Sound Bites, Lyrics, & Credits Below:

1. Hot Fun In Dixieland
(written by Les Dudek)
Les Dudek: Lead & background vocals, rhythm & slide guitars
Jeff Porcaro: Drums
Max McGuire: Bass
Rick Seratte: Organ & background vocal

(1st verse)
Way down deep in the delta
Basking in the southern sun
Well we got our ways have lots of good days
In this Dixieland of fun

(chorus)
Hot fun in Dixieland
Blue skies and snow white sand
Hot fun in Dixieland
A magical southern wonderland, yeah

(2nd verse)
Without a rhyme or reason I'm not teasin'
The people here party on
With each new day they find a new way
To boogie woogie all night long

(chorus)

(solo)

(3rd verse)
Well we all go through changes from day to day
Aren't you tired of the push and shove
May get confused along the way
So it's nice to have someone to love

(chorus)

Hot fun in Dixieland
Hot fun in Dixieland
Hot fun in Dixieland
Hot fun in Dixieland

2. Freestyle
(written by Les Dudek & Stevie Nicks)
Les Dudek: Lead vocal, bass, rhythm & lead guitars
Bryan Hawkins: Drums
Rick Seratte: Organ & synthesizer
Randie Paul, Donna Culp, and Rusty Rose: Background vocals
Tony Rios: Congas

(intro)
She's not tellin', she's not tellin'
She's not tellin', she's not tellin'
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh
She's not tellin'
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh

(1st verse)
I haven't seen you in a long time
It's been too long
And if she knows she's not tellin'
It's been too long
But that's not a one thing to her
Cause only a fool knows

(chorus)
Freestyle run away leavin' tonight
With an empty heart on an all night flight
Freestyle
Long distant stranger time replaced
With freestyle love on a brand new face
Freestyle

(2nd verse)
Well it's still not known to her heart
She's very alone tonight
She's up in arms for open hearts
She's very alone
Only a fool would lie
Cause only a fool knows

(chorus)

(solo)

Freestyle, Freestyle

(3rd verse)
Would you do it once for her right now
She's very alone tonight
Well you just might have won the race
But you won't be alone tonight
Still your heart cries out
And you fall face down
But you don't learn – You don't learn
That it's crazy here right now
But you don't learn – You don't learn
Freestyle you don't learn – You don't learn
Freestyle you don't learn – You don't learn
Freestyle, Freestyle
Freestyle, Freestyle

3. Tied Up
(written by Les Dudek)
Les Dudek: Lead vocal, bass, rhythm & lead guitars
Bryan Hawkins: Drums
Rick Seratte: Organ
Andy Ballard: Synthesizers
Randie Paul, Donna Culp, and Rusty Rose: Background vocals
Tommy Rodriquez: Timbales
Tony Rios: Congas

(1st verse)
I know it's late, and your mind's made up
Your heart is empty, mine is out of luck
Woman I ain't lyin', listen loud and clear
Cause I still love ya baby, and I need you right here

(1st chorus)
Oh baby I'm right behind you, just letting you know
I am tied up

(2nd verse)
I'm glad I met 'cha, and I'm sad that your gone
But a soul in love sometimes, just can't be so strong
There never was a moment, I wasn't thinking of you
Hopin' and wishin', you were lovin' me too

(2nd chorus)
Oh baby I'm right behind you
Just letting you know
I am tied up – Tied up
Oh baby I'm right behind you
Wherever you go I am tied up waitin' for you – Tied up waitin' for you
My love is tied up waitin' for you – Tied up waitin' for you
My love is tied up waitin' for you, yeah
Well I'm waitin' for you, yeah

(solo)

(3rd verse)
I must be crazy, everybody knows
About the fool in love, who just can't let you go
Well there never was a moment, I wasn't thinkin' of you
Hopin' and wishin', you were lovin' me too

(3rd chorus)
Oh baby I'm right behind you
Just letting you know
I am tied up – Tied up
Oh baby I'm right behind you
Wherever you go I am tied up waitin' for you – Tied up waitin' for you
My love is tied up waitin' for you – Tied up waitin' for you
Well I am tied up waitin' for you – Tied up waitin' for you
My love is tied up waitin' for you That's right
My love is tied up waitin' for you – Tied up waitin' for you
Well I am tied up waitin' for you – Tied up waitin' for you
My love is tied up waitin'

