"Looking out for number one" 2020

by Michael Gregory Jackson

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"Looking Out For Number One" ©Michael Gregory Jackson
Produced by Walter Becker, (RIP) Demo 1982
Words & Music ©Michael Gregory Jackson,
MGJ - guitar, vocals, words, music, editing and mastering. Note: I played Walter's very cool pre Telecaster beauty on the rhythm part.
Ray Mason - bass, Chet Pasek - drums, Jesse Henderson, Engineer, Recorded and mixed at Longview Farms Studio, 1982 Photo: Gary Judycki, ©Michael Gregory Jackson 1982 P Magicolored Music ASCAP All Rights Reserved

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"Looking out for number one" ©MGJ

ain't got no time for preparation, can't make no room for decoration,
and I ain't gonna make no proclamation, I'm just looking out for number one,

and so to sit and stare at the TV set no time to spare,
an elegant dinner set for one, picking up the news,
the same old daily blues, the rich are richer while the needy lose,
and so I ask myself, where do we go from here,
a major preoccupation, and I walk alone,
pretending I really don't care, this fear it's all across the nation,

ain't got no time for preparation, can't make no room for decoration,
and I ain't gonna make no proclamation, I'm just looking out for number one,

and so we sit and dream that the calvary will come in the final scene,
and win another for the gipper, cause it seems that every time you take it on yourself, they slash your hopes like jack the ripper,
and so I lick my wounds, retreat to my lonely room,
but I'll try again for that connection, and I walk alone,
pretending I really don't care, this fear it's all across the nation,

ain't got no time for preparation, can't make no room for decoration,
and I ain't gonna make no proclamation,

I'm just looking out for number one,
I'm just looking out for number one,
I'm just looking out for number one, (guitar solo)

ain't got no time for preparation, can't make no room for decoration,
and I ain't gonna make no proclamation,
I'm just looking out for number one,

I'm just looking out for number one,
I'm just looking out for number one, just looking out for number one,
just looking out for number one,
just looking out for number one,
just looking out for number one.

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released September 3, 2017

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Michael Gregory Jackson Los Angeles, California

"MGJ first made waves…in New York's loft-jazz scene of the 1970s… alongside such major innovators as Oliver Lake, David Murray, and Wadada Leo Smith, he quietly laid the groundwork for much of what we take for granted in the contemporary jazz-guitar vocabulary." National Sawdust NY

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