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Wily Bo Walker & The Danny Flam Big Band

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1.
The Openator 04:02
Instrumental
2.
Instrumental © 2103 WIly Bo Walker. All Rights Reserved.
3.
Instrumental Sax solo by Mark Gatz Guitar Solo by Keith Mack © 2010 Wily Bo Walker. All Rights Reserved.
4.
Jawbreaker 03:52
Trumpet Solo by Kenny Rampton Guitar Solo by Keith Mack © 2010 Wily Bo Walker. All Rights Reserved.
5.
MIDNIGHT GAMES THAT’S THE WAY IT GOES RENDEZ-VOUS DES CHEMINOTS ANTOINE TURNS HE TAP MY SHOULDER AND SIGHS SAYS SHE’S WALKING DOWN THE STREET IN SOME CRAZY JIVE I DRANK A COLD, SOUR COFFEE WROTE YOU OFF AS A LOSS I CAN’T BELIEVE THE LIES HOW YOU DOUBLE-CROSSED ME YOU DREW THE HEAT NOW HONEY, I MASTERED COOL ONE STEP AHEAD IN THIS CITY OF FOOLS I WROTE HER OFF BACK IN SEVENTY-THREE HEARD THAT SHE DIED THAT WAY IN SOME CRIME I NEVER SEE PUT A COIN IN THAT JUKEBOX LET THAT RECORD SPIN IT DRIVE ME CRAZY JUST TO HEAR HER SING AND THE SOUND OF MISS HOLIDAY’S VOICE IN MY HEAD “ONE OF THESE DAYS YOU’RE GONNA MISS ME – I’M DEAD” CALL ME SOLO YOU CAN CALL ME ALONE WHY DON’T YOU CALL ME TOMORROW ON THE TELEPHONE LOVER BEWARE YOU KNOW HOW LOVE IS BLIND YOU LIE TO YOURSELF JUST TO KEEP IT KIND THIS EMPTY SPACE AMID THESE FLASHING SIGNS SAYS THAT WE’LL MAYBE MEET AGAIN BUT HONEY NOT THIS TIME… I DRANK A COLD, SOUR COFFEE WROTE YOU OFF AS A LOSS I CAN’T BELIEVE THE LIES HOW YOU DOUBLE-CROSSED ME YOU DREW THE HEAT HONEY, I MASTERED COOL ONE STEP AHEAD IN THIS CITY OF FOOLS MIDNIGHT GAMES THAT’S THE WAY IT GOES A RENDEZ-VOUS DOWN AT DES CHEMINOTS ANTOINE TURN HE SHRUG HIS SHOULDER AND SIGH I CLOSE THE DOOR AND TURN MY COLLAR TO THE COLD MOONLIGHT AND THE SOUND OF MISS HOLIDAY’S VOICE IN MY HEAD “ONE OF THESE DAYS YOU’RE GONNA MISS ME – I’M DEAD” CALL ME SOLO YOU CAN CALL ME ALONE WHY DON’T YOU CALL ME TOMORROW ON THAT TELEPHONE Lyrics © 2013 Wily Bo Walker Music © 2013 Wily Bo Walker / E D Brayshaw. All Rights Reserved.
6.
HEY! CAN YOU SEE AN IRRITATED SHADOW HANGING OVER ME LORD! IT RAIN DOWN ON ME IT’S CRIMINALLY COOL BUT IT WASN’T MEANT TO BE ON A DAY LIKE TODAY THEY’RE TURNING LOVING IN TO HATE BUT THEY NEVER MISS A BEAT WITH THE WORDS, LORD THAT THEY SAY… I’M WATCHING ANGELS TURN TO DEMONS AND THERE’S RIOTS IN THE STREET AND IF YOU STAND UP AND FIGHT FOR WHAT’S RIGHT THIS OLD WORLD WILL JUST WATCH IN ITS DANCING SHOES THERE’S NO HEROES OR ANGELS TONIGHT SO EVERY MAN’S GOTTA DO WHAT EVERY MAN HAS GOT TO DO WHAT EVERY MAN HAS GOTTEN TO… HEY! CAN YOU HEAR CHANGE IS GOING DOWN BUT THEY’RE TURNING UP THE HEAT THE BLOOD FLOW LIKE TEARS ANGELS TURN TO DEMONS AND THERE’S MURDER IN THE STREET AND IF YOU STAND UP AND FIGHT FOR WHAT’S RIGHT THIS OLD WORLD WILL JUST WATCH IN ITS DANCING SHOES THERE’S NO HEROES OR ANGELS TONIGHT SO EVERY MAN’S GOTTA DO WHAT EVERY MAN HAS GOT TO DO © 2012 Music by Amir Ben-Haim, Lyrics by Wily Bo Walker. All Rights Reserved.
7.
