My Music: THE CHEERING-UP SONG

This short song was written on January 14, 1978. By then I had been working in the DC Comics production department for about six months, and loved working there. I was beginning to get freelance work to do at home as well, but not nearly as much as I would have in a few years. For instance, in 1978 I lettered 482 pages, 51 covers, and designed 5 logos in addition to doing my staff job. In 1986 I lettered 5,563 pages, 396 covers, and designed 229 logos while also working 40 hours a week at DC. I think the person meant to be cheered up was myself, perhaps I was feeling sad about my father, who was in the hospital with lung cancer and who would die in March, 1978. The Cheering-Up Song.

Me in Pluckemin, NJ, January 1978.

1978 became my busiest year ever musically. Around April of that year I bought the Teac 2340 reel-to-reel tape deck and began recording many of the songs I’d already written in my living room in Highland Park, NJ, including this one. In 1978 I also wrote eleven new songs, and those are just the ones I recorded, there were a few more I didn’t get on tape. I guess I had a lot of energy then, and not much of a social life!

The Cheering-Up Song is © Todd Klein, all rights reserved.

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