November - the ninth month of the old Roman calendar but number eleven in our modern day count - strange how these type of things change… Curiously, in my quixotic quest for quite interesting trivia, I uncovered another anomaly; did you know that, until 19BC, the Romans had eight days in a week? Their eighth day was named Nundinae, which means "market day" and was placed at the end of the seven days that we now have. This eighth day was there to allow maximum trade as there were no restrictions of any kind as to what you could do, sell, buy or where you could carry out transactions; there were restrictions on the other seven days.

Perhaps that's what we need to sell more music: an "unrestricted trading day" once a week? I wonder if, possibly, that was what the Beatles were trying to encourage in their song about eight days a week...?

There's not really much else to tell you this month; I am still trying to set-up a new recording session for 2010 and will let you know, through this News-Letter as soon as we know for certain, either way.

However, one thing that does occur to me is that there has never been a better time to sign up to the Sting and Snow Standing Order Offer! If you do sign up you will still get the twelve free records and will enjoy a one-dollar per title reduction on all new releases (available on Vinyl, CD and MP3 purchases) but - as we will not be able to release two records per month until we have some new music to release - the cost to you for the first twelve months (the period that you are obliged to buy all of our new releases) will be substantially lower than at any other time. Just a thought…

For more information about the Sting and Snow Standing Order Offer click on the rolling picture that appears on the home page.

Here is the "other news" for November:

BEST SELLER LISTING (positions on the September 2009 listing)
No.5 - A Wonderful Time Up There - SIR 384
No.10 - I Can Sing A Rainbow - SIR 379

NEW RELEASES (November 2009):
Everything -SIR 610 - Vocal by Jack Borgström
Hearing It In French -SNW 905 - Vocal by Wil Stans

NEW CD RELEASES - also available on MP3 & Vinyl (in most cases) / (October 2009):
Hey Baby - SIR 601 - Vocal by Jack Borgström
Mama Mia, I Love You - SNW 1001 - Vocal by Tommy P Larsen

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 ur newest singing call releases: Everything and Hearing It In French.

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

Well looks as though I need to start up a campaign to re-instate Nundinae - in the hope that it might encourage a few more new music sales! Catch up with you all again, on next month's News-Letter!

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