Sonja Vlaar
CONTRIBUTION IN ORIGINAL LANGUAGE
You are never too old ... this heart-warming story proves it again.
At the age of 99, Alan Tripp wrote the poem "Best Old Friends" in the retirement community in which he lives. The song is about the many new friends he made there. As a birthday present for the 100th birthday, his 88-year-old neighbor Marvin Weisbord, jazz pianist, set the poem to music.
That was the spark that inspired this dynamic songwriting. Alan had complained for a long time that no new music was written for seniors. So he started writing more lyrics. Together with his band, the Wynlyn Jazz Ensemble, Marvin played the songs live for their enthusiastic neighbors and tuned each number to the “swing of the crowd”.
At the age of 102, Alan decided to take the songs to the recording studio and produce an album. The result is “The Senior Song Book - music that takes you back to the 1940s with lyrics written in the 2020s”.
You can buy the album and find song samplers and lyrics Here:
