New Music Alert! with Tani Guterman

Tony Gutterman is with us live via telephone. We are calling it a new music alert Monday, even though in addition to the new music, Tony also has a new book to discuss. We'll try to cover all of it in the next few minutes. Again, a new music alert Monday. I think this is Tony's first day off in a while. So, he's able to join us this morning. We'll get a a listen to some of the music, and we'll certainly talk about the brand new book. Tony Gutterman, a pleasure to welcome you back to JM in the AM. >> Thank you so much for having me. We really appreciate it. >> Uh my pleasure, and great to have you on the network. As many of you know out there, Tony is a good part of our evening programming at all times, but especially on Thursday night when Tony Talks Parsha is on after the Kedem presentation of the Arab Shabbos show with Mark Zomick. So, Tony Gutterman now for years, I'm proud to say, has been part of our programming and available uh on demand at the Nachum Segal.com, and of course, on the NSN app. If you don't mind, Tony, I want to start with the book. This guy Fiveel, this guy Fiveel just he he just keeps roaming around everywhere, huh? >> Yes, he does, and we keep updating the uh the look of Fiveel, and we keep sending him around, and we had to end uh to fig- figure out all the people, and it's a little bit reflective of my family. So, book four is going to be even even more reflective, which we're working on right now. But, book three came out at the time we had the the five wonderful children, and now we're we're going to work on the next one also with our uh with our last one that just came. >> Wow. Mazel tov. Mazel tov to you. So, this one is called Find Fiveel Around Town. And uh as you said, it's the third Fiveel book, and again, and this is to be expected from someone like yourself who's always uh looking for perfection in your work. I mean, the the the look of the book and the presentation of the book just keeps getting better and better, and this is not a knock on your early works. I'm sure you understand where I'm coming from. It's just the the the process it seems or the procession or the progression of the works that you're the publications that you're releasing just seem to be looking at are more and higher quality each and every time. >> Yes, thank you very much. We figured out a way to to edit the pictures to edit the characters that they're even more crystal and and beautiful. And now in the most recent one which can be found in Jewish Link Weekly or in the Crititova Weekly, we found the best best option. So we kept trying to fine-tune it and now books three and books four really came out beautiful, thank God, even more than before. >> All right. Tony Guttman with us live via telephone. Find Five-A-Round-Town. Now you sent us the link off of the Barnes & Noble site. Is it exclusively there? Where can people get it? What do you recommend to our listeners? >> We have it on lulu.com but bn.com is the best to get it from. It takes about a week so that they could build it, print it, and send it. But bn.com right now the hard cover is out of stock for now but paperback is is there ready and waiting to be purchased. It's $24.99 for a book that has over 100 pages of wonderful wonderful activities and finding Five-A-Round-Town all over the all over the place for all members of the family. >> Is it hard for you after a couple of books already to find more places to put Five-A-Round-Town? >> Thank God, thank the one above. I have a lots lots of ideas. During Corona is when Find Five-A-Round-Town hit me when I was working with students remotely and we were using Where's Where's Waldo and I wanted to I wanted to have a Jewish version and I sat down and I had all these concepts. So thank God, Hashem put like seven or eight books in my mind and we're only on book three and four. >> And the Find Five-A-Round-Town, what is the most Give me one. Give me the most outrageous place where someone has to look to find Five-A-Round-Town? >> I put him all over the place. We we try to put him in in every different place possible. One of my children, one of the stores I made is Honey's Comics. Everything is alliteration, so CC. So, I built the store around my son, and you have to find him in that Jewish comic book store. >> Nice. I love it. All right. Everybody can go to the Barnes & Noble website. It's also available in certain Judaica stores, correct? >> We haven't been able to get it in person in Judaica stores yet. But, on bn.com is a great way. >> Okay, great. So, go to the Barnes & Noble website. You'll be able to find it there. It is called Find Fivel. F I V E L Around Town. And as you heard, you know, take off on the Where's Waldo concept. And Tani Gudermann has taken this and has really progressed with this series as it gets better. I