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Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

[verse]
The weather outside is frightful
But the fire is so delightful
And since we’ve no place to go
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

[verse]
It doesn’t show signs of stopping
And I brought some corn for popping
The lights are turned way down low
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

[bridge]
When we finally kiss good night
How I’ll hate going out in the storm
But if you really hold me tight
All the way home I’ll be warm

[verse]
The fire is slowly dying
And, my dear, we’re still good-bye-ing
But as long as you love me so
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

[bridge]
When we finally kiss good night
How I’ll hate going out in the storm
But if you really hold me tight
All the way home I’ll be warm

[outro]
The fire is slowly dying
And, my dear, we’re still good-bye-ing
But as long as you love me so
Let it snow
Let it snow
Let it snow
Let it snow
Let it snow
Let it snow
Let it snow
Let it snow

Song Length: 3:27

Writer: Jule Styne
Publisher: Chappell and Company Obo Producers Music Publishing Co
Writer: Sammy Cahn
Publisher: Wb Music Corp Obo Cahn Music Company

Jody Whitesides: Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Synths, Drum Programming

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Kim Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer 2006: Chris Hellstrom
Mixing Engineer 2022: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2006: George Leger III
Mastering Engineer 2022: Jody Whitesides
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:
1. I like the rock nature of this one.
2. I’m eating onion rings as I do this.

Copyright: 20060101

ISRC: USONR2200124
ISRC: US32P0600007

ISWC: T0700953929

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Harry Fox ID:
Harry Fox Publisher ID:

UPC: 654433003635

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Frosty the Snowman

[verse]
Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul
With a corncob pipe and a button nose
And eyes made out of coal
Frosty the snowman is a fairy tale, they say
He was made of snow but the children know
How he came to life one day
There must have been some magic in that old hat they found
For when they placed it on his head
He began to dance around
O, Frosty the snowman was alive as he could be
And the children say he could laugh
And play just the same as you and me

[bridge]
O, thumpetty thump thump
Thumpety thump thump
Look at Frosty go
Thumpetty thump thump
Thumpety thump thump
Over the hills of snow

[verse]
Frosty the snowman knew the sun was hot that day
So he said, “Let’s run and we’ll have some fun now before I melt away”
Down to the village, with a broomstick in his hand
Running here and there all around the square saying
Catch me if you can
He led them down the streets of town right to the traffic cop
He only paused a moment when he heard him holler “Stop!”

[outro]
Frosty the snow man had to hurry on his way
But he waved goodbye saying “Don’t you cry
I’ll be back again some day
I’ll be back again some day
I’ll be back again some day”

Song Length: 2:08

Writer: Steve Nelson
Publisher: Chappell and Company
Writer: Walter E Rollins
Publisher: Chappell and Company

Jody Whitesides: Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Synths, Drum Programming

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Kim Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer 2006: Chris Hellstrom
Mixing Engineer 2022: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2006: George Leger III
Mastering Engineer 2022: Jody Whitesides
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:
1. Enjoyed the cartoon of this.
2. My first attempt at going slightly crooner style.

Copyright: 20060101

ISRC: US32P0600006
ISRC: USONR2200123

ISWC: T0700557114

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Harry Fox ID:
Harry Fox Publisher ID:

UPC: 654433003635

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All I Want For Christmas Is You

[intro]
I don’t want a lot for Christmas
There’s just one thing I need
I don’t care about the presents
Underneath the Christmas tree
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas is
You

[verse]
I don’t want a lot for Christmas
There’s just one thing I need
I don’t care about the presents
Underneath the Christmas tree
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas is you
All the lights are shining
So brightly everywhere
And the sound of children’s
Laughter fills the air
And everyone is singing
I hear those sleigh bells ringing
Santa won’t you bring me the one I really need
Won’t you please bring my baby to me
I don’t want a lot for Christmas
This is all I’m asking for
I just want to see my baby
Standing right outside my door
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas is

