Merry Christmas from NJN Network with our version of the Elvis Presley classic song
We’ve been working on our Christmas present to you for over two weeks. Now it’s ready for you to listen and enjoy.
The band mates who performed on the song are Denis Larocque (guitar), Ronnie “Bunnie” MacLean (drums), and Tom LeClair (bass) and myself (guitar, vocals). Full credits and special thanks are covered after the page break.
You can share the song with this link. You can also download it for free by clicking on the download button on the Reverbnation site.
Many people are more than blue at Christmas. We’re encouraging a voluntary donation to the Schizophrenia Society of PEI, P.O. Box 25020,Charlottetown P.E.I. C1A 9N.
Or you can donate online in Canada or the United States. Any proceeds from sales of the song will be donated to either group depending on their origin.
As a matching donation, NJN Network is donating $0.10 for each time you listen to the song.
We had a good time recording this song and hope everyone has a Merry Christmas.
Blue Christmas Diary
We recorded some of the fun and not-so-fun things that happened in a series called Blue Christmas Diaries. There is a video the works as well for next week.
Blue Christmas diary
Blue Christmas diary Thursday struggle in the studio
The chorus sang in my Blue Christmas diary
Blood on the tracks Blue Christmas diary
Crash and burn on the tracks Blue Christmas diary
Final tracks in Blue Christmas diary
Mixing down Blue Christmas
There are two or three more stories in the series to come.
Credits and special thanks
If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a lot of people to make one song.
Song credits – Stephen Pate (vocals guitar), Denis Larocque (guitar), Ronnie “Bunnie” MacLean (drums), Tom LeClair (bass)
Recorded in Katzass Studio, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada by recording engineer Edith Larkin. Mixing by Stephen Pate. Mastering by Darren Gallop, Marcato Digital Solutions, Sydney, NS, Canada.
Cover Art – Avolve Technology, Charlottetown
Words and music copyright Jay Johnson and Bill Hayes, Clearance by songclearance.com (Limelight) Copyright 2010 Rambling Boy Music Ltd.
Special thanks to all those who helped: Elvis for making Blue Christmas a favourite, Chris Ogg, Diane Ogg, Nicholas Richard, Devin Casario, Wayne MacKinnon, Debbie
Kennedy, Debbie Proud, Paula Buote, Karen Langevin, Natalie Jigs MacDonald, Jena Livingston, Hannah MacDonald, and Wayne Larkin.
Thanks to our web partners, CDBaby for listing the song, Reverbnation for hosting, MySpace, WordPress, AVLA, Cakewalk, and Limelight.
We had a good time and hope everyone has a Merry Christmas.
jack hobbs
Very impressive—would like to have heard less background and more voice volume—other than that ,a real professional effort all around —congrats to all involved
Stephen Pate
Thanks, will remember that for the next time. Cheers.
Dale macNevin
Excellent job Stephen. The vocals were very very good but a little weak in the mix.. Instrumental aspects very appropriate and well done. Looking forward to What’s Next?
Stephen Pate
Thanks for the comments. There is another comment about vocals placement. They could be more forward and were in the next to last mastering. Appreciate the comments and will strive to improve the next one.
I’ve written about 30 songs, only a few have been recorded. I’ve played them in clubs and my Victoria Row gig in the summer. About 10 of them seem to be percolating to the top. It’s the winter project to record and release one a month.
The guys I play with are keen to get going. Blue Christmas was a “get-off-the-chair-and-do-something” start.
Merry Christmas and thanks again for sharing your thoughts.