December 11, 2023 • 44 mins
This week on The Local Show, Steven Courtney is our special in-studio guest! What a great guy and prolific songwriter. Wait until you hear how many concerts he’s played! (He keeps track).
You’ll also hear music from:
Lyndhurst - band
Dezzie Renae
and CoalState
Tune in Sunday nights at 8pm
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Sponsored by Renewal by Andersen of Central Pennsylvania
The River 97.3
Central Pennsylvania Music Hall of Fame
You’ll also hear music from:
Lyndhurst - band
Dezzie Renae
and CoalState
Tune in Sunday nights at 8pm
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Sponsored by Renewal by Andersen of Central Pennsylvania
The River 97.3
Central Pennsylvania Music Hall of Fame
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Proudly Pa. This is the LocalShow with a Central Pennsylvania Music Hall of
Fame on the River, ninety sevento three. Welcome to episode twenty two
of the Local Show, brought toyou by renewal by Anderson of Central Pa.
My name is Glenn Hamilton. Thisis my friend Brandon Valentine. Hello.
Everyone, Brand is the president,founder of the Central Pennsylvania Music Hall
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of Fame. Yeah, Episode twentytwo, double deuce, and we have
a very special guest with us lateron in the show, Don't Go Anywhere,
Definitely. It's kids and family andsinger songwriter artist Stephen Court, local
legend and heck of a guy.He'll be here shortly. But in the
meantime, what are we kicking theshow off with Brandon? We're starting off
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with something brand new. You cancall them pop punk, you can call
them rock, or you can justcall them great. It's the song with
the title and the Grand Theft AutoFont just released on Black Friday. Here's
Lynnhurst with Criminal Local Show ninety seventhree. What the hell was I thinking?
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I never live to expectations. I'mmore s taking mood than I'm giving.
I can't resist any more sensations.In my head. You tied I
could falling backwards sidless, we've gota hold onto what's left? Study thing?
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Not being a criminal over all mylife. I couldn't set a built
punishment my huning and dealing up funny. Become a person taking a sense battling
everything me no all me fastest hecan wait to this mean no letting go.
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Shot myself up from thinking that Icould beat the only problem something so
he sadding with affliction. I can'teven lippen them up the bottom of my
head. I'm feeling sad, likea falling back where said lest thing gotta
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ball onto? Was that understand anything? Not being a criminal overall, I
couldn't stand about punishment man fully andfeeling of I mean, become a person
taking in a sense a doing fromeverything name noam name stands be made to
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this mean no ding nothing the crimefor Allas, I can see it.
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You should be feeling fun They killa person thinking years since everything kill thank
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I call him awesome. That's Lendhurstand their latest criminal on the local show
on the River ninety seven three.Gotta love it. By the way,
that's the radio edit, so ifyou find it on it might be a
little different. It might be explicita little bit. We did not play
the Are you sure we didn't playthe explicit? A p okay, I'll
get a letter from the FCC.That's right, Mondy, that's all right.
It's worth a risk because they're soawesome. All right, Who's up
next? Brandon switching genres here movinginto some country. This is the title
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track off her new album, justreleased at the end of October. Here's
DESI renee with moving on. Thisis the local show on the River ninety
seven to three. Here we aretoo, am be calling me again,
wandering where I am and loom with, well it's none of your business.
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Long, No, who's taking mefor bamams bends he's calling aunt, Yeah,
yeah, some moding a matin goingat about telling you a mess we
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have? Oh we can go,said Gon some mo mon trading mad?
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Why you said, lady bunny backpe balking the other and think tis on?
Go? Hold honey, you butyou name when you lady? Next
word made clean the sea? DidI deserve everything that you did? Me?
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Bawling honey ure, But my guys, you some moment and he found
that I would follow you begging youto jump in the champ and U the
pattal to the metal and I wason my own. I give somebody,
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well, lie gay some moment amoment. Oh, I'm not your little
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Bobby's hopping down the dog, notthe ron jumping. I don't need you
anymore. And I guess something.I would be coming back again manning your
wrongs. I'm moving all. That'snothing. I'm bothering you by telling you
I'm mass he chiding. Yeah,that's just nothing. I would call you,
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begging you to jumping the check andput a paddle the meadle metal own
of the somebody we ll you mansamment tam moment, I'm little the local
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show on the River ninety seventy three, saying tell friend it'll beat your son,
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shouts wos and chiny didn shine outdance, insanities up in the head.
The party's over and they should goand see try change your Joel ex
wove its own books. Now theclown is signitu when he brings yourself watch
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till being alone. He's a joke. He didn't Ta chick said half of
life being sick. The party's overand I shot go. He didn't Ti
ten Julie wove Time. He's onyour side and he's a long to it
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a blow if you wake at that? These out tide dolls beside, they
jump at Sue. If you leta h tide, These on your side
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and he sward a little while.Do you lay a blow if you like
at that? These out time dollarsbeside, they drop at Sue side.
These on your side and you starta mind? Do you lay a blow
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if you lak a bat? Theseout tid dolls the side to from their
brand new EP, at least fora little while. That is Cole State
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with Time on the local show onthe River ninety seven through that Rocks,
Yeah, man, gotta love somepunk rock on the local show, Desi
Renee back there Little Country moving onfrom her latest. So we have a
very special guest in the studio.Mister Stephen Courtney will be here talking about
his brand new album, One LastCup of Coffee, his latest and his
singer songwriter genre. He's a kidsand family artist, but he's so much
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more than that, so much more. I mean, dude. The guy
has been featured on his music hasbeen featured on Sesame Street Dude, and
not only kids and family. Heis, so he makes that genre so
much more than what you think itis. I mean, it's for everybody
in the family. It's not justfor kids. As you will see,
it's timeless music also. I meanI remember I'm playing at my school growing
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up, and you know now mykids can say the same. Great music
is great music. And Stephen Courtneywrites and performs great music. And we'll
talk with Stephen and Courtney, Steveand Courtney. Stephen Courtney our special guest
on the Local show next on theRiver ninety seven three. That's classic.
What is a classic? That's aclassics something just rot He's the River,
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Central PA's real rock variety. Nowwe're back with the Local Show on the
River ninety seven three and iHeartRadio broughtto by renewal by Anderson of Central Pa.
I'm Glenn Hamilton, Brandon Valentine ishere and we have a very special
in studio guest, two times CentralPennsylvania Music Award winner and all around fabulous
entertainer and just a great guy,Stephen Courtney. And oh Man, good
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to hang with you, brothers.So great to have you in here.
