"It Was You" is the title track to my upcoming EP (Dec. 18 release) and a tribute to the pop acts of the mid-Sixties, mostly American acts like the Turtles or Monkees, but also British acts like The Kinks, which sometimes ventured out of rock norms to throw in a touch of British Music hall. All these acts occasionally released uptempo, sunny, happy, sometimes silly tunes with catchy choruses.

This song is in the same vein. It can be sung by either a man or a woman, the overriding sentiment is that the person being sung about changed the singer's life. I've been lucky enough to have this happen to me a few times, but I have to admit the most recent time has been the best.

Envision the singer romping through the park on a sunny day, throwing caution -- and maybe flower petals -- to the wind.

Instrumentation recalls those classic tunes: bright guitar, thumping bass and drums, a happy, singalong breakdown with handclaps followed by trumpets and a calliope on the repeated outro. Calliope suggests, of course, a circus. At least in my day, everyone loved the circus. But you'll also hear calliope on a merry-go-round. Either way, it's a happy sound.

Most of my songs deal in love, in all its forms. This is happy love. I can't promise that all my love songs will be happy, because sometimes loves hurts (or stinks, or sucks -- pick your verb)!

Buy the single below! EP releases Dec. 18!