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Dear Noel,
In 1991-92, when I was 10, a Hugworks cassette called “Friends of the Family” played over and over in my mom's Toyota Previa, with my baby brother in his car seat. I could sing nearly every song, and I still can. This week I found the same songs on YouTube as Best I Can Be and heard them for the first time in 35 years. "All It Takes Is a Friend" came back to me completely, and on "Good Night" I still knew exactly where each voice comes in.
As a middle aged adult now I recognized your voice in most of those songs, the same voice from "Puff" in my preschool classroom, my mom's Ten Years Together record, and "Early Mornin' Rain" on my folk playlist today. You were with me at almost every stage of childhood before I knew your name. Also I saw Peter Paul & Mary at Kresge Auditorium as an Interlochen Arts Camp camper in the 1990s.
I planned to see you at the Kate in Old Saybrook on September 11 and missed it. I hope to catch you next time.
I've always wondered: what was it like recording those children's songs with Jim Newton?
Thank you for all of it.
Eric, West Hartford, CT
