Overview: Audio Recordings

Links to each release are provided from Store Access. Each release can be streamed/previewed several times Free before having to purchase for digital download, in various audio quality formats.

Note. Streaming is provided by our online market place at a reduced bits/second, in mp3 format. Downloads are available in audiophile FLAC or WAV formats. (Additionally, this website provides advanced previews of some work in progress recordings. - See below.)

Categories of current and future recordings include:

Access any category either by clicking on the category link below, or link in the above Dropdown Submenu. Either will link you to the section providing details for that category or songs.

Singing is 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 performances and more recently recording projects. These are personified by adding the forthcoming series of Nostalgic Love Song EPs to our releases.

Around 1990, his friend Terry asked him to record duets with him. Most were nostalgic love songs, or related.
Another critical influence was the fantastic piano accompanist, Ms. Nancy Reid. (She was accompanist to the show tunes chorus, Alexandria Singers, (VA) for many years. Terry and David sang with them for several seasons. Detailed bio for Ms. Nancy Reid found at Nancy Reid.)
With Ms. Reid as accompanist, David recorded the privately released album, Solo Collection, in early 1993. (As part of that private release, he created TortoiseClimbing™).
He then began work on a planned follow-up private album, working title Romantic Duets. That was also love duets, drawn from movies and broadway shows from the 1980's and early 1990's.
[In 1998 work on Romantic Duets album was put on hold to focus on his mother's request for him to record an album of his parents favorite traditional old hymns, Hymns and Songs of My Mother. (While the hymns are not romantic love songs, they are nostalgic, old traditional hymns and songs.)]
In 2019 TortoiseClimbing™ converted to a for-profit entity to produce high-quality recordings. First project was to polish the hymns album as Phase II. We completed and released Hymns and Songs of My Mother in 2024.
Next was developing our Business Plan. A critical part of that was articulating our vision for the future of TortoiseClimbing™, including what products we plan to market. Our Business Plan lays out our research into the many industry practices and requirements, and the many adminstrative steps required to successfully mount a national distribution and marketing program.
We are working our way through that long list of action items. While production of quality, audiophile recordings is an involved process of its own, much of the list of action items are administrative in nature. The kinds of things a record lable takes care of for artists. In this case, David is representing both artist and lable.

On the artistic side, our immediate focus is creating a series of EPs of nostalgic love songs. Initially we are drawing from our back catalogue. To make that happen, we are converting and upgrading our master tape recordings to achieve quality required by our current mission statement.
In parallel we are putting necessary adminstrative actions in place to enable our national distribution and marketing program.

-- End of Accordian Window "What Led to This Series of Recordings?"" --

Nostalgic Love Song EPs (Coming)

Currently we are focusing on producting a series of EPs of Nostalgic Love Songs. Initially we are drawing from love songs on our private back catalogue master tapes creating Nostalgic Love Songs EP releases.

Near-term Projects

To fulfill our mission statement of high-quality, audiophile recordings for public release, we are upgrading and augmenting our back catalogue of audiophile materials.

Advance Previews of Work in Progress (releases will be in EPs)

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.)

Mid-term Projects

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.

Initially they were conceived as an album with working title of Romantic Duets. We had begun work on it after releasing 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. 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 two things:

To create songs that can be released publically, we are recording new accompniments that:

The upgraded 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.

Later Projects

(Webb recorded a duet of it with Linda Ronstadt that is delightful. Would like to record that version. Preferably in a lower key than Jimmy Webb or Art Garfunkel recorded it.)

(Like another Spanish song we previously recorded, "El Sol Que Tu Eres," the plan is to record this song in Spanish. (Although Englich lyrics were created for this song, they are not a translation and do not have the same emotional meaning.) We are making inquiries for options of getting an arrangement made, modeled after the original, with supporting chorus.)

(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.)

Religous/Christian Recordings (Released)

The following albums, and mini-EP, are released and available from our online marketplace for preview/streaming, and/or purchase and download.

Restored and mastered from LP of 1959 performance by combined Annapolis High School choirs, released Fall 2024.

Spread the word about release of this Free restored and mastered recording, especially to those involved or interested in the Annapolis High School choirs (classes of 1959, 1960 & 1961), and their friends and families.

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.

The online documentation page at History of The Crucifixion solicits all persons with any knowledge to provide any additional notes they can to expand the history. Initial contact can be made via Contact.

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. Plus, 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 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. All contributed information will be incorporated and make available on this website.

Narrations

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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