I wanted to get this in earlier than most to give everyone time to plan. This is going to be a fun, fun, fun event so you won't want to miss it. Anyone wanting to car pool there just leave a comment on this blog and we'll do our best to hook you up.
Orting Pumpkin Fest Features:
Food & beverage booths with pumpkin specialties
Art and Craft vendors
Live entertainment (Bluegrass, Country & Kids)
Antique tractor show
Little Pumpkin Pals Parade, Sat. 10:30 AM
(For kids in costume age 2 to 12)
Carved Pumpkin Contest & Glow (Pumpkins lit at dusk)
Fun Run, Saturday morning 8:00 to 10:00 AM
Beer Garden featuring pumpkin beer
Pumpkin Pyramid & Agriculture Display
Car show and more!
Bring Your Appetite!
The Orting Pumpkin Fest is primarily a food festival featuring items on the menu with pumpkin as a main ingredient. A few examples are: pumpkin sloppy joe burgers and chili dogs, pumpkin milkshakes, pumpkin pie, brownies and cider, pumpkin spice cotton candy, pumpkin fudge, pumpkin smoothies, caramel apples, elephant ears with pumpkin butter, pumpkin pizza, pumpkin ice cream, pumpkin cheese cake, cream cheese pumpkin rolls, kettle corn, and more. Other good food will also be available too.
It is not all going to pumpkin flavored. Along with the great food is free entertainment on the Gazebo Stage and the Car Show Stage. A pumpkin pyramid will be located in the North Park, next to the car show. Third Annual Pumpkin Glow!
Adults and kids can enter carved pumpkins for judging. A $3 entry donation is a fundraiser to support the event.
Bring your pumpkins to the City Park Gazebo by noon on Oct. 9th. People's Choice voting for prizes to the winning contestants. All pumpkins will be lit simultaneously at dusk on Saturday! Come and enjoy this impressive photo opportunity. (The above was taken from the Orting Pumpkin Fest web site please visit their website for more details)
Join me, Jerry Corelli, at the Worthy Music Ministries' Family Stage at the Gazebo, for the Annual Orting Pumpkin Fest. Music starts at 10am and runs all day until 6pm. There will be the Orting High School Choir, Saint Asylum, Foxley, Cantate Home School Choir, Swing Low, Tiger and Sydney Paulsen, Dylan and Dulcinea Hatch, the Lake Washington Singers, Jet Cities Chorus and Chasing Jane. Now that's on Saturday the 9th. I'll also be on stage Sunday too.
Sunday's line up will be Shanta Louise Band, Toyin Adekale, Chuck Worthy, Tiger and Sydeny Paulsen, Nate Pitocco, Craig and Emily Swanby and myself Jerry Corelli.
The Worthy Music Ministries' Family Stage at the Gazebo is the Green Octagon located on the left hand side of the map above.
Yes, that's a pumpkin. It was carved outside the Education Building at the Puyallup Fair. Friday evening I joined Chuck Worthy, Eva Sabiniano and Lyte House on the Education Stage at the Puyallup Fair.
Photo by Linda Worthy
Lyte House was up first to give and deliver his message Face to Face. Face to Face is a powerful song and more than well written about Christ's sacrifice on the Cross. The song convicts you and makes you think twice about God's Love. I know that to be true first hand because a vendor at the other end of the hall came down to complain to me about how loud the music was. I turned the system down a bit but I don't really think it was too loud. I think she didn't want to hear that she is, as we all are, sinful and need Christ in our lives. I've seen her look over the years from many people and it was Lyte House's song that spoke to her heart about Christ's blood on the Cross and his Redeeming power. In addition I noticed his parents attended and that makes my heart glad to see such support from a Christian Rap Artist's family.
Photo by Linda Worthy
Lyte House aka Matt Christensen has a new fan, me.
Photos by Linda Worthy
Next up was yours truly and I had fun. Lately, at more secular venues, I've been starting off with Neil Diamond's "America". I've been told forever that I sound like Neil so by singing "America" it tends to draw passers by who will see my wife taking pictures and say, "Does he know he sounds like Neil Diamond?" By the time I ending my set the Puyallup Valley Community Band members were beginning to enter the stand area because they were up next after the Worthy Music Ministries Showcase. Many of them, that I noticed, were my age or older so it did my heart good that they could hear "I'm Not Dead Yet". I got a lot of thumbs up and smiles from many of them so I felt I ministered to who Christ intended me to minister to that night.
