A Letter From Fred

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A short documentary telling a poignant story of life, love and music.

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Earlier this summer Green Shoe Studio launched it's singer-songwriter contest

It's a contest that someone can upload a video on to Youtube and send us the link

We felt it was a good way that we could really tie into the local community

and really get a feel for the music that's going on around here

But we didn't quite expect an entry like Fred's.

" A Letter From Fred"

How did I meet Lorraine?

She was a car hop at the A&W root beer stand

She brought the trays to the car and that

That was in 1938

We dated for two years than we married

June 26 have been our 73rd anniversary

She gave me 75 years of her life

Well, she was...

just prettiest girl ever saw

She was real timid like and

I just fell inlove with her right there

What made Fred's entry so special to us

Was, for number one, it's an online singer-songwriter contest people are supposed to upload their videos

but instead of a video, we've received a very large manila envelope

titled Green Shoes Studio Singer Songwriter Contest

Well I was excited to see what it was and opened it up

and behold it was a letter from a 96 years old man who said "I've written a song for my wife"

He said on the, you know, in the letter that he was not a musician

and that he was not actually a very good singer, in fact, on the actual envelope itself

it says

"PS - I don't sing, I would scare people, ahah"

So its a letter from this 96 years old man, he sounds like a sweet guy

But as I'm reading through the letter

I begin to realize that his wife just passed away

A month earlier and so

Having known that I started reading through the song and he titled it "Sweet Lorraine"

And listening to the lyrics and passion behind the lyrics ant the letter he sent us

It was just so heartwarming

Well,

After she passed away

I was just sitting in the front room one evening all by myself

And it just come right to me almost

and I just kept humming it and singing it and that

and that's how I came to write it, just seemed like it just fit her

Green Shoe Studio decided to take Fred's lyrics

and bring them to life

We decided to put it to professional music

professionally record it.

We wanted to have a professional singer sing on the song.

You know, our mission here at Green Shoe Studio is to change our community one dream at a time

and what a better way to do it?

Well, I saw Jacob's add in the paper

About the contest he was going to put on

So I just thought "Oh shoot, I'll just

write a letter and send it all in, you know, never thinking that I'd get

an answer or something but then he

called one day and I was surprised

We decided we were going to do this just by reading a letter without even meeting Fred.

So I called him one day and said "Fred, we were touched by your story

Now, it didn't meet the criteria of our singer-songwriter contest but we're going to do something even better for you

So we're going to record your song, we're going to have professionals do this

We're going to have a professional take so that, you know

It's not just the lyrics anymore, it's bringing it to life

and he goes "ah, it's just so great, but you know, how much is that going to cos?"

"Now I don't have any money"

And I said "Fred, you misunderstand me, we are going to do all this for free"

And he began to cry on the phone and said "why would you do this for me?"

And I said to Fred "it's not we're doing this for you, we're doing this together

because music means so much to so many people and your song has touched us

and we feel this is the best way to do this

(singing "Sweet Lorraine")

I Probably spent more time with his song than I have with other peoples songs

To be honest, I was a little nervous taking it to him

I've been a singer and a songwriter for years

But, this was about the first time in probably ten years I've actually been nervous

giving someone a song

we've taken the time because it meant so much to him it meant so much to me

I hope you like it

and like I said it's not done yet, but I will let you hear it, okay?

Tell me when you're ready

Yeah, okay

Oh, sweet Lorraine I wish we could do all the good times over again

Oh, sweet Lorraine life only goes around
Once but never again

Oh, sweet Lorraine I wish we could do
All the good times over again

The good times, the good times
The good times, all over again

The good times, the good times
The good times, all over again

But the memories always linger on
Oh, sweet Lorraine no, I don't wanna move on

Oh, the memories always linger on
My sweet Lorraine
That's why I wrote you this song

Oh, sweet Lorraine I wish we could do all
The good times over again

Oh, sweet Lorraine
Life only goes around
Once but never again

Oh, sweet Lorraine I wish we could do
All the good times over again

The good times, the good times
All the good times, all over again

It's wonderful!

Just wonderful, Jacob

I'm glad you like it.

I0m so glad you like it!

Wonderful.

They were a wonderful 75 years, I just often think, kind of unreal

Like a dream or something but, it was real, that's all I can say, real

Yeah..

I really, really miss her, just don't seem right, like a dream

Yeah, yeap...