I'm happy to announce that I have put four videos of me singing my own songs, and three of them have five stars (highest viewer rating) and the other has four and a half stars, or almost perfect, and I have people writing in things like "Lovely, very lovely," "great song," and so on.

To see my songs and hear them at YouTube, go here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_NJFv74ffI Ballad of Sam Bede
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt-0bwRnW1M&feature=channel_page The Sugar Palm Tree
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-qXgR0Pr8&feature=channel You Came!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqgkn-l6fjo&feature=channel The Sam Bede Blues

I've uploaded the most popular of the four, The Ballad of Sam Bede. Press the video "arrow" and listen. Then please write your comments about it. I need to know how people react to what I do so I can keep doing better. Thanks for tuning in!
"Cajun Pete" Known on YouTube as DrHanzonScience. You can check out my website at
http://that-hands-on-music-guy.com. It has videos and a "Contact Us" form for sending comments.
Visit often and look for more new videos.




Note: I wrote this song around 1976. It's about a young man's letter to his mother as he is dying in Vietnam. As one commentator said, its very touching, but at the same time has the ambiguity that is typical of every social issue. I personally consider war one of the "four horsemen" - evil but sometimes unavoidable, but I support the military people very strongly however I can. My dad was a Sergeant in the French-speaking cavalry unit from Jennings, Louisiana, and served honorably on the post-office staff at US Headquarters under General Pershing and Maj. Douglas McArthur. My brother was killed in action on Iwo Jima shortly after the raising of the Flag that has become the Marine Corps icon. He wrote home about it, and it happened to be my 8th birthday. The Western Union man delivered the telegram to my mother informing her that my brother had been killed in action. The letter came later. That's kind of how the song surfaced from my subconscious mind, I guess. At the time I wrote it, I was teaching at Schweinfurt American School in Germany, as a civilian working in the American military community, which was part of the 3rd Infantry Division. Later I was an administrator in Katterbach, Germany, at Ansbach High School, in the Headquarters of the 1st Armored Division. These two division led the attack into Iraq in Dessert Storm and the current Iraq war. They are two of American's finest military units, as they proved by their rapid and successful invasions of Iraq on two occasions. Once they had done the initial work, some of the subsequent developments have been disappointing, but that's another story. It's enough for me to urge all good people to offer their moral and physical support to the warriors, while hoping and praying for some form of "peace" to arrive quickly.

songwriter-songwriter: Day One

Hello Visitor!
I'm so glad you dropped by. I'm just getting out of the closet- in the sense that I've been writing songs for historical re-enactments of Cajun history, an anthem for Assumption University in Bangkok, Christmas chorales for the US Army Chapels Heidelberg and Schweinfurt, Germany, and a music for a Passion Play, a middle school operetta, a middle school version of Renard the Fox, a score for New York University's Educational Theater, a piece for the NOW feminists show in New York (1971), music for the Greer Garson Theater at the College of Santa Fe, and I even wrote a musical commercial for my own music business in my Louisiana hometown, but I've never published anything on the web, or done any music for film or TV. I'm 72, retired, and I'm looking for something I can do without too much physical exertion, since I have a hard time getting around and can't get by without a cane. I'm also very hard of hearing, so I can't function very well in a classroom any more after a fifty year career in education. Very little gives me more pleasure than writing nice songs and publishing them and hearing people sing them and react to them very emotionally, so I guess it's time I turn away from science teaching and academic editing and newspaper writing and settle into yet another dream job, writing and performing music. So here goes! You can look for my Ballad of Sam Bede and my Sam Bede Blues on YouTube right now - they have gotten some attention and at least one five-star rating, and I've just started 4 days ago. I sent up one more song today, and still have several more to record on video. I work alone, so it's a bit of a slow process, but not as slow as building a Boeing jetliner, right?
To get to Sam Bede,etc., go to YouTube and look for DrHanzonScience, a name left over from my science days. You can even find the YouTube file on my science site,
http://getyourhandsonscience.com (the link is on the link about music, but about half way down, beneath the lyrics. I also have a music website, http://that-hands-on-music-guy.com, where you'll find me again. Please visit my links and be sure to comment and rate me. Anybody that wants to be really good needs feedback!