Photo by Linda Worthy
Chuck Worthy was manning the sound board as I sang but he was up next. So it was a privilege to be able to introduce him to the stage. Usually he introduces everyone else but no one introduces him so I'm pleased I could.
Photos by Linda Worthy
Eva Sabiniano closed the evening for the Worthy Music Ministries' Showcase and with time remaining we got to hear a few more songs than she scheduled. My favorite song by Eva is "Jump for Jesus". It's a wonderful fun song that tells the listener if you love Jesus,..jump. Personally, I can't help but jump when I hear the song. Eva is a local Christian artist but she is also International and is performing in Germany, the Bahamas, Hongkong, Philippines and Indonesia. You go girl and tell the world about Jesus.
Photo by Linda Worthy
Worthy Music Ministries' Showcase @ the Tacoma Rescue Mission
Saturday night was the Tacoma Rescue Mission and one of my favorite places to play.
This wallpaper picture tells of a time in Tacoma when times were tough, jobs were few and dignity was hard to come by when all you had was the Tacoma Rescue Mission. But it was there then and it's still there today.
This is the view from the stage before food is served and I wish it didn't have to even one person in it but especially in these times it fills up quick.
The faces change and so does the style of clothing but the need is the same.
Faithful to the cause and mission of bringing Christian music to the Puget Sound area Chuck Worthy once again mans the sound system so G-Write and myself can minister in song. Worthy Music Ministries could choose to book only big events and stages but they don't just book those. They see everyone at the Tacoma Rescue Mission as being just as important and needing to hear the Gospel of Christ as someone buying a ticket.
If I look happy it's because I really am happy to be there.
Next up was the man G-Write himself. I recently watched an old video of him dancing and I must say he had the moves. He still likes to move on stage and is always fun to watch.
It's hard to get a picture of him in focus because he's always moving. I finally got a video of G-Write and my favorite song he does called "I never knew ya". The song talks about him growing up without a father and ties it in with knowing or not knowing God.
I was 22 years old when I walked into a professional recording studio in Denver Colorado, Soundmark, and set up a 3 hour recording spot to record a demo. After we recorded I went back to pick up the mixed songs on cassette and was told by Rich Sanders that they wanted my group to record an album. It was truly a Record Deal and at the time I didn't realize how successful my music career was going. That album led to a Publishing deal and two songs from the album going on a 45-LP record. That led to radio interviews, more concerts and me becoming a BMI songwriter.
I mention that because I recently received a contract in the mail from Tate Music Group. Before Tate it was Incubator Creative Group and before them it was Hollywood Records and Top Hat Records. For example, in the days before the Internet I would receive contracts from so called, Publishing Companies and Record Companies, wanting to publish and or record one or more of my songs. I had been out of the business of music for some years and when I started sending out my demos again I started getting these contracts.
At first I was elated. My heart would pound and I was rejuvenated with the idea that someone out there like my song. It was the late 80's when I got that first contract from Hollywood Records and at first I thought it was a sincere contract. As I started reading it over and thinking about it for a few weeks I then received another contract from Top Hat Records. Back then you couldn't jump on the Internet and check things out you had to call on the phone or physically mail letters and wait. Hollywood Records said they loved my song "Where is your Heart" and said it would be a hit and that they wanted to publish it. The next page they said that it would need to be recorded and that I should send them $750.00 to help cover the expense. Then Top Hat Records sent the same letter on different letter head but their price to record the song was $550.00. The first thing to tip me off about both was I'd never sent either of them my song "Where is your Heart". Then I noticed the mailing address for both was in the same building in Hollywood, Ca.
I remembered clearly that phone call in 1980 when Mr. Bollman called me up and told me he wanted to publish two of my songs, have them pressed on a 45-LP and his is price was $00.00 for doing that. He knew that if the song caught on and the 45's sold he would make money. He wasn't interested in getting money from me as an artist or songwriter. He was interested in making money from my songs. That's how it works, or is suppose to. Here's the song from side "A" called King of Kings.
Then in around 1995 I sent a demo, not a very good one, to a company called Incubator Records. Now the name would certainly suggest they were a Record company. Again, the Internet wasn't an option as a way of checking them out so it had to be by snail mail and phone. The reason the demo wasn't very good was because at the time I didn't have very good recording equipment but mostly because they had solicited me. They got my name from some place and suggested I send them a demo with songs. I sent them a few songs I had recorded but they were NOT very good songs. Sure enough a week later I got that call telling me they loved the songs and wanted to publish them and sign me up as an artist.
