Peter Alsop‘s SONGS TO CHEW

   On this week’s SONGS TO CHEW podcast, I’ve got a song I wrote and played at the AFL-CIO’s National Convention in December of 1977.  Union membership was diverse, gender and race-wise, ... but union management was mostly all white men.  The best way for me to say something about that, was to write a song!  So here’s the AFL-CIO LOVE SONG performed live at McCabe’s Guitar Shop a year later.
   These episodes of my podcast are kind of a “free course on life skills” with music! Get ‘em wherever you get your podcasts; or go to  peteralsop.podbean.com ~ download a free player and subscribe for access to all my songs! Albums & dvds available at:  https://play.google.com/store/music/collection/cluster?clp=sgMjCiEKG0FwYm1uNHBnMmV3NDVtY2tsa3dvZzR0aHN0cRADGAI%3D:S:ANO1ljLvD7o&gsr=CiayAyMKIQobQXBibW40cGcyZXc0NW1ja2xrd29nNHRoc3RxEAMYAg%3D%3D:S:ANO1ljLfKDA
            Don't fergit t'wash yer paws!

   Today’s song is called “Strength”, about what happens in the aftermath of a divorce.  It was a turning point in my musical career, as I had to ask myself “why am I writing this song?”
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This week’s SONG TO CHEW is “Man Oh Man I Can!” for adults, songwriters and comedians with “questionable good taste”, ... on the timely theme of “dating a manikin, rather than sheltering alone”, ... from my very first album recorded live at Bob Stane’s Ice House in Pasadena, California in 1975. 

On this week’s SONGS TO CHEW we listen to “Baby Needs A Parent” from my 1981 album, UNIFORMS.  Good parenting models strength and gentleness in Moms & Dads, together or single!
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This week’s SONG TO CHEW is one of my earliest feminist songs, “Doin’ It For You”. It's a satire of a macho guy explaining to his girlfriend that all his self-centered behaviors are things he does for “her own good".  I wrote it to help other guy’s raise their consciousness a bit.  See what you think, ... over the line?  Or right on? 
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      This week’s SONG TO CHEW is “Let The Woman In You Come Through”, one of my classic feminist men’s songs from my 1977 Flying Fish album, ASLEEP AT THE HELM.  The song is supportive advice from a man to his friend.  When it first came out, we got quite a bit of radio airplay because most people had never heard a man sing about how boys and men, struggle to make sense of the very limited gender-specific ways we were expected to act.  “We had to choose between acting like Woody Allen or John Wayne, ... and most of us weren’t interested in acting like either one of them!”
 

     Our lives can become very clear, when we see something traumatic happen to someone else.  Our SONG TO CHEW this week is OUR DOG BIT OUR CAT, based on an actual true event that happened in my home. 

       This week’s SONGS TO CHEW podcast takes us back to my 1977 version of the “Young Woman Disco”, based on Meredith Tax’s feminist parody of the old folk song, “There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly!”  This is our 65th episode, ... and it’s free!  (So far!). Subscribe/follow  at peteralsop.podbean.com for more episodes.  Bye for now!