Song #2: On the Road (1977)

I was nineteen, and had been working with Chad Stuart for a month or so on Phil Hartman's comedy album at my first studio, "Spoiled Brat", when I finally got the courage to tell Chad that I was a songwriter.

I played him some songs, and he graciously offered to produce a few songs for me.

Please forgive the quality of this recording; it's been salvaged from a cassette. The original master is probably somewhere in Chad's attic...*

Joe Bell, from the L.A. band "The Model" wrote these beautiful lyrics.
(If anyone out there knows where Joe is, I would be very thankful to be in touch with him again).

On The Road

Toby's on the wire

He says you're leaving Monday

Sunrise finds you gone

You'll be back home someday

Toby says that you need

More than I can give you

All some people live for

Is someone they can cling to

And I can see a quilt of snow

Cover tracks we made before

Winter skies grew pale and I grew sadder too

On the road

Summer's found an old home

The ice has run away

Autumn breezes run fast

Nothing's here to stay

All the tracks that we made

They're just getting older

You'll be traveling on while

I'll be getting colder

And I can see a quilt of snow

Cover tracks we made before

Winter skies grew pale and I grew sadder too

On the road

Britt Bacon: vocals, piano
Joe Bell: drums, BG vocals
Chad Stuart: bass, BG vocals

Written by Britt Bacon and Joe Bell
©1977

Source: cassette tape

*A day or so after Phil's untimely death in 1998, his brother John called asking if I knew where the master tape for Phil's album was. I told him it might be in my over-packed shed in the backyard, and I would take a look.  I went through every box in the shed, and sure enough, there in the last box was Phil's album.
John released the album later that year.