These videos give you a taste of the sort of content I can provide, when I play a gig at your venue.
Original Songs
Arranged by Album
Just the Way She Walks
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Time Flies
View More ....words and music by Paul Taylor
The older we get the more time flies...
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Slow but Sure
View More ....words and music by Paul Taylor
This song was written decades ago, but I have always loved it.
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Foggy Day
View More ....Perhaps one of my more unusual songs. The music features frequent 7th chords. The lyrics refer to a fog of the mind or soul, rather than weather.
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Take Me to Your Leader
View More ....Original song - Words and Music by Paul Taylor
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Just the Way She Walks
View More ....When I get the full album finished, this will be the title track. It will probably be the first song I record on my music production software.
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Oh Lady
View More ....An original song! A song about unrequited love...
Words and Music by Paul Taylor
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Midnight Call
View More ....Words and music by Paul Taylor
A song for all those in long distance relationships
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Manchester Train
View More ....This is another song about long distance relationships. Nottingham is not really that far from Manchester but it seemed like a million miles to a 20-yr-old!
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Eurydice
View More ....Words and music by Paul Taylor
Share widely!
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Song for Gemma
View More ....The title says it. I started writing this song, when my daughter Gemma was born. I completed it 36 years later, shortly before her wedding.
Not in the Album
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If You Can't Love Me
View More ....A sort-of Country Song. I know, I always said i wasn't keen on country songs, but as i wrote this, i could hear the pedal steel guitars in my head.
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Tell It Like It Is
View More ....A Christmas song!
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The Shepherd's Song
View More ....A Christmas song from 1993
Cover Songs
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Midnight Train to Georgia
I love this song. I always loved the Gladys Knight and the Pips version. But i recently found the original, recorded by the composer, Jim Weatherly, and that is even better! My version has elements of both.View More .... -
Walking in Memphis
Walking in Memphis is really a story about composer Marc Cohn's visit to Memphis. It mentions Elvis, but also Rev. Al Green, W.C. Hanley, and a couple of other stars.View More .... -
True Love Ways
This is the classic Buddy Holly song - but my version was influenced more by Cliff Richard's 1983 versionView More .... -
My Life
I do a long introduction, before I launch into this cover of My Life, by Billy Joel.View More .... -
Black Velvet
One of the many Elvis tribute songs.View More .... -
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
Owing more to the composer Carol King's version, rather than THe Shirelles.View More .... -
The Way We Were
The classic Barbra Streisand number. I messed with the piano arrangementView More ....