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This Earth Day will see the remix’s release,

Please help me!  I wrote this song in 1976. The recording I made got the attention of the record company guy (me at the time), who got my message. I want the message to get out to everyone.  I didn’t perform it because I thought it was an obvious sentiment. I’m now too old to want promote this song live or on social media, ergo I NEED YOUR HELP.

A BRIEF HISTORY:

I was walking through an exhibit of player pianos in 1975 and saw a one-man-band playing “Stars and Stripes Forever” by John Philip Sousa. It was so cool! I recorded it with Glen Kolotkin. I wrote a ditty incorporating a nursery rhyme about being kind to web-footed friends in my duck voice. I was helped by Jon Sargent of Purple Earthquake , who arranged the vocals and Tommy Dunbar, Rubinoos, who added electric guitar in the “Pete” tradition of working with Beserkley band members.

The song was released in 1976 to coincide with the America’s 200th birthday. I never toured, I was not an act.. After the recording paid for itself, I stopped working the song. I felt the premise of the song was so obvious and forgot about it until

IT GOT ERIC DIN’S ATTENTION.

THE SONG GOT ERIC DIN’S (another record company guy) ATTENTION.

Says Din: “We’re excited to get this timely remix out to the streaming services on Earth Day 2022. I was surprised to learn Pete did the “duck” vocals himself, and when I read the lyrics, this suddenly became more than a novelty song for me. It’s an unexpected environmental anthem, and we’re proud to release it on Berkeley Cat Records.

I made the original video with Calvin West, drawings by Trimla Rose, and I posted it on Youtube.

I must have been fooled by the 60s, we are living in the dark ages. I wrote a song for patriotic reasons that was obvious to me,  and I thought to everyone else back in the 70s.  There has been so much denial about our relationship with nature I’ve been shocked.  I have been stupified and numbed by the outright assault on science during the pandemic. Then the light bulb went off” it’s the dark ages” and the 60s was an enlightenment blip. 

My message has been remixed and i’ve even got my “paid fors”in order (I’m donating any earnings from  Mankind), and I  have big business paying for rebalancing nature and mankind. So why hasn’t it been embraced? Why Is the only person who “gets it” was the label guy?

I realize it takes some searching, but the digital breadcrumb trail isn’t that hard to follow. I wrote this song, but I don’t have the energy or the desire to take my message to social media.  I HOPE YOU DO! I’ll just fortify my breadcrumb trail, and hope my message resonates with others.