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Stages

by Curt Sobel

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    Album version of my first original song release. Pressed with High Grade, Class-1 vinyl - (first 50 special grey-swirled design) - signed upon request!! SOUVENIR PICTURE POSTCARDS INSIDE

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1.
Lullaby '85 00:37
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Heaven Knows 03:17
Baby I was alone where no love could find me with all my dreams behind me and then you took me home gave my life some meaning pulled me through the hardest times Heaven Knows I could not live a day through without loving you Heaven Knows I could not live a day through without loving you Baby you were alone where no sun could shine through but with my love to guide you I pulled you through the clouds to sail across the ocean and fly with love’s emotion Heaven Knows I could not live a day through without loving you Heaven Knows I could not live a day through without loving you Heaven heaven knows Heaven heaven knows Heaven heaven knows Baby it feels like home to wrap my arms around you and make sweet love the night through yes I know how it feels to bring our love together through all kinds of weather Heaven Knows I could not live a day through without loving you Heaven Knows I could not live a day through without loving you
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Carry the wind behind you and never look back on that breeze I know who you really are you’re not the dreamer you make yourself out to be I offered you something but you refused without a second thought well It Might Have Been What You Needed to work things out Carry the clouds behind you and never look back on that fog I know where the gardens are where flowers bloom all day in the summer sun I offered you something but you refused without a second thought well It Might Have Been What You Needed to work things out Who told you you’d last forever they lied you’ve only today for pleasure tomorrow none of this might seem right so take what you need and leave the rest behind I offered you something but you refused without a second thought well baby It Might Have Been What You Needed Carry the wind…behind you… Carry the clouds…behind you…
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Sometimes I feel alone with no direction or home when all I need is some sleep and some sweet company to carry on You bring me joy you give me love you bring me happiness when I’m up and when I’m down How Lucky Can a Lover Be to have someone like you baby How Lucky Can a Lover Be well just look at me just look at me When all that’s good turns bad and what should be happy is sad I know you’ll be there to right all the wrongs tenderly with a smile and your hand You bring me joy you give me love you bring me happiness when I’m down and when I’m up How Lucky Can a Lover Be to have someone like you baby How Lucky Can a Lover Be well just look at me just look at me
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Speed Dating 00:27
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Don’t go knocking on my door ‘cause it’s still your home you know you’re still welcomed and loved as you were before Never think it’s at an end ‘cause that’s when loving friends begin to care and to hold you at night when you sleep The setting day marks the time that the night will shine with rhyme and your glass will be filled With Friends to Drink You’re the lover on my mind livens me up when I think I’m dyin’ there’s more I could say I’m so happy I’m sittin’ here cryin’ All at once I feel ashamed loose emotions throwing blame to win and to lose and to love well it’s all the same The setting day marks the time that the room will smell of lime and your glass will be filled with your glass will be filled with friends your glass will be filled With Friends to Drink
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Who’d have thought you would leave me all alone and faced with the moon on this dark and lonely evening I’ll be waiting till dawn or doom So tell me why you are leaving and won’t you please answer your phone I don’t find this all so amusing like pretending that you’re not home I’ve never considered astrology to tell me how my days will be but something I read in the paper this morning said my stars are crossed with a Blue Moon Rising my stars are crossed with a Blue Moon Rising Once I had more than many and to you I gave my heart free there must surely be here a lesson that I’ve learned hard to some degree So now I wake every morning and worry ‘bout nothing at all I just read the words of my life in brief to see if I’ll rise or I’ll fall I’ve never considered astrology to tell me how my days will be but something I read in the paper this morning said my stars are crossed with a Blue Moon Rising my stars are crossed with a Blue Moon Rising my stars are crossed with a Blue Moon Rising
