Today’s Carolaoke track was quite a ride on the magic nostalgia carpet ride. I’ve expressed before that I’ve had a great fondness for Canada and its people for many and various reasons so today we will visit Songstress Sarah McLachlan. The person who introduced me to her music was Mr. Lance Dobersek of Sweet Jelly. In 1997, we were working at Karen Johnson Productions Animation Studio in Racine, WI. We were assigned to make animations and games for this brand new thing called “The Internet”. The word, the concept, the logistics, ALL completely foreign in my world. The closest I had come to a computer prior to that was breaking down sound files in Adobe Premiere and chart it all (on paper) for the animators to use. The phone hanging on my parent’s wall was about as high tech as I was at the time. I personally did everything on film and paper.

I’m not exactly sure why Lance and I were were “chosen” for this new uncharted territory in 1997, but we were, and it was a super crazy time in retrospect and even crazier thinking about all of that in modern present times. So, we’d work these long assed hours sitting in front of that screen. I was making animations and Lance was making it all happen on this here “internet”. Since we worked a million hours together, there’s a lot of time to pass while you’re working and staring at a screen for days and weeks on end, so we started sharing new music to pass some of the time. I told him about my weird fascination with Canadian musicians and the next day he brought in Sarah McLachlan’s CD in for me to listen to and the rest is history.

Please enjoy my scratch track karaoke version of Sarah McLachlan’s “Sweet Surrender”.