IF THERE’S ONE DAMNED THING I KNOW ITS WHEN THE ANGELS CALL YOUR TIME NOW I’M STANDING IN THIS PHONEBOX IN THE RAIN WITHOUT A DIME I’M GOING BACK HOME IT WON’T BE LONG I AIN’T GOT NO… SINCE YOU BEEN GONE GONE GONE I HEARD LAST NIGHT THAT’S WHERE I BELONG THOSE THINGS YOU GAVE ME LIKE ALL THOSE PRETTY LIES TRADED THEM IN FOR JUST ONE LAST GOODBYE AIN’T GOT NO TIME BUT I GOT TO LEAVIN TONIGHT SO GOODBYE BABY BYE BYE GOODBYE BABY BYE BYE I HEARD LAST NIGHT THAT YOU’RE GONNA… FIND ME AFTER MIDNIGHT CRAWLING ON THE FLOOR CALL OUT MY NAME I WON’T BE KNOCKING AT YOUR DOOR I HEARD LAST NIGHT I AIN’T GOT TROUBLE NO MORE SO HERE’S TO YOU MY SORRY FRIENDS AND HERE’S TO YOU MAY YOUR LAUGHTER NEVER EVER END MY TIME IS NOW BUT I’LL RAISE MY GLASS UP TO THEN… SO GOODBYE BABY BYE BYE GOODBYE BABY BYE BYE I HEARD LAST NIGHT THAT YOU’RE GONNA… THERE’S A RUMBLE IN THE GROUND THERE’S A FIRE IN THE SKY THE DEVIL’S IN THE STATION WITH A POCKETFUL OF LIES DON’T YOU HEAR THAT WHISTLE BLOWING WHEN THE ANGELS CALL YOUR TIME… WELL SOME THINGS LIVE LORD AND SOME THINGS DIE I’LL WATCH IT BURN TONIGHT AND KISS THIS TOWN GOODBYE… BYE BYE BYE BYE SO GOODBYE BABY BYE BYE GOODBYE BABY BYE BYE I’LL WATCH IT BURN TONIGHT AND KISS THIS TOWN GOODBYE… © 2013 Wily Bo Walker. All Rights Reserved.
8.
Drive 03:47
IT'S NOT WHAT YOU’RE DOING BUT THE WAY THAT YOU DO IT BABY NOT WHAT YOU'RE THINKING MORE THE THINGS THAT YOU DO I SAID IT'S NOT THE WAY YOU MOVE ME HONEY MORE THE WAY THAT YOU MOVE I GOT A '57 CHEVY WHITE WALLS AND CHROME AND WE CAN TAKE A LITTLE DRIVE DOWN TO MEXICO WHERE YOU CAN DANCE YOU CAN SHIMMY YOU CAN ROCK'N'ROLL TONIGHT IF L7 GET YOU GONNA LEAVE IT ALONE WHY DON'T YOU LEAVE YOUR MA AND PA ON THE BACK PORCH BACK HOME WE CAN TAKE A LITTLE DRIVE NOW HONEY WELL I THINK THAT YOU KNOW I GOT A '57 CHEVY WHITE WALLS AND CHROME AND WE CAN TAKE A LITTLE DRIVE DOWN TO MEXICO WHERE YOU CAN DANCE WITH THE DEVIL YOU CAN SELL YOUR SOUL TONIGHT LET’S TURN ON THE RADIO AND DRIVE… DRIVE! DRIVE! DRIVE… IN LOVE MY GIRL… AH, MOVE A LITTLE CLOSER… HA, HA, HA… IT'S NOT WHAT YOU’RE DOING BUT THE WAY THAT YOU DO IT BABY NOT WHAT YOU'RE THINKING MORE THE THINGS THAT YOU DO I SAID IT'S NOT THE WAY YOU MOVE ME HONEY MORE THE WAY THAT YOU MOVE I GOT A '57 CHEVY WHITE WALLS AND CHROME AND WE CAN TAKE A LITTLE DRIVE DOWN TO MEXICO WHERE YOU CAN DANCE YOU CAN SHIMMY YOU CAN ROCK'N'ROLL TONIGHT I GOT A '57 CHEVY WHITE WALLS AND CHROME AND WE CAN TAKE A LITTLE DRIVE DOWN TO MEXICO WHERE YOU CAN DANCE WITH THE DEVIL YOU CAN SELL YOUR SOUL TONIGHT… WE CAN DRIVE! DRIVE! DRIVE… TONIGHT! TAKE IT ON DOWN, TAKE IT ON DOWN… TONIGHT! BABY, BABY, WON’T YOU GET DOWN ON YOUR KNEES… COME ON LITTLE DARING, GIVE YOUR LOVE TO ME… WELL YOU CAN TELL YOUR MAMA, TELL YOUR PA… YOU’RE GONNA TAKE IT ON DOWN BACK TO ARKANSAS A HOME TOWN GIRL… HA HA HA!!! WELL THE MEN DON’T KNOW WHAT THE LITTLE GIRL UNDERSTANDS… WELL THE MEN DON’T KNOW WHAT THE LITTLE GIRL UNDERSTANDS… WELL THE MEN DON’T KNOW WHAT THE LITTLE GIRL UNDERSTANDS… WELL THE MEN DON’T KNOW WHAT THE LITTLE GIRL UNDERSTANDS… © 2010 Wily Bo Walker. All Rights Reserved.
9.
Same Thing 05:20
