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Updated 05-09-2026

With release of our major project, Hymns and Songs of My Mother, TortoiseClimbing Audio™ now returns to a focus on Nostalgic Love Songs.

Online Audio Marketplace

Links to our online Audio marketplace are found at Store Access. Our online marketplace enables:

1. Preview/stream for a limited number of times for all products;
2. Purchase and Download digital files, or
3. Order CD for our Hymns' album for delivery by mail.

The following Religious/Christian Audio products released -

1. The Crucifixion (released 10/6/2024)



Free digital download The link to our online marketplace where you can preview and purchase this magnificant album is provided at Store Access. This is restored and mastered from the private monophonic LP of this historic, 1959 performce by Annapolis High School choirs.

This recording is a more coral arrangement of this cantata about the Easter passion than in Stainer's score. It was performed by the 3 combined Annapolis High School choirs in 1959. Two womens choirs sing most of the recitatives and arias, producing a significantly more choral performance. (It includes David in the part of Jesus - the first recording of a young David.)

The online marketplace contains:

• The mastered and restorated digital audio file;
• The numbers are separated into the score's 15 performance titles, enabling individual access to the numbers; and
• A copy of the lyrics are included for all the numbers.



(NOTE - The online marketplace defaults to asking for a fee of $1.00. That is to cover unlimited streaming from their site. You can decline the streaming option, and download free.)

(Copyright note. The score became public domain, beginning of 2023.)




At cost CD ($4.00 including shipping) - Individually burned CDs delivered by mail.



2. Hymns and Songs of My Mother



Vocal version of album released digitally 6/20/2024.

CD format released 9/20/2024.




The link to our online marketplace where you can preview and purchase this magnificant album is provided at Store Access. This is a magnificant, professionally produced and recorded, extremely long (almost 1 hr 20 min - max for a CD) album of 27 nostalgic, traditional old hymns and songs.

After the death of his father, David's mother, knowning he was vocally trained and was recording at a professional studio, requested he record their favorite hymns and songs. They jointly selected the traditional, nostalgic hymns and songs to record from his parents favorites. Playlist is available at Simple Playlist and Annotated Playlist. While production of this marvelous recording was underway, his mother died a few months after requesting it.

The fidelity and interpretations are a league above the vast number of well intentioned favorite old hymn albums found on YouTube. While those recordings are nice, most old favorite hymn albums were recorded by untrained vocalists, in acoustically challenged church spaces, with limited accompaniment variations, by inexperienced people, using inexpensive lower fidelity sound equipment.

This album was sung by professional vocalists, accompanined by a wide variety of professional musicians on real instruments, recorded in professional sound studios with professional equipment. Its interpretative achievements and outstanding sonic fidelity, set it apart. You can hear the difference!

3. Forthcoming Other Versions of Hymns and Songs of My Mother Album, include:
   
   
   • An instrumental version of Hymns and Songs of My Mother;
   • Two Backing track versions (karaoke) of the hymns and songs album for:
     1. Use by soloists, with other accompanying vocalists included; and
     2. Use by choirs with all vocalists, except descants, removed.


4. Mini-EP: Welcome Home
   
   

   Because "Welcome Home" is the only folk style Contemporary Christian Music song contained on the album Hymns and Songs of My Mother, we are making 2 versions of this song available separately as a mini-EP. The two versions are:

   • The author/composer's performance version of this folk influenced Christian Soft Adult Alternative song by Kathy Brigman Haupt, with David singing a simple duet on the refrains; and
   • The new more intricate arrangement of this song, with women's chorus on the refrains, developed and included on the album Hymns and Songs of My Mother.

Return to a focus on Nostalgic Love Songs: Series of EPs

Nostalgic Love Song EP Series. Details about forthcoming series of EPs found at Nostalgic Love Songs series.

We are cautiously optomistic we will release our 1^st 2 EPs in this series this year (2026). They are tentatively titled:

• Chattanooga Choo Choo EP (summer 2026); and
• Twelfth of Never EP (possibly Fall/Winter 2026)

Over the next year we will be releasing 3 additional EPs in the Nostalgic Love Songs series. Examples of songs that will be released on the initial 5 EPs in this series include:

• All I Have to Do Is Dream
• And So It Goes by Billy Joel,
• Chattanooga Choo Choo
• Ebb Tide
• I Am the Starlight by Andrew Lloyd Weber
• I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You
• In the Ghetto
• Laura
• Let It Be Me
• My One and Only
• Star Dust
• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
• The Rose by Amanda McBroom
• There I've Said It Again
• Unchained Melody

Plans for additional songs beyond those planned for the 1^st 5 EPs are in development.etc.

Planned Nostalgic Christmas EPs

We are cautiously optomistic we might complete our 1^st Christmas EP by the end of 2026.

Narrations

1. Advance Podcasts. Beginning shortly after the companion eBook history described below becomes available, advance podcasts of chapters from the eBook will begin being provided, both as a subscription series, and as individual podcasts of chapters. (Those who subscribe to the podcasts will get free download of audiobook when completed.) Target of initial podcasts is promptly after ebook is completed, TBD.


2. Audiobook. At completion of advanced podcast subscription series, audiobook version from the eBook will be assembled and provided as a free download to subscribers of podcast series. Target for completed Audiobook availablilty TBD. It will also be offered as part of a discounted bundle.

eBook

• Companion History eBook (Working title - History Through 27 Hymns and Songs) Working Draft is with editor. (Progress repeatedly delayed by health events in her life, TBD.)
  
  This companion to the recording, Hymns and Songs of My Mother, is a lengthy history eBook telling histories from the time each hymn and song was written. The histories enable readers to understand how historic events occurring when each of the hymns and songs were written influenced each of the hymns and songs.
  
  To minimize price, distribution is planned as an eBook. The limitations of of eBooks means we will have to use endnotes following each chapter. This will become available both as part of a bundle with the the digital audio download, and as a standalone eBook from a different online store, accessed from the Publications section of the Online Store page.


• Note. It appears we will have to set up a separate Online Publications marketplace for eBook sales sold separately from album, i.e., not as part of being bundled with an album. Details will be provided when it is set up.