TortoiseClimbing™ now consists of:
We have released 2 albums: The Crucifixion and Hymns and Songs of My Mother, and the mini-EP Welcome Home. Several projects are in the "pipeline" for a series of EPs of Nostalgic Songs representing a number of styles of music, from American Standards to County Folk. We will be returning to completing the companion eBook to Hymns and Songs of My Mother, as well as a narration of it. Details about those projects are in other parts of this website.
The Store Access page on this website provides links to the online Marketplace for:
Details about the currently available products include:
The score for The Crucifixion became Public Domain the beginning of 2023, removing copyright restriction. TortoiseClimbing Audio™ converted the 1959 private LP by Annapolis High School's 3 choirs to digital at Slipped Disc, mastered and restored that unique recording of their performances.
Version 2 (2024) is available free from our online audio Marketplace. To access version 2, see Store Access.
The initial version 1 restoration and mastering of the digital audio file of The Crucifixionis available Free from this website. It was completed the end of January 2023. To access version 1, see Download Process.
This very long album of 27, nostalgic, traditional hymns and songs was released digitally 6-20-2024, and as a CD 9-20-2024. The hymns and songs were selected with my mother from my parents favorites. To access see Hymns and Songs.
Other versions of the hymns and songs album are in planning, as:
For details see Versions.
This includes 2 very different versions of this Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) song by Ms. Kathy Brigman Haupt. These are offered separately from the album because CCM has its own audience. To access see Welcome Home.
We are well along in preparing a series of EPs of Nostalgic Love Songs. The first EP will consist entirely of American Standard songs. (Targedted for Summer 2026.) The second EP will include songs from Adult Soft Rock, Countyr Rock and Country Folk. Targeted for late Fall/Winter 2026.) For an update on current status on this series see Nostalgic Love Songs.
As soon as the eBook History Through 27 Hymns and Songs is complete, we will begin recording advance podcasts of chapters from the eBook. The advance podcasts will be made available both as:
When the podcast series is completed, the parts will be edited and assembled as appropriate creating an audiobook. Target for availability of complete audiobook is end of 2024.
TortoiseClimbing Publications™ is working with Ms. Ingrid Bartinique as editor for the eBook, History Through 27 Hymns and Songs. Her editing has been seriously slowed by various health and family issues, but target for completion is 2027.
TortoiseClimbing Webservices™ built this entirely new responsive, interactive website to replace its initial 2003-4 static website.
The initial website was built with HTML4.01, when CSS2 was only a recommendation, and not widely or uniformly supported by browsers. There was no server-side programming, and thus no contact page. Only rudimentary client side programming generated by the FrontPage web building software was included.
In contrast, this new, interactive website is built using:
We provide bio information for most artists involved in both Phases I and II of Hymns and Songs for Living, and with the newer EPS in the Nostalgic Songs series, because:
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TortoiseClimbing™ continues to have very simpatico working relationships with colleagues, namely: our audio engineers/producers Mr. McElroy, Ms. Gerber-Salins; and artists who participated on the album Hymns and Songs of My Mother and the newer EPs in the Nostalgic Songs series. In the editing world, with Ms. Ingrid Bartinique. They were and are:
After all these, and more, TortoiseClimbing™ was created and evolved into an independent:
Were all these: logical evolutions; serendipitous happenstances; destined; or maybe some combinations?
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