My Brother is a Songwriter!!

My brother the lawyer is now a songwriter too and though this may surprise many people, those of us who really know him do not find it odd at all. Our house afforded us incredible exposure to so many different types of music and as young children we even dabbled in the Ed Sullivan wannabe stereotypical routines trying to prove that we could do it all, we could not only sing (my big brother had a terrific voice) but boy could we dance and emote.. (definitely me) including singing in Spanish as we danced the Cha Cha under our father's expert tutelage. We knew all the songs on the Reader's Digest quadruple LP (that cost us 4 months of saved up allowance) Deluxe Big Band Platinum Edition which we claimed was an anniversary gift to our parents but which actually seemed to belong to us as we'd race to the "music" room any chance we had to hone our dance skills on the awesome marble floor, of course only when our parents didn't beat us to it! We sang and danced our way through the years and along the way actually offered our babysitting services to Mom and Dad in exchange for having the dance floor to ourselves: "W'ell watch the "Little Ones" (a.k.a. our younger sis and bro) you guys go out for a loooong dinner." So it isn't surprising to find my brother returning to his musical roots. I remember when he would serenade his girlfriends down by the lake as he strummed his guitar; by then his voice had changed so I am pleased he has chosen to become a songwriter and not a singer.