STEVEN L. ROSENHAUS |
* Composer * Lyricist * Arranger * Conductor * Educator * Author * Show Doctor * |
 | Below is a list of Steven's songs to-date, along with pertinent, or at least interesting, information. All songs are copyrighted by Steven. Years are given for the recording of each song. Most of the songs listed have been recorded on two CDs, Blues Spoken Here by the Don't Quit Your Day Job Players (of which Steven was a member from 1998 to 2000) and A Man Like Me, Steven's solo CD of 2002. |
| TITLE | KEY | RECORDING | YEAR | COMMENTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Most downloaded SLR song on iTunes! | ||||
A Man Like Me, SR | 2002 | Written on the way home from Lubbock, TX (AKA "The Gig from Hell") | ||
| Written for a choreographer who wanted something "Irish." | ||||
| I can't wait to record to record this one! | ||||
A Man Like Me, SR | 2002 | Written while a member of the Don't Quit Your Day Job Players, on a dare, basically. Note the twist on the cliche with the last line of the chorus. | ||
| A meta-love song. | ||||
(Divine Retribution Blues) | My best blues yet. | |||
| Written while finishing up the score for the film Ashes, just after the World Trade Center was attacked. My prayers to those who died in that tragedy. | ||||
| "Classic" country sad song. | ||||
(When You Make Me Feels This Young) | For the record, every love song I write is for my wife, Ruth. | |||
| Written just before adjuncts at NYU unionized. | ||||
| What can I say? Life is good. | ||||
| Fun song. I usually do it with J.M.M.'s Be My Baby Tonight | ||||
| A bit of sexist bravado, but what the heck. | ||||
| A stab at fiction. | ||||
| I didn't realize until later how Jewish the lyrics are. | ||||
| Did you ever know someone like this? Of course you have. | ||||
| My oldest-surviving song; it still holds up. | ||||
| Music as a metaphor for... | ||||
| I came in on the tail end of the 60s Greenwich Village scene. Doesn't mean I didn't take part. | ||||
| I think this is the first song to use "internet" in a love song, properly. I also love the word play. | ||||
| For DQYDJP, for (the late) David Honigsberg and I to share lead vocals. | | |||
| Me in Brian Setzer mode. | ||||
| First try at a "real" story-song. | ||||
| A very fictionalized account of how I met my wife. | ||||
| Some say my best song. I say it's my strangest. (Think Gipsy Kings meet Stephen King.) |