[bridge]
Santa won’t you bring me the one I really need
Won’t you please bring my please bring my baby
Santa won’t you bring me the one I really need
Won’t you please bring my please bring my baby

[outro]
All I want for Christmas

Song Length: 2:26

Writer: Mariah Carey
Publisher: Rye Songs
Writer: Walter Afanasieff
Publisher: Wallyworld Music Songs of Universal

Jody Whitesides: Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Synths, Drum Programming
Dannielle Gaha: Background Vocals

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Kim Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer 2006: Chris Hellstrom
Mixing Engineer 2022: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2006: George Leger III
Mastering Engineer 2022: Jody Whitesides
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:
1. Appeared as a version in Love Actually (no, not my version).
2. Dannielle Gaha saved this song.

Copyright: 20060101

ISRC: US32P0600004
ISRC: USONR2200121

ISWC: T0700070672

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Harry Fox ID:
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UPC: 654433003635

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Blue Christmas

[verse]
I’ll have a Blue Christmas without you
I ‘ll be so blue just thinking about you
Decorations of red
On a green Christmas tree
Won’t mean a thing
If you’re not here with me

And the when those blue, snow flakes start falling
When those blue blue memories start calling
You’ll be doing all right
With your Christmas of white

Oh, but I’ll have a blue, Blue Christmas
You’ll be doing all right
With your Christmas of white
Oh, but I’ll have a blue, Blue Christmas

[bridge]
And when you needn’t pray on this Christmas day
Remember I have a blue, Blue Christmas
And remember I have a blue, Blue Christmas
And remember I have a blue, Blue Christmas

Song Length: 2:15

Writer: Bill Hayes
Publisher: Universal-Polygram Int Pub Obo Bibo Music Publ Inc
Writer: Jay Johnson
Publisher: Universal-Polygram Int Pub Obo Bibo Music Publ Inc

Jody Whitesides: Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Synths, Drum Programming
Chris Hellstrom: Guitar Solo

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Kim Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer 2006: Chris Hellstrom
Mixing Engineer 2022: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2006: George Leger III
Mastering Engineer 2022: Jody Whitesides
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:
1. 2nd crooner type of attempt.
2. Chris claimed he had a hard time with the solo.

Copyright: 20060101

ISRC: US32P0600005
ISRC: USONR2200122

ISWC: T0700116535

SESAC Song ID:

Harry Fox ID:
Harry Fox Publisher ID:

UPC: 654433003635

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Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer

[chorus]
Grandma got run over by a reindeer
Walking home from our house Christmas eve
You can say there’s no such thing as Santa
But as for me and Grandpa, we believe

[verse]
She’d been drinkin’ too much egg nog
And we’d begged her not to go
But she forgot her medication
As she staggered out the door into the snow
When they found her Christmas mornin’
At the scene of the attack
She had hoof prints on her forehead
And incriminating Claus marks on her back

[chorus]
Grandma got run over by a reindeer
Walking home from our house Christmas eve
You can say there’s no such thing as Santa
But as for me and Grandpa, we believe

[verse]
Now were all so proud of Grandpa
He’s been taking this so well
See him in there watchin’ football
Drinkin’ beer and playin’ cards with cousin Mel
It’s not Christmas without Grandma
All the family’s dressed in black
And we just can’t help but wonder
Should we open up her gifts or send them back?

[chorus]
Grandma got run over by a reindeer
Walking home from our house Christmas eve
You can say there’s no such thing as Santa
But as for me and Grandpa, we believe

[verse]
Now the goose is on the table
And the pudding made of fig
And a blue and silver candle
That would just have matched the hair in Grandma’s wig
I’ve warned all my friends and neighbors
“Better watch out for yourselves.”
They should never give a license
To a man who drives a sleigh and plays with elves

