det finns något annat

"Jennie had had plans to get out of Peoria. After high school, she said, she got a BA at in international studies at a local university, but realized she needed a masters degree to get a decent job in her field. “I probably stopped and thought, ‘I’ll think about this for a while’ and never went back,” she said. Instead she went to work for Caterpillar, her hometown’s biggest employer. That was 28 ½ years ago. She’s now a database administrator and helps “design and maintain IMS databases for applications and areas in this company.”
Jennie kept singing in her spare time, usually in choirs, including one that performed at Carnegie Hall a few years ago. But she’s not doing any singing now. The story of “Maybe in Another Year” is that Jennie was planning to record only one song for the Peoria record, a brutally sad song about her father leaving the family called “Bye-Gones,” but Chuck Perin wanted two songs. Pearl recalls, “I didn’t know what to do, so I wrote it really fast.” She said the song was partly autobiographical. “It was initiated by a real thing and I just kind of went with it,” she said.
“Bye-gones” was the first song Jennie ever wrote. `Maybe in Another Year” was the second. She has not written another song since. Asked why she stopped writing songs, Jennie replied, “I had never heard anyone other than family members say anything good about any of them.”

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Maybe in a another year - Jennie Pearl

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