The woman on the other end had no idea that seconds after she told me they loved my songs and wanted to record them and me, that I knew I was being pitched. I could tell she was reading a script but I played along. She made it clear they would be publishing my songs for free but that they needed me to pay an ARTIST DEVELOPMENT fee. Not a one time fee mind you but a monthly fee. She continued to congratulate me for making the cut but that I was still in the early stages of the audition. They were, and are today, still very good, by calling the process an audition makes it sound like it wasn't a sales pitch.
Around that time I got info back from the Library of Congress on Incubator Records copyrights and for their publishing companies. Along with info from BMI and ASCAP. At that time I could find nothing. If they were a real Record Company then they would have filed SR copyrights on albums they had released but there were none. Incubator Records has no copyrights on file. Their other label Cheshire Records has 3. Two are from 1989 and another is from 2006. My search on ASCAP for Incubator Music Publishing company led me to Natan Sakany who has 4 titles in the ASCAP database.
Incubator has an artist search on their web site where you can search for an Incubator Artist. However, it's purpose seems to be a way of gathering information for them. You, the one searching, has to know who you're searching for in their so called artist database. There is no list of artists. This tells me that when you search for an artist, any artists name, it gives Incubator information regarding artists that they can try to solicit for their now called Incubator Creative Group.
Now this takes me to Tate Music Group. My ASCAP publishing company was started in 2005 and that puts it at 5 years old and my IPI number with ASCAP is 435038965, Incubator Music Publishing's IPI number is 334109395 which means it was registered before mine and Tate Music Publishing's IPI number is 446339248 which puts it younger than mine. As far as copyrights I looked through the Library of Congress under every variation of Tate Music Group I could find and nothing came up. I'll explain why later.
I was searching the Internet a month ago and came across Tate Music Publishing. Their site has a tab "Submit" so I clicked it and it said that if I wanted to be considered as a Tate Music Group Artist I could submit an mp3 to them. So what the heck I uploaded a song and didn't hear from them. I had forgotten all about them and was working when my wife got a call from an Acquisitions Associate. They said they wanted to sign me as an artist on their label. I got home and she told me and I couldn't remember who they were. They are back east and because I was working I didn't have time to call them during their working hours. Finally I get an email telling me they want to send me a contract. By this time I've done my Internet search and things don't look to good.
Searching under "Tate Music Group" I found over 140,000 hits. As I finally found sites that gave a positive light on Tate I looked at their numbers regarding web hits and they were low. It indicates to me that the vast majority of them were started around the same time. Some artists had 1000 hits, some 800 and others below 300 on sites like Myspace.com. Overall the artists linked to Tate had sites that the rest of us "Indie-Artists" can have for free.
So UPS delivers the contract and I open it already knowing what it's going to say based on my web research. Tate Music Group will produce, market and distribute my work with their investment in resources being equivalent to $35,339.00. Wow, what a deal and all I have to do as an artist is send them a refundable Artist participation investment of $1,985.50. What's the 50 cents for? Now I like numbers so let's do some numbers. If 10 artist send them $1,985.50 that's $19,855.00, if 100 send the money that's $198,550.00 and if 1000 artists per year sent in the $1,985.50 that's $1,985,500.00 a year. Tate has over 485 CD's available for sale in their web store and makes 85% of the sale with the artist making 15%. Not to mention that when I tried playing a wide variety of artists clips they either wouldn't play at all or played so badly I didn't want to keep listening.
So here's my 2 cents regarding Tate Music Group and even Incubator Creative Group. If you have the money to pay them to do what they say they will do, and it's not going to bankrupt you or cause you to not pay bills or get behind on your house or apartment payments then go ahead. If you're just starting out and you have no clue how to get into the music business and market yourself then investing your money into companies like these may help you. Perhaps you don't want to be bothered at all with marketing and can afford to pay someone to do that for you. Maybe you don't mind paying a company that's going to take another large percentage of your album money. I discovered that the reason Tate and Incubator don't have copyrights in the Library of Congress is because they allow the songwriter/artist to take care of that. In other words the artist is responsible for everything except paying these companies to do what they say they will do.
