Details about these recording are found on linked pages.
Released recordings can be accessed via our online marketplace. Links to the product pages on our online audio marketplace can be accessed by clicking Store Access.
Our online marketplace provides capabilities to stream/preview, for Free, several times before having to purchase. It also supports purchases with credit card for download in various audio quality formats.
Our released and planned recordings are grouped by the following categories:
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This is a series of EPs, of basically Nostalgic Love Song. Because nostalgic love songs were a primary focus from our beginning, we are drawing from the wealth of our private back master tapes for our initial EP releases. To make those recordings worthy for public release, we are substantially upgrading and augmenting. We are well along in those efforts. So, the target release window for our 1st EP in this series is summer of 2026.
An optional link on the Nostalgic Love Songs' webpage, provides links to several advance previews to drafts of the following songs. These songs will be included in EPs.
"And So It Goes" by Billy Joel. (Multi-part harmony version of this haunting song.) ©1989
"Chattanooga Choo Choo" - Lyrics by Mack Gordon, composed by Harry Warren, © 1941
"I Am the Starlight", by Andrew Lloyd Weber (Pivotal Duet at end of Act 1 of Starlight Express about belief in yourself) ©1984
"The Rose", by Amanda McBroom, (Multi-part harmony version of this romantic love song.) © 1979
Over the next year, five EPs are planned for release. To see details, including song titles and target timeframe windows for each EP's release:
Our back catalogue contains a group of recordings of older love duets from movies and Broadway. These romantic duets were popular romantic songs, primarily from the 1970's through the early 1990's, largely in the style of ballads.
Work on the draft Romantic Duets album began years ago, after private release of the cassette album, Solo Collection, late in 1993, to family and friends. (That was also after Mr. McElroy left Bias.)
That album was not completed. Production was ongoing at the time David's mother requested TortoiseClimbing Audio™ record the album Hymns and Songs of My Mother. Romantic Duets was put on hold to produce Hymns and Songs of My Mother, and Ms. Gerber-Salins became Producer, arranger, vocal partner and audio engineer on that project.
All accompaniments used were prerecored Karaoke tracks, which created two major problems:
To release publically, we are recordings new accompniments that:
After upgrade, those songs will be released as part of future EPs in the Nostalgic Love Songs series. See "Mid-term Projects" on this category's details page for list of song titles.
Note. A few more details from the archives about the Romantic Duets project are available as an optional link choice on the Nostalgic Love Songs' webpage.
Examples of other Songs of interest for inclusion in EPs:
“All I Know” by Jimmy Webb © 1973.
(He recorded a duet of it with Linda Ronstadt that is delightful. Would like to create that version. Preferably in a lower key than Jimmy Webb or Art Garfunkel recorded it.)
Eres Tu by Juan Carlos Calderón © 1973
(Llike El Sol Que Tu Eres, the original of this songs was sung entirely in Spanish. (Although Englich lyrics were created, thsy do not have the same emotional meaning.) Making inquiries for getting an arrangement made, modeled after the original, possibly with lead as a duet, and supporting chorus.)
"Perhaps Love" - by John Denver ©1981
(This love song was popularized as a duet between John Denver and Plácido Domingo, released in 1981. We envision this duet with a soprano.)
“Rainbow Connection” by Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher, as solo 1979. Duet version August 4th, 1980.
(Sung as a duet, with banjo as the lead accompaniment instrument, rather than acoustic guitar or piano.)
The following albums, and mini-EP, are released and available from our online marketplace for limited preview/streaming, and/or purchase and download.
Free ALBUM: The Crucifixion, by John Stainer.
(1959 performance by combined Annapolis High School choirs.)
(Digital download Version 1 released Jan 2023. Version 2, with upgraded mastering and separation into individual tracks, released Fall 2024.)
ALBUM: Hymns & Songs of My Mother - Vocal version
(Digital download - released 6-20-2024;
CD - 9-20-2024)
Future versions of album Hymns & Songs of My Mother planned.
Mini-EP: Welcome Home, by Kathy Brigman Haupt.
Folk style Contemporary Christian song. © 2026. (Written 1985, initial release of song, 2024; release of mini-EP, Spring 2026) Includes 2 different arrangements of the song "Welcome Home":
We will undertake creating and releasing the following narrations after completing the ebook, History Through 27 Hymns and Songs. This eBook is planned as the companion to the album Hymns and Songs of My Mother. (See Publications for details about this eBook.) FYI - The plan is to make the eBook publication available in 2 formats:
Links to both audio narrations and eBook publications for online marketplaces will be provided from this website's Store Access page.
When the publication History Through 27 Hymns and Songs is finalized, TortoiseCimbing Audio™ will begin recording a series of advance audio narrations of the chapters from that book. Those advance chapter narrations will be available as:
Advanced Narrations of chapters from eBook (Working title) History Through 27 Hymns and Songs (companion to album Hymns and Songs of My Mother) (Beginning as soon as completion of editing of eBook.)
AUDIOBOOK Following completion of the narration series of chapters, the completed Audiobook.
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