mean, all of them are really good. And the idea when we first introduced it was very well received, but it just keeps getting better and better. Tani Gudermann with live via telephone. We called this a new music alert Monday. Tani, give us an update because you are one of those people, one of the very few people who seems to be able to release a whole collection of music all at once. We spoke about this the last time you were on. Tell me about what we're introducing to our audience today. >> So, thank God I've been writing music that came to my mind since high school. I started playing at 10. I started writing at 13, 14, 15. And I had, you know, like tons and tons of songs, you know, 70, 80 songs over the years. I never found a way to really do it. So, I found technology. I found a way to take all my lyrics, to take all my chords, and all of my songs. And one version is my voice, another version is a cover voice. And we're releasing the cover voice version here on NSN, which I'm so grateful for. I have four CDs that are produced, and they're going to be shot out over the next year. And the fifth CD actually I just started working on the past few weeks. And it's the catharsis music series because music to me, playing guitar to me is very very cathartic. And I love how the rhythm comes together. So, we call it the catharsis rhythm series. This is catharsis, the rhythm of freedom. The first one was the rhythm of the climb, and then freedom, and then we'll show you the progression, what happens in number three, number four, and God willing number five. >> Are you able to take some time off now? Like I during the summer, you get an opportunity to work more and more on these special projects or not necessarily? >> Yes, in the summer I did not work and public school is behind me now, so I'm going to be able to focus on this and fine-tune it and hopefully record my voice for CD five as we go forward. >> Oh, very cool. Well, I guess after Tishrei we have even more to look forward to. By the way, just so you know, in front of me we have three of these singles or three of the pieces I should say off of your most [snorts] recent collection, Revival, Great Day, and Victory. Just letting you know, just in case you didn't know what was here in front of us to feature during the New Music Alert Monday. Where do you want to start, Tony? Which one are we going to and tell us about the song? >> Let's start with Great Day. My wife is a teacher. She's a a Judaic studies teacher and God willing she's moving up in the ranks. So, I wrote this song thinking about her as a teacher, thinking about all the teachers, specifically for her, thinking about the effect that the teachers could have on the students and we're going to have a great day, we're going to have great learning today. And the tune came to me, the words came to me and it was specifically for her and all the other Jewish teachers out there. So, anyone who's a teacher or knows a teacher, it's dedicated to them, especially to my wife and I hope you enjoy it. >> Because whatever whatever mood the teacher wakes up in is the mood that the the class is captured in for the day, right? We one could say that. >> That's for sure. That's for sure. >> yeah, pretty amazing. All right. Great Day is the name of the brand new one. It's Tony Gutterman New Music Alert Monday and you're listening to JM in the AM. >> [music] [music] >> We're going to have a great day today. We're going to learn so [music] much today. We're going to learn a lot of stuff today. Yeah. I'm going to teach a lot today. My students will learn [music and singing] so much today. We're going to have a great today. Yeah. I'm going to teach [music] today. You're going to learn today. >> [music] >> My students will do great, great, great, great today. I'm going to teach [music] today. They'll learn okay. It'll be [music] so great, great, great today. We're going to have [music] a great day today. We're going to learn so much today. We're going to learn a lot of stuff today. Yeah. I'm going to teach a lot [music] today. My students will learn so much today. We're going to have a great today. Yeah. I'm going to teach today. They're going to learn today. It'll [music] be a great day. We'll learn so much today. It'll be great today. >> [music] >> It'll be a great day. >> [music] >> We're going to have a great day today. We're going to learn so much today. We're [music and singing] going to learn a lot of stuff today. Yeah. I'm going to teach a lot [music] today. My students will learn so much today. We're going to have a great day. >> [music] [music] >> We're going to learn today. It'll be so great. My students will be happy [music] today. [singing] We're going to learn so much today. It'll be so great. >> [music] >> I can't wait. The students will do great. They're going to stay [music] here