I was hoping to get more stuff to you today, but I only finished 1 song. This song is a quiet, contemplative song - maybe something like you might hear in a cathedral somewhere. I wrote it over 30 years ago, but I just recorded it in the past 3 weeks. It is called "Blest Be The Lord".

There are 2 guitar parts and a cello. And there are 10 vocal parts! All recorded in my little studio (except the cello - i used samples there) ...

This month's new music if called"I Will Wake Up". It was recorded with Don Peskach on Bass and Frank Gallagher on Drums. It was a cold day in a late December when we gathered at a small 8 channel studio in Brecksville Ohio, near Cleveland. I had just recently sold my house and was leaving town in the next few days, and I wanted to get this song on tape. Since that time it has laid unheard until now.

I have a kinda fun memory about this song. Shortly after recording it I was in Mexico with a group of college age kids on an outreach trip. We were asked to sing a few songs at an 'American Football' game halftime show at the local college field. So at halftime all 30 or so of us marched out on the field. Someone brought a microphone and was holding it in front of me. And I started singing this song to bleachers full of students from the college attending the game. Just me with an acoustic guitar, a guy holding a mic in front of me and the rest of the group dancing around behind me. Looking back on it now I guess I had no lack of confidence.

I hope you all enjoy the song. Be sure to let someone know about the site, Thanks for stopping by! - Pat C.

I have been mixing this song for the past 2 days solid. I think I have something here...

This song is taken from Second Timothy in the New Testament. In it, Paul the Apostle writes to Timothy some final words, as Paul tells Timothy "For I am ready to be offered up, my time is almost run out, my mission is through."

The initial tracks were recorded in 1979 by me and a couple of friends, Frank Gallagher on Drums and Don Pleskach on Bass Guitar. I added a few things in the last few weeks, and finished up the vocal a couple of days ago. I hope you like it. - PC

Edit: I listened to the upload again and thought the vocal was mixed too high, so I remixed it and replaced it.

This month's song, "It's Your Love" started out very different from how it has become. I first recorded the demo like I heard it in my head. Then I played it for my wife. She was fairly unimpressed. She told me that it was just so repetitious that it caused her to lose interest! (After being married to me for so long - it is a wonder that anything about me can keep her interest...  )

Anyways... I decided to strip it down and start again. Then this new version began to take on a life of it's own. And I am pretty happy about the way it turned out. The original demo is over on the Members Only page - you can hear the differences yourself !

This song says: "Lord I want to thank you, for giving me a voice to sing... I know it's your love". It is such a great blessing, and love, that God gives all of us an ability to praise the Lord. And also - It's a wonderful love to give us brand new lives - I know it's His Love!

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This song is sort of a lush ballad. It has a rhythm guitar part that is - to me - very soothing. I tried recording this song several times over the years, and I finally came up with this recording this year (2009).

There's some nice guitar work for the folks who like that sort of thing. The song also has a message that is very precious to me:
"And if He died for me, I'll live for him, that's the only way." I hope you enjoy listening to it. Thanks for stopping by! - PC

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There was a time when the word "Maranatha" was thrown around alot. At some point I thought that "Maranatha" kinda sounded like a caribbean word. So I wrote a reggae song called "Oh Maranatha". I hope you enjoy it. - PC

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When I was first starting out BITD (Back In The Day), I knew a guy who used to like "the Mary Jane" alot. He was always trying to convince me to give it a try, and I was always talking to him about Jesus. He would tell me over and over that I should write a song about smoking up and drugs, that it would be a sure hit, since everyone loved weed.

So, I decided to take his advice, and wrote a song about our conversations. When I played it for him he wasn't too happy...

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Taken from Psalm 140, I could just imagine the psalm writer running through the forest in the midst of a battle and thinking these words in his head.

Recorded in 1979 at the late December sessions, Don Pleskach is on Bass, Frank Gallagher on Drums, me on guitars and vocals, and my sister Peggy and her friend Lori Braford on backing vocals. An interesting fact - the guitar solos on this song are all from the first and only take with no overdubs. I hadn't rehearsed anything either, I just decided to try it cold and see what happened. As it turns out, I guess it worked out :) .

I think this song rocks pretty hard. One of my favorites - PC

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Let me give you a little background on this song. When I was a kid - 12, 13 yrs old - I was learning how to play guitar. One way that was accomplished was by getting song books, following the chords, and singing along. I also had a pretty good ear for figuring out some of the finer details of the music.

The descending note within a chord that "The Greatest Part" is based on has occurred often in popular music. I think that I first noticed it in Paul McCartney's "Eleanore Rigby" chorus. So I started messing around with writing a song using that sort of structure. Then you hear it in Harrison's "Something" from the Beatles Abbey Road album released in 1970.

So I wrote this song in 1970 at about age 15. In early 1972 we started hearing a song called "Stairway To Heaven" from Led Zeppelin that is also largely based on the descending note within a chord type of structure. And since then, whenver I have played "The Greatest Part" someone has asked me why I ripped off "Stairway to Heaven".

So here's a recent recording of "The Greatest Part". Just to help fuel the fire of my critics I have included a nod to Jimmy Page (the guitar player from Led Zeppelin) near the end of the song. ;) - PC

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This song was recorded in late 1979 and is slated to be released on the forthcoming cd "1979". Bass was played by Don Pleskach, who also played on DAYSPRING, and Drums by Frank Gallagher, who should have played on DAYSPRING. The backing vocals were provided by my sister Peggy and her friend, Lori. This is intended to be a singalong, so feel free to sing along! - PC

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