Harry Fuller told me he had "about 40 years of church music" that he and Gene Fowler had recorded during church services at the Pleasanton Community Presbyterian Church (that is what we used to call it years ago). Much of it was recorded in the old church at 100 Neal Street starting about 1965. He gave me two large boxes containing 8-inch reel-to-reel, 5-inch reel-to-reel, and Phillips style cassettes.

I have copied most of the cassettes to my computer but have not even started on the reel-to-reel tapes. There is some wonderful music in these tapes. Most of the organ work was done by my wife Carolyn, who was the Organist and Choir Director from January 1957 to 1985, when she retired. Her Assistant Organist for many years was Leonard Mark and during some of our business trips abroad, Ted Williams was the organist-choir director.

Music, even in a compressed MP3 format, takes up a lot of disk space. (I am storing these data on a 200 GByte hard disk and with the operating system and music, I have already used 53 GBytes and am not even one-third done with my project.) Thus, I shall change the listings here fairly frequently so as to give you a variety of different music. I am starting with three solos sung by Fran Walz. Why? Because they are handy.

As noted above, these church services were recorded on three different types of recorders and perhaps on more than one recorder of a given type. Most of the music from the church at 100 Neal Street was recorded by Gene Fowler from the front row, left side, i.e., just below the pulpit, while the choir and organ were located in the balcony at the back of the church. Thus, listening to preludes or postludes can be very noisy at times when people are talking in the background. However, I am thankful for what we have.