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Greenberger, Spring, Child, Hashimoto
Take Me Where I Don't Know I Am

(PelPel Recordings, PP-8715, 2016)

1. Three Spaniels
2. Griddle with the Flapjack
3. No Foolin'
4. Good Night of Rest
5. Digging into Embarrassment
6. I Can't Tell You Everything
7. Spank Time
8. The Fires of Halloween
9. Water
10. This Weather
11. From Snakes to Jewelry
12. Santy Claus
13. What's Going On
14. My Hope
15. Birthday with Mother
16. She Taught Me How to Dance
17. Walking in Manhattan
18. Shake Hands with Mr. Louis
19. I'm Here

David Greenberger: voice
Dinty Child: mandocello, pump organ, accordion, guitar, mandolin, banjo
Keiichi Hashimoto: trumpet, trombone
Keith Spring: all other instruments

Text based on conversations at the Duplex Nursing Home, Jamaica Plain, MA between 1979 and 1983, except as noted, with the following people:

Ernest Noyes Brookings (11)
Herbie Caldwell (2, 3)
Ken Eglin (18)
John Fay (16)
William "Fergie" Ferguson (5, 6, 7)
Larry Green (4, 8)
Sylvia Harvest in NYC, 1993 (17)
David Orosco in East LA, 2005 (19)
George Quinn (13)
James Rivielo in NYC, 1993 (14)
Ed Rogers (12, 15)
Arthur Wallace (1, 9)
and an anonymous elderly man who paused as he exited the post office in Greenwich, NY, 2012 (10)

All compositions by Spring-Greenberger (published by Modern Variety admin. by BMG/BMI)
except 4, 6, 8, 11, 12, 15 by Greenberger-Child (published by Modern Variety Music admin. by BMG/BMI-Mermine Music/SESAC)