Monthly Archives: December 2007

Well, I’ve listened to the CBC Christmas radio song challenge finalists.  They are all good.  Each has their own style.  Enjoyed the afternoon of listening to the songs and the composers. 

I missed the cut, but the song was played once or twice over the weekend (OK, I’d have love to make the finalists – but . . .).  I’ve found it quite singable and maybe I’ll get it reworked for next Christmas.  I’ll check out the rules of the contest and see if I can’t make it available on line in the next week or so.

Start now — I imagine they will run the contest next year.  Let’s see if we can’t flood them with more Christmas songs!

So, I guess CBC radio played my song yesterday around 5:10 in the afternoon.  One or two heard it — I missed it.  

But today they played the chorus as the voice over (under) for an ad for the finalists for the Christmas song challenge.  Either that means the song was good enough to be a finalist, or that it was good background.

I guess I’ll find out on Monday!!

I heard about a Christmas song contest at CBC Saskatchewan radio.  Half kidding, I challenged a friend of mine to write a song.  Didn’t go very far.

Until Thursday morning.  With my schedule this week, I decided to take off Thursday.  Lying in bed, hoping to rest a bit in the morning, a song started to form.

I pulled out my recording equipment, and line by line put down an acappella (without instruments) song.  It’s called — "That’s what’s so unusual".  The song was never to have been used in public performance, not to be a "cover" tune, and to be recorded in a digital format (mp3).  Not a problem — this song was so new no one heard it, except my wife who had to endure the recording process (you sing one part at a time — and if you’ve ever listened to a harmony part without the melody, it’s like wondering where the notes have gone!). 

I was finished at 4:00 and tried to get the song sent through the internet.  Something was wrong with the CBC server (I did some phoning to CBC Regina and they confirmed they were having problems), so here I am at 3:00 am in the morning trying to get the song sent.  And apparently our internet is working.

How to describe the song?  Definitely a "church" type Christmas song — nice harmonies.  It’s all my vocals — and a lot of fun at that.  In fact, not a bad thing to do on a day off!  Listen and see if you hear it on CBC local programming Friday.

Feels funny.

The last scheduled Tuesday night activity — the last Wednesday night activity.  Both are done until the new year. 

Of course, we’ve added a few other Christmas activities.  A Friday night Youth supper along with a Monday night College and Career supper. 

In the end, I guess you can wind both ways. 

Do you even out when you wind up and wind down!!