[chorus]
Grandma got run over by a reindeer (reindeer)
Walking home from our house Christmas Eve (Christmas Eve)
You can say there’s no such thing as Santa
But as for me and Grandpa, we believe
Grandma got run over by a reindeer
Walking home from our house Christmas eve
You can say there’s no such thing as Santa
But as for me and Grandpa, we believe

Song Length: 3:53

Writer: Randy Brooks
Publisher: Randy Brooks Music

Jody Whitesides: Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Synths, Drum Programming

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Kim Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer 2006: Chris Hellstrom
Mixing Engineer 2022: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2006: George Leger III
Mastering Engineer 2022: Jody Whitesides
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:
1. Dr. Elmo told me it’s the best version of his song he’s ever heard.
2. The intro guitar part is actually kinda hard to make sound smooth.

Copyright: 20060101

ISRC: US32P0600013
ISRC: USONR2200130

ISWC:

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Harry Fox ID:
Harry Fox Publisher ID:

UPC: 654433003635

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Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree

[verse]
Rockin’ around the Christmas tree at the Christmas party hop
Mistletoe hung where you can see every couple tries to stop
Rockin’ around the Christmas tree let the Christmas spirit ring
Later we’ll have some pumpkin pie and we’ll do some caroling!

[bridge]
You will get a sentimental feeling when you hear
Voices singing, “Let’s be jolly
Deck the halls with boughs of holly!”

[verse]
Rockin’ around the Christmas tree have a Happy Holiday
Everyone dancing merrily in a new old-fashioned way!

[bridge]
You will get a sentimental feeling when you hear
Voices singing, “Let’s be jolly
Deck the halls with boughs of holly!”

[verse]
Rockin’ around the Christmas tree have a Happy Holiday
Everyone dancing merrily in a new old-fashioned way!

Song Length: 2:07

Writer: John D Marks
Publisher: St Nicholas Music Inc

Jody Whitesides: Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Synths, Drum Programming

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Kim Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer 2006: Chris Hellstrom
Mixing Engineer 2022: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2006: George Leger III
Mastering Engineer 2022: Jody Whitesides
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:
1. I left out the bop shoo way dee wah’s in the recording.
2. I’ve never actually said “let’s be jolly” with a straight face.

Copyright: 20060101

ISRC: US32P0600008
ISRC: USONR2200125

ISWC: T0701269875

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Harry Fox ID:
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UPC: 654433003635

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Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

[verse]
Rudolf, The Red-Nosed Reindeer
Had a very shiny nose (shiny nose)
And if you ever saw it
You would even say it glows (it glows)
All of the other reindeer
Used to laugh and call him names (call him names)
They never let poor Rudolf
Join in any reindeer games

[pre-chorus]
Then one foggy Christmas eve, Santa came to say
“Rudolf, with your nose so bright, won’t you guide my sleigh tonight?”

[verse]
Then how the reindeer love him
And they shouted out with glee (shout with glee)
Rudolf, The Red-Nosed Reindeer
You’ll go down in history

[pre-chorus]
Then one foggy Christmas eve, Santa came to say
“Rudolf, with your nose so bright, won’t you guide my sleigh tonight?”

[verse]
Then how the reindeer loved him, (they really, really loved him)
And they shouted out with glee (shout with glee)
Rudolf, The Red-Nosed Reindeer
You’ll go down in history

[outro]
Rudolf, The Red-Nosed Reindeer (Rudolf)
Rudolf, The Red-Nosed Reindeer (Rudolf)
Rudolf, The Red-Nosed Reindeer (Rudolf)
Jody, The Red-Nosed Reindeer, (Jody)
You’ll go down in history

Song Length: 2:22

Writer: John D Marks
Publisher: St Nicholas Music Inc

Jody Whitesides: Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Synths, Drum Programming
Dannielle Gaha: Background Vocals

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Kim Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer 2006: Chris Hellstrom
Mixing Engineer 2022: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2006: George Leger III
Mastering Engineer 2022: Jody Whitesides
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:
1. I’d like to be a red-nosed reindeer, hence why I put my name in the song.
2. Dannielle did most of her vocals in one take.

