...”
"Superb fuzz guitar irresistibly drizzled across several tracks ... a memorable personality indelibly locked inside the grooves ... the perfect sound track for a lethargic spring day."
"romantic, sunshine happy Americana or bluesier ... a handful of good feeling summer breeze love songs ... a touch of Santana exotic elements and a lot more fuzz guitar ... melodic and harmony vocals"
scanned copy of a letter I wrote in September 1972 to a disk jockey in Syracuse, New York, about Twice Upon a Rhyme
***November 2008: Delighted to have signed a contract last week with Big Pink in Korea, for its reissue there of Twice Upon a Rhyme! Watch here for further details.
A local New York private pressing recorded between July 1969 and October 1971. At their best, Levinson and his crew produce dark, druggy pop music remindful of neighbors The Patron Saints or bayou obscuros Feather Da Gamba. Forever Friday, Looking For Sunsets and You Are Everywhere fit this profile. The Lama Will Be Late This Year is probably the most intriguing cut on the album, having as it does an oddly Syd Barrett-like delivery of the lyrics and some pretty unorthodox music with fuzz guitar leads.
***October 2009: Evan LeVine (Swan Fungus blog) interviews me about Twice Upon a Rhyme and more about the City Diner in New York City ... this is a short note about the interview
***November 2009: Rockit Scientist Records on St. Marks Place, New York City, stocks several copies of original 1972 vinyl Twice Upon a Rhyme
***November 2009: Jack Hobbes interviews me about my music for 40-minute podcast Out of the Bubbling Dusk
***December 2009: Pretty much the complete, frank interview that Evan LeVine conducted with me about my music, science fiction, life, much more in October 2009 ... this is the transcript, published on the WFMU blog
***December 2009: All 13 tracks of Twice Upon a Rhyme available on iTunes and Amazon
*** December 2010: Whiplash/Salvation Records releases vinyl re-pressing of Twice Upon a Rhyme sold in record stores in New York City, Los Angeles, London, Manchester (UK), and Tokyo ... re-issued in September 2011
Donny Frankel: organ; Joe Szalacsi: trumpet; Israel Esquenazi, Sasha Humek: violins;
Boris Midney: saxophone, drums
Produced & Arranged by
Paul Levinson & Ed Fox
Paul Levinson - other than Twice Upon a Rhyme and The New Outlook
2018
The First House of Mars (words only - P. Levinson - no music as yet)
I Fell in Love with a Robot (words only - P. Levinson - no music as yet)
2011
If I Traveled to the Past (P. Levinson - J. Anealio) John Anealio, home demo
Tau Ceti (P. Levinson - J. Anealio) John Anealio and Paul Levinson, home demo
2006-2018
Lime Streets (Levinson) Paul Levinson, recorded live at WZBC Radio (2006)
2000
I Knew You By Heart (Levinson - Rosenthal) Peter Rosenthal, studio demo
Alpha Centauri (Levinson - Rosenthal) Peter Rosenthal, home demo
1972
Murray the K's Back in Town (Levinson) Paul Levinson, studio demo
1971
Merri-Goes-Round (Levinson - Ed Fox) Trousers, Paul harmony, Wizdom Records
Ring Around My Rosie (David Fox) Protozoa, Paul harmony, Buddah Records
1969
Sunshine Mind (Levinson) Donna Marie, Columbia Records (also recorded by the Fuzzy Bunnies, unreleased single on Decca Records)
Teacups and Tapestry (Levinson - Boris Midney) studio demo
Snow Flurries (Levinson - Jimmy Krondes) Good News, Paul harmony, Murbo Records
Sunday Princess (Levinson - Ed Fox) Joey Ward & Paul Levinson, studio demo
Unbelievable (Inconceivable You) (Levinson) The Vogues, Reprise Records (unreleased)
1968
Picture Postcard World (Levinson) Definitive Rock Chorale, Philips Records
Lemons and Limes (Levinson) Fuzzy Bunnies, Decca Records
Love Colored Glasses (Levinson - Harris) Mikie Harris, studio demo, later recorded by June Valli
Mr. Kringle (Levinson - Harris) studio demo
Teardrops Make No Sound (Levinson - Jimmy Krondes) studio demo, later recorded by June Valli, then Jimmy Clanton, then Irish singer Martin Flynn
Waking Up to Love (Levinson) studio demo
Skyscraper (Levinson - Kaplan) Linda Kaplan, studio demo
Cloudy Sunday (Levinson - Kaplan) Linda Kaplan, studio demo
A Piece of the Rainbow (Levinson - Kaplan) Linda Kaplan, studio demo
1963
The Park at Night (Levinson - Gorman) Paul Levinson (lead) and Paul Gorman, studio demo
Alphabet Baby (Gorman) Paul Levinson (lead) and Paul Gorman, studio demo
Notes:
1. "Merri-Goes-Round" produced by Paul Levinson and Ed Fox
2. "Ring Around My Rosie" produced by Paul Levinson, Ed Fox, and Herb Abramson
3. "Sunshine Mind" produced by Jimmy "Wiz" Wisner
4. "Unbelievable" produced by Dick Glasser
5. "Picture Postcard World" and "Lemons and Limes" produced by Ellie Greenwich and Mike Rashkow
Sundial Symphony (Donny Frankel and Robbie Rist) record Paul Levinson's music
2016 "Merri Goes Round" (P. Levinson - E. Fox) Robbie Rist lead, HappySad Records (digital) 2015 "Today Is Just Like You" (P. Levinson) Donny Frankel lead, HappySad Records (digital) 2013 "Looking for Sunsets (in the Early Morning)" (P. Levinson - E. Fox) Donny Frankel lead, HappySad Records (digital) Recordings of "Looking for Sunsets (in the Early Morning)" (P. Levinson - E. Fox) by other artists: Protozoa (Buddah Records, 1973), James Harris (demo, 2007), Jha Voice (demo, 2011), Catherine Asaro (demo, 2012), Sundial Symphony (HappySad Records, 2013)
