Volume 5 - Rockin' the Big TIme

Once Volumes 3 and 4 were completed and saved on cassette tapes, I decided to purchase a new keyboard machine that would enable me to save my songs on something other than tape. I was still very much a man of the twentieth century, but I was keen to the new digital age and saving my work digitally was the way to go.

This was twenty years ago, as the 21st century had just begun, (the reason I named volume 2 Rockin' the Millennium) and new technology was coming out just as fast as my new songs. So I purchased the latest Yamaha electronic keyboard which enabled me to save my new work on a floppy disc. As I had indicated on an earlier post, those songs have remained on the floppy disc ever since.

But starting with Volume 5, my songs were now digital, and reworking them was far easier than if they were on tape. But that didn't stop original tunes from being created. And so I just kept on going. Several of these songs I am particularly proud of. Evolution is a great song, and I look forward to it every time I play this album. The first song, It Was You, is, of course, about my wife, when we first met. The Playlist is as follows:

It Was You
Evolution
Angel Face
Hiding
This Time
Helping Out
My Life
I know
The Street
Last Word

Unlike Volumes 3 and 4, which I named after individual songs on the albums, I went back to my method of naming Volume 2 and just came up with a name completely unrelated to the songs. I felt that the songs were Big Time and thus the name. Rockin' the Big Time. And depicting the Empire State Building in a view looking up seemed an apt image for the cover.

To me, at least, it's another successful playlist of songs that I can enjoy any time. And unlike Volume 4, none of the songs were too difficult for me to sing. The song My Life kind of was, but not so hard as Crystal Ball on Volume 4. So I won't have to redo any of these, like I will have to do on Volumes 2 and 4. Hopefully I'll be a better singer by then, but I won't count on it.