It is hard to believe that 12 years from the time I brought those records home, I have a professionally produced CD -- Songs From Grandmother's House and a children's book -- I Can't See, But...I Can Imagine. It truly has been a 'God Thing'. It is though God and my grandmother said, "It is time to do something with this music. Pat's going to do it. We'll make sure she has everything and everyone she needs to get the job done."In the beginning I couldn't understand the words on the records! I worked an entire year from a tape we made from the original music just trying to understand the words. Truthfully, I don't know why I just didn't give up! One day my cousin, Rodney Sayles from Vermont, called me. His mother was Beulah Sayles, the pianist on the original records. He said, Patty you're going to flip! I found the music! He send me a huge packet full of music! Over 90% of it was there! Beulah had done it! She wrote it down! We had no idea!
From then on, everyone I needed to produce the music just 'showed up' in my life. There have been so many incredible 'coincidences'! Obviously, God has been orchestrating this entire project.
All of the 14 songs on the CD Songs From Grandmother's House are wonderful, but I began to especially notice the 5 children's songs on that CD. I was working with the local songwriter's association at the time and I kept hearing, "The children's songs are wonderful, but there's not much of a market for children's music." I said, "You are wrong! Kids need music, and they don't need what they are getting!" That is when I said to myself, "I have always loved to write. What if I wrote a book? What if I wrapped the book around my grandmother's children's songs? What if I included a CD with the book that went word for word through the story and music! What a package for the kids!" So that is what I did. My book I Can't See, But...I Can Imagine came out December 2003.
To be continued...