Copyright: 20060101

ISRC: US32P0600009
ISRC: USONR2200126

ISWC: T0701273995

SESAC Song ID:

Harry Fox ID:
Harry Fox Publisher ID:

UPC: 654433003635

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Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town

[intro]
Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town

[verse]
You better watch out, you better not cry
You better not pout, I’m telling you why

[hook]
Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town

[verse]
He’s making a list and checking it twice
Gonna find out who’s naughty and nice

[hook]
Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town

[bridge]
He sees you when you’re sleeping
He knows when you’re awake
He knows if you’ve been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake! (be good for goodness sake!)

[verse]
O! You better watch out! You better not cry
You better not pout, I’m telling you why

[hook]
Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town

[bridge]
Nano iPods, Chocolate cell phones
Tons of music and talking hormones
Colored laptops like berry and green
Timberland kicks and Lucky brand jeans

[hook]
Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town
I said one more time yeah
Santa Claus is coming to town (coming to town)
Santa Claus is coming to town (coming to town)
Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town
Santa Claus is coming to town

Song Length: 2:37

Writer: Haven Gillespie
Publisher: Haven Gillespie Music Pub
Writer: J Fred Coots
Publisher: Emi Feist Catalog

Jody Whitesides: Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Synths, Drum Programming

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Kim Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer 2006: Chris Hellstrom
Mixing Engineer 2022: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2006: George Leger III
Mastering Engineer 2022: Jody Whitesides
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:
1. I borrowed from the Jackson 5 version.
2. Thought that naming products would help get it licensed. I was wrong and it dated my version. Whoops.

Copyright: 20060101

ISRC: US32P0600010
ISRC: USONR2200127

ISWC: T0701341458

SESAC Song ID:

Harry Fox ID:
Harry Fox Publisher ID:

UPC: 654433003635

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Winter Wonderland

[verse]
Sleigh bells ring, are you listening
In the lane, snow is glistening
A beautiful sight, we’re happy tonight
Walking in a Winter Wonderland

Gone away, is the bluebird
Here to stay, is a new bird
He sings a love song, as we go along
Walking in a Winter Wonderland

[bridge]
In the meadow we can build a snowman
Then pretend that he is Parson Brown
He’ll say: Are you married? We’ll say: No man
But you can do the job when you’re in town

[verse]
Later on, we’ll conspire
As we dream, by the fire
To face unafraid, the plans that we’ve made
Walking in a Winter Wonderland

[bridge]
In the meadow we can build a snowman
And pretend that he’s a circus clown
We’ll have lots of fun with mister snowman
Until the other kids knock him down

[verse]
When it snows, ain’t it thrilling
Though your nose, gets a chilling
We’ll frolic and play, the Eskimo way
Walking in a Winter Wonderland

[hook]
Walking in a Winter Wonderland
Walking in a Winter Wonderland
Walking in a Winter Wonderland
Walking in a Winter Wonderland
Walking in a Winter Wonderland
Walking in a Winter Wonderland
Walking in a Winter Wonderland

Song Length: 2:44

Writer: Felix Bernard
Publisher: Wc Music Corp
Writer: Richard B Smith
Publisher: Wc Music Corp

Jody Whitesides: Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Synths, Drum Programming
Dannielle Gaha: Background Vocals

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Kim Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer 2006: Chris Hellstrom
Mixing Engineer 2022: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2006: George Leger III
Mastering Engineer 2022: Jody Whitesides
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:
1. I’ve never frolicked in an eskimo way.
2. I have built a snowman in a meadow.

