cartbeforethehorse newsletter #259

[cartbeforethehorse]

Hello, all.
I hope you had a good Christmas.
We had a fine time, but we're back to work now. Here's where you'll
find us. . .

http://thecartbeforethehorse.com/for_sale/

http://www.etsy.com/shop/cartbeforethehorse

We made a few home-made presents for family this year, as you might
expect. Jo's brother, Andrew, asked me several weeks ago if I wanted
to help him record the Beatles' song "When I'm 64" for my in-laws. His
step-dad, Steve, just turned 64 this year, and Andrew sang it at their
wedding years ago, so it has some significance to them. It's not my
favorite Beatles song, being more of a John guy myself, but I think we
made it work. We passed the 16 track recorder around so that Steve's
sister, Kate Power, and her husband, Steve Einhorn, could sing and
play a bit of banjo and guitar on it as well. We even talked Jo and
our daughter, Kaity, into singing a few lines in the last verse. Our
son wouldn't sing, but we put the squeeze on him tight enough to get a
few whistles out of him for the song. So if you're interested in
hearing it, you can download it using the link below. If you click on
it and it doesn't download, try right clicking on it, then choosing
"save target as."

http://www.thecartbeforethehorse.com/audio/when_im_64.mp3

When we played it for them on Christmas, we were hoping they'd
recognize the singing voices as their family, but they thought it was
the Beatles until they heard some of the lyrics changed. We got rid of
"Vera, Chuck, and Dave" and replaced it with their grandkids, "Jimmy
and Kaity Rae." Once they realized what they were listening to, they
were brought to tears. Score!

Here are the credits, in order of appearance:

Bass and lead guitar-Dylan Curry
Drums, vocals, and guitar-Andrew James
Banjo and vocals- Kate Power
Guitar, vocals, and "mouth trombone"-Steve Einhorn
Vocals-Kaity Curry
Vocals-Jo James
Whistling-Jimmy Curry
Vocals-Yellena James

Hope you enjoy it. . .
-Dylan


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