December, being the final month of 2009 reminds me of the words of a much wiser man than me who said: "all good things must come to an end…". Hopefully, 2009 has been a good year for you and all those that you hold dear, also - as the year draws to an end - I hope that you have managed to achieve the targets that you set for yourself and that some of those will have brought an improvement to Square Dancing in your area, in which case - keep up the good work!

Notwithstanding your experiences and achievements in 2009, whatever they may have been, I sincerely hope that 2010 will be even more bountiful and - on behalf of the staff at Sting and Snow Records - I wish you a happy holiday season and a great new year.

Unfortunately, I have no news of any new music production. I am still "investigating" options and hope to find a way to continue but I have to accept that we may be going the way of 2009, as mentioned in my first sentence of this month's News-Letter - it could be that this "good thing" is "coming to an end".

Over the next few months I will be faced with many difficult decisions that I can no longer avoid. With no new music being recorded, there seems little point in sending out regular News-Letters and the future of the web-site has to be "under consideration" as it is quite expensive to keep it going along the lines that we currently offer.

However, for the short term, you can expect to continue to receive my monthly messages.

As you may recall, in one of my earlier News-Letters, I stated that no record company ever announces that it is "going out of business" but there does come a point where even the most active will start to "fade away" as a consequence of inactivity. Our products will still continue to be available and we shall continue to sell from our library of tunes for as long as we can cover the costs associated with distribution.

Who knows what might be "around the corner"? Perhaps the market will rise to the point where new music can be produced. It is the Christmas season and that's a time for hopes to flourish. As soon as I know for sure what is happening, I will let you know through this News-Letter.

Here is the "other news" for December:

BEST SELLER LISTING (positions on the October 2009 listing)
No.1 - Swinging On A Star - SIR 380
No.3 - Daddy Sang Bass - SIR 383

NEW RELEASES (December 2009):
Busy Doing Nothing - SIR 382 - Vocal by Paul Bristow
Horn-Swoggled / Scall-a-Wag - SIR 524 - Double Instrumental Patter

NEW CD RELEASES - also available on MP3 & Vinyl (in most cases) / (November 2009):
How Much I Love You - SNW 901 - Vocal by Wil Stans
We've Got A Good Thing Going - SIR 207 - Vocal by Ingvar Pettersson
How Do You Do It? - SIR 328 - Vocal by Paul Bristow

INDIVIDUAL RECORD HISTORIES including ALL THE ADDITIONAL LYRICS:
To find these, just click on the book symbol next to the title on the Catalogue, Future Releases or Latest Releases pages, this month's record history features our newest singing call release: Busy Doing Nothing.

If you want to hear how these top-selling recordings sound, just click on the musical note symbol.

Go Squareful! - Paul Bristow (Owner and Producer Sting and Snow Records)