"Valor" by Sovern

Cowboy Christmas by Jerry Corelli

"Where is your heart" Live by Jerry Corelli

Christmas Time by Jerry Corelli

I wrote this song about how Christmas' were for me when I was a child growing up in Denver, Co.  This year in Tacoma, WA we had a cold spell during the Thanksgiving Week and snow too.  So I sang the song at the Thanksgiving Dinner at the Tacoma Rescue Mission on the Worthy Music Ministries' Showcase Stage.

Fried Bologna by Jerry Corelli

My 52nd Birthday

Every year my Birthday rolls around I can't help but reflect back on the past year and wonder about what the next year holds.  The first thing I question is, "Will I still be alive for my next birthday"?  "Will I write a song or two or 10 or 20 this next year?"  "Will we still be living in the same house?"  And the questions go on and on.

I guess some of my deeper question are in regard to the last year.  "Did my music in anyway touch someone's heart?"  "Was I a better husband this year than the year before?"  "Was I a better friend?"  A big one for me is also, "Did I learn at least something this last year?"

For the past few years I've been going through old photo albums and recorded music to put together my past.  If you don't know where you come from and can you know where you're going?  Because I started singing in the 70's I have a great deal of cassettes with songs on them that I've recorded.  As a way of cataloging them I'm transferring them to digital, along with videos too.  I'm still looking for an 8mm camcorder or player to transfer a bunch of videos I have on 8mm but haven't found one yet.  I guess I feel that if I don't piece together my past I'm leaving something out and it's hard to go forward.

Anyway, I wrote this out as a way of venting to myself and as a reminder to finish piecing everything so I can move forward.

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Jerry Corelli the Christian Neil Diamond

1975 was when this picture was taken.  I was 16 years old and trying desperately to grow a mustache.

 For some reason dressing stupid was the fashion back then.  I don't know why I wore that hat.

This was the first "Neil Diamond" album I'd listened to.  A friend, Jim Eberle, had the album and said I sound like him and that I should listen to the album.  I guess I was to the second song on the "Serenade" album and I was hooked.  At first I know it was because my voice was beginning to lower and it was easier to sing to Neil Diamond that it was Steve Archer.  I also listened to Barry McGuire.  The album below was my first Barry McGuire album like Neil Diamond's "Serenade" was my first Neil Diamond album I bought after giving Jim back the album he let me borrow.

Then I discovered used album stores and found out Neil Diamond had a bunch of albums prier to the Serenade album and once I heard the "Hot August Night" album I knew I wanted to collect them all.

I guess I was 18 or so when I first started getting people coming up to me after a gig and saying, "Do you know who you sound like?" or "You sound just like Neil Diamond."  From that first time and for a long time that statement used to really bother me.  When I listened to my recordings and compared them with Neil Diamond I couldn't hear it.  I guess it's like William Shatner not seeing why comedians do his captain Kirk the way they do.

I'm not sure when I started becoming comfortable with the Neil Diamond thing but I think I realized that as singers we have to be compared with someone so now I tend to use it in my favor.  In 2010 I've been singing at a lot of Worthy Music Ministries' Showcases and many of them are in more secular venues like the Seattle Center - Center House Stage, Tacoma Freedom Fair and the Orting Pumpkin Fest.  The venues don't have too big of a problem with us sing Christian music but I've found that since people think I sound like Neil Diamond it's a great chance to get it out of the way by singing "America".

Now when I sing at venues and do Neil Diamond's "America" it tends to get it out of the way and it is an attention grabber too.  I now have more people coming up to tell me I'm the Christian Neil Diamond.

I'm Not Dead Yet by Jerry Corelli

I'm Not Dead Yet by Jerry Corelli

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Kingdom of Grace

Kingdom of Grace is a favorite with most audiences. Whether I'm singing at a prison or church it's a song everyone can relate to. You can't breath and not struggle with what Kingdom your life is a part of. It's one of my meat and potato songs. Sometimes a song like this is hard for people to listen to because it convicts them. If that's the case then the song is doing it's job. Again Chris Brekke's lead guitar work was just right for this song.

Verse One

Kingdoms will rise and kingdoms will fall, but

I know a kingdom that will out last them all.