Man. Now, you're mostly knownfor the kids and family genre. Yep,
you know you really target that market. That's kind of your sweet spot.
But you do have some singer songwriteralbums. In fact, you got
a brand new one out, Yeah, One More Cup of Coffee, And
that's a collection of I think thatmaybe a dozen songs on there, and
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it's the material I've written in thelast four or five years. That's just
you know, it's not the kidsand family things. So I figured,
you know, put another collection ofthese songs out. This is more metal
death metal. No, it's stillpretty easy, easygoing kind of stuff.
Yeah, very acoustic singer songwriter stuff. And there's a track that kicks off
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the album called love You Like YouAre, which just you know, growing
up in the seventies and being thatbeing the ear that really started listening to
music and and sort of dissecting it. I just want to kind of give
a little bit of throwback feel tothat kind of energy and vibe. So
it's a fun little rocket. Thisis Love You Like You Are Stephen Courtney
on the Local Ship on the Riverninety seven three, You am Me out
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to see Sunny Edy saylo wait waityou're master my supers are? I Love
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You Like You Are I love youlike you, love you like you are,
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to love you like you are,love you like you are, to
love you like you are, loveyou like you. I love you.
Thank you. I love you,thank you. That's Stephen Courtney loved You
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Like You Are, from his brandnew album called One Last Cup of Coffee
Singer Song, one of his collectionsof the singer songwriter albums. Yeah,
a little outside of the kids andfamily genre. Still fun though, very
fun Fleetwood Mac. Yeah, thereyou go, brother, I'll take that.
Yeah, But let me say,let's talk about the documented It came
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out a few years ago, alittle short film the songwriter is featured in.
Yeah, that was the name ofthe little product. How did you
get involved in that? I've justI was in the middle of COVID and
I was like, I need todo something to nuts. Yeah, And
I had in the back of mymind just sort of documenting, originally for
my grandkids, just a little bitof the story kind of how I got
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into music and what songwriting means tome. So it's a collection of It's
diverse in the sense that it's someof the stuff geared towards grown ups,
but it's also some of the kidsand family stuff thrown in there too.
It's very acoustic, you know,just kind of just me and my guitar
sort of thing. There's a coupleof tracks that are full produced. But
yeah, the songwriter short film that'son YouTube. Just search Steve McCartney's songwriter
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Nice and you can watch it forfree. And what you did as a
labor of love? Right, ohI did? Yeah, and again a
little bit of a documentary. Speakingof grandkids. One of the coolest things
that's happened in the past couple ofyears is I have an opportunity to write
six songs for Sesame Street. Dude. Yeah, And it happened because my
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jam. I mean, like,I don't know how old are you,
Stephen, I'm sixty two, Okay, I'm fifty six. I was two
when Sesame Street came on. Yeah, so that's like my jam. I
was like, audience, yeah,a little bit older. You were watching
Electric Company, I was watching SesameStreet. But that's cool, man,
So how did you get approached byit? So amazing? Well, I
was performing at an elementary school doingmy regular job, and after the assembly,
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the teacher comes up and he wasI think a fourth fifth grade teacher,
and he also did this creative thingwith his students. He had this
little animated series that he created,and so he said, ah, I
do some short films for Sesame Street. I would love to work with the
songwriter, you know, somebody likeyou that can help me kind of get
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that side of it dialed in.So we partnered up, and uh we
did one and it was a songfor s's for school where good behavior is
the rule. That's so great,man, it's time to clean up after
play it, you know, andthat when when you work in your seat
us staying it's just a really funyou know, and I'm channeling like the
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old ABC rock, kind of likeschoolhouse rock. Thank you. And uh
So I wrote that song and hesent it off to get approval, and
he said, in the past,when I've done songs, it's it's a
process. We've got like three orfour times through the chain here. And
he emailed me or text me andhe's like, dude, they passed it
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on the first past through or soI was like, well, it's good
to be a songwriter. And thenwe did a couple. We did a
few more. We did hs forHealthy. We did one called twelve amazing
vehicles. One of my favorites iscalled nine Baby Dragons, and that's in
the vault somewhere. They haven't releasedthat yet. They themed their shows and
so they kind of just waiting forthat one to be one that lines up
with their themes. But yeah,such a cool thing. Let me just
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say it. Being and you beingin the kids and family genre, to
even have someone speak the word SesameStreet, you had to just be like,
whoa, what is happening right now? It's like mecca for you.
That's like, it's very cool,the dream right, very cool. And
right in the middle of all that, there was a friend of mine.
And if you're listening to Cody Landis, I've said your name. I've known
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him Cody since he was four.He's been coming to my shows for a
long He's been to more of myshows probably than just about anybody. Wow.
And Cody's so sweet. And hethrew up a fellow worker that I
was doing some work with him said, oh, I know somebody that works
at Sesame Street. So they messagedthe dad up there and we're like,
hey, can we bring Cody upto visit Sesame Street? So I got
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to go up. They rented alimousine driver for the day and took us
to New York City the children's televisionworkshop. We walked in in this at
the time they were filming their Thanksgivingepisodes. It was amazing. That's it
had to be. Just it wasbizarre. But the highlight for me was
stuff off I guess comes walking aroundthe corner and he he comes up to
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me like yeah, and he goesthere, pal Ah, man give you
a trunk. He did, andit was just like you know, and
then he kind of broke character fora second. He goes, man,
good job getting Cody up here.You know. So super cool experience to
just be able to be in thatspace. The amazing experiences you can have
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when music is a part of yourlife. Yeah, outside of music exactly
connects so many different dots. Andthen and then then the opening the door
opening to do something for Sesame StreetAnd you know, it wasn't something I
had to chase down or pursue it. It just organically happened by doing the
thing I love and somebody else wasinspired to reach out and make it happen.
So what a life lesson is rightthere? Very cool? Let's play
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another one. Off the brand newalbum One Last Cup of Coffee. Which
one are we going to play?Now? Let's play this Old World?
Okay, because that's that's one ofthe songs that's in the songwriter of short
film Okay and the the film versionsjust you know again me on the acoustic.
