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FREDDIE WON THE TOSS

by Will Connolly

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1.
EUROPE 03:41
"Come on, Willie Sometimes You'll bounce the ball Sometimes It bounces back Sometimes You'll lose the ball Sometimes Come on, Willie..." BEDSIDE THE FLAT MORNING LIGHT BRIGHTENING PERFECT FAMILIAR & FRIGHTENING PART-TIME MUTERS IN A SINGLE FILE MISLED BUSINESS WITH A BROKEN DIAL YOU WERE NEVER ENOUGH HOW CAN YOU CONTRIBUTE WHEN YOU CAN'T EVEN KEEP UP? I KNOW IT'S TOUGH BUT YOU'RE UP PAST TIME STILL WAITING TO BE REASSIGNED "HAS-BEEN" DESCENDING IS HARDER THAN THE CLIMB JUST ONE STEP AT A TIME HOW CAN YOU CONTINUE WHEN YOU ARE SO FAR BEHIND? OPEN YOUR EYES YOU'RE UP HEY MAYBE ONE DAY YOU'LL BE THERE
2.
"I wanna talk to Zen! Can you hear me?!" "This is Zen! I can hear you!" ZEN AND THE ARTIST ARE TEN FATHOM DEEP PAPA VARIPAPA IS PASSED OUT ASLEEP THIS ROOM IS A VACUUM BUT I'M BETTER THAN FINE IF YOU KNOW ME, YOU KNOW I COME BACK ALL THE TIME I'M FINDING MY STRIDE I'M RIGHT IN THE ZONE GONNA THROW ME SOME BULLS, BABY THREE IN A ROW TARGETS KEEP MOVING PLANT MY FEET TO THE FLOOR I THINK I'M IMPROVING BUT I'M TOO THICK TO BE SURE IT'S LIKE HOURS ARE PASSING MAN THIS GAME IS A DRAG BUT THE CROWD IS AMASSING I GOT THIS BITCH IN THE BAG I'M FINDING MY STRIDE I'M RIGHT IN THE ZONE GONNA THROW ME SOME BULLS, BABY THREE IN A ROW
3.
"Fred Lening from Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania. Freddie won the toss. He likes to start on the left side. He wants to finish on lane 20 in the first and third game. All games starting on the left. The big turn, out and not back to the pocket. Misses the headpin, leaves the 1,2...There's the cover, the 1,2, by Fred Lening. And here's young Mike Limongello. What can you tell us about this fella's ball?" "Well Fred, he's got about the most effective, caring ball I've ever seen. He can carry them high, he can carry them thin. If the ball doesn't (??)...He's got real strong wrist action on the line, he snaps that ball off his hand... And there it is." "Boy, well, that was beautiful. Looked like he was going to run it up on the nose. Now how does he do that?" "I don't know." "That thought, too, because winning the toss, he would, he chose to bowl out on the right side in two of the three games. Sometimes this can be an advantage if you like one alley much better than the other one. High again! On the nose, but he breaks it up... Two strikes on the right, two nose hits on the left. Fred Lening, on the right side, his favorite side. He's on the double--" "You know, Fred, we were talking about Mike's ball, that he really moves the pins, he gets them off the side so that--" "Waaaaay out. Look at the ball come back! Beautiful!" "Take a little more time on this one, Freddie..." "...On 2... Be careful!... Well. How about those apples, Nelly?"
4.
MS. GUIDED 03:36
I'M JUST A DOWN & OUT SO-AND-SO I'M OUT OF LUCK, HALFWAY OUT THE DOOR TILL YOU COME THROUGH YOU SAY "HOW YOU DOING? YOU BROKEN? I'M BROKEN TOO" I SHOULD GO HOME NOW BUT I DUNNO THIS CORNER BOOTH IS SO COMFORTABLE YOU SAY "THIS SOLITUDE IS A COWARD'S MOVE LEMME SHOW YOU HOW WE DO I CAN CHANGE INTO WHATEVER YOU WANT ME TO BE ALL THE PAIN GOES AWAY IN A WAVE OF ECSTATIC RELEASE WHATCHA SAY, BABY? YOU WANNA PLAY WITH ME?" UH HUH, UH HUH MS. GUIDED UH HUH, UH HUH MS. GUIDED SO TELL ME HOW DO YOU REALLY FEEL? ARE YOU EVEN SURE THIS REAL? TELL ME HOW YOU DO YOU REALLY FEEL? TELL ME HOW YOU REALLY FEEL PROVIDING ME WITH "EXPERTISE" TELLING ME IT'S MY "MASTERPIECE" AND YOU GOT ME BELIEVING IT MIGHT BE WORTH REPEATING YEAH YOU GOT ME BELIEVING IT MIGHT BE WORTH THE BEATING YEAH YOU GOT ME BELIEVING THAT THERE'S A DEEPER MEANING EVEN MY SISTER WARNED ME ABOUT YOU SAID YOU WERE BAD NEWS BUT I GOTTA KNOW THE TRUTH IF I COULD CHANGE INTO WHATEVER YOU WANT ME TO BE WOULD ALL THE PAIN GO AWAY IN A WAVE OF ECSTATIC RELEASE? WHATCHA SAY, BABY? YOU WANNA PLAY? YOU WANNA PLAY WITH ME? TELL ME HOW DO YOU REALLY FEEL ARE YOU EVEN SURE THIS IS REAL? TELL ME HOW YOU DO REALLY FEEL TELL ME HOW YOU REALLY FEEL
5.
GOOD4U 03:01
ARE YOU PAYING PAYING ATTENTION? ARE YOU GOING THE RIGHT DIRECTION? THERE'S A TRAIL OF BREADCRUMBS ARE YOU PAYING PAYING ATTENTION? ARE YOU ASKING ALL THE RIGHT QUESTIONS? THERE'S A TRAIL OF BREADCRUMBS
6.
JERSEY 02:03
7.
WE'VE CROSSED THESE RIVERS COUNTLESS TIMES LEFT BROKEN BONES OUT ON THE ICE TURNPIKE SIGNS TURNED TO SUBWAY LINES DOLITTLE DAYS, OUTLANDOS NIGHTS BUT WE WERE NEVER DONE CUZ THIS IS AN EXTENSION OF MORE THAN ONE LOVE THIS WAS A LONG, LONG, LONG TIME COMING FOR WHEN THE BAR IS SO HIGH YOU CAN'T TELL YOU'RE BENEATH IT WHEN YOU'VE GOT ARCHER'S EYES BUT YOU CAN'T EVEN SEE IT THEN JUST LOOK, LOOK OUT LOOK OUT FOR EACH OTHER WE GOTTA LOOK, LOOK OUT LOOK OUT FOR EACH OTHER BABY BROTHER NOVEMBER CRASHED AND CRAWLED AWAY TAIL TUCKED BETWEEN ITS SHAKY LEGS BUT WE WERE NEVER DONE AND THIS IS AN EXTENSION OF MORE THAN ONE LOVE THIS WAS A LONG, LONG, LONG TIME COMING "Come on, Willie Sometimes You'll bounce the ball Sometimes It bounces back Sometimes You'll lose the ball Sometimes Come on, Willie..."