There are Kingdoms with peasants and kingdoms with gold.

Kingdoms just starting and kingdoms of old.

Kingdoms of deception all over the place, but

There’s only one true kingdom that’s the Kingdom of Grace.

Chorus

I belong to the Kingdom of Grace, were everyone is a rich man.

I belong to the Kingdom of Grace, my King is Righteous and True.

I belong to the Kingdom of Grace, I’m a chosen heir to the King.

I belong to the Kingdom of Grace, where Jesus is King of everything.

Verse Two

There are kingdoms of Addiction where your king for a price.

Kingdoms of seduction where all men become mice.

There are kingdoms of seclusion where fantasy rules.

Kingdoms with wise men and kingdoms of fools.

Kingdoms where everyone is always running a race, but

There’s only one True Kingdom that’s the Kingdom of Grace.

B.T.C.

Copyrighted & Published 2000 by Corelli's Music Box, BMI

I was there

"I was there" was originally written in the 80's and like a lot of songs it took awhile to finally be recorded. The last verse regarding a princess dieing is about Princess Diana. But, when I first wrote the song it was "when Kennedy was killed, they say to soon."

I wrote this song because at the time the theory of evolution was becoming more and more excepted. When I was in college I took a course in Human Anthropology to learn more about man's quest for turning from God and accepting that he came from oooz. I expected the professor to stand there and declare with absolute conviction that man evolved and that there was proof. However, to my astonishment she was most adamant to make it clear that there was no proof and that evolution was still a theory.

There is no where, it seems, that evolutionists haven't been able to get their THEORY into the main stream of news reports, television shows, commercials, books, you name it and make to appear to be an established fact. But, no it's still a theory and only a theory and to this day there is still no proof that the Earth and everything on it evolved.

So, I wrote this song with the idea that God was telling us that he's always been there for us to turn to, since He created everything. But we, humanity, continually turn to other things and away from God to explain our existence. We think ourselves too smart to believe in God. Mankind simply cannot accept God sending his Son Jesus Christ to die for our sins also.

I Was There

Verse 1

I was there when you where a baby.
I was there when you took your first step.
I was there when you spoke your first word.
For I'm the one who made the Heavens and the Earth.

Chorus

But all the time man has still turned away.
Thinking he's better left alone.
He won't open up and admit he is wrong.
He'd rather believe he came from the sea, than from me.

Verse 2

I was there when man took his first breath.
I was there when the world had its first death.
I was there when Noah became a sailor.
And I was there at the parting of the Red Sea, that was me.
B.T.C.

Verse 3

I was there when man first flew in the sky.
I was there when Einstein first wondered why.
I was there when man stepped on the moon.
And I was there when a princess died, they say to soon.
B.T.C.

copyrighted & Published 1991 Corelli's Music Box, BMI
Words & Music by Jerry Corelli

Can't Get Enough Of His Love

If I had to pick a song on this CD that's my favorite it would be "Can't get enough of His Love". I like the feel of the song, the way the words came together and what the song has to say. I had a lot of fun recording the song too so I suppose that's another reason I like it so much. Written by Jerry Corelli

Jerry Corelli

Can’t Get Enough Of His Love
Written June 5, 1985
Words & Music by Jerry Corelli

1 Verse
Well, I’ve been up and I’ve been down.
I’ve seen the good and the bad.
Well, I guess I’ve been around.
And I know what it’s like when you don’t have a friend.
And I know what it’s like when the road has no end.

Chorus
Now on the solid rock I stand.
My feet are planted firm.
His saving grace has given me faith.
His flame will always burn.
No power on earth or Satan’s hand couldn’t keep me from His love.
Of all the things on this earth it’s His love… I can’t get enough of.
I can’t get enough of His love.

2 Verse
Well, I’ve felt pain and I’ve faced death, I’ve fought the fight.
When wrong was done to me I’d pray He’d make it right.
Poverty’s knocked more than once when relief was just in sight.
And I wonder how I ever got by without Jesus… in my life.

BTC

© 1990 Jerry Corelli, Song #227

Palm Sunday

I wrote this song back in the 80's to discribe the events of "Palm Sunday". There didn't seem to be many songs written about Palm Sunday. At the time I registered the song with BMI it was only the eight song with that title. Now there are 16 with that title. Written by Jerry Corelli

Jerry Corelli

Verse One

There came riding in on a Sunday,

on a warm nice day it was.

