A ballad for a person grappling with the fact that they aren't as young as they once were.

A touching ballad from the mid to late 70's - demo from the 1970's.

A beautiful ballad from the late 50's - Julie Mandel demo, probably recorded in the 1970's.

A very autobiographical theme explored in a ballad. Julie Mandel demo

A ballad from the mid 70's - Julie Mandel demo from the 1970's.

A sort of personal philosophy.

A ballad from the late 1960's or early 70's - demo from the 1980's using relentlessly metronomic sequencing software for accompaniment.

Written in the 1980's as the opener to 'Alone' an autobiographical show as yet to be produced. While her name is changed to 'Judy' here, the song is based on Julie's arrival at her cousin's apartment on Barrow Street in Greenwich Village in 1950. Incredibly, that night she met also the man she would marry, David Dachs. - Julie Mandel demo, 1980's.

From 'Alone', a horrible first date on her first night on Barrow Street in New York. Julie Mandel Demo

A ballad from the early 80's

Ballad from the score to 'First You Take An Oatmeal Box', an unproduced musical from 1967 with a book by her husband David Dachs - Julie Mandel demo with analog synths, 1990's

A terrific ballad from the early 1960's - Julie Mandel demo, probably recorded in the 1990's.

A ballad written in the early to mid 1960's - a Julie Mandel demo from the late 90's using early analog synthesizer sounds and music editing software.

A love song in spite of itself, sort of a 'meta' take by a lyricist. Can be sung by either a man or woman.

This was one of the songs that was written in the late 1950's while Julie was under contract to Frank Loesser 's publishing company Frank Music. She and the song were released from the contract in 1962 - Unknown Female Studio singer on a demo produced by Frank Music, 1956-57.

This was one of the songs that was written about 1957 while Julie was under contract to Frank Loesser 's publishing company Frank Music.

A ballad from the early 1960's - Julie Mandel demo, some tape distortion at the top, probably recorded in the 1970's.

The music business was changing in the late 50's, shifting focus from sophisticated ballads to teen-oriented pop tunes and eventually rock'n'roll, leaving Julie and her contemporaries without an audience. This comic song is really a cry of frustration that came out of constantly being told 'great song, but it just isn't commercial', or 'its terrific, but it sounds like a show tune, not a pop song'. Julie Mandel Demo