Dave Molter – It Was You

[MUST LISTEN] It Was You by Dave Molter

An accomplished veteran of the Pittsburgh, Midwest and East Coast music scenes since 1965, Dave Molter counts The Beatles as his primary influence. It was after seeing The Fab Four on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1964 that Dave decided he should be in a band. Most of his career has been spent in nightclubs, but he has been a member of acts that opened for The Rascals, The Allman Brothers, Night Ranger, Deep Purple and other major headliners from the 1960s through the 2000s.

“Foolish Heart,” Dave’s debut EP, produced four No. 1 singles since its release in September 2019. Dave’s sixth single, “Oh Woman, Don’t You Cry,” debuted at #1 on Radio VGR in the UK three days after its release in December 2019. His eighth single, “(Really Nothin’ New) Under the Sun,” is a swampy, funky old-school rocker. It was recorded in Pittsburgh, PA, at Albey Road Studios and was produced and engineered by Al Snyder (www.alsnydermusic.com.) “It Was You,” his second EP, debuted in December 2020. Dave’s music continues to be featured in Top 10 lists on variety of indie music stations worldwide, from Australia to South Africa and beyond.

“It Was You” is a tribute to the pop acts of the mid-Sixties, mostly American acts like the Turtles or Monkees, but also British acts like The Kinks, which sometimes ventured out of rock norms to throw in a touch of British Music hall. All these acts occasionally released uptempo, sunny, happy, sometimes silly tunes with catchy choruses. This song is in the same vein. It can be sung by either a man or a woman, the overriding sentiment is that the person being sung about changed the singer’s life. I’ve been lucky enough to have this happen to me a few times, but I have to admit the most recent time has been the best. Envision the singer romping through the park on a sunny day, throwing caution — and maybe flower petals — to the wind. Instrumentation recalls those classic tunes: bright guitar, thumping bass and drums, a happy, singalong breakdown with handclaps followed by trumpets and a calliope on the repeated outro. Calliope suggests, of course, a circus. At least in my day, everyone loved the circus. But you’ll also hear calliope on a merry-go-round. Either way, it’s a happy sound. Most of my songs deal in love, in all its forms. This is happy love. I can’t promise that all my love songs will be happy, because sometimes loves hurts (or stinks, or sucks — pick your verb)!

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