Why Did I Compose a Song?

It was in May 20, 1970 when I wrote and composed my first amateur song entitled "My Singing Doll." And I rediscovered it sometime last week when I was cleaning my dust-filled bookshelves. Then I stumbled upon an old, crumpled brown envelop. I didn't mind it for awhile what's in it. I put it aside then continued my work.

While I was about to finish dusting off the shelves, I took a glanced with the said envelop. Nothing of interest, just curious about it, I opened and checked inside and this is what I saw:

"My Singing Doll"

This was the product of my amateur interest in music. I loved to sing since I was a grade six pupil. I used to sing the popular song of The Beatles, "A World Without Love." I didn't have any idea what was it all about. I just kept on singing it. Until I realized that some of these lyrics were predestined of what I had composed for my high school sweetheart.

The unforgettable lyrics of the said pop song:

           "So I wait, and in a while
           I will see my true love smile 
           She may come, I know not when..."

Yes that was 1966, four years later that I composed the song for that mysterious girl. Then after 2 years we got married. We were meant for each other.

In my junior high school, I was so attentive in our music class. After class hour, I went to the library and researched and studied more until I was familiarized with the rudiments of music, reading and writing musical notes, and the dynamics and everything.

Since I was a self-taught guitar player, I wrote some notes in my musical pad, put some chords, and played and sang it.

I was not a good singer but I could sing. In my junior high school, I joined with the Glee Club. I sang the tenor part of the male voice. In this level of schooling, I accidentally met a girl, transferee stude from a Catholic private high school in La Castellana. She became my dream girl, my inspiration of writing and composing this song.

Wanted to see my first musical work, I introduced it to one of the music teachers in our high school. She was a good piano player. It was turned down. She criticized it negatively. She said it was a bad music. It's a recitative. That's the end of it. She didn't give me a chance to sing it. Well, frustrated as I was, I put it aside until I rediscovered it 42 years after.

But for me, though it was belittled but yet it was the best music composition I ever made for my last and everlasting love, my wife. She's "my singing doll!"

To listen to this song which I'm the one singing, click the following link: "My Singing Doll"

By they way, it is what you hear as the background music which I play in the piano.