late. We're going to have a great day today. We're going to learn so much [music] today. We're going to learn a lot of stuff today. Yeah. >> [music] >> I'm going to teach a lot today. My students will learn >> J. I'm in the A.M. with Tony Guttman brand new on a new music alert Monday with a song entitled Great Day. Tony, you should send that song to uh the chancellor of your school system over the summer because I think it's one they would play over Labor Day weekend, frankly. >> Thanks so much. >> Because it's really I mean this is I mean as much as, you know, obviously you're intertwined with the Jewish community. This is really just for teaching in general. I'm not kidding. I think I think there are principals and school system leaders that would actually make this an anthem of a brand new school year. Have you thought of that or it's that's a foreign concept? >> I did not think of it, but thanks for the great idea. >> Yeah, I'm telling you. I would forward it to them because I that's really good. You did a really good job on that song. Tony Guttman here with us. JM in the AM New Music Alert Mondays got a brand new collection. How do people access it by the way? How do people in general find your music? Where do they search and what do they search for? >> So now we're on all all music platforms and thank God we're not on C-SPAN network as well. We're not on the the 24/6 in the key because of the way that I do the stuff, but I do appreciate being on C-SPAN network. Wonderful. We are on Spotify, we're on Amazon Music, we're on YouTube and I believe we're on Apple as well. But Spotify seems to be the fan favorite to be able to listen to it. You can get both of my current CDs and God willing when we release the next ones, they'll go there as well. >> Nice. All right, what are we going to next? >> Let's do Revival, please. >> Sure. Anything you want to tell us about this selection? >> So over the years, as as many people know, I lost my dad when I was nine. I lost my brother when I was 20. I wrote a song for my dad. I wrote a song for my brother that's coming up in the next albums. That's one of the first ones I wrote. But this one I thought long and hard, you know, when Messiah comes and God willing he should be speedily in our days, all these people that we lost, all these people that we we never see, we're going to see them again and we have the belief as the Rambam principles teach us that we have a strong fundamental belief we will see them again. So this is a song really about Messiah and I sing that the revival of the dead. And when I say revival, I'm talking about all these people that we lost that are especially bone crushing and heart shattering like for my me, my dad and my brother, I will see them again and I will meet them again and that's for all those people who lost loved ones whether in October 7th or throughout the years, it should be a little bit of comfort to them that we'll see them again. >> Wow, very powerful. Song is called Revival. Tony Guttman with us in a New Music Alert Monday. It's JM in the AM. >> [music] [music] >> Revival. >> [music] >> Forever. >> [music] >> Revival. I'll [music] see you again. Revival. >> [music] >> For all those lost. Revival. >> [music] >> For those in the dust. >> [music] >> We'll be all [music] together surrounded forever. We'll be all together to remember forever. We'll be all remember surrounded forever. We won't be [music] forgotten even in the dust and we're going to be together without the rust and it's going to be all right. Okay. Okay. Okay. [music] Okay. Okay. Revival. For in the end. >> [music] >> Revival. >> [music] >> I'll see you again. Revival. >> [music] >> For all those lost. I said we'll be together together forever. We'll [music] be together surrounded forever. We'll be together forever and ever. We're going to be surrounded [music] together. Even in the desert we'll be together. Even in the desert, we'll be [music] forever. We're going to be always together. We're going to be always [music] remembered. Always together. Always as we deserve. Okay. Okay. Okay. [music] Revival in [singing] the end. Revival, I'll see you again. Revival for those [music] in the ghost. Okay. Okay. Okay. Revival >> [music] >> for in the end. >> [music] >> Revival I'll see you again. [music] >> [music] [music] >> I'll see you again. >> [music] >> I'll see you again. We'll see [music] each other again. >> Pretty amazing new music alert Monday with Tani Gutterman. Song is called Revival. Jam in the AM. Best place for brand new Jewish music, right? Always been like that. Proud to say. By the way, side note as we get closer and closer to the raffle deadline. We're going to be drawing the winners in just about 18 minutes or so. Uh we're five raffle entries away from our highest ever, from the most ever. So, I'm encouraging everybody