From A Caring Community Christmas Vol. 1 featuring Jane Harmon (vocal), Jeff Harmon (bass), Pat Moore (drums), and Red Wick (piano)

A Caring Community Christmas

The Man With the Bag

From the Roster McCabe The Rhythm/the Elements 2007 release.  One of the best bands to ever grace out local stages

the Rhythm/theElements

Night Phoenix

A Caring Community Christmas was a fundraiser produced for United Caring Services (https://www.unitedcaringservices.org) in Evansville, IN.  It featured local artist of note performing holiday music to help support the work of the organization.  This tune was originally done by Mariah Carey in 1994.  It features Carl Rodenburg.

06-  Jesus What A Wonderful Child - Carl Rodenberg

A Caring Community Christmas was a fundraiser produced for United Caring Services (www.unitedcaringservices.org) in Evansville, IN. It featured local artists of note performing holiday music to help support the work of the organization.  (Everybody's Waitin' for) The Man with the Bag is a Christmas song written in 1950 by Irving Taylor, Dudley Brooks, and Hal Stanley.  The song was originally made popular by Kay Starr and regularly appeared on Billboard's list of most popular Christmas songs in the early 1950s.  Jeff Harmon jazz featured several fine musicians that are no longer with us.  Jeff Harmon played the bass and does a great turn with this song.  Phillip "Red" Wick was the keyboardist and was always a favorite whenever, and wherever, he performed.  Both have since gone on to 'the great bandstand in the sky.'  Pat Moore is on drums and Jane Harmon does the vocals.

A Caring Community Christmas was a fundraiser produced for United Caring Services (www.unitedcaringservices.org) in Evansville, IN. It featured local artists of note performing holiday music to help support the work of the organization.  'Christmas Time is Here' is a popular Christmas standard written by Lee Mendelson and Vince Guaraldi for the 1965 television special A Charlie Brown Christmas, one of the first animated Christmas specials produced for network television in the United States.  After Hour Jazz created a fabulous version for this fundraiser.  On this tune, Michael Gray is on bass, Matt Kincaid on guitar, Greg Martin on percussion and vibes, and Cary Grey is on vocals.

Christmas Time is Here

A Caring Community Christmas was a fundraiser produced for United Caring Services (www.unitedcaringservices.org) in Evansville, IN. It featured local artists of note performing holiday music to help support the work of the organization.  'Silver Bells' is a popular Christmas song composed by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans.  "Silver Bells" started out as "Tinkle Bells." Songwriter Ray Evans said: "We never thought that tinkle had a double meaning until Jay went home and his first wife said, 'Are you out of your mind? Do you know what the word tinkle is?'" The word is slang for urination. This song's inspiration is the source of conflicting reports. Several periodicals and interviews cite writer Jay Livingston stating that the song's inspiration came from the bells used by sidewalk Santa Clauses and Salvation Army solicitors on New York City street corners. However, in a later interview, co-writer Ray Evans said that the song was inspired by a bell that sat on an office desk that he shared with Livingston.  This version was created by JR and Danny Schembre for a Holiday House concert.  The House Concert Series (2007-2015) was produced from the living room(s) of Harry and Linda  George.  It features JR on the vocals and Danny doing a great turn on the flute.

10-  Silver Bells - JR & Danny Schembre

A Caring Community Christmas was a fundraiser produced for United Caring Services (www.unitedcaringservices.org) in Evansville, IN. It featured local artists of note performing holiday music to help support the work of the organization.   'Carol of the Bells' s a popular Christmas carol, with music by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych (1914) and lyrics by Peter J. Wilhousky. The song is based on the Ukrainian folk chant "Shchedryk".    The jazz version of this timeless classic is done by Bob Green, with percussion and drum input from Danny Erkman, Sr.  Bob did all the instruments in a jazz version of this timeless classic.  This was the opening selection from "A Caring Community Christmas Vol. II."  Bob was also the recording engineer and savant for both "A Caring Community Christmas Christmas Vol. i & II."

Paul Richard Mattingly