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Our mission is producing outstanding interpretive, audiophile recordings and publications. As part of demonstrating our commitment to our quality mission, we offer the following actions as illustrations of our committment to all things quality:

  1. We applied to become a member of the Better Business Bureau and are now listed by BBB, meaning:

    1. We have a business profile on their site. After authentication, that is where BBB will include comments/reviews about us, and/or our products.
      Details on how to view our profile are found at View our profile and any comments/reviews.

    2. After authentication, you can add your opinion/review about us or quality of our products to BBB's site.
      Details on how to submit your reviews are found at Submit your comments/reviews.

    3. After authentication, we will add the BBB seal here, documenting us as an authenticated member.

  2. We registered with Dun and Bradstreet, and received our DUNS number. While this is more of a credit tracking function in the business community, it is another demonstration of our committment to operating a quality business.

  3. Quality of our recordings - For those who first want to verify our recordings are outstanting interpretative performances and audiophile quality before purchasing, all released songs are preview able from our online marketplace. Links to all released songs are found at Store Access.

  4. We built this website to provide detailed information about our products and plans.

  5. For those who care whether we are compliant with song copyright licensing requirements, we display the Seal of Authenticity issued by the company through which we obtained our mechanical licenses authorizing us to sell our sound recordings of those songs. Click on the seal to view the database documenting what rights we have purchased. (Note. Songs covered by our mechanical licenses will be updated as we obtain additional licenses for songs on EPs.)

    Proof of licensingClick on Seal of Authenticity to see proof of licensing for songs under copyright.




Online Audio Marketplace

Our online marketplace enables you to:

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

Click here to access online Marketplace Index Page for Audio Products




Nostalgic Songs

1. Nostalgic Love Songs

This is a series of EPs. Our first Digital Release is targeted for Winter 2026, titled, Chattanooga Choo Choo EP.


Nostalgic Love Songs encompasses a number of styles/genres, e.g., American Standards, Adult Soft Rock, Country Folk, and numerous others.

Details about the many genres and songs included in our forthcoming series are found at Nostalgic Love Songs.

Examples of songs, by genre, planned for the immediate series include:

Over this year and next we plan to release 5 EPs in the Nostalgic Love Songs series.

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

2. Nostalgic Christmas Songs

We are optomistic about recording future secular Christmas EPs, dates TBD.




Religious/Christian Audio products

  1. Hymns and Songs of My Mother

  2. Vocal version of album -


    This magnificant audiophile album of old, traditional, nostalgic hymns and songs is available to preview and purchase on our online marketplace. You can link to it from Store Access. It is professionally produced and recorded, is extremely long (almost 1 hr 20 min - max for a CD), including 26 old, nostalgic, traditional hymns and songs, plus 1 county/folk Contemporary Christian song.

    Creation of this album was requested by David's mother after the death of his father, of his parents' favorite hymns and songs. Presumably her requent was influenced by knowning David is vocally trained and was recording at a professional studio. They jointly selected the traditional, nostalgic hymns and songs from his parents favorites. His mother insisted the Contemporary Christian song, written for her sister's funeral, be included. Playlist is available at Simple Playlist and Annotated Playlist.

    Although his mother died a few months after requesting this recording, i.e., while production of this marvelous recording was underway, her concept is realized by completion and release of this album.

    The meaningful interpretations and audiophile fidelity are in a separate csategory above the vast number of well intentioned albums of favorite old hymns found on YouTube. While those recordings are nice and nostalgic, most are recorded by untrained vocalists, in acoustically challenged church spaces, with limited accompaniment variations, by inexperienced producers and audio engineers, using inexpensive lower fidelity sound equipment.

    In contrast, everything on this album is performed by trained professionals. That includes the vocalists and the wide variety of professional musicians on real instruments. Recordings were made in professional sound studios with professional equipment. The interpretative performances and outstanding sonic fidelity set it apart. You can hear the difference!


  3. Welcome Home

  4. Mini-EP - Digitally released 3/12/2026

    Because "Welcome Home" is the only country/folk style Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) song contained on the otherwise old, traditional, nostalgic album, Hymns and Songs of My Mother, we separately made 2 versions of this song available as a mini-EP. The two versions are:


  5. The Crucifixion

  6. Digitally released 10/6/2024

    Free digital download

    You can preview and download this magnificant album from our online music store. Go to Store Access. This performance is restored and mastered from the private monophonic LP of this historic, 1959 performce by Annapolis High School choirs.

    This is a dominantly coral arrangement of this cantata, which contrasts with the traditional scoring of this Easter passion by Stainer. It was performed by the 3 combined Annapolis High School choirs in 1959. The choral director's arrangement reassigned most of the recitatives and arias to two womens choirs. That produced a significantly more choral performance. Selected small solos are sung by choral members. (It includes David in the part of Jesus - the first recording of a young David.)

    Our online marketplace contains:


    (NOTE - The online marketplace defaults to asking for a fee of $1.00. That fee 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.




Narrations

  1. Advance Narration Serializations . Beginning shortly after the companion eBook history described below becomes available, we will begin creating narrations of chapters to be provided, both as a serialized subscription, and as individual audio chapters. (Those who subscribe to the seriatizations will get free download of audiobook when completed.) Target to begin creating narrations is promptly after ebook is completed, TBD.

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



eBook


Other Information on Website

Check Us Out

Considerable information is provided about out projects, including detailed credits for each of the many persons involved in helping create each of the projects. The most expansive details are about making the album Hymns and Songs of My Mother recording.

Major categories are accessed by clicking the appropriate category in Top/master menu atop each webpage.

Master Menu on Top of All Pages


Additional Submenu Drop Downs on Many Webpages

Many webpages under "Recordings," "Publications" and "About" contain more detailed Dropdown SubMenus found at the top left under the Master menu bar. They allow you to burrow deeper by clicking on the dropdown submenu top left under master menu. Click on any of the Dropdown SubMenus and additional webpage choices related to the webpage category you are on will dropdown. Clicking on any link in dropdown menus will take you to that more detailed webpage, with return links.

Old Website

FYI. Our original website from 2004 is still online, but functionally replaced by this version. The plan is to migrate this new site to our .com URL. When migrated, we will redirect this .net URL to the .com URL. Any references established to this .net URL will continue to access this website after it is migrated to the .com URL.


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