DJJD Volume 24

Created By:  Jonathan Dysart (DJJD)

Original Creation Year:  2007

Year of Re-master:  2010

Song Listing

Side A

1.    Magic:  Pilot 

2.    Honey Honey:  ABBA 

3.    Who Loves You:  Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons

4.    Ebony Eyes:  Bob Welch 

5.    Hopefully Devoted to You:  Olivia Newton-John  

Side B

6.    The Things We Do for Love:  10cc

7.    Right Down the Line:  Gerry Rafferty

8.    Kiss You All Over:  Exile 

9.    How Long:  Ace 

10. Only Love Remains:  Paul McCartney   

Side C

11. America:  Neil Diamond 

12. Lady:  Little River Band 

13. Moonlight Feels Right:  Starbuck

14. I Saw the Light:  The Raspberries

15. Midnight Blue:  Melissa Manchester

Side D

16. Imaginary Lover:  Atlanta Rhythm Section

17. You Are So Beautiful:  Joe Cocker

18. Mandy:  Barry Manilow

19. I Just Called to Say I Love You:  Stevie Wonder

20. Country Dreamer:  Paul McCartney

Origin of the Album

          Around this time, I just finished moving all of my songs on iTunes from my work desktop to my personal home desktop.  Also, I was in the process of organizing my iTunes libraries properly as well as started creating unique album covers (instead of using the dull base iTunes method of album covers).  Therefore, I had no ideas of what my next CD project should be.

            Since I was already organized my DJJD CD collection, I thought it would be best to organize my regular CD collection.  There were many CDs (especially Time Life compilation CDs) that I really do not listen to as much; however, there were individual songs that I would have liked keeping.  This was especially true for the Time-Life 1980’s collection, which I used a lot to create my DJJD Retro 80’s albums.  Among some Greatest Hits albums and the Time Life 1970’s “Singers / Songwriters” collection, there were a significant amount of soft rock love songs that I like to have – just significant enough to start a new album.

            I already had two soft rock albums:  DJJD Volume 1 and DJJD Volume 11, but I never really had a slushy romantic soft rock album.  You know, those “Silly Love Songs” that Paul McCartney always recorded!  From there, I got the idea of creating basically a “Valentine” romantic album.  I would take those songs that I liked from my regular CD collection, buy some new ones from the iTunes Music Store, and out comes an album.

Dedicated to the Princess...

Concept and Theme of the Album

            The concept of the album was quite simple.  Like I mentioned above, most of the songs are soft rock and romantic from the 1970’s.  There were a minority of songs coming from the early 1980’s, but that was it.  This album could have just been another Time Life “Romantic Songs of the 1970’s”, hosted by the members of Air Supply.

           

Concept and the Album Cover

          The album cover was just as simple as the concept.  All I did was try and find a Valentine and place it over a red velvet background.   When remastering this album, I thought that the album cover should be brighter with more artistic detail, and just applying the same technique that I did on the original album.