But this is more produced, thisis full full band, really really
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fleshed out and uh yeah, Ijust the energy of this. I've had
some Even my daughter Brooke was like, oh Dad, that rocks you know
so killer. That still means alot to me. Yeah, when you
get your kids, you're thinking whatyou're doing. You know, you're onto
something. This is Stephen Courtney Bandof Friends on the local show on the
River in ninety seven to three.I will not let this old world drag
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me down. I will not letthis old world drag me down. I'm
backing my bags, I'm getting outof town, and I will not let
this old world drag me down.No, no, no, I will
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not be this old world make meblue. I will not live this old
world make me blue. I'm gonnasing a song of joy, hold on
too old, That's true, AndI will not live this old world making
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me blue. No, no,no, I will not leavet this old
world break my heart. I willnot that this ould world break my heart.
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I'm gonna keep on rocking every day. Every day. It's a brand
new star and I will not bethis ould world break my heart. No,
no, no, no, no, no no, look mad and
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tried the down. I will notthat. I would not that bright mom.
I will not let drag down bright. No, no, no,
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in the in the in the nono. The local show on the River
nineties seven three. Mister Jimmy,Can I play your guitar? Mister Jimmy,
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Can I play your good time?Can I play your good tar?
I want to be a superstar,mister Jimmy. Can I play your gooitar?
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Mister Jimmy? Can you tune theseoat strings? Mister Jimmy, Can
you to these old streams? Canyou to these old streams? Yill KEI
I want to sing, mister Jimmy, can you too these old streams?
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Singing? Hey, lie lie lie, singing here lie, mister Jimmy,
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Can you teach me a song?Mister Jimmy, can you teach me your
song? Can you teach me asong? I want to play all night
long, mister Jimmy, can youteach me a song? Singing? Head
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line, yeah, line, singing, hey, lie ye lie, mister
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Jimmy, can I play your goodJohn? Mister Jimmy, gonna play your
guitar? Canna play your time?I want to be a superstar, mister
Jimmy, Canna play your It's thelocal show on the River at ninety seventy
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three. That is Stephen Courtney,Stephen Courtney Band of Friends. That's mister
Jimmy from the album before the latestone. That's from Drop the Needle,
mister Jimmy, and before that onefrom the newest album, One Last Cup
of Coffee. That is This OldWorld. But I can all you're doing
it right, man. You gotso much good music it's not even funny.
I appreciate that. So you've beenhere since ninety one? Is that
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when you really started your professional singersongwriter career? Actually moved out here in
eighty eighty and so I had astretch there where I was just guy in
the corner playing acoustic guitar and singingKat Stephens songs. A regular job.
A regular job at the time pornconcrete or stalling hardwood floors. I did
a bunch of odd job, mostlyconstruction related, and then yeah, I
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was around ninety one when, oractually ninety I started to experiment recording and
writing some songs for children. Theywere for my children, and recorded a
cassette tape of some of those earlysongs, and then a niece and a
nephew heard it and we're like,hey, well, Steve, we get
a copy of that. So Igave him a copy and they took it
to school for show and tell,and then I got a call and an
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invite to perform at a school.It was the first time that door kind
of opened up. So running upto their I was doing about one hundred
and twenty five shows a year,just singer, songwriter, coffee house guy,
and then more in the full kindof market, like I said,
And then it looked like between Iguess it was April of ninety one,
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I put out my first Kids andFamily record, twenty songs Today and Tonight
Wow. The Today's side, funup tempo stuff, the tonight song like
sleepy Yeah exactly cool man, andand that was April. By August,
the middle of August, the phonewas just I had so many offers to
come and do concerts and for thein the kids and family market, for
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like assemblies and assemblies, libraries,churches, summer festivals. Yeah, church
is just all kinds of opportunities.Now, when you started playing music,
when you started seriously playing music,like in the coffee houses and stuff like
that, did you ever think thatyou would transition into that. Was that
a goal or did you just kindof fell into it. Yeah, because
you're writing songs for your kids rightnow. It was just kind of a
natural progression of just exploring songwriting.When I started to write outside of the
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folk kind of the mainstream adult marketand get into writing for kids and family,
it was just kind of an experimentat the beginning. And then once
I saw that I was selling,you know, one hundred copies to one
with the kids and Family record,it was like, well, maybe there's
something else here, you know,that can be explored. And then I
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got really jazzed about just the opportunityof writing in that market because there was
some music that i'd heard that kidsand family stuff that was like, oh,
this is really good, you know, really creative. And you know,
I try not to bash anybody becauseeverybody's intentions with what they're doing with
music. That's that's your gig.You know, hey, you do it.
You know your heart's told about betrue to that, find your bliss.
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For me, it was exciting tothink like, well, what if
I could write for kids and families, but also kind of infuse that Yellow
Submarine Beatles, Octopus Guardian kind ofinfluence in there, pull in some of
the you know, the Elton Johnkind of vibe with the songs that are
that are a little bit more forthe heart, you know, more sophisticated
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and more rock types stuff. Exactly, Yeah, geared towards the younger audience.
Exactly. When I was I thinkabout fifteen or sixteen, I had
a dream that I was holding somerecords, and the records the artwork on
the records was very childlike and thatjust always stuck with me. And then
about a year later, I meta guy who this is in Three Rivers,
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Michigan, where I grew up.There was a guy a little local
music store, and he told meabout how he I just got back from
Nashville. I went up there downthere and recorded with the band, and
you know, we record a wholealbum and a weekend and I'm like,
what that costs you. He's likethree thousand dollars, you know. I
was like wow, and he's like, well, but we printed up for
five hundred records and I've got aVHS type hair eight track he actually had
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eight track nice And I'm like,whoa, So wait, you just went
down there and just, you know, did it. And he's like yeah.
It was kind of forget what hecalled what do you call a label
that that like a boutique label ora vanity label. I ain't that's way.
It's just a vanity project of mine, all right. And I look
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and he's got three albums on theshelf and I'm like, so you've gone
down there three times. He's likeyeah, I try to go down songs.
And it was that really triggered inmy mind, like, oh,
so you can kind of do thisthing on your own. In some senses,
I was thinking indie before indy waseven a term in that sense.
