Words And Music From My Point of View
Around the age of eight, Mel Mapp heard his grandmother singing beautiful songs as she went about her daily chores. She sang many beautiful melodies such as Patti Page's The Tennessee Waltz, Doris Day's Que Sera Sera, and Dean Martin's That's a More. It was due in part to his grandmother's calming singing that he became interested in music He would also hear the shopkeeper on the hill near his home playing songs on his antique cranked up Victrola record player and hearing classical music of Strauss's fam
The magical thrust of writing lyrics then putting those words to music is a quiet high. Getting up in the middle of the night or early morning with a song idea can be daunting red eyes and all. But having a note pad and recorder pays off. Many times, I have awoken in the morning forgetting the song idea I had in mind. That all said, I have never been to a classical music concert I did not like. But I have always wondered if the members of a symphony orchestra gets the same soothing high that the patron ge