The album is called MARSHMALLOW HEART – Songs for Swing Dancers and is as of November 1st, 2021 available at all places where digital music is distributed!! For the full list and links go here: tinpan.hearnow.com
The featured song this month is the title track, “Marshmallow.”
There’s a cute story behind this song. Tin Pan was playing a swing dance gig at a pier in Boston one summer and I had just written this tune. I didn’t really have the lyrics worked out yet. There was no story to the song, or backstory or anything. Just the repetitive Marshmallow hook part and the bridge. Anyway, folks loved it but the band stopped playing the song because we thought there was nothing really to it.
Cut to FOUR YEARS LATER at Gastroswing in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. I was sitting with Doc Scanlon’s band and a couple of dancers came up and asked me to play “Marshmallow.” They remembered the song from that gig in Boston and had been waiting for it to come out on one of our albums. I hadn’t thought about the tune in a very long time but “Sure! We can play that!!” It’s so simple, I explained it to the band in a heartbeat and we were off.
So hats off to that couple, whoever you are! You made me realize that this song, as simple as it is, really has legs. Here in Turkey it has proven to be, BY FAR, our most requested song. Even from the staff at certain bars we play – they want to hear the song EVERY WEEK!
YOUTUBE – The 100 Composition Challenge has rounded the corner with over 64 songs completed. Tune in regularly to see what craziness is coming out of the Tin Pan home studio laboratory. It seems the songs are getting more and more experimental and relaxed. Confidence in new music!!
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November gig schedule coming soon… In brief La Pena every Wednesday, Angelinn on 1/11 and 29/11, Cafe Plaza on 16/11 and 30/11, Swing Istanbul on 20/11