And then when the kids and familything just took off, I was like,
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well, I'm as indie as youcan get. I had signed a
distribution deal with round Her and thenthat lasted about six months. It was
just a short term deal for likeover the holiday season and ended up getting
a bunch of stuff shipped back tome and had to pay for shipping both
ways and reimburse them a little bitof an advance. And I was like
that that, I'm not doing thatagain. So I just stayed at it
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and long term slow burned getting itdone. After at certain seasons there in
the nineties up to the early twothousands, I was doing two hundred and
fifty shows a year all right herein Central PA. You know, some
work down in Michigan or over inMichigan and Indiana and get that out there,
that kind of thing where I grewup. Yeah, well, we'll
listen. Since we are talking aboutyour bread and butter, your your kids
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and family, let's play. Let'splay one from uh when we're playing Happy
Go Lucky Shoe. Yeah, Iwrote this song in ninety four. There
was a cassette album called Happy GoLucky Shoes. Okay, this song's going
through a couple of arrangement changes throughthe years, but I think we're listening
to the version from A Million Smilesto go Okay, I think that is
so it's just this fun little happydude, get you on your way,
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Happy go Lucky shoes. This isStephen Courtney on the local Show on the
River ninety seven to three. DidI hear you see you're feeling so bad?
Did I hear you see you're feelingkind of sad? I'll tell you
what what you gotta do? Takea little walk in your happy go lucky
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shoes. Did I hear you seeyour friend is feeling bad? Did I
hear you see your friend is lonelyand they feel sad? I'll tell you
what what you gonna do? Giveyour friend a pair of happy gold lucky
shoes, happy good lucky shoes,happy good lucky shoes. I'm happy.
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That's my attitude in my happy goodlucky shoes. Yay. What did I
hear you say you're feeling better?Now? Did I hear you see you're
feeling good? And how? I'lltell you what what you gonna do?
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Keep walking through life in your happygood lucky shoes, Happy good lucky shoes,
happy good lucky shoes. I'm happy. That's my attitude in my good
lucky shoes. Yay, she touchingcargo, Rellie. I'm wearing them every
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day, My be good lucky shoes, my happy good lucky shoes. Stephen
Cortney. That is Happy Go LuckyShoes on the Local Ship on the River
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ninety seven three. Stephen has beenour special in studio guest today. And
uh, you've got a live albumthat came out earlier this year. Yeah,
strumm and Sunshine. That was acollection of live tracks that I had
created over the last curate curio.You try to use a big word and
it just created. That's a twentyfive cents that's a five cent song.
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Roder geez hanging with these Southerners.I can't think right now, here's the
deal. Yeah, Strumming Sunshine livealbum from like over thirty years, thirty
years of table Man. There's acareer. Yeah, thanks, there's still
going, still still rocking it.And there's versions of Stephen the Pirate Detective,
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Joe Dat Dat Boom, Happy GoLucky Shoes, some of the folky
kind of things that we did inthe twenty five cent songs, Mama's Homemade
Soup, Era Nice. It's justfun to listen to it from top to
bottom. So how many albums haveyou put out? I think total like
kids, Yeah, Family, howmany of those there's over thirty Wow?
And then how about the the singersongwriters. There's five or six of those
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out there's a lot. And nowyou also keep track of how many shows
you do? Yeah, so howmany gigs have you played? I don't
know any other artist that that personallythat has kept track of every show.
How many live shows have you doneas of today at seven twenty six?
Unbelievable. Yeah, that's mind blowing. It is mind blowing. And that's
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everything that includes concerts assembly. Wow, little little library track. You have
a little notebook with a little techmarks in there, like jail, like
I've been what's really straight musical prison? Yeah. Just I'll be driving down
the road and my kids will doit too. They'll be like, Dad,
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you ever playing that gig? Youknow? Yeah? Yeah? I
can you see that ampitheater over there? Yeah? I believe incredible three times.
Well, and you have your yournext Kids and Family album in the
works ready to come out soon.The new Kids and Family records should drop
early in the twenty twenty four.That's title Forever in a Day. And
what I did on this album projectwas I tried to intentionally write songs for
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people that are now adults who werekids growing up listening to my Kids and
Family Music catalog and with them inmind as they share their love of music
and the energy and my kids andfamily music is a little bit more maybe
maybe develop than what people think ofwhen they think of kids and failing music
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out and for them to be ableto share, like and and still have
a new album music experience here intwenty twenty four as an adult and then
share it with their kids and belike, oh, yeah, this isn't
endearing. So a lot of thethemes are just kind of looking back.
And you know, there's one songcalled Staying Up Late Tonight. You know
there's just an old eye. Yeah, it's finally here, we get to
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stay up. And yeah, there'sone called when We Climb Trees And that
song actually my son I play itfor him and he got, he got
We got to the end of thesong and he was so quiet and he's
just like, wow, that justsparked so many memories of my childhood.
Wow, things I haven't thought ofand so long. And I'm like,
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that's the ticket. That's that's whatthis album project I'm trying to write for
that that response for people to reminiscea little bit but also seize the day,
you know, and you've got yourkids from the ages of you know,
zero zero to ten years old,and that those ten summers fly by
fast. So you're not kidding,you know, hold them and love them
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while you can and rack up theexperiences because it just flies by. Well,
Stephen Courtney can be the soundtrack ofyour life, not from just your
kids, but all the way through. So make sure you check out Steven
if you're not familiar with them,how can they find your stuff on all
the streaming sites? But yeah,what's your website? Yeah, Stephen Courtney
dot com. That's a creative one. That's a good one. I'll never
forget it. That website, Yeah, Stephen Courtney dot com right at the
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beginning of the Internet. That getsyou to the kids. It's not like
Stephen Courtney one dot No, StephenCoourtney dot com. It's the one we
locked in on that baby, andthat's the main rate way to find out
what's going on or to reach outif you're looking to have a kids in
family concert. Yeah, if you'rea school, yeah, if you're a
school or a church or you havean assembly coming up by you will not
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be disappointed. Stephen Courtney is theman and it's always a great I appreciate
it, Stephen, thanks for comingin, man, Thanks good being with
you. That's gonna about wrap itup for episode twenty two of the Local
Show Here on the River ninety sevenththree. I'm Glenn Hamilton. That's Brandon
Valentine. Don't forget the cpmas theCentral Pennsylvania Music or the Local Grammys are
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coming up in March March twenty eighth, and tickets are on sale now.
It's right. It's the fifth annualand we feature a lot of local artists
that will be nominated. Nominations willprobably come out after the first of the
year. So a lot of themusic we play all comes from your submission.
