Jim Dibattista's Podcast

Here's another one that just sounds better live and solo/acoustic...

As my friend Chuck Wightman says, sometimes they just sound better with the singer and an acoustic guitar-such is the case with the live songs I'm putting up now...

James' string part is now on this version

This is the newer version of a song that I'm liking more and more...

A lot of people have told me that they think that this is my best song, I tend to agree. This song has always been special to me and we wanted to get it right and we worked really really hard on every aspect of this song. When I heard my son's final version after all of his hard work, I walked over to him and shook his hand and thanked him, kissed him on the cheek and kept saying one word: "AMAZING". I hope you guys take the 5 + minutes to give it a listen.

This is our latest creation. Recording this song was a strange and different process. I swear in doing this song I must have deleted more tracks than we have on it now. It's a good thing to be able to say that something is either too much or could be better and then make the necessary changes.

I wrote this song one sunny afternoon while Robbin and I were staying over at the hotel behind Boston's On The Beach. Our band Tropical Storm was doing a few nights in a row there and they would sometimes comp us rooms. They were great old days and good times. I was sitting on the bed writing this song for my honey while she sat across the room, watching and listening. I don't think I've ever played this song out for anyone, but I want to document ALL of my songs with this "Florida Songs" project, and I happen to like this one. My son James once again helps transform an idea into something really big and much better than anything that I could ever conceive on my own. I love you James and thank you, and I love you more than ever Robbin...

I started working on this song on the 100 year anniversary of the Titanic sinking; April 15th. We were watching some show on either the Discovery, National Geographic, or the History channel with James Cameron and a crack team of experts and scientists all giving their analysis' of exactly what happened on that fateful night. This song was written well before everyone had computers and the ability of accessing data took going to the Public Library.

This is my take on what could have happened and I originally took the perspective of the Titanic band, and what they must have been thinking..."wait, you want us to KEEP PLAYING!!???-the friggin' ship is sinking!!!". I would have been like eff you-don't pay me as I was jumping into a lifeboat...

I loved being a kid-could be why I still act like one way too much. This is a story about a dreamer who likes looking out of his bedroom window and imagining all the possibilities of what could be out there, in the stars, the cloud formations and even in the songs that the birds in our trees were singing. James once again does a great job on the keyboards and in the drumming. The boss of the house (my BEAUTIFUL wife Robbin) is singing the background vocals here...

I was driving a Yellow Cab when I first moved down here and after a while I was doing music gigs in between fares. Now there was this train crossing up at PGA Blvd. and it seemed like I would catch the longest trains every time I was up that way. I actually wrote the first 2 verses while waiting for the train to pass. 92 Car Train was my first "big hit" in the clubs down in Palm Beach County-it was also published by some Nashville company around 1990 or so...

This is my ode to the scary Florida drivers that we encountered soon after moving back down to south Florida. The original bridge lyrics were 'dodging OLD people in the big old cars" but I changed it to 'them' people. Patrick Lobsinger is playing the electric drum-set on this one and James is playing piano, accordion, and the strings on his keyboard-I have the guitars, all vocals and the tambourine.

Is the true story of the night I witnessed a triangle shaped UFO. It silently soared over our apartment building in Lake Worth, Florida and to this day, remains THE most amazing spectacle I have ever witnessed. The lyrics depict exactly what I saw, and what I was thinking as I was seeing it.

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