Dan Zanes
Dan Zanes was a member of the popular 1980s band The Del Fuegos and is now the front man of the Grammy-winning group Dan Zanes and Friends.
History
Zanes was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1961, and spent his childhood in Texas and then in Fredericton, New Brunswick. His father was a teacher, as well as a poet and writer.
He started playing guitar when he was eight and began taking Lead Belly records out of the public library as soon as he was old enough to get a library card; according to his mother, "He was always very musical."
Zanes attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts for two years. Zanes ended up living on the outskirts of Concord, New Hampshire.
In 1981, Zanes went to Oberlin College in Ohio, where he was determined to start a really cool band. In the breakfast line on the very first day at Oberlin, he met up with former high school classmate Tom Lloyd. Zanes and Lloyd took their breakfast back to the dorm and immediately started a band and soon left school and headed to Boston ("It was between Boston and Austin," according to Zanes), where they became known as The Del Fuegos.
Podcasts:
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ALBUMS
- Turn Turn Turn released: 2013
- Smile Smile Smile released: 2009
- Hello, Hello released: 2003
- Cool Down Time released: 1995
- Parades and Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected by Carl Sandburg released:
Parades and Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected by Carl Sandburg
- Wanderin'
- The Railroad Cars Are Coming
- Titanic
- Railroad Bill
- Roll the Chariot
- Waillie, Waillie!
- California
- All Night Long
- The E-ri-e
- The Shanty-Man's Life
- I Was Born Almost Ten Thousand Years Ago
- Lo Que Digo
- Cuckoo Waltz
- Across the Western Ocean
- The Monkey's Wedding
- The Midnight Train
- Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
- Lonesome Road
- A Son of a Gambolier
- The Colorado Trail
- Willy the Weeper
- Lord Lovel
- Lincoln and Liberty
- When the Curtains of Night Are Pinned Back
- Ezekiel, You and Me
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Smile Smile Smile
by: Dan ZanesEvery time I think of you,
Smile for a while
That's the one thing you always do
Smile smile smile
Acting out stories and hugging your friends
Smile for a while
I know what I'll do when I see you again
I'm gonna smile smile smile
Chorus:
Like ripples in a pond
Or runners who pass the baton
Good feelings will go on for mile after mile
And your big heart circles the world
Every time that you smile
Doing those voices and telling your jokes
Smile for a while
Your crazy hairdos and your thriftshop coats
Smile smile smile
Every time you break into a broadway song
Smile for a while
The whole world starts singing along
Smile smile smile
Well you know I love you and I'm glad you're my friend
Smile for a while
You know what I'll do when I see you again
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