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Solo EP and Music Videos: "Hey Little Girl" and "Goodbye Jennifer"

• In 1994 I embarked on a solo recording project that ended up as a 2-song EP (extended play) cassette that was sold at local record stores in Los Angeles. Both songs were recorded by Steven Cook on a 6-track cassette.

• "Hey Little Girl" featured Scott Duncan on bass, David Goldman on guitars, Bill Grisolia on keys and backing vocals, and me on drums and lead vocals. This is re-write/re-make of my older home studio version of "Hey Little Girl" (hear original version in 'Home Studio' section) written about my love for my (then) 3-year old daughter Valeri Joy Godden.

• "Goodbye Jennifer" featured Lynn Grieves on bass guitar and lead/rhythm guitars, and me on drums and lead/backing vocals. The song is about a man's decision to leave his beautiful but unfaithful girlfriend.

• In 2006, using my TV producer license, I set up my drums in the television studio and recorded music videos to these songs.

Listen to "Hey Little Girl" and "Goodbye Jennifer"

(These are low audio quality, small file size versions of the original recordings)

"Hey Little Girl" (2:17, 2.1MB) (read the lyrics)

"Goodbye Jennifer" (2:48, 2.6MB) (read the lyrics)

Watch "Hey Little Girl" and "Goodbye Jennifer" Music Videos

(These are low video/audio quality versions of the original DVD-quality music videos, but file sizes are about 5MB.)

  Watch the "Hey Little Girl" music video

Notes: In keeping with the spirit of why this song was written (describing the joy of watching my daughters growing up) I selected a few dozen 3-second-long snippets from my family video archive and creatively interspersed them (in chronological order) throughout the 3-camera studio production of me drumming and singing along to my 1994 song "Hey Little Girl" (which was a re-write of the original 1987 version). This is a 3-minute version of a 21-minute "video diary" of Valeri Joy Godden and Alison Joy Godden growing up, which includes 400 3-second video snippets shown over a soundtrack of 11 music and voice recordings I made while the girls were growing up. (It's a wonderful DVD that's available to all family and friends.) 

  Watch the "Goodbye Jennifer" music video

Notes: This a a 4-camera studio production of me drumming and singing along to my 1994 song "Goodbye Jennifer," that has clips of some hilarious moments from my improv comedy TV show Not Quite Right interspersed throughout, with improv actress Eve Savona representing the beautiful-but-unfaithful Jennifer. Very funny.

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