Copyright: 20060101

ISRC: US32P0600012
ISRC: USONR2200129

ISWC: T0702004156

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Harry Fox ID:
Harry Fox Publisher ID:

UPC: 654433003635

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The Christmas Song

[verse]
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
Jack Frost nipping at your nose
Yule-tide carols being sung by a choir
And folks dressed up like Eskimos
Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe
Help to make the season bright
Tiny little tots with their eyes all aglow
Will find it hard to sleep tonight

[bridge]
They know that Santa’s on his way
He’s loaded lots of toys and goodies on his sleigh
And every mother’s child is gonna spy
To see if reindeer really know how to fly

[verse]
So I’m offering this simple phrase
To kids from one to ninety-two
Though it’s been said many times, many ways
Merry Christmas to you

Song Length: 2:45

Writer: Mel Torme
Publisher: Mpl Music Publishing Inc Obo Edwin H Morris & Company
Writer: Robert Wells
Publisher: Sony ATV Tunes LLC

Jody Whitesides: Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Synths, Drum Programming
Chris Hellstrom: Strings

Recording Info:
Cover Art: Kim Whitesides
Recording Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Mixing Engineer 2006: Chris Hellstrom
Mixing Engineer 2022: Jody Whitesides
Mastering Engineer 2006: George Leger III
Mastering Engineer 2022: Jody Whitesides
Vocal Engineer: Jody Whitesides
Producer: Jody Whitesides Guitar(s): Left side guitar: Desert Guitar: my first guitar which was a Fender “Japocaster” as it used to be referred as, the only original thing is the body. Everything else has been replaced or modified. Think of the Van Halen Frankenstein guitar only this one has a Desert landscape for a paint job. A single Seymour Duncan Custom Custom hum-bucker pickup. Standard bridge. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels medium gauge.

Right side guitar: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails in the neck position. It has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. I used the bridge pickup for this sound.

Vibrato lick guitar: Joe’s Guitar Whitesides Viper 7 Redwood: This is a custom 7-string guitar that Justin built for me to specifications for the neck. The body is two different woods, the back of the body is alder with a redwood top. The neck is maple with a bubinga fingerboard, jumbo frets. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steels. The bridge pickup is a custom built Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, made specifically for me prior to 7-string guitar pickups becoming an actual line. Thus it’s pieced together by Seymour’s custom pickup department. The neck is a stacked humbucker, also created by Seymour Duncan’s custom pickup department. This was voiced to be more like a custom.

Extra guitar chorus: Joe’s Guitar with Jesus paint job: This guitar has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom pickup and a Cool Rails. It also has a Wilkinson Tremelo installed by Trev Wilkinson himself. Strung with Dean Markley Blue Steel medium gauge strings. This part is using the Cool Rails pickup in the neck position.

The Amp Setup:
GrooveTubes Solo 150 head
GrooveTubes Dual 75 Poweramp that has been modified to be true stereo
GrooveTubes 2 x 10″ cabs
I had KT88’s on one side of the Dual 75 and EL34’s on the other side

The cab was mic’d with an SM57 Beta on the grill center of the cone

Bass(s): Hohner B Bass V. Strings were Dean Markley Blue Steels. This was run thru a Line 6 Bass Pod Pro. Two outputs, one that was direct out and one that was an amp sim from the Line 6 Bass Pod Pro to give it some grit.

Additional Bass sounds were done with the ESM from Logic Pro

Drums: Drums are sequenced from samples out of Stylus RMX by SpectraSonics.
Kicks are from the Kicks Boomy and Kicks Punchy menus.
Snares are from the Snares Vinyl menu.

Vocal: Lead vocals in this were recorded using a Telefunken C12.

Background vocals were recorded using a Neumann 87a.

Synths: The synth parts were created using Logic Pro’s ES2.

Misc Instruments: Handclaps are created from me doing about 40 different takes of handclaps from various different positions around the studio to create more depth.

Song Story:
There’s a bit of history behind this song and it’s long…

In the late 90’s there was a group of investors that were starting up a football league for women. Someone reached out to me and asked if I would write a song that would be a theme for the league. I was given a set of values and ideas that I had to hit on in order for it to be uplifting for the female football league.