It's on You can find the submissionforum on our website at cpmhof dot
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That's right. We're here on theRiver every Sunday night, well most Sunday
nights, at eight o'clock live andthen we upload the episode to the podcast
on the iHeartRadio app about lunchtime onMondays, So make sure you search for
and follow The Riverlocal Show on youriHeartRadio app. For Brandon Valentine, I'm
(44:25):
Glenn Hamilton. Thanks to renewal byAnderson A Central PA for sponsoring us,
and as always, get out thereand support local music. Go see a
local show,
Proudly Pa. This is the LocalShow with a Central Pennsylvania Music Hall of
Fame on the River, ninety sevento three. Welcome to episode twenty two
of the Local Show, brought toyou by renewal by Anderson of Central Pa.
My name is Glenn Hamilton. Thisis my friend Brandon Valentine. Hello.
Everyone, Brand is the president,founder of the Central Pennsylvania Music Hall
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of Fame. Yeah, Episode twentytwo, double deuce, and we have
a very special guest with us lateron in the show, Don't Go Anywhere,
Definitely. It's kids and family andsinger songwriter artist Stephen Court, local
legend and heck of a guy.He'll be here shortly. But in the
meantime, what are we kicking theshow off with Brandon? We're starting off
(00:44):
with something brand new. You cancall them pop punk, you can call
them rock, or you can justcall them great. It's the song with
the title and the Grand Theft AutoFont just released on Black Friday. Here's
Lynnhurst with Criminal Local Show ninety seventhree. What the hell was I thinking?
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I never live to expectations. I'mmore s taking mood than I'm giving.
I can't resist any more sensations.In my head. You tied I
could falling backwards sidless, we've gota hold onto what's left? Study thing?
(01:49):
Not being a criminal over all mylife. I couldn't set a built
punishment my huning and dealing up funny. Become a person taking a sense battling
everything me no all me fastest hecan wait to this mean no letting go.
(02:35):
Shot myself up from thinking that Icould beat the only problem something so
he sadding with affliction. I can'teven lippen them up the bottom of my
head. I'm feeling sad, likea falling back where said lest thing gotta
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ball onto? Was that understand anything? Not being a criminal overall, I
couldn't stand about punishment man fully andfeeling of I mean, become a person
taking in a sense a doing fromeverything name noam name stands be made to
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this mean no ding nothing the crimefor Allas, I can see it.
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You should be feeling fun They killa person thinking years since everything kill thank
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I call him awesome. That's Lendhurstand their latest criminal on the local show
on the River ninety seven three.Gotta love it. By the way,
that's the radio edit, so ifyou find it on it might be a
little different. It might be explicita little bit. We did not play
the Are you sure we didn't playthe explicit? A p okay, I'll
get a letter from the FCC.That's right, Mondy, that's all right.
It's worth a risk because they're soawesome. All right, Who's up
next? Brandon switching genres here movinginto some country. This is the title
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track off her new album, justreleased at the end of October. Here's
DESI renee with moving on. Thisis the local show on the River ninety
seven to three. Here we aretoo, am be calling me again,
wandering where I am and loom with, well it's none of your business.
(05:48):
Long, No, who's taking mefor bamams bends he's calling aunt, Yeah,
yeah, some moding a matin goingat about telling you a mess we
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have? Oh we can go,said Gon some mo mon trading mad?
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Why you said, lady bunny backpe balking the other and think tis on?
Go? Hold honey, you butyou name when you lady? Next
word made clean the sea? DidI deserve everything that you did? Me?
(07:14):
Bawling honey ure, But my guys, you some moment and he found
that I would follow you begging youto jump in the champ and U the
pattal to the metal and I wason my own. I give somebody,
(07:41):
well, lie gay some moment amoment. Oh, I'm not your little
(08:05):
Bobby's hopping down the dog, notthe ron jumping. I don't need you
anymore. And I guess something.I would be coming back again manning your
wrongs. I'm moving all. That'snothing. I'm bothering you by telling you
I'm mass he chiding. Yeah,that's just nothing. I would call you,
(08:39):
begging you to jumping the check andput a paddle the meadle metal own
of the somebody we ll you mansamment tam moment, I'm little the local
(09:43):
show on the River ninety seventy three, saying tell friend it'll beat your son,
(10:05):
shouts wos and chiny didn shine outdance, insanities up in the head.
The party's over and they should goand see try change your Joel ex
wove its own books. Now theclown is signitu when he brings yourself watch
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till being alone. He's a joke. He didn't Ta chick said half of
life being sick. The party's overand I shot go. He didn't Ti
ten Julie wove Time. He's onyour side and he's a long to it
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a blow if you wake at that? These out tide dolls beside, they
jump at Sue. If you leta h tide, These on your side
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and he sward a little while.Do you lay a blow if you like
at that? These out time dollarsbeside, they drop at Sue side.
These on your side and you starta mind? Do you lay a blow
(11:52):
if you lak a bat? Theseout tid dolls the side to from their
brand new EP, at least fora little while. That is Cole State
(12:13):
with Time on the local show onthe River ninety seven through that Rocks,
Yeah, man, gotta love somepunk rock on the local show, Desi
Renee back there Little Country moving onfrom her latest. So we have a
very special guest in the studio.Mister Stephen Courtney will be here talking about
his brand new album, One LastCup of Coffee, his latest and his
singer songwriter genre. He's a kidsand family artist, but he's so much
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more than that, so much more. I mean, dude. The guy
has been featured on his music hasbeen featured on Sesame Street Dude, and
not only kids and family. Heis, so he makes that genre so
much more than what you think itis. I mean, it's for everybody
in the family. It's not justfor kids. As you will see,
it's timeless music also. I meanI remember I'm playing at my school growing
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up, and you know now mykids can say the same. Great music
is great music. And Stephen Courtneywrites and performs great music. And we'll
talk with Stephen and Courtney, Steveand Courtney. Stephen Courtney our special guest
on the Local show next on theRiver ninety seven three. That's classic.
What is a classic? That's aclassics something just rot He's the River,
(13:37):
Central PA's real rock variety. Nowwe're back with the Local Show on the
River ninety seven three and iHeartRadio broughtto by renewal by Anderson of Central Pa.
I'm Glenn Hamilton, Brandon Valentine ishere and we have a very special
in studio guest, two times CentralPennsylvania Music Award winner and all around fabulous
entertainer and just a great guy,Stephen Courtney. And oh Man, good
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to hang with you, brothers.So great to have you in here.
Man. Now, you're mostly knownfor the kids and family genre. Yep,
you know you really target that market. That's kind of your sweet spot.