4. Another Love
(written by Les Dudek)
Les Dudek: Lead vocal, Fender Rhodes piano, and slide guitar
Bryan Hawkins: Drums
Mark Strang: Bass
Rick Seratte: Organ
Andy Ballard: Synthesizers & piano
Randie Paul, Donna Culp, and Rusty Rose: Background vocals

(1st verse)
Another love
Has moved along
Just when I thought
It would stay
Another love
Has moved along
Turned around and
Walked away

(bridge)
If ever I needed to lie
I swear it could all come around
But I was lost
What a cost
But I'd lost
Something I'd found

(chorus)
Still was the wind as I thought of you
Forever I'll love you
But this broken heart has been refused
I can't believe we are through

(2nd verse)
I thought I knew love
Again I was wrong
It left me weak
Though I'm weak
I'm feeling strong
But now I won't betray
What I was sent here to do

(bridge)

(chorus)

(solo)

(bridge)

(chorus)

5. Wild Hearted Weekend
(written by Les Dudek)
Les Dudek: Lead vocal, rhythm & lead guitars
Jeff Porcaro: Drums
Max McGuire: Bass
Rick Seratte: Organ, background vocal
Jerry Riggs: Guitar harmonics

(1st verse)
Early days back in school
Read and write, learnin' the rules
I couldn't wait for all the Friday's to end
Nine to five workin' machine
A workin' man knows what I mean
It won't be long until the party begins

(chorus)
Lost my mind in a whirlwind
Somewhere between the real and the make pretend
In a wild hearted weekend

(2nd verse)
Now time has come
To punch the clock
Cause Friday's at its end
It won't be long ‘til I tee it up with my friends
Weeks of work and shuffling dues
Now time is mine to do what I choose
Feels like a storm is brewing within

(chorus)

(solo)

(chorus)

6. Gold n' Snakes
(written by Les Dudek)
Les Dudek: Lead & background vocals, rhythm & lead guitars
Steve Behrendt: Drums
Max Noland: Bass
Rick Seratte: Organ
Andy Ballard: Synthesizers & piano
Joe Lala: Percussion

(1st verse)
If you lose your mind
Love is on the way
When there's no more time
There's still another day, yeah

(1st bridge)
I know you're only lonely for a friend
Someone just to hold ya until the bitter end, but

(chorus)
You chose a world
With gold n' snakes
Unholy fate
Full of mistakes, oh no

(2nd verse)
If you lost control
Your troubled with despair
Someone died for you
Who really cared, yeah

(2nd bridge)
And so you're only doing the best you can
I can say the same things but I just can't understand why

(chorus)

(solo)

(3rd bridge)
I know you're only doing the best you can
I can say the same thing but I just can't understand why

(chorus)

7. Boomarang
(written by Les Dudek)
Les Dudek: Lead & background vocals, rhythm & lead guitars
Bryan Hawkins: Drums
John Humphrey: Bass
Rick Seratte: Organ
Andy Ballard: Synthesizers
Joe Lala: Percussion
Tony Rios: Congas

(1st verse)
Bet ya thought I'd never ever change my mind
Bet ya thought I'd never come back
Never come back Never come back, baby
Give or take a little more of your precious time
Never fails ya always come back
Always come back
Always come back

(chorus)
Woman, you're like a boomarang
Woman, you're like a boomarang
Always comes back
Here she comes for another kiss goodbye

(1st bridge)
She's such a sweet thing
My little boomarang

(2nd verse)
Just because you're head is spinning up in the clouds
I don't care, I know you'll be back
Know you'll be back
Know you'll be back
It may be days before the wind will let you come down
I just don't care

(chorus)
There she goes way up in the sky once again

(2nd bridge)
She's such a sweet thing
She is my little boomarang

(bass solo)

(3rd verse)
Never lied, never ever had to even worry
About this kind of love
It ain't through
It'll be back, it'll be back
It'll be back, baby
Can't deny, can't defy
The way that love fights the gravity
If fate is true
It'll come back, it'll be back
It'll be back, yeah

(2nd bridge)

8. He'll Go On
(written by Les Dudek)
Les Dudek: Lead & background vocals, rhythm & lead guitars
Steve Behrendt: Drums
Max Noland: Bass
Rick Seratte: Organ
Andy Ballard: Synthesizers
Joe Lala: Percussion
Carlos Fernandez: Percussion

