‘Orchestrating My Life’

My favorite rock star (and possibly yours, too, if you’re reading this…) was on a radio show tonight where he casually mentioned that his new album is called “Orchestrating My Life” and it will be out in about two months. He said there’s a new song on it and “a bunch of the big hits on there orchestrated and re-recorded.” They sound like the original, he said, but then they added the orchestra.

First of all, I love the title and its double meaning. It’s the perfect name. Plus, I can’t wait to hear his songs with the orchestra and I’m excited for a new song!

There are some videos of the Rick Springfield interview with Peter Tilden on the 790ABC Facebook page, where he briefly talks about this new album and a variety of other things. It was a fun interview to watch and I appreciate the fact that we got to see the radio interview – thank you, technology.

Listen carefully to the beginning of the third video (sorry, I tried to embed it here, but it didn’t work. It’s the one that’s 3:57 long. I also shared it on this blog’s FB page). Could it be the NEW SONG? I’ve listened it about 15 times and don’t recognize it, searched the lyrics on Google and couldn’t find them and Shazam-ed it and got “No Result” so I’m thinking it might be. (If I’m wrong, let me know, as if it was the NEW SONG you’d think one of them would say “Here’s the NEW SONG from the NEW ALBUM, right?) Inquiring minds want to know. I want to know!

(Do you catch that reference? One more thing imprinted in my mind from the ’80s.)

More music featuring Rick Springfield

Rick Springfield has not only been guest starring on TV shows, he’s also been a featured artist on other performers’ albums.

Here he is with Australian singer, Cleo Alexandra, 22, whose new EP was just produced by Keith Olsen (a producer of RS’s “Working Class Dog” album). The first video had kind of a creepy stalker vibe to it that distracted from the song, but you can appreciate the song much more in the studio version (below).

It could be that the stalker vibe was intentional, as it starts out with a view from the outside of a house and then shows RS’s head in a baseball hat and sunglasses floating on the screen as if he’s lurking behind the curtains. If that’s the case, then the video succeeded in its mission.

Cleo Alexandra has a beautiful, sultry voice in this different take of Men at Work’s “Who Can it Be Now,” plus it’s really cool to see RS recording his part of the song in his studio.

The other collaboration is with Jimmy Martin, a rock artist and producer from Luxembourg. He features Rick Springfield (who he called his mentor in a recent Facebook post) in a duet of RS’s 1984 hit “Love Somebody” on Martin’s “The Duets” album, which was released in November 2018 (though the song was recorded a few years ago). The RS appearance in this video is concert footage, which of course is always fun to see.

Since I started writing songs, I’ve had a dream of writing and recording a song with RS, so the fact that he’s working with these artists shows that he’s open to this sort of thing (and allows me to continue fantasizing about the possibility…). 😉