About 1976 I spent four or five months singing in US Army officers clubs and enlisted clubs in Germany while teaching in a Defense Dept. junior high school for dependents of military and civilian people assigned to Germany, and moonlighting for the Univ. of Maryland teaching English Composition and Public Speaking to soliders and civilians at Army Education Centers. I sang a lot of Kris Kristofferson, John Denver, Hank Williams (Sr.), Pete Seeger, Dylan, and other people's songs, but I was very happy to add my own songs to the mix. They were popular with the audiences, but I eventually stopped the gigs because my wife and I had a new baby to deal with, and my schedule was pretty full with teaching as well.
I continued being active in Catholic chapel music in Schweinfurt, then in Heidelberg, and again in Schweinfurt. Again, I led the people in familiar hymns and in my own compositions. My friends and the chaplains really liked by work, but I didn't publish any of it, and in those days there was no YouTube.
Here is a song I sang back then. I hope you like it. You can watch the video at
http://that-hands-on-music-guy.com, click here
COCKLESHELLS AND ME-(c) 2009 James P. Louviere
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