The MEGA OKs Celebrate Christmas
"I finished writing “Christmas In Songtown” after I returned from a trip to Ireland this fall. I saw buskers on the streets. I saw musicians in the pubs sharing their joy of music from Kelly's in Belfast and Temple Bar in Dublin. They were universally playing practically the same covers you'd hear at the Jersey shore bars, so I figured I'd give us all a challenge in song to write a better one than this.”
Those are the words David Urbano wrote to us when he explained how the tune below was written and produced “entirely in an analog fashion with no AI. “Go ahead! Write a better Christmas song.”
Urbano is the singer-songwriter-guitarist-bassist-producer from New Brunswick who, along with bandmates Jay and Ron Santee, recorded the holiday song with bandmate Jason Reynolds at Monaco Sound. They had also collaborated with producer Ron Santee at his Desert Dog Pine Barren studio on “This Is Our Planet Too," “a ballad for everybody to just hug it out and get along already on our spaceship Earth,.” according to Urbano. You can catch him at his solo gig during “Nashbury Singer Songwriters In The Round” on January 28 at the Asbury Book Co-Op on Cookman Avenue in Asbury Park.