Now, if you ask me, "If I have to file all of my own copyrights under my name, and still get my music published by someone, why don't I do it myself?" If you own the copyright why would you allow someone to take 85% of the money for your song. Why don't I start my own FREE shoutlife, myspace, facebook, and the list goes on, site myself. If I'm going to pay a record label $1,985.50 and then Lord knows how much more to record my CD why not do it myself and then get all the money minus distribution fees. I checked out Tate recording studio on the web and it's as elaborate as any home studio. What they excel at promoting is Tate Music Group.
Creative Artist Management groups, I'll call them, such as the ones I've mentioned would be just fine if they simply came out and said, "Look, for $1,985.50 will do the work of promoting you. We'll teach you how to copyright your songs, guide you in recording your own CD, place you on social networks, etc. But they don't do that. You end up paying them and then paying them more and then do most of the work. If you've got almost $2,000.00 to invest in your music then I can think of 100 other ways to do that and get the same results Tate and other will get. Pay yourself not others. Don't be lazy. Research what you have to do to get where you need to go and start doing it.
There are companies out there who were started by frustrated songwriters/artists who couldn't make a go at their music. They were burned somewhere along the way and realized they could do the same thing except by making it a little bit more legitimate by offering a service. The service they offered is perfect because in the world of the music business nothing is a sure thing. You can blame the failure of the artist, when things don't work out, on the artist's lack of commitment, talent, etc.
If you're a struggling artist remember that there are legitimate companies out there. The legitimate ones simply want to see a track record of your music, your fans, your sales. They will pay you to sign with them. There are legitimate record companies that won't pay you anything to sign but will pick up the tab for everything else, because, their small. That's okay too. They'll do that because they see that you have something to sell that will make them money. They will sign you based on your track record for example. If you are able to book yourself 10 times a month and can show you sell 100 CD's every time you perform then they'll want to talk. Why would they want you to pay them almost $2,000 when in reality that doesn't even cover 10 hours of studio time, which doesn't include producers, engineers, musicians, etc.
I have a brand new CD "I'm Not Dead Yet" that was released in April 2010. Why didn't Tate Music Group say, "We want to sign your CD "I'm Not Dead Yet" to our label. Is it because they don't think it's very good? I doubt that. In fact I'm sure they didn't even listen to it. There's no indication they went to this web site to check me out. To them I'm just another artist who is hoping for a record deal. They didn't want to sign my new CD because they want there $1,985.50 from me so they can record in their studio. Yep they'll record, for 3 days, my album. Wow, what a production that's going to be, NOT!
Well this is the longest blog I've written but I had to vent. I'm tired of so called Christians taking advantage of others in the name of Christ or the ministry. It's okay to pay for a service when trying to advance your music career. But don't pay for something you're not really getting. And just because someone in the music business wants you to pay them for their service that doesn't mean their not legitimate, it means that's what they do for a living.
Islam holds that the Qur’an (Koran) was revealed from Allah to Muhammad orally through the angel Jibrīl (Gabriel) over a period of approximately twenty-three years, beginning in 610 CE, when he was forty, and concluding in 632 CE, the year of his death.
Muslims regard the Qur’an as the main miracle of Muhammad, as proof of his prophethood, and as the culmination of a series of divine messages. These started, according to Islamic belief, with the messages revealed to Adam, regarded in Islam as the first prophet, and continued with the Suhuf Ibrahim (Scrolls of Abraham), the Tawrat (Torah or Pentateuch) of Moses, the Zabur (Tehillim or Book of Psalms) of David, and the Injil (Gospel) of Jesus. Some Muslims claim the Gospel or the New Testament to have been corrupted over time. Others hold the view that the Injil is a lost book, different from the New Testament which was either written by the apostles or people connected to them. According to the Twelver Shia, the original and uncorrupted Injil is contained in al-Jafr (a mystical Shia holy book), which is presently in the keeping of Imam Muhammad al-Mahdi.
The Book of Mormon is the sacred text of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It was first published in March 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr. as The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi. According to Smith's account, and also according to the book's narrative, the Book of Mormon was originally written in otherwise unknown characters referred to as "reformed Egyptian" engraved on golden plates. Smith said that he received these plates in 1827 from an angel named Moroni, whom Smith identified as a resurrected indigenous American who had written and abridged parts of the book over a millennium ago. According to Smith, Moroni had buried the plates in a stone box, along with other ancient artifacts, in a hill near Smith's home in Manchester, New York.
