Wayne, Hayden & Jason Damico
Panoply Damico & Wayne
Song form is essential to master before any composer can move on to larger compositional forms. From a collection of over three hundred songs, this is the first volume ranging in styles from ballad to rock 'n' roll, to vaudeville to art, to Motown to country, to swing to funk to pop, to blues and jazz. After my return from touring with Jobriath, late September '74, I became conscious I was not composing. Starting March of 1975, I began a discipline of creating one song a week, accumulating sixty-five in ten months. By January, the next year, I doubled my efforts composing another hundred songs by year's end. I would subsequently broaden my vision into songs-suites, musical theater, Circus, Street Opera, Grand Opera, chamber music, concerti, symphony and choral symphony, four hundred works and growing.