DAVID HABBIN - MORNING SONG piano and vocal

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• Description : MORNING SONG - THE NEW VERSION - ...(more)PIANO AND VOCAL While recently visiting Los Angeles, Robin Lerner, who wrote the lyrics to MORNING SONG, asked if I would do another video of MORNING SONG, just vocal and piano. I was truly flattered that Robin asked, and to have. Ken Hirsch accompanying me on piano. I hope you enjoy this version of MORNING SONG as well. It is just a simple video using my SONY camera, but this was a true pleasure for me, because of the simplicity and pureness of singing it live, in this intimate setting. I am humbled by Robin not only by her talent and brilliant lyrics, but for her hospitality . . .and to Ken for his beautiful arrangement of the song, for piano. Many thanks to the over 26,600 + plays on MySpace and the 23,000 + views on YouTube of the original version of MORNING SONG and to all of you, not only for your wonderful support of my music, but truly, for the heartfelt comments, responses and personal stories that you have all been sharing with us on what MORNING SONG has meant to you, we want you to know that you have touched and honoured us all. AN HOMAGE TO THE PEOPLE OF VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA Bev, who runs my fan pages for me, lives in Victoria, Australia. Because of the following note that Bev wrote to me: David- this version is so bittersweet. An exquisite arrangement of a poignant song. To be hearing this - when my state of Victoria - and all of Australia is in mourning for the loss of the 188 people who perished and the 2000 + who are homeless from our terrible fires is both comforting and fills me with sorrow- if that's possible. Again- I am moved to tears with your heartfelt gift of song. Love, Bev x With much gratitude, I want to honour and dedicate this to all of those who live in that area and have suffered in the recent tragic bushfires in Victoria, Australia. My thoughts and prayers go out to all the families with hope for strength in this time of healing and recovery. THE STORY BEHIND THE MUSIC of MORNING SONG From the first time I heard MORNING SONG, there was something about it that got to me right away. I wanted to know if there was a story behind the writing of the lyrics, so we asked Robin. Robin told us that when Tommy gave her the music to write the lyrics to, it was around the time that the American girl Natalee Holloway had disappeared in May of 2005 on a graduation trip to Aruba. She said, "It was all over the news. As a mother of a daughter, the words just came from my heart, one mother relating to another mother on the most unconscionable, most horrible of loss, losing your child. A loss that is never meant to happen. The unimaginable emptiness of a parent losing a child, and how do you go on." Even though the haunting and beautiful tune and lyrics of MORNING SONG affected me on an emotional level, when I learned that the inspiration behind the lyric had been the missing girl in Aruba and particularly Robin writing the lyrics from the mother's perspective, I related to the situation on a different personal level. Having myself lost a sister to a rare illness, all be it when I was still an infant, I have been acutely aware of the life changing effect this kind of loss has on a family and that the law of nature perhaps dictates that the loss is most profound for the mother. Currently there is a very raw reminder of the story behind MORNING SONG with the ordeal being experienced by the parents of Madeleine McCann, a three year old British girl that went missing in May of 2007, while on vacation with her parents in Portugal. Sadly, too many parents and family members have to face this kind of loss with children that go missing and are never found, and so many children lost to illness, every year. peace and love to all of you . . . David My other versions of MORNING SONG can be heard on my MYSPACE page http://www.myspace.com/davidhabbin in the music player . In August 2007 we did a video slideshow of my photographs, on YOUTUBE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro-OlySNcVM to that vocal. HOW TO WIN AN AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO PLEASE NOTE: AS PER USUAL, YOU CAN WIN A PERSONALLY DEDICATED SIGNED PHOTO OF DAVID - read on to see how. Every comment that is POSTED will be printed and entered into a random drawing. One person will be chosen to receive an autographed photo. Any comments that are posted, including discussion comments and reply comments to each other, will be entered, regardless of how many times you leave a comment. REMEMBER - IF YOUR NAME IS CHOSEN BECAUSE YOU LEFT A COMMENT, YOU WILL BE SENT AN EMAIL INFORMING YOU OF THIS. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO RECEIVE A PHOTO, JUST LET US KNOW AND WE WILL PICK ANOTHER COMMENT OUT. (less)