Happy Birthday, Dear Olde Dadd!

Meet my parents, Carley and Jim. That’s us in the photo above, striking a pose at the conclusion of the release concert for my album Thankful Heart, Joyful Mind. My arrangement of the great Irving Berlin tune White Christmas – which just happens to be my mom’s favorite Christmas song – appears on the album and is dedicated […]

BABY MINE by John Albert Thomas

Written by Frank Churchill for the 1941 Disney film “Dumbo,” “Baby Mine” is a lullaby sung by Dumbo’s mother, Mrs. Jumbo, to her baby as she cradles him in her trunk. The poignancy of the scene and the beauty of the song never fails to bring me to tears; it is no wonder that “Baby […]