Author: David Gittlin

I’ve published fourteen novels, including the popular "Silver Sphere Series" and"The AndroBiotica Adventures." Before quitting my day job, I spent more than thirty years in corporate communications as a marketing director. My most recent novella, "Return of the Visitor," is now available on Amazon.com and other major online book retailers.

For more information about my novels, please visit www.davidgittlin.net and www.davidgittlin.com

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Honoring Love: A Tribute to ‘I’ll Never Find Another You’


The Seekers are an Australian band formed in 1962. The Folk and Gospel group achieved the zenith of their popularity in the mid ’60’s with several hit songs. Their most memorable chart-topper is a song titled “I’ll Never Find Another You.” It reached #1 on the UK charts in 1965, making the Seekers the only Australian band with a #1 hit song outside of Australia. The song reached #97 in the United States, quite a feat in itself. The group has continued to perform to standing ovations around the world into the 1990’s.

I am dedicating this song to my wife of 37 years, Bonnie Erens-Gittlin. Without exaggeration, every word in the lyrics applies. I am grateful to have spent my adult life with this woman and the beautiful daughter we have raised. Here’s my cover.

Listening to the Heart Brings Peace and Harmony into a Life

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Your True Colors Are Beautiful


“True Colors” is a song with legs. It started out as a song written for a mother in a traditional ballad format. Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly wrote the song in 1986 and offered it to Anne Murray, a popular singer at the time. Murray passed on the song. Cyndi Lauper took it and creatively revamped the format into a stark and breathtaking version.

The song became a hit worldwide because of its universal appeal. The songwriters acknowledge that Lauper was the perfect artist to adapt the song, partly because of her bold style. Released as the title song on Lauper’s 1986 album, “True Colors” is the only original song on the album that the artist did not help to write. The song was a last-minute addition to the album.

In 1998, Phil Collins covered the song on his “Greatest Hits” album. Australian country music star Kasey Chambers covered the song as the theme for the 2003 Rugby World Cup. In 2007, Cindy Lauper launched “The True Colors Tour” to support gay rights and fight hate crimes. In 2016, Justin Timberlake and actress Anna Kendrick used the song in the soundtrack for the movie “Trolls.” Kodak also used the song to advertise its film stock. Like I said: the song has legs.

“True Colors” is one of my all-time favorite songs. I hope you’ll enjoy it too. This new version has a special backup created by my friend, Giovanni Estigui. Here’s my cover.

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Take A Captivating Journey


Like all of the Silver Sphere Novellas, “Return of the Visitor” opens with a life-threatening event. The sixth book in the series finds Amy and Jacob Casell joined by their alien and android friends, attempting to evade a swarm of supersonic fighter jets determined to blow their Starship, the Dauntless 2, out of the sky unless the crew can identify themselves adequately.

The situation is grimly ironic because Silenna, an extraterrestrial from a survivor colony called New Aneleya, is returning to Earth to fulfill a humanitarian promise she made after an interruption to save an Analeyan crew of survivors marooned in deep space. The reason for the imminent danger is a breach of communication and a Starship that looks nothing like the one Silenna arrived in five years ago.

Arcon, a superintelligent AI who lives in a silver sphere, is in charge of telepathic communication. With an incompatible radio frequency between the Starship, the jet pilots, and the base, telepathy is the only means of communication. With Arcon’s unprecedented breakdown, the crew cannot communicate their peaceful intentions, leaving their odds of survival dwindling by the minute.

“Return of the Visitor” is a fast-paced, multi-layered Sci-Fi adventure that will keep you surprised and entertained from beginning to end. Although it is the sixth novella in the series, the author has included enough background information to make it a stand-alone story, perfect for new recruits and veterans alike.

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Cat Stevens and Alun Davies: A Musical Journey


In this song, Cat Stevens is singing to a woman he yearns for in a Human form. On another level, he may be singing, aware or unaware, to the Divine Feminine. In either case, the object of Stevens’ love is unattainable in the present. Yet, I believe, the admirer (Stevens) continues to yearn for his beloved in the hope that he will, one day, meet his perfect love, in either or both Human and Divine forms.

There are many interpretations of “How Can I Tell You.” In my view, the song is hopeful rather than despairing. However one interprets “How Can I Tell you,” I feel the song is filled with incredible beauty that cannot help but shine through.

Stevens first met Alun Davies as a backup musician in a recording session. He liked what he heard. After another session, Stevens recognized that Davies was an exceptional talent. In a following private session, Stevens played something like fifty of his original songs for Davies, whereupon Davies decided Cat was also an exceptional talent. He agreed to accompany Stevens on an upcoming tour. After the tour, Davies became Stevens’ permanent 2nd guitar until Stevens stopped playing music with his conversion to Islam in 1977. When Stevens began performing again in 2003, the two artists reunited.

Here is a new version of “How Can I Tell You” with me playing and singing Davies’ now famous second guitar part.

Solo Version

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Steve Gillette: Influential Folk Artist and Songwriter


Have you heard of Steve Gillette? If you were alive in the 1960s and liked folk music, there’s a chance the name rings a bell. Gillette never reached the top of the charts, but he’s a very talented singer/songwriter. Many of his songs have been performed by artists you have heard of, including John Denver, Gordon Lightfoot, Ian and Sylvia, Nanci Griffith, and Linda Ronstadt.

