Name: Atlantic City
Duration: 5 min 1 s
Channel: Z. Mulls/J. Peterson
Description: "Atlantic City" is a song by Z Mulls. A collab with Jordan Michael Peterson, a great pop tune in a Billy Joel vein. It's available on Jordan's new CD, 'Reflections' available at his website (jordanpeterson.net)

Atlantic City

Z Mulls

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A collab with Jordan Michael Peterson, a great pop tune in a Billy Joel vein. It's available on Jordan's new CD, 'Reflections' available at his website (jordanpeterson.net)

Z Mulls

Internationally recognized, prize-winning lyricist well-versed in cabaret, indie, folk, country, showtunes and several other genres.

I am the Grand Prize Winner of the 2007 International Songwriting Competition for my collaboration with Eduard Glumov, "I'm Not Your Friend." We also won First Prize in the Rock/Alt Division of the Great American Song Contest. One judge called it a prime example of "world-class songwriting" and said the images in the were "often stunning." I'm a lyricist and have been collaborating with musicians from California to Kazakhstan, over the Internet. The fruits of that collaboration are found here, and at . While the winning song was a hot funk-rock song, with a compact streamlined lyric, I write in several styles. I've chosen "indie" as my genre, but I write anything from cabaret to country, and am looking to work with musicians and composers of all stripes. Currently I'm finding writing partners here in my home town of Philadelphia.

Song Info

Genre

Pop • Pop Rock

Charts

Peak #655

Peak in subgenre #130

Author

Z. Mulls/J. Peterson

Rights

2006

Uploaded

May 30, 2007

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.6 MB • 128 kbps • 5:01

Story behind the song

This was an explicit stab at writing a "Billy Joel" style lyric.  It was inspired by the Miss America pageant announcing it would move to either Nashville or Las Vegas.

I offered it to a young composer named Jordan Michael Peterson, who is a whiz on the keyboard and has a great musical sense, and he ran with it.

The "Under the Boardwalk" lyric was in there as a tip of the hat to the nostalgic song, and Jordan was able to incorporate it musically as well.   The "over the sands" line has a double meaning as well, referring to one of the original casinos in AC.

This song is now available on Jordan's new CD, "Reflections"   You can but it here on Soundclick or at his website

Lyrics

Thereï¿½s an old Jewish guy closing his shop
The one just a block from the pier
He's tired of everyone calling him ï¿½Popï¿½
His wife passed away just last year
He breathes out some steam on the real estate sign
The one that thank goodness says ï¿½Soldï¿½
He thinks Sarasota will suit him just fine
And he tightens his coat in the cold
 
(chorus)
And a cold wind blows
In Atlantic City
Over the ocean
Across the sands
Everyone knows
In Atlantic City
The shifting emotion
Of losing hands
 
The young man moves up to deliver room service
With packets of blow and of weed
Keeps his head down, he always gets nervous
But he gets what the high rollers need
And he goes past the boardwalk, where nobody browses
Sees people who donï¿½t come to play
The people who live near the boarded-up houses
With no chance of moving away
 
(chorus)
 
Under the Boardwalk itï¿½s not what it was
Itï¿½s no place for love anymore
The splash of the waves is drowned out by the buzz
That you hear indoor
On the casino floor
 

Ask and you might find an interesting story
On the buses that always come through
This woman here was almost Miss Missouri
In the pageant in seventy-two
Miss America has now left the building
Off to the south or the west
Take down the neon and peel back the gilding
And try not to get too depressed
 
(chorus)

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