March is upon us, which is probably great news - unless you are Julius Caesar, in which case "beware the ides…"! March (here in the U.K.) is traditionally a month of "blustery winds" that will sweep away a lot of the old dross and make way for the new crops and flowers that will soon bud, blossom and bloom as the season of Spring begins. New growth, new life, new ideas - that sounds like what we need, in Square Dancing!

Robert Burns (25 January 1759 - 21 July 1796; also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son) famously wrote, in his poem "To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough" the following words :- "The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'men Gang aft agley", which means that - no matter how hard you try to plan for every eventuality, there's still a chance that your plans won't work - and I am going to use that as the reason for some major changes in the Sting and Snow Records release schedule that have occurred, this month!

Any of you who - carefully - follow the future releases page on this web-site, will be wondering what happened. However, out of deference to those of you who are not too interested in "tales of woe", I will not provide a detailed explanation - I shall just quote Robert Burns (as I have above) and ask that you "bear with me". The revised release schedule is the "best guess" that I can make as to when the tunes will be ready for release and thus when they might become available; I shall do my best to stick with this plan - but would ask for your understanding, if further revisions need to be made...

So - on the basis of the revised schedule - here is the "other news":

BEST SELLER LISTING (positions on the January 2008 listing)
No.3 - All Right Now - SIR 714
No.8 - It's A Real Good Feeling - SNW 1007

NEW RELEASES (March 2009) - this is the "revised" bit:
Valerie - SIR 907 - Vocal by Neil Whiston
Cup Of Tea / Piece Of Cake - SIR 523 - Patter

NEW CD RELEASES - also available on MP3 & Vinyl (in most cases) / (March 2009):
If The Juke-Box Took Teardrops - SIR 1101 - Vocal by Anders Blom
A Girl Like You - SNW 701 - Vocal by Maarten Weijers
Home On The Range - SIR 312 - 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: Valerie and Cup Of Tea / Piece Of Cake.

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

Okay, I am going to return to my Robert Burns books now and see if I can find some more suitable poetic (or prosaic) quotations that might help explain whatever may happen during the next month!

Notwithstanding that, I am looking forward to "Speaking" with you all again, on next month's News-Letter!

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