Morsel #17 – The Ultimate Hurt/Omelette: Nothing shakes off those mid-winter doldrums like an omelette. For Hardee’s, recorded in Nashville, lyrics by Austin Howe, produced by Cathy Curran, who is also my sister.
Morsel #15 – All Aboard the Yule Log: Season’s Greetings. Here’s some holiday music I wrote. I hope it conjures the warmest visions of sugarplums, latkes and gingerbread. Also maybe a plate of various tasty cheeses.
Morsel #14 – Mickey, Minnie, Yeti: A lot of people go to Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park in Florida. I’m pretty sure it’s because of this music I wrote for it.
Morsel #13 – Horse Morsel: Even though this music for the John Ford/20th Century Fox film Hangman’s House also contains the love theme, it begins with music for a horse — which is all the excuse I need to name it “Horse Morsel.” Enjoy.
Morsel #12 – “Paranoia”: Here’s the first track from the movie Sound Machine. This scene had no dialogue, which gave me ample musical space to get inside the chaotic mind of the paranoid main character.
Morsel #11 – “Office Stomp”: Imagine two dorks working out a stomp routine in a busy corporate office setting, and that should give you an idea of how this percussion composition (complete with stapler punches and notebook tears) combined with the absurd visuals.
Morsel #10 – Americana: I wrote this theme for abcmouse.com, a very cool education site for kids. I think it sounds like it belongs on some 1970s TV show, one about the 1870s, maybe. With kids. And a sheepdog. And sheep. And a general store, where things come in big burlap bags.
Morsel #9 – Big Ships: Here’s some seafaring music I wrote for Disney Cruise Line. While listening, feel free to jump up and yell things like, “Ahoy!” “Land Ho!” and “poop deck!”
Morsel #8 – War: I wrote this underscore for a 20th Century Fox documentary about the making of the film Twelve O’Clock High, starring Gregory Peck. The particular chapter in the story is about the casualties and heroes of WWII.
