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Singing has been a love of David's from early elementary school on. He studied voice in college and after. Collaborations with friends led to a number of singing and more recently recording projects, personified in adding the forthcoming series of Nostalgic Love Song EPs to our releases.
On the artistic side, we are creating a series of EPs of nostalgic love songs. Initial efforts are drawing from our back catalogue. We are converting and upgrading existing master tape recordings to meet quality required by our current mission statement.
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We are now focusing on production of a series of EPs of Nostalgic Love Songs. We are beginning with love songs draw from the wealth of our private back catalogue master tapes as resource materials for creating our initial Nostalgic Love Songs EP releases.
This is after completing multi-year projects, and release of:
To make our previous master tape recordings meet our quality standards for public release, we are substantially upgrading and augmenting. We are well along in those efforts, targeting release for our 1st EP in this series in fall of 2026.
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:
Advanced previews of drafts of several songs that will be included in various EPs are provided from this site. (To listen, go to Advanced Previews.)
"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
Our back catalogue also contains a group of recordings of love duets from movies and Broadway from the 1980'-90's. 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 conceived of to be an album with working title of Romantic Duets. We began work on it following release of the private cassette album, Solo Collection to family and friends in 1993. (That was after Mr. McElroy left Bias.)
Production of that album was put on hold when David's mother requested TortoiseClimbing Audio™ 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 on the Romantic Duets were prerecored Karaoke tracks, which means:
To create songs that can be released publically, we are 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.
(Webb 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 another Spanish song we previously recorded, "El Sol Que Tu Eres," this song will also be sung in Spanish. (Although Englich lyrics were created for this song, they are not a translation and do not have the same emotional meaning.) I am making inquiries for options of getting an arrangement made, modeled after the original, with 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.
Restored and mastered from LP of 1959 performance by combined Annapolis High School choirs, released Fall 2024.
We hope word about release of this restored and mastered recording will spread to those involved or interested in the Annapolis High School choirs (classes of 1959, 1960 & 1961), and their friends and families. Especially that this recording of those historic performances is available as a Free digital download.
To foster spreading the news, in early 2023 notices of its free availability were sent to the Annapolis news letter (Naptown Scoop) and the daily newspaper the Capital Gazette. Since that time we have also released it from our online marketplace.
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 26 nostalgic, traditional hymns and songs, and 1 Contemporary Christian song in folk style (27 tracks).
Future versions of album Hymns & Songs of My Mother planned.
Mini-EP: Welcome Home, by Kathy Brigman Haupt.
(Written 1985, initial release on album, 2024; release of mini-EP, Spring 2026)
Country/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:
When released, 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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