to give and give generously. Well, if you give, you don't know how generous it's going to be until you actually try. Uh but I want to try I I want to thank and I will thank those who have uh contributed recently and uh some of them in the last half hour I've gotten some really good numbers. Really good ones. One particularly good for us and I thank them but a lot particularly good for the listeners as well. Raise it r a y z e {dot} i t {slash} n s n r a y z e {dot} i t {slash} n s n. Tony Guttman is with us live by telephone the brand new find vital book is available at the Barnes & Noble website. We highly recommend it. Did a really nice job in the most recent one. And um he we're featuring some of the songs off of his brand new collection here on a Monday at J M and A M. All right, Tony we got one more to go. Oh, sorry about that. We got one more to go. Tell us uh which one it is and what it's about. >> This one is Victory. I wrote this over the past uh couple of months included on the second CD specifically thinking about the providence of God and Hashem helping us helping the Jewish people especially with our erstwhile enemies all over the place especially enemies that are larger than us bigger than us and I thought back to King David one of my favorite favorite figures from Tanakh of all time when he's you know fighting against Goliath who was humongous and we have all these enemies especially when um Israel did an amazing work against Iran. So I want people to think about the providence that they God has especially helping us fight all of our enemies especially when you listen to and see the words in this song. >> You like writing about big concepts, huh? >> Every song I try to give a different concept exactly. >> Like big themes big themes and uh and really major topics for people to consider and think about. Some of them some of them very deep as you you know as you did on the revival selection. Uh well as always we take this opportunity to wish you the best of luck going forward. Great to have you part of the network and wonderful to feature your brand new material. We really We admire your work ethic. Uh it's obvious that >> Thank you very much. >> Yeah, just from the Fine Vival series and just from the um uh the music you're producing, it's obviously it's obvious rather that you're taking all of this very seriously and uh and really pumping out a lot of great material as fast as you can, which is is hard to do when you're trying to do quality stuff. So, a big yasher koach on that. >> Thank you very much. >> Tani, thanks a million. We'll wrap up this conversation with the song Victory. We thank Tani Gutterman here on a uh new music alert Monday. You're listening to JM in the AM. >> [music] [music] >> Victory today, our enemies are at bay. Like King David [music] back in the day, thank God they are away. Woah. >> [music] >> Surrounded on all sides, rebels are falling side. We [music] take it all in stride cuz you know God is our guy. We're such a tiny country, they don't want [music] our state to be free. They're like attacking you and me, but God is with us always, you see. >> But I'm showing you God let us [music] win like young David against the Goliath within. But I'm showing you God let [music] us win like young David against the Goliath within. Like [music] young David against all the Goliaths within. Victory [music] today, our enemies are at bay like King David back in the day. Thank God they are away. Victory today, [music] the enemies are away like King David back in the day. Thank God they are away. >> [music] >> They come after you and me. They like to go and attack my country. They can't let us all just be, but it's okay because God is with us, you see. Surrounded on all sides, they [music] like to attack us with fake pride. They want to hurt us inside. God protects us always as our guide, but I'm showing [music] you God let us win like young David against the Goliaths within, but I'm showing you God let us win like young David against [music] the Goliaths within, like young David against all the Goliaths within. >> [music] >> Victory today, our enemies [music] are at bay like King David back in the day. Thank [music] God they are away. Victory today, the enemies are away like King David back in the day. >> [music] >> Thank God they are away. >> [music and singing] >> Thank God protected by him. Thank God he protects [music] us within. Thank God he saved us each time. Thank God he's with us against all crime. Thank God [music] protected by him. Thank God he protects us within. Thank God he [music] saved us each time. Thank God he's with us against all crime. >> [music] [music] >> Donny Gutterman song called Victory. Nice spending time with him on the telephone. A new music alert Monday at J M the A M. 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