‘Tis the Season for listening to Christmas songs, and so in the early part of this month I received a referral from a referral to make such a recording (appreciate the referrals!). I got in touch with Marcia and we agreed on a day to record several songs on piano and keyboard with vocals. The tunes were all recorded in one day, and although I know she had a late arrival back home, we had everything we needed to make a nice Christmas release. Christmas Memories had less than two weeks to be finished. We worked closely together to create the graphics for the disc and case, ordered the artwork printing, arranged song licensing and made the first 50 copies. The first weekend the discs were available to her church and family they were quickly disappearing, and so 50 more were ordered in time for Christmas itself.
This was Marcia’s first recording, although she has sung most of her life. Her husband Gary was a big part in this being done, and what a wonderful gift to her and those who get to enjoy this Christmas music. He even was a hands-on part of the second order as we all three collaborated assembling the discs into their cases. There are twelve songs on this CD with a blend of traditional and relatively recent tracks. I hope many were blessed and encouraged to take a fresh focus on why Christmas really exists in the first place. As the final song expresses, “Christmas isn’t Christmas, ’til it happens in your heart.”
