Persona Music

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Examples of  Persona Recordings playable online are offered as music history, music appreciation, education and demonstrations of Persona Studio's arranging, recording and mastering techniques. All the recordings are completed in house by Stephen Gislason. The music selections and their history are described in the book, Sound of Music.

Gates and Griffin = Bread

Bread was a popular pop group of the early '70s. Keyboardist/vocalist David Gates wrote melodic soft rock singles. In 1968, Gates joined a group with guitarist/vocalist James Griffin and guitarist/vocalist Robb Royer to form Bread. Their second album, On the Waters, was a hit. Gates is credited with composing most of the hit songs. As with many groups we have revisited, Bread disbanded in 1973. They reunited in 1976, releasing Lost Without Your Love but soon went separate ways. At last word, Gates retired to a California ranch and Griffin went to Nashville.

I  really liked several of the most popular Bread songs and choose to create novel arrangements of 

Make It With You
It Don't Matter to Me
Baby I'm-a Want You
Diary
Aubrey
Lost Without Your Love
Guitar Man

Lyrics to Aubrey

And Aubrey was her name,

A not so very ordinary girl or name.

But who's to blame

For a love that wouldn't bloom

For the hearts that never played in tune.

Like a lovely melody that every-one can sing,

Take away the words that rhyme it doesn't mean a thing.

And Au brey was her name.

We triped the light and danced to-ge-ther to the moon,

But where was June.

No it never came around.

If it did it never made a sound,

Maybe I was absent or was listening too fast,

Batching all the words,

But then the meaning going past,

But god I miss the girl, and I'd go a thousand

Times around the world just to be

Closer to her than to me.

And Aubrey was her name,

I never new her, but I loved her just the same,

I loved her name.

Wish that I had found the way

And the reasons that would make her stay.

I have learned to lead a life a-part from all the rest.

If I can't have the one I want,

I'll do with-out the best.

But how I miss  the girl

And I'd go a mil-lion times around the world

Just to say she had been mine for a day.

Diary lyrics

I found her diary underneath a tree.

And started reading about me

The words she's written took me by surprise

You'd never read them in her eyes.

They said that she had found the love she waited for.

Wouldn't you know it, she wouldn't show it.

When she confronted with the writing there,

Simply pretended not to care.

I passed it off as just in keeping with

Her total disconcerting air

And though she tried to hide

The love that she denied,

Wouldn't you know it, she wouldn't show it.

And as I go through my life, I will give to her my wife

All the sweet things that I can find.

I found her diary underneath a tree.

And started reading about me.

The words began stick and tears to flow.

Her meaning now was clear to see.

The love she'd waited for was someone else not me

Wouldn't you know it, she wouldn't show it.

And as I go through my life, I will wish for her his wife

All the sweet things that she can find

All the sweet things they can find

Persona Music Recordings  Our Music Catalogue includes recorded performances by the P2500 Band, Em4U, and the Persona Classical Consort. Music downloads are delivered from our companion website: Persona Digital Online. Music Downloads are albums, packaged as MP3 files in a zip folder. Download  the zip folder and save.  In Windows, click on the folder and choose the extract all option to unzip the files to your hard drive. A new folder containing the MP3 files will be created. The MP3 files will play on all computers, laptops, notebooks, smart phones, iPods,. iPads, CD and DVD players and all portable music players. Some albums contain liner notes or minibooks as PDF files that introduce the music. Some music recordings and Free Music Downloads are offered to illustrate music history, advance music  education and appreciation. The recordings presented online demonstrate Persona Studio's arranging, recording and mastering techniques. All the recordings are completed in house by Stephen Gislason. The music selections and their history are explained in the book, Sound of Music. More About Downloads.

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Our Music Catalogue includes recorded performances by the P2500 Band, Em4U, and the Persona Classical Consort. Music downloads and books are available from our companion website: Persona Digital Online.