The Bahá'í Faith is a monotheistic religion founded by Bahá'u'lláh in nineteenth-century Persia, emphasizing the spiritual unity of all humankind. There are an estimated five to six million Bahá'ís around the world in more than 200 countries and territories.
In the Bahá'í Faith, religious history is seen to have unfolded through a series of divine messengers, each of whom established a religion that was suited to the needs of the time and the capacity of the people. These messengers have included Abraham, the Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad and others, and most recently the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh. In Bahá'í belief, each consecutive messenger prophesied of messengers to follow, and Bahá'u'lláh's life and teachings fulfilled the end-time promises of previous scriptures. Humanity is understood to be in a process of collective evolution, and the need of the present time is for the gradual establishment of peace, justice and unity on a global scale.
Jehovah's Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity. According to the society, only Jehovah's Witnesses "have any Scriptural hope of surviving the impending end", but that God will ultimately decide who will survive. Those whom God chooses to save—survivors and resurrected individuals—will have the opportunity to live forever in an earthly paradise, ruled by Christ and 144,000 humans raised to heaven. They consider use of the name Jehovah vital for proper worship. They reject Trinitarianism, immortality of the soul, and hellfire, which they consider to be unscriptural doctrines.
The universal Christian Church, teaches and responds to the love of the Triune God: the Father, creator of all that exists; Jesus Christ, the Son, who became human to suffer and die for the sins of all human beings and to rise to life again in the ultimate victory over death and Satan; and the Holy Spirit, who creates faith through God's Word and Sacraments. The three persons of the Trinity are coequal and co-eternal, one God.
Grace alone
God loves the people of the world, even though they are sinful, rebel against Him and do not deserve His love. He sent Jesus, His Son, to love the unlovable and save the ungodly. Faith alone
By His suffering and death as the substitute for all people of all time, Jesus purchased and won forgiveness and eternal life for them. Those who hear this Good News and believe it have the eternal life that it offers. God creates faith in Christ and gives people forgiveness through Him.
Scripture alone The Bible is God's inerrant and infallible Word, in which He reveals His Law and His Gospel of salvation in Jesus Christ. It is the sole rule and norm for Christian doctrine.
I don't believe in the Koran or the Muslim religion, The Book of Morman, the Bahá'í Faith and what Jehovah's Witnesses teach. I believe in one Christian Church which teaches God's Grace and Love for all of us.
Someone claiming to be a Christian pastor in Florida wants to start another Holy War by burning copies of the Koran on September 11th. I personally would ask him, "What would Jesus do?" I personally don't believe Christ would be there or even condone what this man wants to do. Why isn't he burning Playboy magazines, The Book of Mormon, the Watch Tower and the list could go on and on forever. This Florida church could spend the rest of their days burning all the books and magazines that are offensive to God and in doing so where is their witness of Christ's Love for their fellow man.
Part of our commission as Christian's is to love one another. Our commission isn't to incite hatred among people of the world. As Christians we believe the Bible to be God's inerrant and infallible Word and not the Koran, Book of Mormon, the Watch Tower publications or teachings from the Bahai Faith. We can't not force someone to believe in the Bible it must be of their own free will. Will burning the Koran cause someone to say of their own free will, "Yes, Jesus is the way." Or will it cause those who believe in the Koran to feel persecuted for what they believe? Will it incite violence? Did Christ die on the cross for our sins or did he die so we could make statements of hatred that most likely will cause harm and violence to others.
I offer this song, Sons of Men, as a statement that there are fools in the streets acting unwisely and proclaiming there foolish ways to be from God. Their agenda is for themselves and they DO NOT speak for me as a Christian. For the sake of the Gospel of Jesus Christ I DO NOT condone their actions.
Join Worthy Music Ministries at the Puyallup Fair Sept 10th & Sept 17th on the Education Stage in Building #17, the Pavilion, next to the Gold Gate entrance.
September 10 will feature Tiger & Sydney Paulsen,Dylan & Dulcinea Hatch, Alexa Ingraham & Kianna Cooley.
I'm a person who keeps pretty good track of my Internet hits from all my sources on the Internet and I wanted to share some of them with you.