YEH! IT WAS HOT ABOUT NINETY DEGREES IN THE SHADE YOU COULD TELL IT WAS GOING TO BE ONE OF THOSE NIGHTS… WHY DO MEN GO CRAZY WHEN A WOMAN WEARS THAT DRESS SO TIGHT MEN GO CRAZY WHEN A WOMAN WEARS THAT DRESS SO TIGHT MUST BE THE SAME OLD THING MAKES A HOUND DOG HOWL ALL NIGHT WHY DO ALL THESE MEN TRY TO RUN A BIG LEGGED WOMAN DOWN ALL THESE MEN TRY TO RUN A BIG LEGGED WOMAN DOWN MUST BE THE SAME OLD THING MAKES A BULLDOG HUG THAT HOUND I’M TALKING BOUT THAT SAME THING TALKING BOUT THAT SAME THING TELL ME WHO’S TO BLAME WHEN THE WHOLE WORLD’S FIGHTING BOUT THAT SAME THING? TALKING BOUT IT…YEH!!! WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL SO GOOD WHEN YOUR BABY WEARS THAT EVENING GOWN YOU KNOW YOU FEEL SO GOOD WHEN YOUR BABY WEARS THAT EVENING GOWN MUST BE THE SAME OLD THING MAKE A PREACHER LAY HIS FATHER DOWN… I’M TALKING BOUT THAT SAME THING I’M TALKING BOUT THAT SAME THING TELL ME WHO’S TO BLAME WHEN THE WHOLE WORLD’S FIGHTING BOUT THAT SAME THING? TELL ME WHO’S TO BLAME WHEN THE WHOLE WORLD’S FIGHTING BOUT THAT SAME THING?
10.
THIS IS THE STORY OF JOHNNY AND LOUISE DOWN ON KENNEDY BOULEVARD COULD BE THE STORY OF YOU AND ME LOSING TRACK OF WHO WE BOTH ARE SOME HOLD ON TO DREAMS SOME HOLD ON TO THE FEAR THEY’RE JUST GROWING OLD… LOUISE TURNS TO JOHNNY PUTS HER HAND INTO HIS WITH A SMILE THAT ONLY HE KNOWS SUCH A LONG WAY TO HEAVEN SUCH A LONG WAY HOME JOHNNY SAYS “LOUISE, I DON’T KNOW HOW FAR WE’VE COME DOWN THIS ROAD THIS TOWN DON’T HOLD THE SAME FASCINATION I DON’T KNOW WHICH WAY WE SHOULD GO” HE LOOKS ACROSS TO THE SUN SINKING DOWN IN THE SHIMMERING, SHIMMERING GOLD ‘I DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY CALL A PLACE YOU CAN’T RETURN FROM… LORD… I DON’T WANT TO KNOW’ SUCH A LONG WAY TO HEAVEN SUCH A LONG WAY HOME TIRED AND ALONE AND A LONG WAY FROM HOME JOHNNY AND SWEET, SWEET LOUISE… PULLED THEIR HOPES OUT OF THE OCEAN HAND IN HAND IN THE SWEET SUMMER BREEZE SUCH A LONG WAY TO HEAVEN SUCH A LONG WAY HOME WHEN YOU’RE DOWN UPON YOUR LUCK YOU’RE LUCKY TO HAVE SOMEONE YOU CAN HOLD A LONG WAY TO HEAVEN A LONG WAY HOME… © 2012 Wily Bo Walker. All Rights Reserved.
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Instrumental
12.
YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS UNTIL YOU’VE LEARNED THE MEANING OF THE BLUES UNTIL YOU’VE LOVED A LOVE YOU'VE HAD TO LOSE YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS YOU DON'T KNOW HOW LIPS HURT UNTIL YOU'VE KISSED AND HAD TO PAY THE COST
 UNTIL YOU'VE FLIPPED YOUR HEART AND YOU HAVE LOST
 YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS DO YOU KNOW HOW A LOST HEART FEARS 
THE THOUGHT OF REMINISCING
 AND HOW LIPS THAT TASTE OF TEARS
 LOSE THEIR TASTE FOR KISSING YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS… DO YOU KNOW HOW A LOST HEART FEARS 
THE THOUGHT OF REMINISCING
 AND HOW LIPS THAT TASTE OF TEARS
 LOSE THEIR TASTE FOR KISSING YOU DON'T KNOW HOW HEARTS BURN
 FOR LOVE THAT CANNOT LIVE YET NEVER DIES
 UNTIL YOU'VE FACED EACH DAWN WITH SLEEPLESS EYES
 YOU DON'T KNOW YOU DON’T KNOW YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS…