But you do have some singer songwriteralbums. In fact, you got
a brand new one out, Yeah, One More Cup of Coffee, And
that's a collection of I think thatmaybe a dozen songs on there, and
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it's the material I've written in thelast four or five years. That's just
you know, it's not the kidsand family things. So I figured,
you know, put another collection ofthese songs out. This is more metal
death metal. No, it's stillpretty easy, easygoing kind of stuff.
Yeah, very acoustic singer songwriter stuff. And there's a track that kicks off
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the album called love You Like YouAre, which just you know, growing
up in the seventies and being thatbeing the ear that really started listening to
music and and sort of dissecting it. I just want to kind of give
a little bit of throwback feel tothat kind of energy and vibe. So
it's a fun little rocket. Thisis Love You Like You Are Stephen Courtney
on the Local Ship on the Riverninety seven three, You am Me out
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to see Sunny Edy saylo wait waityou're master my supers are? I Love
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You Like You Are I love youlike you, love you like you are,
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to love you like you are,love you like you are, to
love you like you are, loveyou like you. I love you.
Thank you. I love you,thank you. That's Stephen Courtney loved You
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Like You Are, from his brandnew album called One Last Cup of Coffee
Singer Song, one of his collectionsof the singer songwriter albums. Yeah,
a little outside of the kids andfamily genre. Still fun though, very
fun Fleetwood Mac. Yeah, thereyou go, brother, I'll take that.
Yeah, But let me say,let's talk about the documented It came
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out a few years ago, alittle short film the songwriter is featured in.
Yeah, that was the name ofthe little product. How did you
get involved in that? I've justI was in the middle of COVID and
I was like, I need todo something to nuts. Yeah, And
I had in the back of mymind just sort of documenting, originally for
my grandkids, just a little bitof the story kind of how I got
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into music and what songwriting means tome. So it's a collection of It's
diverse in the sense that it's someof the stuff geared towards grown ups,
but it's also some of the kidsand family stuff thrown in there too.
It's very acoustic, you know,just kind of just me and my guitar
sort of thing. There's a coupleof tracks that are full produced. But
yeah, the songwriter short film that'son YouTube. Just search Steve McCartney's songwriter
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Nice and you can watch it forfree. And what you did as a
labor of love? Right, ohI did? Yeah, and again a
little bit of a documentary. Speakingof grandkids. One of the coolest things
that's happened in the past couple ofyears is I have an opportunity to write
six songs for Sesame Street. Dude. Yeah, And it happened because my
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jam. I mean, like,I don't know how old are you,
Stephen, I'm sixty two, Okay, I'm fifty six. I was two
when Sesame Street came on. Yeah, so that's like my jam. I
was like, audience, yeah,a little bit older. You were watching
Electric Company, I was watching SesameStreet. But that's cool, man,
So how did you get approached byit? So amazing? Well, I
was performing at an elementary school doingmy regular job, and after the assembly,
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the teacher comes up and he wasI think a fourth fifth grade teacher,
and he also did this creative thingwith his students. He had this
little animated series that he created,and so he said, ah, I
do some short films for Sesame Street. I would love to work with the
songwriter, you know, somebody likeyou that can help me kind of get
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that side of it dialed in.So we partnered up, and uh we
did one and it was a songfor s's for school where good behavior is
the rule. That's so great,man, it's time to clean up after
play it, you know, andthat when when you work in your seat
us staying it's just a really funyou know, and I'm channeling like the
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old ABC rock, kind of likeschoolhouse rock. Thank you. And uh
So I wrote that song and hesent it off to get approval, and
he said, in the past,when I've done songs, it's it's a
process. We've got like three orfour times through the chain here. And
he emailed me or text me andhe's like, dude, they passed it
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on the first past through or soI was like, well, it's good
to be a songwriter. And thenwe did a couple. We did a
few more. We did hs forHealthy. We did one called twelve amazing
vehicles. One of my favorites iscalled nine Baby Dragons, and that's in
the vault somewhere. They haven't releasedthat yet. They themed their shows and
so they kind of just waiting forthat one to be one that lines up
with their themes. But yeah,such a cool thing. Let me just
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say it. Being and you beingin the kids and family genre, to
even have someone speak the word SesameStreet, you had to just be like,
whoa, what is happening right now? It's like mecca for you.
That's like, it's very cool,the dream right, very cool. And
right in the middle of all that, there was a friend of mine.
And if you're listening to Cody Landis, I've said your name. I've known
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him Cody since he was four.He's been coming to my shows for a
long He's been to more of myshows probably than just about anybody. Wow.
And Cody's so sweet. And hethrew up a fellow worker that I
was doing some work with him said, oh, I know somebody that works
at Sesame Street. So they messagedthe dad up there and we're like,
hey, can we bring Cody upto visit Sesame Street? So I got
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to go up. They rented alimousine driver for the day and took us
to New York City the children's televisionworkshop. We walked in in this at
the time they were filming their Thanksgivingepisodes. It was amazing. That's it
had to be. Just it wasbizarre. But the highlight for me was
stuff off I guess comes walking aroundthe corner and he he comes up to
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me like yeah, and he goesthere, pal Ah, man give you
a trunk. He did, andit was just like you know, and
then he kind of broke character fora second. He goes, man,
good job getting Cody up here.You know. So super cool experience to
just be able to be in thatspace. The amazing experiences you can have
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when music is a part of yourlife. Yeah, outside of music exactly
connects so many different dots. Andthen and then then the opening the door
opening to do something for Sesame StreetAnd you know, it wasn't something I
had to chase down or pursue it. It just organically happened by doing the
thing I love and somebody else wasinspired to reach out and make it happen.
So what a life lesson is rightthere? Very cool? Let's play
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another one. Off the brand newalbum One Last Cup of Coffee. Which
one are we going to play?Now? Let's play this Old World?
Okay, because that's that's one ofthe songs that's in the songwriter of short
film Okay and the the film versionsjust you know again me on the acoustic.
But this is more produced, thisis full full band, really really
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fleshed out and uh yeah, Ijust the energy of this. I've had
some Even my daughter Brooke was like, oh Dad, that rocks you know
so killer. That still means alot to me. Yeah, when you
get your kids, you're thinking whatyou're doing. You know, you're onto
something. This is Stephen Courtney Bandof Friends on the local show on the
River in ninety seven to three.I will not let this old world drag
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me down. I will not letthis old world drag me down. I'm
backing my bags, I'm getting outof town, and I will not let
this old world drag me down.No, no, no, I will
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not be this old world make meblue. I will not live this old
world make me blue. I'm gonnasing a song of joy, hold on
too old, That's true, AndI will not live this old world making
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me blue. No, no,no, I will not leavet this old
world break my heart. I willnot that this ould world break my heart.