Within a couple of days I had whipped up the song. Musically I had envisioned a stadium anthem. Which meant keeping the drums simple, making it easy for people to clap and or stomp along with the song as it could be played over the loud system. For the chorus, I came up with that pretty quick. I wanted it to be easy to sing for anyone, including those who claim to be tone-deaf.

The guitar parts were kept quite simple for the same reason. I wanted any guitar player to be able to pick up a guitar and be able to play it within a matter of minutes. Plus I layered several simple parts to give it a bit more change to it. The hardest part to play likely the lead lick with the vibrato. But even then, it’s not difficult to play.

The verse lyrics took a bit more time. Working on incorporating those values and ideas I had to spend a little time working it so that they would rhyme and work in more of a storyline aspect. It wasn’t overly troublesome, but I did make sure there was progression.

Once it was all put together I sent it along to the contact. The league worked on getting underway, but never got to a point where the song was used for the theme. They never ended up doing a theme and we never signed a deal for it.

Fast forward a few years and I’m going to an LA Kings hockey game with my good buddy Chris Hellstrom. He wanted to get me into hockey, and the best way is for me to go to a live game. I was having a great time. During the game every so often (who am I kidding, very often), they were playing a semi-musical thing that kept shouting “Go Kings Go!”* I told Chris, dude, I have a song that is substantially better than that.

That night when I got home, I pulled out the WPFL theme I had written. I started looking at the files and then went to bed. The next day I started retooling the verse lyrics. I needed them to work for hockey instead of the football. Which required me to pester Chris with questions about hockey and some of the various terms used to talk about what happens on the ice.

A day later, I had it re-tooled. Updated the vocals. Asked Chris to add some bits to the arrangement, then I made a mix of it. Shortly after that I opted to do a version for each major league team in LA at the time. Which mean tweaking it for Basketball as well. A few more days later and I had versions for each team.

Basketball had a huge following and my decision was to use a basketball related photo that I took at a park to be the cover of the release. Then I put the various versions out under the title Do You Want to Play.

Another year or two later I was linked up with Jerry Davis from Fox Sports. I was going to be doing a lot of music for their sports network. During the course of getting the deal done, Jerry asked me how much music I have and in turn I told him how many production music CDs I had. The deal changed in my favor as they would just license my library instead of me writing stuff and them owning it.

While doing that deal I mentioned the song for all the LA teams. Jerry liked it, but felt Fox couldn’t make use of it. He felt strongly about it, and pushed it out to the head of marketing for the NBA, then gave her my contact info. She contacted me and we spoke about the song and what else I was doing musically. She asked me if I could do a version of the song for the WNBA and the D League. I had to ask what the D League was. She explained and I said sure I can. She also wanted to have me come play at halftime events at various live games; based on a tour that I was supposed to be doing at that time. It was going to be a huge plus.

While pulling the song out again for doing those two versions, I got a wild notion that I should just do a version for every team in all 3 of the basketball leagues. That’s what I did. I started keeping track of each team, and swapping out vocals for each one.

Once done, I sent them all to her and it was a bit overwhelming for her.

Unfortunately the tour didn’t happen, and thus the live halftimes didn’t materialize. But I had the ability to use the songs as I owned it. So I started releasing the versions for each league. They did well on their own without me pushing them.

Years later, I’m still occasionally updating the song for new teams that arise over time. Much like this one for the Lehi Pioneers. The question might be, why would you do a version for a High School team? The answer is, for my girlfriend who is the assistant principal at Lehi High. You know, the place, kinda made famous by the original Footloose movie starring Kevin Bacon. Oddly, I’ve been to more of their games than I attended in my own high school.

Factoids:
1. Thought it would work well on a steel string acoustic – I was wrong (I apologize).
2. Chris had issues with the string parts in the middle, thanks to me. But all turned out well.

Copyright: 20060101

ISRC: US32P0600011
ISRC: USONR2200128

ISWC: T0700249611

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UPC: 654433003635

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