My Songs
Below are home demos of some of the songs I've written over the years, many 'with a little help...'. A few started as 4-track cassette demos, made with friends and collaborators back in the day, that I've tried to bring up-to-date over the past year or so. Others are recent renditions of older songs. Additional tracks are available on my SoundCloud if you'd like to hear more. Thanks for visiting. :-)
Orange
(Street/Ryan)
(c) 2002 Street Monkey Music (BMI)/MeatPie Music (BMI)
Wrote this one with Kelley Ryan (of astroPuppees fame). Her recording can be found on her brilliant 'little chich tsunami' LP (Manatee Records). This is my humble attempt at 'having a go of it'!
Save Me
(Street/Runyan)
(c) 2025 Street Monkey Music (BMI)/?
Squeaky (Bill Runyan) brought this one in almost fully formed, I threw in some lyrics and we demoed the song long ago on 4-track. I took his acoustic guitars and backing vocal from that recording and built the rest up around those. Thanks to Steve Toland for providing additional soaring backing vocals as well!
In A Heartbeat
(Street/Ryan)
(c) 2025 Street Monkey Music (BMI)/MeatPie Music (BMI)
An earlier Kelley Ryan co-write. I took her vocal from our original 4-track cassette demo and tried to update it a little.
Everything
(Street)
(c) 2025 Street Monkey Music (BMI)
'Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,/And men below, and saints above;/For love is heaven, and heaven is love.'
- Sir Walter Scott
Don't Give Up (The Ghost)
(Street)
(c) 2025 Street Monkey Music (BMI)
True story, based on a newspaper article Peter Case had us read and write about as an assignment in his Songwriter's Workshop.
Bad Combination
(Street/Ryan)
(c) 2025 Street Monkey Music (BMI)/Meatpie Music (BMI)
Another Kelley Ryan co-write. This started as a 2-track cassette demo after the writing session, but before we'd pulled all the lyrics together. I was playing the 'StrumStick' with Kelley on guitar. I've taken that cassette and added some new bits and pieces, and some new lyrics, to that demo.
Spud
(Street)
(c) 2025 Street Monkey Music (BMI)
"This is a true story...about a couple a pets named Spud." Found an old 4-track of Speedy, Squeaky and Holmes (RIP, Rob) doing this one, so I tried to give it some new life (wish I could've done the same for the Spuds)!
Over You
(Street)
(c) 2025 Street Monkey Music (BMI)
A song about loss, and maybe pushing away the pain of it all. Thanks again to Steve Toland for adding in his backing vocals to this one as well, for that special 'Toland Touch'!
Monkeys Run
(Street/Runyan)
(c) 2025 Street Monkey Music (BMI)/?
Bill (Squeaky) wrote the music, and I threw in the words. This recording originated as a Speedy, Squeaky and Holmes live to 4-track. I've tried to clean it up a bit and added some parts. The line about DJT came about after watching a particularly grotesque episode of 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous' (yes, the song is THAT old!).