One august day – Michael Delgorio
Here’s a track that I wrote and recorded in the Fall of 2014 to celebrate my daughter’s 19th birthday. It was Re-Mixed and eMastered in May of 2016. 

One August day, a little over twenty years ago, my wife and I jetted off to southern China to adopt our daughter. And, our lives were positively altered from there on in. For eternity, Peyton is my greatest gift. This is that story. I wrote a book about it titled “Dancing In The Dark” about this experience upon return from our trip. 

The reason for the title was the fact that, upon entering Newark Airport on return with our new daughter, the first song we heard on the airport P.A. system was by Bruce Springsteen. I immediately realized, how apropos: with our new baby in tow, we completely were dancing in the dark. If the song sounds “Springsteenesque”, so be it. 

Huge, lifelong thanks go out to Fran -- everyday -- for making this happen and, for being the world’s best Mom to our angel. The retelling of that story distilled the book-long and lifelong event into three and a half minutes audio palette. It was…a great, creative, experience in editing. And, a wonder filled tour de force inspired by an “alpha baby” whom “the sky thru and the earth caught.” A greater parental love has never been known.

Comments, likes and shares/re-posts are much appreciated. It’s a story, told...entirely from the heart.

The lyrics follow, for those who are into the details:

©2014 delAardvark Communications, Inc.
One august day - by Michael Delgorio

Early one September morn, | a true life force | to us | was born
Pei Lian | was on her way, | to forever | change our life-long-day
Couple traveled | clear ‘round the world, | to embrace | this precious girl
A silly toy | in red and blue | they brought along to play a tune
She pressed that button all along | ‘til silly toy was so well worn
So the sky threw you; | and, the Earth | caught you, too
Barely a rag doll with | big brown eyes, | dressed in clothes | so oversized
Fevered Burn | running through your head, | an infant clearly underfed
An alpha baby | from the start, | a Nanning child with hungry heart 
Caught your breath | in a labored way; | now we’re here | one au-gust day-Oh
From Guangzhou to Singapore, | Korea to | the Alaskan door
To the East Coast USA, | some 18-thousand miles away
Like a modern day | Noah’s Ark, | Springsteen sang | Dancin’ in the Dark
So we began | life’s winding path, | with squishy toys | for the bath
Over night | you were off to college, | with a head full o’ | millennial knowledge
So the sky threw you; | and, the Earth | caught you, too
Barely a rag doll | with big brown eyes, | dressed in clothes | so oversized
Fevered Burn | running through your head, | Love we felt | can’t be under said
An alpha baby | from the start, | another child | with hungry heart
Caught your breath | in a labored way; | now we’re here | one au-gust day-Oh
An alpha baby | from the start, | another child | with hungry heart
Caught your breath | in a labored way; | so here we stay | one au-gust day-Oh
So here we stay | one au-gust day-Oh; | so here we stay | one au-gust day-Oh


One august day - ReMIx - Michael Delgorio - eMastered

Everyone loves a good story. We've enjoyed telling them in words, pictures and music. 

Please follow MichaeldelAard here and on twitter @MichaeldelAard. We've long been moved by the rough cuts, bootlegs and demos by storied artists both past and present because they show pure emotion, high creativity unfettered by auto-tune and over-production. The elimination of anything that could remotely resemble anything but a perfect track is not part of this stream. This project is more about spontaneity. You'll find perfectly human imperfections and, spare (lean and mean)demo productions throughout. On occasion, though all tracks were recorded ultra-simply on an iPhone's voice memo app, we would pull a track into GarageBand to add a track or sound effects (as in several of the originals, herein)...but all in all these are low-fat productions that reflect our most basic love for music and storytelling. Nothing more than that. Should a track tickle your ear, we'd be most grateful to here about it. Thanks for the opportunity to share with you. Follows, comments and shares are welcome.

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