Here are tracks from Daniel’s 2022 debut album, Self Confidence. More videos follow below.
1 of 11. “Green Light Drive Away” – Vocal & Lyrics Video
2 of 11. “Lovers at First Sight” – Vocal & Lyrics Video
3 of 11. “What’s Her Name” – All Instruments Video, on which Daniel performs harmonica, lead vocal, guitar, bass guitar, organ, and drums.
4 of 11. “Holiday” – Lyrics Video
5 of 11. “Wonderful Time” – Vocal & Lyrics Video
6 of 11. “Be There with You” – All Instruments Video, on which Daniel performs vocals, bass guitar, electric guitar, organ, drums, trombone, trumpet, and piano
7 of 11. “If You Wanna Know” – Vocal & Lyrics Video
8 of 11. “I Believe in You” – Vocal & Lyrics Video
9 of 11. “Wastin’ Away” – Lyrics Video
10 of 11. “Wonderful Time, Part 2” – All Instruments Video, on which Daniel plays alto sax, tenor sax, trumpet, trombone, piano, classical guitar, electric bass, synthesizers, timbales, and electronic drums.
11 of 11. “Dance of Paradise” – Video (using the classic EQ from Winamp, in case you didn’t recognize it)
Other YouTube Videos
An up-tempo, funky version of Hurricane Smith’s “Oh Babe, What Would You Say,” with Daniel performing drums, alto sax, synthesizers, electric piano, vocals, electric guitar, bass guitar, trumpet, acoustic guitar, and backing vocals.
“Biff Pocoroba” — This is a novelty song Daniel conceived over the course of the year 2014. For those of you who know jazz pianist Dave Frishberg and his novelty song, “Van Lingle Mungo,” the novelty is that the lyrics are composed almost entirely of the names of classic baseball players, selected for cadence and rhyme.
“At one point I noticed that Biff Pocoroba,’ who I thought had one of the great Major League Baseball player names of his era, had the same cadence as `Van Lingle Mungo.’ I decided to set out to see if I could create a version using players exclusively from the Biff Pocoroba era, 1975 to 1984. I managed to do so, and each player’s career overlapped with Pocoroba’s (Jimmy Key was the closest.)
Here it is: “Biff Pocoroba: Dave Frishberg’s ‘Van Lingle Mungo’ with new lyrics.” The arrangement I mimicked is one I heard on YouTube about a dozen years ago, and I attempted to duplicate it the best I could. Later, I learned that the arrangement isn’t the same as what’s on the original Oklahoma Toad album, and I’m sorry I didn’t have that version. I also neglected to use a piano sound that I had crafted to emulate a Hohner Pianet, but I forgot and just used a Rhodes sound. Whoops. Anyway, here’s me performing the song on electric piano, nylon-string guitar, electric bass guitar, drums, vocals, trumpets, and trombone.”
If you want to compare it to the original I was emulating, here that is: