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Songwriter For Hard Working Artists! BMI, NSAI, GMA & Southern Gospel!
Songwriter For Hard Working Artists! BMI, NSAI, GMA & Southern Gospel!
Thank You For Visiting My Website!
I've Played Piano since age 5-6.
Transposed Chorded Sheets,
Led Worship & Sung My Songs
At Stadiums, Churches & prisons.
Recorded 12 Songs on 2 CD's &
It Was An Exciting Adventure!
By Request, I Placed My
Patriotic Song On A Radio
Playlist! It topped Charts At
#23 on 1100 USA Stations!
I'm Retired But I
Thank You For Visiting My Website!
I've Played Piano since age 5-6.
Transposed Chorded Sheets,
Led Worship & Sung My Songs
At Stadiums, Churches & prisons.
Recorded 12 Songs on 2 CD's &
It Was An Exciting Adventure!
By Request, I Placed My
Patriotic Song On A Radio
Playlist! It topped Charts At
#23 on 1100 USA Stations!
I'm Retired But I continue
Writing Lyrics & Music For
Artists Who Are Too Busy or
want to update their songs!
I Research Stories To Create
Moving Lyrics & Music That
Flow Naturally !**
If You Have Lyrics/Poems/
Stories Or Ideas That Need
To Become Great Songs w/
Great Music, Email & Let
Me Turn It Into a simple Demo!
I have CD's with A Great
Patriotic Concert & powerful
Easter Concert & much requested
Thanksgiving Song! (Greatly
Requested, but Not Recorded.)
Here Are a Few Fun Facts From
The Life Of A Southern Girl
Who Grew Up In The South
& Lived In The South West:
July 1974 --- Some Fun Facts:
The Frankie Avalon Show!
Westin Peachtree Hotel Atl.
What a thrill to sing
Harmony w/ Frankie
Avalon! He Invited Me!
Wow! I felt like a star as
people reached out to shake
my hand & invite me back!
He & I sang:
"You're Just Too Good To
Be True!" Ended w/a kiss!
December 1981: Home From Work
Singing w/ Stars At Our Home!
Star of Pittsburg Pirates
known as "The Cobra" and
was In "The Lumber
Company", Came Over
w/His date (from 5th Dimension)
for dinner at our farm house.
Relaxing Away From The Crowd.
My husband was Grilling BBQ
Country Ribs for dinner when
I drove Home From Work.
Here's To: 1978's Most
Valuable Player. He &
My husband Were
Business Friends.
I came Inside & They Were
Chatting In The Living Rm!
The Beautiful Lady he was
dating was a backup singer
with "The 5th Dimension"!
We sang together as I played
piano & she and I sat on
my piano bench together.
The 5th Dimension Is in
"The Grammy Hall Of
Fame" & at the Top of
The Charts.
It's Amazing to have had
that cool experience! It's a
lovely memory!
Withholding names here
because of privacy but
my (little blue songbook)
still has the sweet note
she wrote to me, preserved
inside!
She gave me an auto-
graphed picture but it's
been lost thru many
moves over the years.
January 2009 - Wash, DC:
My Patriotic Song was
performed by me in 1st In
1991 At Denver Stadium for
12,000+ w/standing O's.
In 2009 It Was sung by A
Los Angeles/Las Vegas Artist At
The Presidential Inauguration
Breakfast ("Smokey) was there
w/ him, the artist's arrangement.
September 2002 - IAFF NY 9-11
A special song request that I write
by Int'l Assoc. Fallen Fire Fighters
IAFF.ORG to honor 9-11 NY FFF
& Families As Well As Canadian
Fallen Fire Fighters.
My husband and I were seated
In Front w/ The 9-11 NY families,
A Very Great Honor In Our Lives!
IAFF.ORG
Int'l Assoc. Fallen Fire Fighters
provided 255,000 Firemen My
Song At Their Annual Memorial
Wall Service Honoring Those Who
Lost Their Lives On 9-11 The Prior
Year. It's In Colo Springs, Colorado.
The Song Was Our Gift To Their
Families.
A Non-Profit 501 (c) (3)
Songwriter For Hard Working Artists! BMI, NSAI, GMA & Southern Gospel!
Songwriter For Hard Working Artists! BMI, NSAI, GMA & Southern Gospel!
Songwriter For Hard Working Artists! BMI, NSAI, GMA & Southern Gospel!
2004 Talent Winner:
A Top 10 Female Gospel Vocalist
& writer/2004 Talent In The Rockies
Estes Park, Colorado.
Cathy's Performance Judged
on Vocals & performance,
Song Writer/on Lyrics/Music
& website, Judges Were from
Nashville GMA & Word Warner
and record company executives.
Age 6, My parents converted
2004 Talent Winner:
A Top 10 Female Gospel Vocalist
& writer/2004 Talent In The Rockies
Estes Park, Colorado.
Cathy's Performance Judged
on Vocals & performance,
Song Writer/on Lyrics/Music
& website, Judges Were from
Nashville GMA & Word Warner
and record company executives.
Age 6, My parents converted
Our Living Room as a church.
Catherine's Mother & Sister
Taught her to play piano &
To sing Melody & Harmony.
Cathy began playing hymns on
Sunday in their country home:
Singing & creating new songs
from age 6 to age 12 on our
upright piano. If I can hear it,
I can play it.
Cathy's little feet dangled at the
piano bench & strawberry-blonde
hair hung down her back w/a
freckled nose! She uniquely sang
harmony as she played melody!
Catherine & her sister were asked
to sing on local radios, jails & Events.
Now Cathy writes lyrics using
keyboard & software to lay
down melodies for music bed.
Exciting added arrangements
w/extra instruments are laid
down by my friends **Maureen & Rick!
Rick's voice sounds like Neil Diamond!
They are Incredibly Talented Pros
With a fabulous band in Alaska &
Western Colorado. They still do
Christmas & New Years Eve
Shows w/music beds for demos!
See pic: 2019 New Yrs Eve Show.
Gather Around A Camp Fire! Stage or YT Performance!
Songwriter For Hard Working Artists! BMI, NSAI, GMA & Southern Gospel!
Gather Around A Camp Fire! Stage or YT Performance!
So, Gather Around The Fire!
Make S'mores or put a few
marshmallows on a stick!
A burst of fire on a cool night
w/friends singing uplifting praise
or Country-Cowboy or Pop songs
from a theme you want to do.
Email me to write lyrics &
on a subject you are thinking
about and we'll see about making
a simple music demos & lyrics for you!
If yo
So, Gather Around The Fire!
Make S'mores or put a few
marshmallows on a stick!
A burst of fire on a cool night
w/friends singing uplifting praise
or Country-Cowboy or Pop songs
from a theme you want to do.
Email me to write lyrics &
on a subject you are thinking
about and we'll see about making
a simple music demos & lyrics for you!
If you need Gospel lyrics,
I'm Southern Born & I've sung those
& written those songs all my life!
Cathy enjoys creating lyrics for
Veterans & Memorials.
Also love Cowboy's & Trucker's!
Cathy will get back with you
first by EMAIL, later by cell
phone & we can talk to see
if we agree on a demo idea.
My Patriotic CD in 2003
was on a playlist for 1100
Country/Gospel Stations
charted #23, & #8 In Maine.
Tax Exempt Donations help
to keep up with software &
research & equipment to create
better demos & music beds.
New song lyrics can cover
Life today but I write songs of
long ago of your own heritage!
Truly inheritance Music that Moves You!
Let Freedom Rock Concert For Vets- 2 Standing Os
Tax Exempt Donations to CathyRayMinistries.org
$50.00
All PayPal Donations To Cathy Ray Ministries Are Tax Deductible.
All Songs Recorded will have legal BMI rights to you as Vocalist for Royalties and as Recording Artist but royalties to the songwriter will
be normal music recordings with it copyrighted + BMI membership.
CRM's 501(c)3 enables Cathy to write lyrics & chorded sheets w simple music demos on basic keyboard on a Jump Drive along w/ music bed or to other instruments for you. Worship songs that are sung at the Beach, Ski Lodges, Baptismal services or at the River, Community Rodeos, prison ministries and stadium events or demos n be created for review for judges,
Parades or Your Newest CD of Country Songs to sing around the camp fire or festivals or parades or on YouTube to generate interest to new fans!.
Create Great American Stories and poems for song lyrics. Submit thoughts or ideas to aide in Cathy's music demo for you as it becomes truly your song, with Cathy as your songwriter.
We would need help w/any professional recording expenses to make new material for you or for YouTube (Nashville usually takes the desired demo & makes a professional demo and music bed with Nashville artist from the simple demo but for Country Music, that will cost $1000 up for Nashville pros. When you actually record it, songwriters royalties will go to the songwriter, and you can sing it and have Nashville add the arranging & you're the artist.
From Nashville to LA Artists: I am your songwriter & original keyboardist arranger!
I am here for those artists who are too busy to write their own material fast enough for their next CD! For New Christmas Music? We must start early!
Contact Cathy by email (contact at website) for your song lyrics & demo music for 2024! The email from the website comes to my desk.
All Emails Are Kept Private - Never Shared!