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released July 8, 2017

FREDDIE WON THE TOSS
by Will Connolly

All songs written by Will Connolly
Co-writes & additional arrangements: Jodnyl & Damon Daunno
Recorded at The Club Casa, Brooklyn, NY, from March-June 2017
Mixed by Jodnyl & Will Connolly
Engineered by Jodnyl
Mastered by Jodnyl
Recorded with: Logic / Maschine / Ableton / Output Exhale / Xfer Records Serum / Native Instruments / Komplete Kontrol / GarageBand / Fender Tele Delux guitar / Gretsch electric guitar / Tiesco bass / Cordoba Ukulele / Copperphone / Neumann / Sterling Audio / AKG

Samples:
"Come On, Willie"
Merryville High School, Merryville, Beauregard Parish, Louisiana
Made available by Pond5 Public Domain.

"Planet Man", episode “Must Obey Zen."
Made available by Old Time Radio Researchers Group.

"Fred Lening vs. Mike Limongello (Championship Game 1/3)"
Firestone's Bowl-a-rama center in Akron, Ohio.
Commentators: Fred Wolf & Nelson Burton Jr.
Made available by International Bowling & Museum Hall of Fame.

"Voice Memo 2017-04-10" from Melinda Connolly.

A quick note:

This record was conceived from a game.
A game that fell apart.
I suppose this record is about that game.
But more importantly, I think
This record is about forgiveness
Coping with defeat
And whatever it takes
To keep playing.

Dedicated to
MDKJ
P&C
DJG / MCM
Eternal thanks.
Your baby brother,
wpc

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Actor / Writer / Musician living in Brooklyn, originally from Montclair, NJ.

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