Category Archives: Ray Pasnen Music

Hug Me – Ray Pasnen – video – Official

The official music video for ‘Hug Me’ from Ray Pasnen. Filmed at Anno in Minden, Germany on Oct 28, 2022 at my 54th birthday party. Thank you to all who came and participated. It was a great party with lots of hugs! There are several people who say “Hug Me” in their native languages at the beginning of the video.

Train – Ray Pasnen – video – Official

The music video for ‘Train’ from the album ‘Change Your Mind’ by Ray Pasnen. That train don’t run by here no more.

Train – Ray Pasnen video | album: Change Your Mind

Gerry Chiverton – Electric guitar. Sarah Pasanen – Background vocals.

ISRC QMDA62226020 – UPC 197187005338

Credits:

Written by: Everett Dumas

Electric Guitar: Gerry Chiverton

Female Vocalist: Sarah Pasanen

Cameraman: Dave Sparks

Photos (all used with permission)

Tanya Chasse
Kevin McAdam
Trever Turmel
James Perz
Jennifer Yerxa Fortin
Ryan Stevens
Michelle Adams Wallace
Scott MacKenzie
Paula Pray
Craig Campbell
Bonnie Dempsey Patchell
Mary & Mike Thompson
Debbie Miller Coon
Mike Majkowski
Aaron Shawn MacDonald
Judy Osnoe Fernald
Trina Newbury

Steve Lane Video: Terry Wilson

This video was created using Davinci Resolve.

Thank you to all the folks in Maine’s Katahdin Region and the late Great Northern Paper Company for the help in compiling this great collection of photos for the video!

Train – Lyrics – written by Everett Dumas

He’d ride his dropped, chopped banana bike through the monkey trails at night
He drank his first can of Bud up on Treasure Hill
He’d throw rocks down at the frog pond He used to get a thrill hopping on a train, hopping on a train
Now there’s rusty tracks and tall, gray grass growing up between the rails and empty cars. He says

The train don’t run by here no more
They just closed down the country store
And the mill shut down about a year before that
No the train don’t run by here no more

There’s footprints in the concrete where his father used stand
He followed in his shoes, making paper for the news.
He did his job with pride, it choked him up inside to be American, to be American
Now there’s no more smell of sulfur, no pulp trucks hauling logs and empty cars

Chorus

Crooked politicians, whom we sent to represent.
Deals are made made, unfair trade meant for the one percent
They make the laws and bend ’em, Take the jobs and send ’em down to Mexico
They watch their profits soar, selling war, all while pointing fingers at the poor who have only empty cars because..

Chorus

He loves this town his whole family’s in it’s sacred ground
Everybody gather ’round, the smokestack’s coming down…

Chorus

Chorus

Train – Ray Pasnen video

Ray in The Maine Edge with Mike Dow

Maine native Ray Pasnen releases his first album in 30 years

January 12, 2022 – written by Mike Dow for The Maine Edge.

Ray Pasnen - Change Your Mind - Album cover
Ray Pasnen – Change Your Mind – Album cover

A singer, songwriter and musician with deep Maine roots has released his first album of new material since 1992. Ray Pasnen’s “Change Your Mind” features 12 new pop, country and country-rock songs from the Medway native who currently resides in Minden, Germany.

Maine and Atlantic Canada music fans remember Pasnen as frontman for the wildly popular band Choice. Ray’s natural charisma and powerfully dynamic voice contributed greatly to their success. Choice spent much of the 1990s canvassing the state to play most every bar and club, DAV and VFW hall and Elks Club to packed houses. The personalities of each band member, including that of guitarist Jack Swanson, kept Choice fans in stitches as they danced the night away.

Pasnen says his new album was a labor of love that he completed with help from a number of close friends and even the German government.

read more: https://www.themaineedge.com/buzz/music/maine-native-ray-pasnen-releases-his-first-album-in-30-years

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I Know Why – 1988

I stumbled across a song demo from the late 80s as I was poking around my website. I figured I would make a new post and share it with you.

It’s called, “I Know Why.” After a listen, you may understand why it never hit the charts. Lol. It’s a pretty rough first draft of the song and there are a few hiccups but it’s worth a laugh. :)

This was produced by my buddy, Tony Daddabbo and features some great musicians. If I am not mistaken, I hear the guitar playing of Harold Greene on this one.