After all the buzz about my Christmas Album I decided to release my greatest hits album before any of the hits were released to save time. An unusual selection of the songs I love to sing.

Dobbs' Christmas Album

Dec 17th, 2021 18m 31s

Finally a Christmas Album from Dobbs. How long have we waited for this. Hooray!

Monkey Business Part Deux

Jul 16th, 2021 10m 43s

Strange diets for monkeys and humans examined.

Trample Dfence

May 10th, 2021 8m 45s

Sophisticated American football concepts come to the South African Game parks

The Khandahar Aprtments

Apr 17th, 2021 26m 36s

The Aspen music festival during the summer of 1967. A memoir with music from the time.

Young and Beautiful

Dec 24th, 2020 35m 3s

A nostalgic and true account of young love at the roller rink back in the fifties. Somehow appropriate on this Christmas Eve as we look back over the crazy year of 2020.

A Salute to an American Hero with Variations on a Patriotic Theme

Aug 20th, 2020 10m 57s

Salute to an American Hero with variations on a patriotic theme, op. 17 (January 1996) Who was the greatest American flyer? Wilbur Wright? Chuck Yeager? Neal Armstrong? This true story tells all. Hint; it involves balloons and lawn chairs.

Shoes

Jun 26th, 2020 21m 36s

The true account of a hitchhiking trip from Dallas to NYC in 1965 with funny songs that comment on the action. My affirmation of BLACK LIVES MATTER

Conversation by the Nile

Jun 10th, 2020 10m 13s

Conversation by the Nile, op. 35 (September 2009) What do Crocodiles and Camels talk about hanging around down by the river in Egypt? This story will tell you.

Not the Worst Thing

Jun 2nd, 2020 22m 3s

Not the Worst Thing, op. 9 (September 1992) I spent parts of two years (1961/62 and 1964/65) living in Denmark and by the end could pass for a Dane. I was obsessive about speaking, reading, thinking only in Danish and it was an intense imme

La Vendetta

May 20th, 2020 10m 4s

La Vendetta, op. 26 (March 2001) A simple account of an attack by “bandits” in Saudi Arabia is revealed to be something else entirely.

Mistaken Identity

May 13th, 2020 3m 59s

Mistaken Identity, op. 30 (2006) Another crazy but true story that was told to me in Kabul by a good friend of the woman in the song.

Darkness at Midnight

May 8th, 2020 19m 43s

op.16 September 1995 but finished in a new version today. Visiting the three smallest countries in Europe in a day; a true but comic travelogue. Recreated from old files from 1995. Good story and a funny retelling of it. The title is a referenc

Interview with the Dwarwf

May 3rd, 2020 11m 14s

Interview with the Dwarf, op. 14 (January 1995) Get the story behind the story of Snow White. One of the Dwarves reveals all but it’s not what you expect.

The Messiah

Apr 27th, 2020 24m 34s

A send up of "The Messiah" with fake Handel, a fake quartet of soloists (me) and a messiah who died in a state of grace in Memphis. Live recording.

Scenes from movies that should have been cut!

Apr 24th, 2020 6m 29s

Originally intended for a spot on late night TV that never materialized. Scenes from five movies that just should have ended up on the cutting room floor but didn't.

Bear Naked

Apr 21st, 2020 9m 18s

Bear Naked, op. 39 (2017) A bear breaks into a home in Vail, Colorado and does what?

Hillary and the Glass Ceiling I mean Slipper: A Fairy Tale

Apr 16th, 2020 10m 1s

In far off Benghazi there lived a poor scullery maid called Hillary. This is her surprising and twisted and satirical, need I say tragic story which will make you laugh I guarantee.... maybe, possibly, if there is any justice in the world defin

A Parable

Apr 11th, 2020 10m 6s

2. A Parable, op.20 (January 1997) If you are seeking enlightenment, this story will show you the way. A desert mystic reveals the secret by telling a parable of sheep in wolves’ clothing. Yes this leads to enlightenment and low vibrati

GTelling Mo vies

Apr 8th, 2020 12m 6s

This is Opus 1. Telling movies is a way to verbally convey the essence of a movie with no restrictions on balance or truth or fairness, using exaggeration or ridicule and giving false importance to some scenes or some dialogue. In the hands of

The Saddest Day

Apr 6th, 2020 12m 19s

6. The Saddest Day, op. 27 (April 6, 2002, 1:33 p.m.) Dobbs relives a loss suffered during his youth. The inexplicable and somewhat astonishing parting of a boy and his turtle inspires songs of farewell in German, French and oh yes, Doo