A man riding on a donkey,

he said he was the Son of God.

Well, the people they all shouted and cheered,

as the man came through the streets.

And they all laid down palm branches,

down before his feet.

Well, just a few days later,.. they crucified Him.

They nailed Him high on a Cross.

But, it had to happen on that day.

For Jesus' cleansing blood,.. it took our sins away.

Words & Music by Jerry Corelli

Copyrighted & Published 2000 by Corelli's Music Box, BMI

Nation Of The Weak

"They have eyes, but they can't see. They're a part of the Nation of the weak". Throughout the song I wrote about how people think they are great and how they're greatness is compared to a mighty nation. But, the truth is that without Christ in their life they're only, or are part of, a nation of the weak. Written by Jerry Corelli

Jerry Corelli

Nation of the Weak
Written September 8, 1982
Words and Music by Jerry Corelli

Verse 1
They have eyes, but they don’t see.
They have ears, but they don’t here,
They have mouths, but they don’t speak,
They’re a part of the nation of the weak.

Verse 2
They have hands, but they won’t give,
They have hearts, but they’re cold and lonely,
They have minds, but they don’t think,
They’re apart of the nation of the weak.

Verse 3
They have their gods, but the they’re silver and gold,
They have their books, but wisdom from man gets old,
They have their buildings, that can reach the highest peak,
They’re a part of the nation of the weak.

Verse 4
They have free will, but the free will is from man,
They have feet, but their feet won’t learn to stand,
They have their strength, but what they should be is meek,
They’re a part of the nation of the weak.

Recorded 1982 by Jerry Corelli / Song #173
Copyright 1982 Corelli’s Music Box
Published 1982 Corelli’s Music Box, BMI / BMI Work ID: 004920600

Faithless Among Men

Faithless among men first came to me from Joe McSorley. Joe is from England so the song was co-written on two continents. I love the style of this song and what it has to say. It's about so many people in the work who believe they are alive because they are breathing. But, in reality they aren't because they are without Christ in their heart.

Jerry Corelli

Somethin's Happened To Me

I have a lot of favorites on this CD and "Somethin's Happened To Me" is certainly one of them. Of the many of the songs my good friend Kevin Mannarino and I have written together the lyrics in this song mostly came from Kevin. The first time I read the lyrics I knew the song would be special. This has been a great audience participation song and is always a song I sing live. Words & Music by Kevin Mannarino & Jerry Corelli

Jerry Corelli

Somethin’s Happening To Me
Written January 15, 1999
Words by Kevin Mannarino & Jerry Corelli
Music by Jerry Corelli

Verse 1
As I lay on his couch my psychiatrist said,
That emptiness you’re feelin’ is all in your head.
Still, I left his office without a clue,
Not knowing who I was or what I should do.

Chorus 1
Somethin’, somethin’, somethin’s gotta happen to me.
I didn’t know what it could be.
Somethin’, somethin’, somethin’s gotta happen to me.
I needed somethin’ it was plain to see.
On the left side, right side and all around.
From the top to the bottom, inside and out.
Somethin’, somethin’, somethin’s gotta happen to me.
But I didn’t know what it could be.

Verse 2
I thought my life was over and I started to run.
Then one day I found out that Jesus is the one.
So I prayed that the Lord would come into my life.
My sins were washed away and I stepped into His light.

Chorus 2
And somethin’, somethin’, somethin happened to me.
Jesus came into my life.
And somethin’, somethin’, somethin happened to me.
My sins have all been washed away.
On the left side, right side and all around.
From the top to the bottom, inside and out.
somethin’, somethin’, somethin happened to me.
That’s right Jesus set me free.

Verse 3
Now I believe in His Love with all of my heart.
Now my eyes are open and I made a new start.
He reached right into me and embraced my soul.
Now I’ve got to sing out to both young and old.
(Repeat Chorus 2)

Recorded 1999 by Jerry Corelli / Song 304
Copyright 1999 Corelli’s Music Box
Published 1999 Corelli’s Music Box, BMI / BMI Work ID: 004736692