ABOUT "END OF THE NIGHT"

The song "End of the Night", recorded on my CD "Home to Home", was the first song I ever wrote.  I wrote it a long time ago. Here's the story of how it came to be:

 I was coming home from an event in Boston with a friend, and the friend was upset with himself for not connecting with someone he had hoped to connect with at said function.  It was late.  I was tired.  I said to him "Don't worry, it's not the end of the world, it's only the end of the night."

He said something like "You are right!  And what you just said would make a great song.  Why don't you write a song about it?"

To which I replied, more or less,  "But I don't know how to write a song."

And so then I worked and worked and worked at writing a song.  And I wrote one, word by agonizing word.  But it was just a little song.  The aforementioned friend, whose name is lloyd Thayer, and who is a brilliant songwriter, helped me in a few parts where I was really stuck.  You'll see that he is listed as a co-writer on the song.  The best lines are his! But the tune is all from my head.

So now the song is done, and all these years later, I still quote myself!  If I find myself fretting over something, I just say to myself "it's not the end of the world, it's only the end of the night" or "nobody died from this" or something like that.

And that's how my first song was born.  It's all grown up now, living quietly on a CD.