this is about having a crush on a movie or tv star. like when you are a tween.

Upside Down

another song for the same tween group i produced.

Come On Come On

this was for a tween girls group i produced. i wrote and arranged this.

Get Up

A journey of hearts responding to the gentle yet powerful call of LOVE... I wrote it about a love which transcends time and space. and while never having experienced it in a person, when i wrote it, i knew it was about someone... 

and i hoped one day i'd meet them. the 4 parts tell a story of innocence, wonder, curiosity, hope, belief, tenderness, vulnerability, risk, healing, and the soul finding a place it could rest in another. 

the real recording would contain these parts repeating and building and there are other parts but i just recorded these for use for a special book on tape from a holocaust survivor.

Love Divine (part one)

The sound of LOVE beating our heart... the original had lyrics and appeared on an album, this is a musical version with a beat added and some other variations on the original arrangement. i worked with one of the greatest arrangers in the world on this piece. it was magical.

That Which Beats Our Heart (Instrumental)

this song was in a dream. a singer was singing it an at outdoor concert. i was singing it and a friend in the dream was too.  twinkle lights lit up the outdoor venue, which was a beautiful meadow. i think it was summertime. the setting was beautiful and magical... i was filled with peace, there with my friend, and countless others who were almost invisible, but were all part of the dream.  

when i woke up, i realized i had been dreaming. the song was still fresh in my mind as was the person in the dream i was singing with, i felt moved to record it for some reason, so i grabbed my phone and sang the chorus... "the radio played the song"...

i felt moved to grab ukulele, and hit record, start recording. as i started playing and singing, the entire song came out all at once. the melody and lyrics remain in this recording as they were on that morning.  

this has never happened to me exactly like this. though one time, i dreamt of the same person in my dream in this song, and woke up thinking about them, and a song flowed out all at once, and i captured it again on my phone with my ukulele. i don't recall that song being in the dream like this one, but i do recall the person being the inspiration.  i have yet to record that song. 

in March, 2020, a friend asked if i had wanted to contribute  a song for a COVID benefit album he was putting together called "artists under quarantine." i said yes, it was to benefit a nurses org and can be found on amazon and itunes.

i decided to do record this one since it was the latest song i had written. 

hope you enjoy my contribution. it is special to me for a few reasons. one is that it was in a dream... and i don't really feel like i wrote it... another is because of the person in the dream and the hard to put into words experience of dreaming a song, then it coming out as if you had something to do with it.

Carla White