A green flash is a tropical phenomenon.
But, I just wanted to compile songs that I thought kids would like, and that I would like too.
But, the big push came in 1964 when the Beatles invaded America and I found myself needing a guitar.
But, the music that works and expresses inner thought the best is created from true feelings.
But, this album was well put together and the tones all sound good, the kids who helped were great, the arrangements are not too busy. And it's not overproduced.
By and large music is a medium of the senses, expressing emotions.
Children's music is a strange niche.
Classrooms are great, don't get me wrong.
Dad was a Missouri Synod Lutheran minister in the St. John's district of Portland, Oregon.
I just took a right handed guitar and learned like that.
I searched through a local college placement office and found that the only direct dial phone call overseas was to Guam. I called and while I was still on the phone, they said they would hold positions for both my wife and I.
I was born in Portland, Oregon in the early 50s, to Felix E. and Francis C. Janssen.
I'm left handed and do everything left handed.
I'm still writing and thinking kids music.
I've been down lots of roads, musically and physically.
If you go back to music I've written since I began. Varied. But, there's a thread of similarity.
In 1989 the school district that I was working for in southern Oregon lost funding for a full time elementary music specialist.
It didn't occur to me that I should restring the guitar.
Life deals us strange turns.
Music was important in my life as a part of the religious training in the Lutheran Church.
My wife and I had always wanted to teach and live overseas, so opportunity knocked.
People get very into pigeon-holing music.
Say something, do something that means something in this world.
So, bad luck turned into good. I believe it can always be that way.
Someone told me years later that I played a wicked rhythm guitar, they said that was because I hit down on the top strings first which gives the guitar chords a stronger dose of treble.
Sorry to get political, but 98 years of territories staying only territories with no true voting representation in the US congress is too long.
That similarity is in the melodies that I've written.
The best thing about this particular type of success is that I feel like the biggest teacher in the world.
The first short period of time I was homesick.
The music I've created has almost always connected.
The plans are on the board to record a couple tunes with my brothers Bob, and Tim, and my good friend and former Diamond Jeff Patterson.
They've taken me to rock and roll land, country rock land, and spiritual land... and that's all inside of me.
When I saw Paul McCartney playing bass left handed I thought, hey, that's ok.
When I was young I always said I wanted to be a minister like my dad and granddad.
When you do kids music, you don't get played on the radio.
David Janssen was married twice. His first marriage was to Ellie Graham and lasted from 1958 until 1970. His second marriage was to Dani Crayne and lasted from 1975 until his death from a heart attack in 1980.
David Janssen has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Mr. Janssen's star is for television and is located at 7011 Hollywood Blvd.
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