“The Bells in the Evening” appears on Gillette’s debut album, released in 1967. The album, simply titled “Steve Gillette,” stands as one of Steve’s finest recordings. “The Bells” is a bittersweet (actually sweet-bitter) song of love blossoming in the spring and fading away in the fall. I find the melody and lyrics deeply moving. Perhaps you will, too. The song is also replete with imagery. When you listen, what images come to your mind?

I’ve revisited “The Bells of the Evening,” adding a new background track by Giovanni Egusquista. Here’s my cover.

“Bells In The Evening” With Backup Instrumentation

“Bells In The Evening” Solo

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Heartfelt And True: “Everything I Do” Cover


A movie studio commissioned a composer to write a song for Kevin Costner’s Film, “Prince of Thieves.” He wrote the music for “Everything I Do.” Bryan Adams, with his producer Mutt Lange, wrote the lyrics, bridge, arrangement, and outro. Adams used a line from the movie for the song title.

The studio did not like the instrumentation in the finished product. They buried it midway in the credits, not anticipating what a huge hit the song would become.

“Everything I Do” is one of the most successful singles of all time, selling over 3 million copies. It was #1 for 16 weeks in England and seven weeks in the United States.

Enjoy my cover with background instrumentation by Giovanni Egusquiza. 

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Coming Soon: “Return of the Visitor”


The Silver Sphere Series

Silenna, the Scientist/Warrior from the planet Aneleya, returns to Earth to begin her long-awaited Humanitarian work. From the start, her promise to the people of Earth gets off on the wrong foot when Air Force fighter jets come within a hair’s breadth of blowing the Dauntless 2 and its crew out of the sky. After an uneasy landing at an Air Force base in Washington, D.C., Silenna and her friends, Amy and Jacob Cassel, and Arcon, an Aneleyan superintelligent AI contained in a silver sphere, decide to focus first on saving the lives of terminally ill patients. They are joined in this effort by Lenora, a lifelike Android created by scientists on the survivor colony, New Aneleya.

Before this healing initiative even gets off the ground, the President of the United States, Trevor Aston III, wants to meet Silenna and her companions. Because the President feels the world is already teetering on a delicate balance of power, he believes the timing isn’t right to introduce a seven-foot Alien woman with an agenda into world politics. He intends to politely and diplomatically send Silenna back to where she came from.

Meeting an oppositional U.S. President in a retrofitted Sikorsky helicopter on the outskirts of a New Jersey airfield is only the first of many obstacles Silenna and her friends will have to face. Someone or something is stalking them. The perpetrator is either the smartest and most elusive assassin the world has ever known, or a deadly group of terrorists. Danger lurks at every turn, and the authorities are baffled.

“Return of the Visitor” will surprise you, entertain you, and open your heart in ways that you never imagined. Although it is the sixth volume of the Silver Sphere Series, the novella can be enjoyed as a standalone story.

Coming Soon to Amazon.com and Major Online Retailers Worldwide.

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“Heaven” 2.0 With Digital Backup


Here’s my cover, produced with an incredible guy I’m working with to create unique recordings of beautiful music written by masterful artists of the past 60 years.

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“Heaven”: The Story Behind The Song


Previous to this writing, I had never heard of Bryan Adams. I am in the minority because Adams has created a number of beautiful, chart-topping hits that most people besides me are familiar with. “Heaven” is another song that came into my mind from someplace I can’t define. When I heard Boyce Avenue’s stirring performance of it, I fell in love with the song immediately. On July 15, 1985, “Heaven” reached #1 on the Billboard Chart. Paradoxically, it was written for a movie that flopped.

Bryan Guy Adams was born in 1959. As a teenager, he played in bands and in local studios.  In 1978, he met drummer and songwriter Jim Vallance, and together they formed a partnership that lasted for decades.  Their early collaboration helped Adams strike a deal with A&M Records for a reported one dollar.  His debut album was released when the folk-rock genre exploded in the early eighties.  The album was good enough to earn Adams a second one with A&M. It helped establish Adams as an artist on the rise.  His third album, 1983’s Cuts Like a Knife, proved to be the singer-songwriter’s breakthrough effort, including three Top 40 hits.

Later that year, while working on his fourth studio album, Reckless, Adams considered including “Heaven” on it, but initially felt it didn’t live up to the quality of the rest of the album. At the last minute, however, Adams changed his mind and added “Heaven” to the Reckless tracklist.

Reckless went on to sell 12 million copies worldwide, becoming the most successful album of Adam’s career. Here’s my cover of “Heaven.” 

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Nanci Griffith’s ‘I Wish It Would Rain’: A Musical Treasure


Despite its somewhat foreboding title and subject matter, this Nanci Griffith song is upbeat and fun to play. “I Wish It Would Rain” was released by MCA in 1988 on Nanci’s 6th album titled “Little Love Affairs.” I hope you enjoy listening to the song as much as I enjoy playing it. I’m including a video of Nanci Performing in the late 1980’s. Just look at her beautiful smile. Here’s my cover.