Details about each recording are found on linked pages.
Released recordings can be streamed and/or purchased from our online marketplace. Links to each individual product page on our online audio marketplace are provided from Store Access.
Streaming/previewing is Free for several times before having to purchase. Our online marketplace also supports purchases with credit card, for immediate digital download in various audio quality formats.
Our released and planned recordings are grouped by the following categories:
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David began singing in choirs, from early elementary school on. That foundation led to studying voice in college and after. Subsequent collaborations with friends led to a number of singing and then recording projects, which transitioned into recording this series of Nostalgic Love Song EPs. Examples include:
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This is a series of EPs of Nostalgic Love Song. Nostalgic love songs were a primary focus from our beginning. So, we are drawing from the wealth of our private back master tapes as resource materials for our initial EP releases. However, to make those previous recordings worthy for public release, we are substantially upgrading and augmenting. We are well along in those efforts. So, the target release window for our 1st EP in this series is summer of 2026.
Advance previews to drafts of the following songs can be accessed from Advanced Previews. These songs will be included in EPs.
"And So It Goes" by Billy Joel. (Multi-part harmony version of this haunting song.) ©1989
"Chattanooga Choo Choo" - Lyrics by Mack Gordon, composed by Harry Warren, © 1941
"I Am the Starlight", by Andrew Lloyd Weber (Pivotal Duet at end of Act 1 of Starlight Express about belief in yourself) ©1984
"The Rose", by Amanda McBroom, (Multi-part harmony version of this romantic love song.) © 1979
Over the next year and a half, five EPs are planned for release. To see details, including song titles and target timeframe windows for each EP's release:
Our back catalogue also contains a group of recordings of older love duets from movies and Broadway. These romantic duets were popular romantic songs, primarily from the 1970's through the early 1990's, largely in the style of ballads.
They were initially intended a an album with working title of Romantic Duets. It was begun years ago, following private release of the cassette album, Solo Collection, which was late in 1993, to family and friends. (That was also after Mr. McElroy left Bias.)
Production of that album was interupted by David's mother's request for TortoiseClimbing Audio™ to record the album Hymns and Songs of My Mother. The Romantic Duets album was put on hold to produce Hymns and Songs of My Mother, and Ms. Gerber-Salins became Producer, arranger, vocal partner and audio engineer on the hymns' project.
All accompaniments used on the Romantic Duets were prerecored Karaoke tracks, which creates two major problems:
To create songs that can be released publically, we will recording new accompniments that:
After upgrade, those songs will be released as part of future EPs in the Nostalgic Love Songs series. See "Mid-term Projects" on this category's details page for list of song titles.
Note. A few more details from the archives about the Romantic Duets project are available as an optional link choice on the Nostalgic Love Songs' webpage.
Examples of other Songs of interest for inclusion in EPs:
“All I Know” by Jimmy Webb © 1973.
(He recorded a duet of it with Linda Ronstadt that is delightful. Would like to create that version. Preferably in a lower key than Jimmy Webb or Art Garfunkel recorded it.)
Eres Tu by Juan Carlos Calderón © 1973
(Llike El Sol Que Tu Eres, the original of this songs was sung entirely in Spanish. (Although Englich lyrics were created, thsy do not have the same emotional meaning.) Making inquiries for getting an arrangement made, modeled after the original, possibly with lead as a duet, and supporting chorus.)
"Perhaps Love" - by John Denver ©1981
(This love song was popularized as a duet between John Denver and Plácido Domingo, released in 1981. We envision this duet with a soprano.)
“Rainbow Connection” by Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher, as solo 1979. Duet version August 4th, 1980.
(Sung as a duet, with banjo as the lead accompaniment instrument, rather than acoustic guitar or piano.)
The following albums, and mini-EP, are released and available from our online marketplace for preview/streaming, and/or purchase and download.
Free ALBUM: The Crucifixion, by John Stainer.
(1959 performance by combined Annapolis High School choirs.)
(Digital download Version 1 released Jan 2023. Version 2, with upgraded mastering and separation into individual tracks, released Fall 2024.)
Hopefully word will spread to those involved or interested in the Annapolis High School choirs (classes of 1959, 1960 a& 1961), and their friends and families, about availability of this Free digital download of this 1st ever restored and mastered version of the 1959 record made of those historic performances. (To foster spreading the news, in early 2023 notices of its free availability were sent to the Annapolis news letter (Naptown Scoop) and the Capital Gazette.) The online documentation page at History of The Crucifixion solicits all persons with any knowledge to provide any additional notes they can to expand that history. Initial contact can be made via Contact. They can also assist in spreading word of this availability.
If you know any of the persons involved with those choirs, (singers, family, relatives, etc.) please advise them of this project and that they are encouraged to download the free mastered and restored file, and contribute any information they have via the Contact/Comments page to TortoiseClimbing™ to augment the online summary history!!
I encourage anyone who was involved in, or knowledgeable about, the 3 choirs from the 3 Annapolis High School graduating classes of 1959, 1960 and 1961, including anyone who participated in the 2 historic 1959 Annapolis High School (AHS) performances of John Stainer's The Crucifixion, to provide any additional information for inclusion in an expanded set of documentation. Contact can be initiated via Contact page. I will happily incorporate all additional information and make available on this website.
ALBUM: Hymns & Songs of My Mother - Vocal version
(Digital download - released 6-20-2024;
CD - 9-20-2024)
This is a professionally produced, long, audiophile recording of 27 nostalgic, traditional hymns and songs.
Future versions of album Hymns & Songs of My Mother planned.
Mini-EP: Welcome Home, by Kathy Brigman Haupt.
(Written 1985, initial release, 2024; release of mini-EP, Spring 2026)
Folk style Contemporary Christian song. © 2026. Includes 2 different arrangements of the song "Welcome Home":
We plan to create and release the following narrations after completing the ebook, History Through 27 Hymns and Songs. This eBook is planned as the companion to the album Hymns and Songs of My Mother. (See Publications for details about this eBook.) FYI - The plan is to make the eBook publication available in 2 formats:
Links to both audio narrations and eBook publications for online marketplaces will be provided from this website's Store Access page.
When the publication History Through 27 Hymns and Songs is finalized, TortoiseCimbing Audio™ will begin recording a series of advance audio narrations of the chapters from that book. Those advance chapter narrations will be available as:
Advanced Narrations of chapters from eBook (Working title) History Through 27 Hymns and Songs (companion to album Hymns and Songs of My Mother) (Beginning as soon as completion of editing of eBook.)
AUDIOBOOK Following completion of the narration series of chapters, the completed Audiobook.
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