(You Are Not) The Forgotten One
Written 2007 by Michael Giammatteo

(You Are Not) The Forgotten One – is about my little daughter & the challenge of balancing the needs two very different children. When David & I were recording the second TeamVico CD (TeamVico meets the Beatles) I was organizing our recordings & realized just how many songs David & I had written that were directly (or indirectly) about autism & how it had impacted my family. Putting them all together, I found that they told a story. At that point David & I started revisiting the songs & tweaking the recordings to better fit the concept. In putting it together we found that there were some aspects of the “story” that we not represented. (You Are Not) The Forgotten One was the song written & recorded for this CD. My little girl (now 7) likes rock and roll, so I wrote a straight ahead, upbeat celebration of her. She loves the song and dances all over the room when it is played.

This recording was done very quickly, after all of the other recordings were already complete. I programmed some quick drums & David laid down bass & guitars, then I did the vocal tracks. We tried not to over arrange it as we were looking for a flat out rock tune. Andy laid down a blistering lead part & the song was mixed & sequenced into the final CD. I had already given out a copy or two (to get reactions to it) when I decided that the chorus vocals needed to be redone. Moira & I did them together & I liked the result much better. So I had to remix the song & remaster the entire CD – but it was worth it.

Musicians:
David: bass, guitars
Michael: vocals, drum programming
Andy: lead guitar
Moira Giammatteo: harmony vocals

(YOU ARE NOT) THE FORGOTTEN ONE

Baby blue eyed little darling
Gonna stop the show
See you coming, hear you calling
Making sure you know
That you are not the forgotten one

Golden hair, crooked smile
Therapist and friend
Singing songs all the while
Gotta say again
That you are not the forgotten one

Why can’t I have my dreams?
They’re nothing too extreme
It’s not that I don’t mean a word I say
But all I have is dreams
And life sometimes it seems to fade away

Baby blue eyed little darling
Gonna stop the show
See you coming, hear you calling
Making sure you know
That you are not the forgotten one