(1st verse)
What is this place where you left me
So bitter the smell of perfume
No warning gave in to much surprise
As loneliness then did consume
Luck would give up nothin'
But to laugh at my despair
Alone stood a pillar of wisdom
For no one would he cut his hair

(bridge)
Voices that haunted the yesterdays
Dreams have not been fulfilled
Though he may be down

(chorus)
He will go on and on and on again
On and on again
On and on and on again
On and on again

(2nd verse)
Too many days grew whiskers
For the faces that turned away
The person who lives in the mirror
Absolutely had nothing to say
If the soul would now take over
Like the wind that picked up the leaf
Don't blame the misbehavior
For what tomorrow will bring

(bridge)

(chorus)

(solo)

(bridge)

(chorus)

9. Behind The Mask
(written by Les Dudek)
Les Dudek: Lead & background vocals, string synthesizers, acoustic, bass & lead guitars
Linn Drums: Drums

(1st verse)
I know there's endless stars up there
I'm here on the other side
I've often wondered in the dark
For whom they choose to shine
There's someone here for everyone
If they dare to meet
The eyes behind the mask
Love beyond belief

(chorus)
If I turn to greet you
Will you turn away
The silence of unspoken words
May have to have their say
Is it fear that keeps the distance
From the soul they do not know
From the face they see before them
On the mask they call their own

(solo)

(chorus)

(2nd verse)
My heart has traveled distant hopes
Deep within divine
The winds of heaven spoke to me
When love has been so blind
Should all the tears that angels cry
Grace the bluest sky
When love has spoke its final words
And said to life goodbye

(chorus)

(bridge)
Will there be
A dream that will last forever
I'll believe
So take me along
Take me along
Take me along
Take me along

10. Living On Maybes
(written by Les Dudek)
Les Dudek: Lead vocal, rhythm, bass, & lead guitars
Bryan Hawkins: Drums
Rick Seratte: Organ & background vocal
Andy Ballard: Synthesizers

(1st verse)
You're stuck on a maybe
You know you're so afraid you're gonna lose
You're makin' me crazy
I feel the deeper shade of blues
My heart can't take it any longer baby
I don't really want to lose

(chorus)
Living on maybes
Can love be strong enough to ride the time
Living on maybes
Makes it hard to have a piece of mind
Living on maybes
Don't stay gone too long this time

(2nd verse)
We still can make it
You know there's love here if you want it to use
I can be patient
As long as I'm not made a fool
Stuck on a maybe
My heart and soul belongs to you Lord
Here's to hopin' that we make it
I think we both have paid our dues

(chorus)
Here's waitin' for you

(solo)

(chorus)

(3rd verse)
You, you're stuck on a maybe
You're so afraid you're gonna lose
Maybe you know the time to leave is now
And if it is I haven't got a clue
Stuck on a maybe
Baby I'm so in love with you Lord
You're living on maybes
With nothin' left to do

You, you, you're stuck on a maybe
You, you, you're living on maybes

Les Dudek (Freestyle)
Album Credits & Liner Notes


Produced by: Les Dudek

Engineered and mixed by: Wally Walton

Additional engineer: Bill Freesh

Recorded and mixed at: Greg Rike Productions, Altamonte Springs, Florida

Additional recording at: The Record Plant, West Hollywood, California, and Stevie Nick's house in Scottsdale, Arizona

Graphic design & layout by: Tim Avery, aka T-Bo

Photography: Bob Feather

Printed by: Disc Makers, Pennsauken, New Jersey

Special thanks to:
Melissa, Joe Skinner, Lori Linder, Marc McClernan (will tee it up again in the Kingdom), Sis "I Love You".

In Loving Memory of:
My Mother and Father, I thank the Lord everyday for blessing me with the parents he gave me on earth. Thank you Mom & Dad for all the sacrifices you made for me, I honor your memory every moment for the rest of time.

Harold Jasper Dudek 1916 – 1985

Alma Madeline Dudek 1925 – 2000

To all my fans, I call this my archive album, these are songs that I never released til now, it is with all my love that I give this music to you.

Manufactured by: Eflat Productions, Inc.

Goober Music / ASCAP