The included songs in this section are in ‘mp3′ format and can be played by simply ‘clicking’ on the small player located beneath the song title.
Dance of the Northern Sea
Written and Arranged by Alan Ginocchio
In the early 1990’s I was still a huge fan of “WordPerfect”, a word processing software touting a good measure of popularity. However, Microsoft’s “Word” was slowly squeezing “WordPerfect” out of the work place. And I was not happy about that at all. Although I still maintain the latest version of “WordPerfect” and still consider it superior to “Word” and much easier to use, I have converted 100% over to “Word” out of necessity.
Having said that to say this….I from time to time took on a student who was interested in learning “WordPerfect” during the early 90’s and one of my students was of Irish ethnicity and talked a lot about Ireland and even visited Ireland on vacation during their time as my student. Thru that relationship I was inspired to write a couple of songs which had a bit of the Irish flavor. This song, “Dance of the Northern Sea”, was perhaps the better of my two endeavors.
Thar’s A Skunk In the Outhouse
Written and Arranged by Alan Ginocchio
In 2002 a humorous discussion was taking place at work one Friday with regard to outhouses. One of my co-workers was talking about the critters their grandpa had encountered in an old outhouse they use to have on a farm to include skunks. For some forgettable reason the phrase “skunk in the outhouse” seemed to be of an oxymoronic nature.
Saturday morning I got up and went into my little home studio and began writing a song which was to become my one and only bluegrass composition. Appropriately enough, I ended up giving it the title, Thar’s A Skunk In The Outhouse, worthy of its origins which stemmed from that Friday’s discussion. I was never sure if the song actually related to their being a skunk in the outhouse, or that the outhouse smelled as though a skunk resided therein.