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I'm gonna keep on rocking every day. Every day. It's a brand
new star and I will not bethis ould world break my heart. No,
no, no, no, no, no no, look mad and
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tried the down. I will notthat. I would not that bright mom.
I will not let drag down bright. No, no, no,
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in the in the in the nono. The local show on the River
nineties seven three. Mister Jimmy,Can I play your guitar? Mister Jimmy,
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Can I play your good time?Can I play your good tar?
I want to be a superstar,mister Jimmy. Can I play your gooitar?
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Mister Jimmy? Can you tune theseoat strings? Mister Jimmy, Can
you to these old streams? Canyou to these old streams? Yill KEI
I want to sing, mister Jimmy, can you too these old streams?
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Singing? Hey, lie lie lie, singing here lie, mister Jimmy,
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Can you teach me a song?Mister Jimmy, can you teach me your
song? Can you teach me asong? I want to play all night
long, mister Jimmy, can youteach me a song? Singing? Head
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line, yeah, line, singing, hey, lie ye lie, mister
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Jimmy, can I play your goodJohn? Mister Jimmy, gonna play your
guitar? Canna play your time?I want to be a superstar, mister
Jimmy, Canna play your It's thelocal show on the River at ninety seventy
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three. That is Stephen Courtney,Stephen Courtney Band of Friends. That's mister
Jimmy from the album before the latestone. That's from Drop the Needle,
mister Jimmy, and before that onefrom the newest album, One Last Cup
of Coffee. That is This OldWorld. But I can all you're doing
it right, man. You gotso much good music it's not even funny.
I appreciate that. So you've beenhere since ninety one? Is that
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when you really started your professional singersongwriter career? Actually moved out here in
eighty eighty and so I had astretch there where I was just guy in
the corner playing acoustic guitar and singingKat Stephens songs. A regular job.
A regular job at the time pornconcrete or stalling hardwood floors. I did
a bunch of odd job, mostlyconstruction related, and then yeah, I
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was around ninety one when, oractually ninety I started to experiment recording and
writing some songs for children. Theywere for my children, and recorded a
cassette tape of some of those earlysongs, and then a niece and a
nephew heard it and we're like,hey, well, Steve, we get
a copy of that. So Igave him a copy and they took it
to school for show and tell,and then I got a call and an
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invite to perform at a school.It was the first time that door kind
of opened up. So running upto their I was doing about one hundred
and twenty five shows a year,just singer, songwriter, coffee house guy,
and then more in the full kindof market, like I said,
And then it looked like between Iguess it was April of ninety one,
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I put out my first Kids andFamily record, twenty songs Today and Tonight
Wow. The Today's side, funup tempo stuff, the tonight song like
sleepy Yeah exactly cool man, andand that was April. By August,
the middle of August, the phonewas just I had so many offers to
come and do concerts and for thein the kids and family market, for
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like assemblies and assemblies, libraries,churches, summer festivals. Yeah, church
is just all kinds of opportunities.Now, when you started playing music,
when you started seriously playing music,like in the coffee houses and stuff like
that, did you ever think thatyou would transition into that. Was that
a goal or did you just kindof fell into it. Yeah, because
you're writing songs for your kids rightnow. It was just kind of a
natural progression of just exploring songwriting.When I started to write outside of the
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folk kind of the mainstream adult marketand get into writing for kids and family,
it was just kind of an experimentat the beginning. And then once
I saw that I was selling,you know, one hundred copies to one
with the kids and Family record,it was like, well, maybe there's
something else here, you know,that can be explored. And then I
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got really jazzed about just the opportunityof writing in that market because there was
some music that i'd heard that kidsand family stuff that was like, oh,
this is really good, you know, really creative. And you know,
I try not to bash anybody becauseeverybody's intentions with what they're doing with
music. That's that's your gig.You know, hey, you do it.
You know your heart's told about betrue to that, find your bliss.
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For me, it was exciting tothink like, well, what if
I could write for kids and families, but also kind of infuse that Yellow
Submarine Beatles, Octopus Guardian kind ofinfluence in there, pull in some of
the you know, the Elton Johnkind of vibe with the songs that are
that are a little bit more forthe heart, you know, more sophisticated
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and more rock types stuff. Exactly, Yeah, geared towards the younger audience.
Exactly. When I was I thinkabout fifteen or sixteen, I had
a dream that I was holding somerecords, and the records the artwork on
the records was very childlike and thatjust always stuck with me. And then
about a year later, I meta guy who this is in Three Rivers,
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Michigan, where I grew up.There was a guy a little local
music store, and he told meabout how he I just got back from
Nashville. I went up there downthere and recorded with the band, and
you know, we record a wholealbum and a weekend and I'm like,
what that costs you. He's likethree thousand dollars, you know. I
was like wow, and he's like, well, but we printed up for
five hundred records and I've got aVHS type hair eight track he actually had
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eight track nice And I'm like,whoa, So wait, you just went
down there and just, you know, did it. And he's like yeah.
It was kind of forget what hecalled what do you call a label
that that like a boutique label ora vanity label. I ain't that's way.
It's just a vanity project of mine, all right. And I look
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and he's got three albums on theshelf and I'm like, so you've gone
down there three times. He's likeyeah, I try to go down songs.
And it was that really triggered inmy mind, like, oh,
so you can kind of do thisthing on your own. In some senses,
I was thinking indie before indy waseven a term in that sense.
And then when the kids and familything just took off, I was like,
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well, I'm as indie as youcan get. I had signed a
distribution deal with round Her and thenthat lasted about six months. It was
just a short term deal for likeover the holiday season and ended up getting
a bunch of stuff shipped back tome and had to pay for shipping both
ways and reimburse them a little bitof an advance. And I was like
that that, I'm not doing thatagain. So I just stayed at it
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and long term slow burned getting itdone. After at certain seasons there in
the nineties up to the early twothousands, I was doing two hundred and
fifty shows a year all right herein Central PA. You know, some
work down in Michigan or over inMichigan and Indiana and get that out there,
that kind of thing where I grewup. Yeah, well, we'll
listen. Since we are talking aboutyour bread and butter, your your kids
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and family, let's play. Let'splay one from uh when we're playing Happy
Go Lucky Shoe. Yeah, Iwrote this song in ninety four. There
was a cassette album called Happy GoLucky Shoes. Okay, this song's going
through a couple of arrangement changes throughthe years, but I think we're listening
to the version from A Million Smilesto go Okay, I think that is
so it's just this fun little happydude, get you on your way,
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Happy go Lucky shoes. This isStephen Courtney on the local Show on the
River ninety seven to three. DidI hear you see you're feeling so bad?
