"Our non profit is World Mission. We are a non denominational Christian organization that provides humanitarian assistance to third World Countries including sponsoring an Orphanage in Haiti among other things. We also contribute to local ministries such as Teen Challenge. The main focus of the ministry at this time is translating the Bible into several thousand languages and dialects to produce Talking Bibles, for our friends around the world who cannot read." If this mission hits home with any of you, please go and bid on this, especially if your name is Tom and you happen to live in Mukilteo (that's the original purchaser to whom I signed it.) OK, here’s a little incentive – if you win the bid on this, let me know and for the cost of postage I’ll send you a new sleeve autographed to you – how’s that? The songs on the EP are: "Bucks" (a rare Haworth original), "Lonely Heart" (a sad but lovely ballad penned by Bill Lamb), "What A Difference A Day Made" (our take on the Dinah Washington classic) and "The Sheik Of Araby". There are several things of interest about this EP. First, the keyboard player for this session was David Lanz, who was at that time doing studio work and playing in piano lounges around Seattle. He is now an internationally known and Grammy-nominated "new-age" musician. http://www.davidlanz.com/ Another of the musicians on the project was Miriam Cutler, who is now scoring films and producing artists in the Los Angeles area. http://www.miriamcutler.com Miriam added clarinet and vocals to a couple of the cuts on this record. When I met her she was in a band called The New Miss Alice Stone Ladies Society Orchestra - one of the wackiest groups I've ever encountered. Their show was a mixture of funky Dixieland and off-kilter originals. The group consisted of six women who performed on clarinet (Miriam), trombone, tuba, violin, keyboards and drums (Jackie Furman). Folk music fans may remember Jackie from Glenn Yarbrough's band during the late 1970's - early 1980's time period. It's a small world after all... Also, on the back side of the record sleeve (which I drew up and hand-lettered) is a cartoon depiction of the act that was drawn by Billy Sandiford. Billy was a very colorful character and multi-media artist who lived on Vashon Island (he's now deceased.) Billy and I did many shows together - I provided music for his baton twirling and spoken word monologues. He's also the subject of my song, "Songs That Never Die" on my "After All These Years" CD. But one thing of special note is that Billy also did the album cover art for Brewer and Shipley's "Tarkio Road" album, which featured their hit song, "One Toke Over The Line." If you go to e-bay look for Item number: 290040602538 or search by seller under Landfriends. Less than a day left - I'd love to see this snapped up to help a worthy cause. Thanks!
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