Count Your Blessings

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Year 1999
Label Robinhood
Format CD
Genre Spoken Word Poetry
Keywords Unknown
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Value USD $20.00

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Count Your Blessings

By: Paul Reid

Origin: Coburg, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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44 tracks

  • Senior Citizens

    Track 1

  • First Born

    Track 2

  • House Parties

    Track 3

  • The Milk Man’s Horse

    Track 4

  • The Large Family

    Track 5

  • First Love

    Track 6

  • The Good Old Days

    Track 7

  • Mother

    Track 8

  • Words

    Track 9

  • The Lonely Man

    Track 10

  • The County Fair

    Track 11

  • The Old Fashioned Kitchen

    Track 12

  • A Boy’s First Date

    Track 13

  • Where Did She Go?

    Track 14

  • Let’s Go For a Walk

    Track 15

  • Remember

    Track 16

  • He Takes You For Granted

    Track 17

  • Peace and Quiet

    Track 18

  • The Empty House

    Track 19

  • Autumn

    Track 20

  • The Attic

    Track 21

  • The Nurse

    Track 22

  • One of These Days

    Track 23

  • Boyhood Memories

    Track 24

  • God Given Talents

    Track 25

  • The Corner Grocery Store

    Track 26

  • Sights and Sounds

    Track 27

  • Mountain Streams

    Track 28

  • The Rocking Chair

    Track 29

  • A World of Darkness

    Track 30

  • When You Were a Child

    Track 31

  • City Parks

    Track 32

  • Sleigh Ride

    Track 33

  • The First Puppy

    Track 34

  • The Locomotive

    Track 35

  • If You Can Share

    Track 36

  • Loyalty

    Track 37

  • Twilight

    Track 38

  • Happiness Is...

    Track 39

  • The Handyman

    Track 40

  • The City, While You Slept

    Track 41

  • A World of Silence

    Track 42

  • He Takes You For Granted (reprise)

    Track 43

  • To a Teacher

    Track 44

Insight

Count Your Blessings really started out as a few time filling vignettes that Paul could use on the air.

They were all written and recorded by him in the late 1950’s while at CHML in Hamilton.
They became so popular that he was asked by a company to write more because they wanted to sponsor them.

I remember vividly Dad bringing an old underwood typewriter home to the apartment with a huge pile of yellow paper from the newsroom. He spent the next 48 hours straight hammering out what appears on this CD.

When he finished writing on Sunday evening he went to bed. When he woke up Monday morning, he went to work and recorded them all in one sitting.

These master tapes were the first things I found when I opened up my inheritance from my parents.

Compiled, digitally re-mastered and released in 1999, Count Your Blessings raised Thirty thousand dollars for the children’s hospitals in Montréal and Hamilton where they were distributed.

Special thanks to CJAD Radio and l’Équipeur stores in Montréal and

CHML Radio and Mark’s Work Warehouse in Hamilton for being partners in this community minded release.

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