Jim Whitehouse
“Hen scratchings,” says my friend Sal. She’s looking at a sheet of music on my beloved wife Marsha’s piano. “I never could make head nor tail of all those marks.”
Marsha slides onto the bench and starts playing the song.
“I don’t know how you can look at all those little marks and make any sense of it at all,” says Sal.
“The same could be said of reading Chinese or Arabic,” I say. “It’s just something you learn.”
“My mom made me take piano lessons for two weeks, which meant two lessons. I was 5,” says Sal. “I guess I threw such a fit before the second lesson that she took me home and never went back again. My only musical training was that one lesson.”
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Next month, Ed Pacheco’s “Little Lamb Shenanigans” gets its happily-ever-after.
But it all began with bedtime.
Holding his 3-year-old daughter one sleepless night in their Dartmouth home, Pacheco had a sweet thought about his first child: “This kid is such a little lamb so pure, so innocent.”
The idea for a goodnight song was born.
Admittedly no Pavarotti, Pacheco also never crafted a definitive melody for the tune, but his daughters loved to hear Dad sing it.
“I want the little lamb song,” one would say. That’s all it would take.
Pacheco became a touring musician, going from bedroom to bedroom night after night to sing each of his three daughters to sleep with his No. 1 hit.
A few columns ago I mentioned trimming or pruning hydrangea. Several readers wanted to know how to tell what kind of hydrangea they had and whether they should prune it now.