What's the most soothing or calming music you know?

Believe it or not, a song doesn't have to be slow and soft to fit into this category (even though it can be).  The most soothing and calming music I know is what makes me think of a special time in my life, such as...

This one makes me think of hanging out with my friends during my senior year of high school (1970-1971)...


This song reminds me of back when Russell (Russell T. Hartsaw, Founder & Chairman of Invisible Youth Network) and I began to make plans to start an organization that would reach out to homeless and/or otherwise at-risk youth.  This was the stage of development when it was just a back-and-forth telephone conversation between two people and how we could get other people interested in doing this--and the rest is history!!!



Here's another song that reminds me of this special time...


We're having our first Youth Outreach Day this Saturday (want to have the second Saturday of each October from now on to be Youth Outreach Day!), and this song makes me think of this special holiday...


In fact, I've even used it to start the write-up I did about it in my blog.

These songs reminds me of those wonderful Saturday nights watching Your Lucky Strike Hit Parade with my folks and grandpa...





This reminds me of eating at a local hang-out called The Alibi that was located on the corner of 14th and Jackson Streets in Anderson, Indiana (where McDonald's now sits--back when the original McDonald's was catty-cornered from them)...


This song has been done by our church choir on several occasions, and a member of our church, Anita (nee: Reeves) Clore, and her sisters (who went to other churches) did a version of it that really blew me away.  They called themselves The Reeves Sisters, and, when they all got together to sing, it was wonderful to listen to.  They're all getting up in years now, and one of them has passed away--and they never did make a recording of themselves doing the wonderful songs they sang together, so I'm going to share my very favorite by them with another group doing it...


Although I wasn't there to know for sure, I believe that this was one of the songs they sang while gathered around their mother's deathbed, and she asked them to sing her into Heaven.

Anita said that--just before she passed away--she said something on the order of:  "It's just beautiful, girls!  One of these days, you'll join me there!"