My mother is bed ridden except for 40 or 50 steps a day. On Sundays she braves it and comes over for 'supper'/ 'dinner'. A break for my Dad more than anything.

Her main complaint is she hears no music that she likes. So she has convinced me to 'record' HER music.

The first two tunes are:

I've got a mansion
and
It is no Secret

I'm tasked with putting together 15 to 20 songs on a CD

I got a Fake Book with probably all the tunes I need, a Gospel thing.

Any ideas? My keyboard with organ sounds and sometimes a layer of strings is a much as she was probably used to at the Baptist Church they went to. So I'm on the fence about adding drums to those and a Band in a Box backing, when I can play them perfectly out of the book.

What should I do?

Just fire up Audacity and knock of 3 or 4, and do it 4 or 5 times?

I think I'll try that and see if I like it.

Suggestions?

The problem is I grew up with it and it sticks in your head, I have to try and play some jazz stuff afterwards or the Chimes of Times are ringing out the news for hours. LOL.

And Mom is licking her fingers and sticking my hair down while I try to stay asleep in a pew.

It all went on Reel to Reel tape and my Dad was always up in the control room taping it and messing with a dozen microphone feeds, and at the end driving the tape to the radio station then coming back to take us home. On the way home the first part of the recording would be on the radio. Weird memories.

My grandfather was 65 and came to visit. I remember at the front there were hundreds of 'rubbers' for shoes. I asked him how he knew which ones were his. "The new ones."

How long have you had them I asked. "About 10 years he says with a wink." Nice!

He spent his waking hours trying to hand out going to H... if you are a papist tracts. His mission in life he thought. You never mentioned the pope near him. Now I'm married to one, though she doesn't 'practice'. The chimes of time..

Poor woman.

John Conley
Musica est vita