On my ReverbNation site it shows that I'm #1 on the Charts for Christian Music in the Seattle/Tacoma area, out of 53 artists. My states show I have 644 fans, 2563 Song Plays, 68 video plays and 8359 widget hits. If you don't know what a widget is that's okay. Now ReverbNation pays artists for the streaming of the artist's songs on their web site and so far I've racked up a total of $0.24.
Now I started distributing my Cd's through Cdbaby.com in 2006 and currently have 5 Cd's on their site. They distribute those CD's, both physical and mp3's through Amazon.com, iTunes, Rhapsody.com, Napster.com and a whole bunch of others. That comes to roughly 70 mp3's on a whole bunch of web sites out there. In 4 years my grand total of revenue is $140.79. There's a site called Spofity and it's not available in the U.S. They stream my songs and each time they do I get $0.00030000 per stream and it shows up on my account that way. I won't know what I'll get for my Internet radio plays that are on radio stations until,.. maybe the summer of 2011.
I have a very informative book that I wrote called The Songwriter's Guide to Submitting a Demo which is available on LuLu.com and to date my total with them is $23.79.
If you Googled my name "Jerry Corelli" with quotation marks you'll get a little over 11,000 hits and most of them will take you to a real site where my music is at or being played or sampled. I've discovered that daily there are about 3 to 4 searches using "Jerry Corelli", "Jerry Corelli Music" and so on. I've discovered many sites that have been around for awhile that have 5,000 to 10,000 song plays of my songs but I haven't seen any revenue and have discovered that the chances are great I never will. In fact there are programs that allow you to record or download music and video easily without paying for it. So all those hits and streams look great but no one is paying for my copyrighted music. Well, there are a few that are so I shouldn't say no one.
It's a funny thing too. I get a lot of emails from fans who tell me how much they enjoy my music but from what I see few or none of them are downloading or buying any CD's off the Internet. I only have basic tracking data provided by Google which starts in May of 2010 and shows my largest hits are the U.S., then the United Kingdom, Denmark, Canada, South Korea, China, Russia, Germany, Ukraine, Luxembourg, India, and bringing up the rear is Uganda. After totaling up all the hits on every site I have that counts hits like, Myspace, Shoutlife, YouTube and so on the total is close to 100,000 hits. So why isn't anyone downloading mp3's singly or the whole CD and why aren't they buying the physical CD's on the Internet? Is it the economy? Is it that my music isn't worth buying?
Over the years of singing at fairs, churches, coffee houses, etc, I've done very well with selling CD's at gigs. I've come to learn that when it comes to making money with my music it's the live gigs where I'll make any return on the expense of recording and packaging my music through the sale of my CD's. I've had one person after another come up to the CD table to buy a CD or 2 or 3 and ask why they've never heard me on the radio. As I was singing "I Can't Believe I'm Yours" at the Seattle Center I noticed a woman rushing over to our CD table to buy the CD that had that song on it.
Then it hit me, as I looked over the states. The majority of listeners, 80%, who both listen to my music and visit my sites are between 45-65. The fact is that, that age group, doesn't buy on line. Not because they don't want to necessarily but because they don't really know how or understand the whole process. It can sometimes confuse me. I've even gotten emails from fans who want to buy one or more of my CD's and tell me they aren't able to buy them on line. Even though they've gone to CDbaby, iTunes or the other sites. For some reason the process is too complicated. I believe it's a generational thing. It's common to see people 45 and younger walking around with there ipods with music they've downloaded but it's not common to see that with an older generation. For example, I write and record, publish and sell music and I don't have an ipod to listen to mp3's.
In conclusion, I guess the reason for this post was to vent. If anyone out there thinks the majority or minority of independent Christian Artists are making a living from our CD and mp3 sales on the Internet, we're not. At least I'm not. I would like to ask one thing of you if you are following this my web site, or blog, and that is if you could sign up as a follower. You'll see the info on the left side of this page and it's real easy. Also feel free to post comments regarding posts I've made.
I write songs about homelessness, addiction and damnation. I write about the world’s only answer being Jesus Christ and that any other path is, simply put, the wrong one. I write about divorce, marriage and family relationships good and bad. My songs tell Biblical stories and paint images of Christ’s suffering on the cross for our sins and they tell of his Resurrection.
Jerry Corelli's Book for Songwriters
Jerry Corelli Songs - from Corelli's Music Box, BMI Catalog
The Worthy Music Ministries' Family Stage at the Gazebo is the Green Octagon located on the left hand side of the map above.
