Living In The Bonus Round: #12: Beatles Singalong and Two Things Too!

Monday, November 18, 2024

#12: Beatles Singalong and Two Things Too!

Am I a heretic or a believer?

A liar or an Honest Abe?

A genius or a fool?

The answer: YES. And so are you. We are all these things. To someone, at least.

That's why it's useless to try to label yourself as all good or all bad. All sane or all crazy.

That's the beauty and terror of being human. We are all these things. And that's what I tried to comically convey in this new song, released this week, called Two Things Too.

But before that, here is the YouTube link to this week's Beatles Singalong at Strawberry Fields. If the news from this past week, has you down, this will put a huge smile on your face.
https://youtu.be/3P9nCstPgcM?si=jL2AI_kv0EzB8R37

Two Things Too
©2024 by Steve Schalchlin

I'm a dream come true, I'm a nightmare too
I'm the stars above and I'm hell to love
I am Lancelot, with a twisted plot

I'm a Shakespeare sonnet, with a murder on it
I'm the Taj Mahal, with a crumbling wall
I'm a saw that swings, with an edge that sings
Cause it cuts both ways
And it's oh so true

You can be one thing and be two things too

I'm the king of hearts throwing poison darts
I'm the ace of spades tossing handguns
I am comfort class and a donkey's ass
A romantic tale on a gothic scale
I'm a valentine from a withered vine
I am French champagne made from acid rain

If that makes no sense it can still be true
We can be one thing and be two things too

Two things too no matter what we do
A mirror wall in a fun house mall

We can dive so far that we get the bends
We can both be lovers and yet still be friends
We can run red hot and sometimes feel blue

I can be a woman or a man for you
I can be too busy and have nothing to do
If I'm lost at sea, but my course is true
I can be one thing and be two things too

We can be one thing, and be two things too.

Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/two-things-too-feat-bonus-round-band-single/1778376503

YouTube:
https://youtu.be/lu8wZ18DSRc?si=1CMxKAMsLCSYchX_

Spotify link:
https://open.spotify.com/track/5IIxfONESnIQk31TVg7TwI?si=b292f9d4399646e

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Spotify Links

Love Songs by Steve Schalchlin Spotify Playlist https://tinyurl.com/stevelovesongs

Personal Songs by Steve Schalchlin Spotify Playlist https://tinyurl.com/stevepersonal

Comic/Humor Songs by Steve Schalchlin Spotify Playlist https://tinyurl.com/stevehumor

Inspirational Songs by Steve Schalchlin Spotify Playlist https://tinyurl.com/steveinspire

Meditation Music by Steve Schalchlin Spotify Playlist https://tinyurl.com/stevemeditate

Political Songs by Steve Schalchlin Spotify Playlist https://tinyurl.com/stevepolitics

Rebel Nerd Songs - lyrics by Steve Schalchlin https://tinyurl.com/steverebelnerd

Quick Links

WATCH Steve's amazing perfomance at the World Domination Summit.

Get Steve's most recent album, Tales from the Bonus Round iTunes, Spotify and IS NOW AVAILABLE on Amazon, Google Play and every other download and streaming service around the world.

DOWNLOAD sing-along materials -- lyrics and mp3s -- for TALES FROM THE BONUS ROUND.

NEWS: Steve has been honored with the first Broadway World 2015 Special Editor's Award for Excellence in Songwriting by BroadwayWorld,com. Here is their description:

In a field with many deserving candidates, this year's first ever BWW New York Cabaret Award for "Excellence in Songwriting" goes to Steve Schalchlin, a New York-based composer and lyricist who has been on quite a cabaret roll the past two years. Although his two biggest recent projects, the CD and subsequent show, Tales From the Bonus Round, and his song cycle, New World Waking, were years in development, Schalchlin performed both in New York over the past couple of seasons.

Bonus Round-which featured Schalchlin at the piano as lead singer--was performed as a cabaret show at the Metropolitan Room in October 2013 (and received a BWW Award nomination for "Best CD Release," and one of the songs garnered a nomination for "Best Original Song for a Cabaret Show"), while New World Waking received a standing ovation when performed at the Urban Stages Winter Rhythms Festival last month.

"What makes Steve stand out above the rest for his recent body of work is that he not only writes both music and lyrics, but also performs his songs," says BWW New York Cabaret Editor Stephen Hanks.

"But even more impressive is that his songs in Bonus Round compellingly chronicled his battle with the life-threatening AIDS disease, while New World Waking offered important messages about how our planet needs to finally overcome violence, war, racism, and prejudice-and how it might be possible through the power of music.

Schalchlin's lyrically powerful and pleasingly melodic songs couldn't be timelier."

Musical Awards and Honors

For the record and to impress our friends and relatives, a partial list of the honors for our musicals "The Big Voice: God or Merman?" and "The Last Session" which I wrote with life partner and playwright Jim Brochu of the recent hit play about Zero Mostel, "Zero Hour".

2013 The Autograph Best Original Music, The Last Session-London. What's On Stage.

Best Score, L.A. Drama Critics Circle 1997 & 2003.

Best Musical, L.A. Ovation Awards, 2005.

Best Musical, ADA Awards 2005.

Best Musical Director, ADA Awards 2005.

Best Lead Actor in a Musical nomination. L.A. Ovation Awards 2005.

PFLAG-LA Oscar Wilde Award, 1997 & 2003.

Best Concert of a Musical, Best Original Writing, Desert Theatre League Awards 2005.

Best Theatrical Production nomination, Off-Broadway & L.A. GLAAD Media Awards, 2004.

Best L.A. Theatre Production, GLAAD Media Awards, 1997.

(And thanks from me to all those groups. Prizes are fun. I like prizes.)