"Holiday in Oakland": The New Single!

The first single from my winter holiday CD just went up on CDBaby at http://cdbaby.com/cd/lisablisabernstein and www.itunes.com/lisab. "Holiday in Oakland"! A positive tune about my Town for any holiday, especially celebrating the music originating here.

The old-school-with-a-new-twist track is by Jim (James) Gardiner (composer, educator, producer, engineer, and friend), who runs Gardiner Music Mentoring and Pajama Recording Studios near Jack London Square in Oakland.

Oakland native Anna Lissa Patterson sang the background vocals, creating both downhome excitement and a luscious ambience (her contribution also put the sheen on "This Christmas," on the CD).

Go download it! Click on the links below to go to CDBaby or go to iTunes, which gives a nice long sample including the rap. (But on my iTunes page are some songs by the UK-based model-actress-singer Lisa B, who isn't me and is a lot more famous.)

Here are the lyrics:

Holiday in Oakland

lyrics © 2011 Lisa Bernstein

music © 2011 Lisa Bernstein and Jim (James) Gardiner

published by Lisa B Swingin’ Music, BMI, and Jawiz Music, ASCAP

Let’s take a holiday in Oakland

Let’s take a walk around the lake

With the lovers and the runners

The kids of every color holding hands

In Oaktown

Let’s take a holiday in Oakland

Let’s take a break and eat some grits and greens

Potstickers and beef chow mein

Crabs we caught today in the bay

In Oaktown

In the winters we don’t freeze

In the summers it’s a breeze

Under redwoods in the park

Soul and salsa after dark

Drive down Christmas Lane

See the galaxies explained

At Chabot, watch the moon turn to gold

Let’s take a holiday in Oakland

Let’s hear the music that we made:

(rap)

Tower of Power, Y&T

Goapele and Michael Franti

Tony Toni, Del the Funky Homo Sapien

Digital Underground in Raider Nation

The Pointer Sisters and Pete Escovedo

Redwood Records, Oaktown Jazz, livin’ their credos

Kitka, Keak da Sneak, En Vogue, and Hammer

The Hawkins Singers and Pharoah Sanders

In the winters we don’t freeze

In the summers it’s a breeze

Under redwoods in the park

Soul and salsa after dark

Drive down Christmas Lane

See the galaxies explained

At Chabot, watch the moon turn to gold

Take a holiday, oh yeah

Throw all your worries away

You can slide under the bay to San Francisco

But you better come on home

Go deep in the east

And just settle in the west

Amble down Grand and strut your best on Broadway

Dip your finger in the water in Jack London Square

Run to the hills and inhale the air

Come to my house and just sway in the hammock with me

I’m in Oaktown

That’s where I’m gonna stay

That’s where I work and it’s where I play

In Oaktown

(Let’s take a holiday in Oakland!

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The "Holiday in Oakland" single: 
http://cdbaby.com/cd/lisablisabernstein

itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/holiday-in-oakland/id472458271?i=472458273&uo=4 
cdbaby: www.cdbaby.com/Artist/LisaBLisaBernstein

www.lisabmusic.com