Did I hear you see you're feelingkind of sad? I'll tell you
what what you gotta do? Takea little walk in your happy go lucky
(37:00):
shoes. Did I hear you seeyour friend is feeling bad? Did I
hear you see your friend is lonelyand they feel sad? I'll tell you
what what you gonna do? Giveyour friend a pair of happy gold lucky
shoes, happy good lucky shoes,happy good lucky shoes. I'm happy.
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That's my attitude in my happy goodlucky shoes. Yay. What did I
hear you say you're feeling better?Now? Did I hear you see you're
feeling good? And how? I'lltell you what what you gonna do?
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Keep walking through life in your happygood lucky shoes, Happy good lucky shoes,
happy good lucky shoes. I'm happy. That's my attitude in my good
lucky shoes. Yay, she touchingcargo, Rellie. I'm wearing them every
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day, My be good lucky shoes, my happy good lucky shoes. Stephen
Cortney. That is Happy Go LuckyShoes on the Local Ship on the River
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ninety seven three. Stephen has beenour special in studio guest today. And
uh, you've got a live albumthat came out earlier this year. Yeah,
strumm and Sunshine. That was acollection of live tracks that I had
created over the last curate curio.You try to use a big word and
it just created. That's a twentyfive cents that's a five cent song.
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Roder geez hanging with these Southerners.I can't think right now, here's the
deal. Yeah, Strumming Sunshine livealbum from like over thirty years, thirty
years of table Man. There's acareer. Yeah, thanks, there's still
going, still still rocking it.And there's versions of Stephen the Pirate Detective,
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Joe Dat Dat Boom, Happy GoLucky Shoes, some of the folky
kind of things that we did inthe twenty five cent songs, Mama's Homemade
Soup, Era Nice. It's justfun to listen to it from top to
bottom. So how many albums haveyou put out? I think total like
kids, Yeah, Family, howmany of those there's over thirty Wow?
And then how about the the singersongwriters. There's five or six of those
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out there's a lot. And nowyou also keep track of how many shows
you do? Yeah, so howmany gigs have you played? I don't
know any other artist that that personallythat has kept track of every show.
How many live shows have you doneas of today at seven twenty six?
Unbelievable. Yeah, that's mind blowing. It is mind blowing. And that's
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everything that includes concerts assembly. Wow, little little library track. You have
a little notebook with a little techmarks in there, like jail, like
I've been what's really straight musical prison? Yeah. Just I'll be driving down
the road and my kids will doit too. They'll be like, Dad,
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you ever playing that gig? Youknow? Yeah? Yeah? I
can you see that ampitheater over there? Yeah? I believe incredible three times.
Well, and you have your yournext Kids and Family album in the
works ready to come out soon.The new Kids and Family records should drop
early in the twenty twenty four.That's title Forever in a Day. And
what I did on this album projectwas I tried to intentionally write songs for
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people that are now adults who werekids growing up listening to my Kids and
Family Music catalog and with them inmind as they share their love of music
and the energy and my kids andfamily music is a little bit more maybe
maybe develop than what people think ofwhen they think of kids and failing music
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out and for them to be ableto share, like and and still have
a new album music experience here intwenty twenty four as an adult and then
share it with their kids and belike, oh, yeah, this isn't
endearing. So a lot of thethemes are just kind of looking back.
And you know, there's one songcalled Staying Up Late Tonight. You know
there's just an old eye. Yeah, it's finally here, we get to
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stay up. And yeah, there'sone called when We Climb Trees And that
song actually my son I play itfor him and he got, he got
We got to the end of thesong and he was so quiet and he's
just like, wow, that justsparked so many memories of my childhood.
Wow, things I haven't thought ofand so long. And I'm like,
(42:14):
that's the ticket. That's that's whatthis album project I'm trying to write for
that that response for people to reminiscea little bit but also seize the day,
you know, and you've got yourkids from the ages of you know,
zero zero to ten years old,and that those ten summers fly by
fast. So you're not kidding,you know, hold them and love them
(42:35):
while you can and rack up theexperiences because it just flies by. Well,
Stephen Courtney can be the soundtrack ofyour life, not from just your
kids, but all the way through. So make sure you check out Steven
if you're not familiar with them,how can they find your stuff on all
the streaming sites? But yeah,what's your website? Yeah, Stephen Courtney
dot com. That's a creative one. That's a good one. I'll never
forget it. That website, Yeah, Stephen Courtney dot com right at the
(43:00):
beginning of the Internet. That getsyou to the kids. It's not like
Stephen Courtney one dot No, StephenCoourtney dot com. It's the one we
locked in on that baby, andthat's the main rate way to find out
what's going on or to reach outif you're looking to have a kids in
family concert. Yeah, if you'rea school, yeah, if you're a
school or a church or you havean assembly coming up by you will not
(43:21):
be disappointed. Stephen Courtney is theman and it's always a great I appreciate
it, Stephen, thanks for comingin, man, Thanks good being with
you. That's gonna about wrap itup for episode twenty two of the Local
Show Here on the River ninety sevenththree. I'm Glenn Hamilton. That's Brandon
Valentine. Don't forget the cpmas theCentral Pennsylvania Music or the Local Grammys are
(43:42):
coming up in March March twenty eighth, and tickets are on sale now.
It's right. It's the fifth annualand we feature a lot of local artists
that will be nominated. Nominations willprobably come out after the first of the
year. So a lot of themusic we play all comes from your submission.
It's on You can find the submissionforum on our website at cpmhof dot
(44:04):
com slash radio, So submit yourmusic now to be considered for airplay.
That's right. We're here on theRiver every Sunday night, well most Sunday
nights, at eight o'clock live andthen we upload the episode to the podcast
on the iHeartRadio app about lunchtime onMondays, So make sure you search for
and follow The Riverlocal Show on youriHeartRadio app. For Brandon Valentine, I'm
(44:25):
Glenn Hamilton. Thanks to renewal byAnderson A Central PA for sponsoring us,
and as always, get out thereand support local music. Go see a
local show,
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