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Worship Song Book Concert

Recently we played all 12 songs from my Worship Song Book and CD. I don’t know why I had so much trouble playing my trumpet. Perhaps I was nervous because I never perform. I always accompany congregational singing.

My son, Mark sang with us. Brian Reynolds played bass, Randy Mayer and Mark Krey played guitars, George Fosselius, who last minute  stepped in for my son Joshua, played drums, I played the trumpet, and we all sang. Brian insisted we be called the Peter Krey Band and I thank him for putting this 50 minute video on Youtube. Randy plays a song of his own composing at the end.

Worship Song Book and CD’s are available. Should you like one just leave a comment.

I just booked up with soundcloud in order to activate my music once more here in wordpress. I’m planning to put in a trumpet concert that I usually play all alone in my living room. – Here is a sample, I hope it will be one of many songs.

Note that you might have to click on several before you get into my stash of songs lately. Then all the songs will be there.

“Die Gedanken Sind Frei”: “We Have freedom of Thought,” i.e., where there is no freedom of speech, a German folk song.

+ Die Gedanken sind Frei

My father loved to sing this medley. The word “Zug” in German means a train and it means a military deployment. So this military deployment is no express train. My father fought fought in World War I.

+ Tirol, Tirol and Dieser Feldzug

A song about feeling homesick for the land where the North Sea waves wash ashore. My father would sing this one in Plattdeutsch.

+ Friesen Lied

I love songs with a driving beat.

+ Topsy Part 2

+ Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

Some Dixieland:

+ When You’re Smiling

A real romantic song from the musical, Oklahoma. I wish I could make my trumpet sound like a celo.

+ Out of my Dreams

A mellow song I remember from old New York from the fifties. Can you name it?

+ NY Song Can you name it?

I used this song to polish up my playing and to develop new techniques for the rest of my songs:

+ Somewhere over the Rainbow

An old Vaughn Munroe Song: country and Western

+ Ghost Riders in the Sky

This lovely song comes from a play “Peg O’ My Heart” by J. Hartley Manners. Written and performed in 1912, it was so popular that at one time eight theater companies toured America at the same time performing it. By 1918 it was performed 10,233 times around the world.

+ Peg O’ My Heart

Spanish music

+ Cielito Lindo

Here’s the song that Edith Paiv and Satchmo Louey Armstrong made famous.

+ La Vie en Rose

Light classical melodies:

+ Humoresque (my version)

+ Habanera from Carmen

+ Waltz of the Danube Waves or Anniversary Song

+ Coppelia’s Waltz

Some Opera: Puccini

+ Quando me’n vo

A wonderful Spanish Hymn by Cesareo Gabarain

+ You’ve Come Down to the Lakeshore

A happy German hymn by Paul Gerhard for Spring time

+ Geh aus, mein Herz und Suche Freud

we would sing this around our table before my father would say grace.

+ Speise, Vater, Deine Kinder

Another morning song sung before saying grace. I play it in my own style, however.

+ Heartily, dear Lord, We Thank Thee

+ I’ll Be Seeing You