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Awhile ago, someone brought up Seth Swirsky, a songwriter. Last night, while we were chatting, Bernie asked us if we wanted to hear a song by Eric and Seth Swirsky, called After You. It seems Seth has a "sethplayer" on his website, seth.com, on which the tune is available. You have to go to the site, launch sethplayer (you need Quicktime, which is why I couldn't get it while we were chatting, but Gina did and said the song was "dreamy.") Anyway, find the category, "Hits and Misses" and click it, and find the songtitle "After You." When it loads, you will find on top a picture of Eric in his apartment in 1983 (when they wrote the song together) at his piano, and underneath will be a story you will have to use the mouse to move down, which tells how they came to write the song together. Ultra-cool, no kidding! About 1 AM or so, I finally went on Seth's website and found it.

At 2:20 I was still listening to the song (seriously). Eric is singing it. It's extremely beautiful and extremely moving. Be prepared to cry.

smile --D

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Whew...thanks, Darlene, for telling us about this one. My eldest sis and I listened to it tonight and made good use of the tissues. Damn, that guy can get to us so easily...I wasn't that crazy about "The High Cost of Loving," but this one killed me. Why did he never fomally record it? Sheesh...

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A great Ask Eric question, Trindy, although there are just a lot of things Eric didn't record. I've asked myself that about "Devil and the Deep Blue Sea," and others as well. After You is truly a special song. If I haven't worn out "Sethplayer" yet, it must be indestructable! "The High Cost..." is cute. I can think of a former boyfriend who could have composed the lyrics...

smile --D

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I have no idea. It probably isn't on line. At least *you* have a cassette copy. Most people don't. Marvin or Cartmill may have it. "The High Cost of Loving You" is adorable, in my opinion.

Oh Great Tigress! Now *that* is funny! I used to wear "Tigress" perfume by Faberge in college. Hmmm, wonder if they still make it? Probably not. I'll have to visit "longlost perfumes" online. What do I do if I want to use an alias? Call myself "Tiger Lily?"!

--D

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Kazumi, The information came from Bernie, while we were chatting. I didn't know about it until he told us. I just posted it, because the song blew me away. Bernie knows EVERYTHING! (I would love to be able to climb up into his head and uncover all the lovely secrets he knows, but it wouldn't leave any surprises, so I guess I'd rather find it all out bit by bit.) Besides, Kathy's already DONE that!

smile --D

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This song has inscribed itself on my brain. I've been singing it since I first heard it this weekend! I got into my classroom early this morning and sat down at the piano and started playing it. The vocal music teacher came in and asked "What IS that? It's beautiful!" So I had to explain. She made me play it twice. I've been singing it in my head all day. It's absolutely GORGEOUS. Unforgettable...can't stop...

smile --Darlene

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I don't know if I've been more tired and dozy than normal over the past few days, but I still can't find "After You' anywhere on Seth.com, despite Darlene's kind directions. It brings up the Quicktime icon, but that's about it. frown

Has "The High Cost of Loving You' been a previous MP3? I can't trace that one either. frown

Is there any hope for me?!

frowncryingfrown

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Julia, here's what to do, when you go on SETH.COM, YOU HAVE TO,

Number1- click on the seth player first, it say's LAUNCH PLAYER.

Number-2) wait for the quicktime to load.

Number 3)- after it loads, on the bottom LEFT HAND CORNER in a Box, it will read, very small list of titles.

Number 4)- Using the tiny slide(up and down) bar

on the side box, look for "HITS AND MISSES"

Click on it-

Number- 5) - in the list, after it loads up, look

for "AFTER YOU' -ERIC CARMEN

The other song- "The High Cost Of Loving You"

Listen to both.

A picture of Eric with his Piano will show up.

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