You came right back

 

 When I first began singing professionally my name was Betty Kean. This picture was taken a few years after this song was written in 1988. That was the year I went to Nashville for a recording session with producer Vern Pratt.

It was so long ago, when I was younger, gullible and believed that I had all the answers.  I was single after desolving a 20 year marriage, looking for the love of my life, soulmate,in all the wrong places.  I was enjoying the nightlife, dancing, singing when I could find a jam sesson where I could get up on the stage.

and then.....one night I looked across a smoke filled bar room, saw a tall, blond and handsome man and my heart jumped out of my chest. and the romance began, and ended, and began, and.....and my first country song was born.

 "You came right back"

Why do you keep holding on when you know your love for me is gone, you walked out while I was beggin' you to stay.... 

Ain't love grand!  The good thing about romances is there is always another one around the corner until you wake up and let God lead you to the person He has planned for you.

The important thing about this song is, it let me know I could do it. Not just write poetry but let it grow into a song.

I continued to write Country until a few years ago when I began to realize what I really want is to write for God and sing for Him.  I have about six country songs and in fact recently wrote one--"Ain't gona walk that straight line". It is a fun one I will tell you about another day!

My music is available at:

 www.bettyoverstreet.com

 www.numberonemusic.com/lizbeth

www.cdbaby.com/bettyoverstreet12  

What would you do if you had the choice-

I am so happy to see you back, visiting again!  Writing songs is a really interesting hobby, art,--experience!  I never know where a song will come from , what will just click in my brain and start repeating until I have to stop, sit down at my computer and bring it into focus.  

One of my first songs came to me as Gary and I were out for our morning walk.  We were living in Yountville, Ca at the time and just across the highway from us was a park like setting where we often wondered along the pathways in the early (or late) mornings .  As we walked along a trail that morning, the words began appearing in my mind,

What would you do it you had the choice 

What would you do if you heard your Saviors voice

Would you listen to each word

Would you open up your heart

Would you follow your Savior today?

I said, "Gary, you will just have to listen to me sing these words until we get home so I can write them down.  If I stop singing  , I will forget the words and melody!  So he listened, I sang and.... perhaps he walked a little bit ahead of me if he saw someone coming toward us, so they wouldn't know I belonged to him!!  

As I arrived home I headed straight to the office and began pecking out the words, then as I pecked, the rest of the words to the song just kept coming into my fingers on the keyboard.....And the song was born!   God works in mysterious ways!  

 http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/overstreet  
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bettyoverstreet  for newer songs 

Please leave a   comment letting me know where you are from and if you wish to continue reading my Musical Notes!  If noone is reading I need to use my time differently!  Have a great day, Betty

A fun experience

 

 Gary and I went to a fun concert Friday night with a group of friends.  Mark Lowery, the Martins and pianist Whitmire. Mark was so funny and what a voice.  He spoke of how he got his beginng with The Gaithers and how he introduced the Martins to the Gaithers.  I believe it was their mother who, at a concert handed Mark a "cassette" of her children singing. He shared it with Gloria and they were launched!

Mark told the crowd,  "you musicians need to always have a cassette of your songs with you and hand them to any artist you have an opportunity. That was a perfect opening for me to get my songs into someones hands.  I nudged Gary, " Go out and get one of my cds of the newest songs I've written." Being the good husband he is he jumped up , ran out and brought one in to me.

At the end of the concert as Mark was sitting on his chair signing autographs when it was my turn I said, "Sorry Mark, I don't have a cassette, but will my CD work for you?"  He laughed and said, ""sure enough, we will listen to it in the bus!".  

Say a little prayer for me that he likes one enough to want to record it! 

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A Musical note from your friend in God's love 

My husband Gary and I were reading our morning devotionals and talking about spiritual gifts and how important it is to use them for His purpose.  I said, "Gary, I feel  like I'm not doing all I should be since we have such a difficult time finding churches that will invite us to perform our concerts". 

He thought about it for a minute and said, "Betty, you are reaching more people all over the world to share the songs God gives you to write and sing than we could ever reach traveling from church to church.  Just keep writing the songs and sharing them with all those wonderful people who take the time to write and tell you what your music has meant to them  Why don't you start sending a newsletter to the ones who share an email address with you."

Gary is a very smart man so here it is! My first newsletter to my worldwide fan base...thank you so much for taking the time to respond when you hear my music.  You will be the first to hear each new song as we record them as I will send them along with the newsletter each time we create a new one! 

Sometimes we have to open our eyes to the  larger picture  I have been feeling bad because we aren't invited to sing in churches as often as I would like, but God seems to have a different plan for me to reach people all over the world to share the gospel through the songs He gives me. 

¹⁸ And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
¹⁹ Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
²⁰ Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

 Have a wonderful , blessed life,  Betty Overstreet , Vacaville, CA.,USA

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