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You asked me if I would I Might As Well I Can’t Dance portraying all I could I lost myself in the chance sleeping while my eyes are open wondering who am I to be chosen refusing to believe the temptations and yet takin’ them in and adjusting to learning to dance for nothing
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You stopped and said hello your smile beside me mesmerized me wanting me so but that was long ago when we were young and thought our love would grow how’d we know You’d be walking away from all our dreams walking away from reason you’re forcing me to wish I’d never met you I said it before well I’ll do my best to bring you happiness but when you’re walking away from lovin’ me you’re Headin’ Toward Loneliness You called me up and cried you swear your love is true so I greet you arms open wide I looked into your eyes they say to trust to give you one more try one more lie Now you’re walking away from all our dreams walking away from reason you’re forcing me to wish I’d never met you I said it before well I’ll do my best to bring you happiness but when you’re walking away from lovin’ me you’re Headin’ Toward Loneliness
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Much of what I want to say has been said before tonight I’m sure in many ways Most of what I feel inside I’m no stranger to and I can’t hide it away though I’ve tried There’ve been times in my life I failed but still all in all my successes prevailed and so I learned and grew from loves I made or lost or saved Now it’s yours I hope to share as lovers dream of someone to lean on you’re there Mine is yours as yours is mine through winter cold summer rain or shine till the end of all time And in love how I played the fool I won all the games though I broke all the rules but now I feel I’ll work it out someway because I love you Much of what I want to say is that it’s all been said all been done But Not With You with you
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Take me up to your penthouse room and let me wipe away your senseless gloom sentimental teardrops can’t solve all of the pain you’re going through inside but a companion next to you just might Send me off into a whirling wind you know it ain’t so bad when you’ve got a friend and soon what is will pass us you’ll see how it so easily fades away in awhile and it will open up your world to a smile Though it can get cold when you’re alone lonely you’ve got A Friend On Whom You Can Rely Take me up to your penthouse room and let me wipe away your senseless gloom sentimental teardrops can’t solve all of the pain you’re going through inside but a companion next to you just might Though it can get cold when you’re alone lonely you’ve got A Friend On Whom You Can Rely
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Every Time I Bend to Tie My Shoes My Back Itches everywhere I walk I listen for the car screeches I’ve come along so slow in deciding which way to go but I’ve grown up so very fast you know it could be worthwhile if I could find me a smile that would ignite a fire under my ask me if I’m happy as if you think I know
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I never knew a love like this could exist except in my dreams but here you are sharing your love with me softer than the rain and warmer than the sun you are to me And I hope I never know what it’s like To Be Without Your Love I hope I never know what it’s like To Be Without Your Love The innocence of love a kiss on the cheek the tingling inside a smile from you when I take your hand in mine brighter than the stars higher than the sky you are to me And I hope I never know what it’s like To Be Without Your Love I hope I never know what it’s like To Be Without Your Love Because of you I have no reason for singin’ the blues ‘cause you’re with me everyday every season I never knew a love like this could exist here in my arms and I hope I never know what it’s like To Be Without Your Love Because of you I have no reason for singin’ the blues ‘cause you’re with me everyday every season I never knew a love like this could exist here in my arms and I hope I never know what it’s like To Be Without Your Love I hope I never know what it’s like To Be Without Your Love
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When your nightmares are over and you wake up to better dreams Just Make Sure You Know that I’m still here I’ll make sure you know I’m here When the world around you crumbles and you are left out on the street Just Make Sure You Know that I’ll be here and together we’ll find somewhere to sleep We’ve got to have a time that’s all our own and a place where we can go and be by ourselves alone So when the mood you’re in is passing and looking up you smile at me Just Make Sure You Know I’ve waited here ‘til you thought you were ready for me We’ve got to have a time that’s all our own and a place where we can go and be by ourselves alone When your nightmares are over and you wake up to better dreams Just Make Sure You Know that I’m still here I’ll make sure you know I’m here

