Johnny’s Sandbox
Johnny’s Sandbox
2010
On January 1st, 2010, Dan McClure noted on Facebook that the year was starting off nicely: Mary’s lost wallet had been returned and, in what seemed a positive sign: his rosemary was in bloom. I shot back that I thought that seemed like a good title for a song and that if he’d write the lyrics, I’d write a song.
Well - he posted the lyrics there on Facebook the next day and so the game was afoot. I had a partial version of the song by the 4th, and with Dan and John’s input, a complete version recorded by the end of the month.
This version is from January 31st, a “sketch” to try out a few ideas. It’s probably slower than we’ll wind up doing it, but most likely the song will go on hold for a while - we may well pick up on this at JDJ-4 - whenever that happens.
© 2010 Dan McClure, Johnny Klonaris
Lyrics: Dan
Music: Johnny
Jan 31, 2010
Rosemary’s in Bloom
The flower that relaunched our writing. Dan and I hadn’t written a song together in maybe 30 years. Time will tell where this leads. Photo by Dan.