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The 'Wily Bo Walker & The Danny Flam Big Band' album is a collection of tracks with a hard hitting brass section celebrating horn section styles from across the decades coloured with Wily Bo's own inimitable style and Danny Flam's Grammy award winning musical direction.

The Big Band instrumentals hark back to the Prima/Armstrong/Calloway era with 'The Openator', the sixties Vegas 'rat-pack' feel of 'Tony's Good Morning', the seventies 'Big Band Fusion' stylings of 'Appointment In Sammara' and exploitation movie soundtrack groove of 'Jawbreaker'.

Wily Bo also adds the New Orleans funeral marching band celebration of 'When The Angels Call Your Time', the hard rockin' brass blast of 'Drive' as well as the cinematic landscape of 'Same Thing' which also features Cenovia Cummins' String Quartet.

There is the 'swing-noir' (think 'Sam Spade pulp fiction B-movie') of 'Rendez-Vous des Cheminots' featuring the vocal talents of Kareña K, the Gospel big band working of 'Long Way To Heaven' featuring The Brown Sisters of Chicago and the New York powerhouse funk of 'Irritated Shadow' featuring Amir Ben-Haim with Will Lee on Bass and Nir Z on drums.

And, finally, the moody, bluesy, laid back feel of the instrumental version of Wily Bo's signature song 'Moon Over Indigo' featuring the amazing trumpet work of Kenny Rampton and Wily Bo's cover of Billie Holiday's 'You Don't Know What Love Is' featuring the stunning, last ever recording of jazz legend Teddy Charles.

“Barnstorming CD, I'm in love with this album!" B Noel Barr - Lunch at the Barr

"Wow! This is a wonderful album! This is a big and diverse album with style elements from traditional big band jazz, blues, cabaret, retro pop styles and more! Wily Bo Walker & the Danny Flam Big Band sing and play with style, power, grace and virtuosic skill. Awesome recording too! As the great Duke Ellington said, 'there are two kinds of music - good and the other kind'. This is definitely the GREAT kind . Enjoy!" Five Star Review - Paul A, Amazon

Released on Flaming Hearts Records
Catalog No: FHWBW013

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released November 4, 2013

Producer: Wily Bo Walker / Danny Flam

Recorded at:
Brown Sugar Studios, New York
NewYorkBrass.com Studios, West Hempstead, NY
Tone Zone Studios, Chicago
Garden Productions Recording, NY

Wily Bo Studios, London, UK

Engineering: Daniel Flam, Blue Tha Engineer, Roger Heiss, Jeff (Jedi) Jones, Wily Bo Walker, Jimmy Madison

Mastering: Abbey Road Studios, London, UK
except
'Jawbreaker' and 'Appointment in Samarra': Mastered by Bob Katz at Digital Domain, Florida, US

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