about

*liner notes by Phil Gallo

ACCLAIMED FILM MUSIC EDITOR CURT SOBEL RETURNS TO HIS SONGWRITING ROOTS

A garage clean-out leads to a revisiting of songs from his past. STAGES, his first original song release, comes out Nov. 9

Amid the clutter in countless garages, attics and basements, there are stories about lives once lived, paths not taken and relics that have faded from memory. Fortunately for Curt Sobel, his story was caught on tape.

Decades before Curt became one of Hollywood’s most in-demand music editors and an Emmy-winning composer, he wrote songs. In the late ‘70s/early ‘80s, during and after his years at the University of Michigan and studying conducting, arranging and composition at Berklee College of Music, Curt took a shot at writing and recording his own songs.

His successful career — music editing more than 130 films on hits such as “Risky Business”, “The Bourne Ultimatum”, “The Insider”, “The Revenant” and composing scores for “Alien Nation” and “The Young Indiana Jones-Transylvania” among others — put songwriting and performing on hold.

During a recent garage clean-out, however, he unearthed that earlier chapter, discovering cassettes and quarter-inch tapes recorded when a singer backed by just his guitar was enough to capture the interest of the public. He imported the recordings into ProTools and worked to sweeten some and record others anew, dust and humidity having taken a toll on his early efforts. The result is STAGES, a compilation of these recordings. It’s being released digitally Nov. 9 and on vinyl soon after.

Since the writing of the songs that appear on STAGES, Curt has worked with a who’s who of directors—Kathryn Bigelow, Michael Mann, Taylor Hackford, Rob Marshall and Barry Levinson to name a few—and top film composers—Thomas Newman, Dave Grusin, Harry Gregson Williams, Danny Elfman, James Newton Howard, among many others.

His work is heard in such music-heavy films as “Detroit”, “An Officer and a Gentleman”, “La Bamba”, “Speed”, “Under the Cherry Moon”, “Chuck Berry’s Hail! Hail! Rock n’ Roll”, “Nine”, “Get On Up” and “Ray”, for which he also served as the film’s Music Supervisor.

He has worked alongside Prince, Mick Jagger, Santana, Los Lobos, Keith Richards, Blue Man Group, Jamie Foxx, Ray Charles — the list goes on…

He won his Best Original Song Emmy for “Why Do I Lie” (lyrics by Dennis Spiegel), from HBO’s “Cast a Deadly Spell,” and recently co-wrote the theme song for the upcoming film remake of “Benji” with Oscar-nominated songwriter Stephen Bishop.

A native of Oak Park, Mich., he first tasted success when his senior class song beat out The Beatles “Let It Be.” Today, he is a member of the Recording Academy and serves on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Music Branch Executive Committee.

— Phil Gallo, Music Journalist

credits

released December 15, 2017

Released Winter 2017

All songs written by Curt Sobel
Produced by Curt Sobel and Gary Schreiner

Drums/Percussion: Doug Yowell
Bass: Mike Visceglia
Guitars/Mandolin: Thad DeBrock
Martin D28 & KALB guitars: Curt Sobel
Piano/Keyboards/Accordion/Chromatic Harmonica: Gary Schreiner

Trumpet: Tim Quimette
Trombone: Randy Andos
Tenor sax, Flute, Clarinet: Jack Bashkow

Background Vocals:
Emily Bindiger
Audrey Martells
Dennis Collins
Guest Vocals: Julie Corbalis

Strings/Horns/Keyboards arranged by Gary Schreiner
Background Vocals arranged by Emily Bindiger

Rhythm Section/Horns recorded by Dave Kowalski at Teaneck Sound Studio, NJ, September 2016 and January 2017
Additional tracks recorded by Gary Schreiner at Rich Man’s Den, NYC, 2017

Guitar and Vocals recorded by Curt Sobel at various locations throughout the years

Mixed and Mastered by Robert L. Smith at Defy Recording
Lacquers cut by Chris Muth at Taloowa
Pressed by Burlington Record Plant
Artwork Printing by Imprint Indie
Jacket design by A2Z Graphics, Inc.

Workhorse Records, Pacific Palisades, CA © 2017

All songs © 2017 Curt Sobel Music (BMI)

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Curt Sobel Los Angeles, California

Curt Sobel is an Emmy Award-winning songwriter & acclaimed film music editor.

His first song album, STAGES, comes out Nov 9

He's worked:
on over 130 films including Risky Business, Ray,
The Revenant, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Insider, Detroit...

with Prince, Mick Jagger, Santana, Jamie Fox, Ray Charles...

& co-wrote theme song for new film remake of “Benji” with Oscar-nominated Stephen Bishop.
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