Last month I told you that the weathermen had warned us to expect Arctic conditions - there was even a real chance of a "White Christmas"! As it turned out, the only "White Christmas" was on our TV - as my wife, Hazel, played the DVD of Bing Crosby's famous film. No sign of snow (at least not here in the London area), aside that is from the boxes of Snow records that sit alongside the boxes of Sting records in our house!

The good news is that we are now "embarking" upon another year and - with all due sincerity - I trust that it will prove to be a great year for Square Dancing and for Square Dancers everywhere; as well as for Callers (of course).

On a more "news-worthy" note, here's an "up-date" on one of our on-going projects:

In March 2007 we started to release, on CD, all the tunes from our back-catalogue that had not been previously released in that format. Since October 2005, every new release on Sting and Snow has been released on CD, as well as in the Vinyl and MP3 formats. However, at that time we were still playing "catch-up" with tunes that had not been released in the MP3 format. In January 2006 we began offering these "catch-up" tunes on both MP3 and on CD - we finally finished the MP3 "catch-up" in February 2007 - but this still left 130 tunes that were not available in CD, which we then started releasing, at the rate of three per month.

As at January 2009 we have released 68 of these 130 titles on CD (leaving 62 to go), so we are about half way through this project. You may like to know that - as a consequence of this - I can confirm that all of our patter tunes are now available in all three formats, so if there's one that you want it will be there to be purchased; just check out the listing at dosado.com to buy a copy!

When we started this CD catch-up project I made the offer to "bring forward" the release of any tune that is not yet available on CD, this offer still stands. So - if there is a tune that is not shown as available on CD, on the dosado.com web-site, that you would like to have - let me know and I will move that title up the list and make it available sooner; I am always more than happy to respond to our customer's wishes!

Now for the other news:

BEST SELLER LISTING (positions on the November 2008 listing)
No.1 - I Could Have Danced All Night - SIR 363
No.3 - Ice / Snow - SNW 513

NEW RELEASES (January 2009):
All Right Now - SIR 714 - Vocal by Thorsten Geppert
It's A Real Good Feeling - SNW 1007 - Vocal by Tommy P Larsen

NEW CD RELEASES - also available on MP3 & Vinyl (in most cases) / (January 2009):
Valley Of Love - SNW 1101 - Vocal by Kenny Reese
Only Sixteen - SIR 106 - Vocal by Stefan Sidholm
With A Little Help From My Friends - SIR 317 - 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 releases: All Right Now and It's A Real Good Feeling.

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

Okay, hoping that 2009 will be the very best of years, I will leave it there. "Speak" with you next month!

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