<p> &nbsp;<br />
<img decoding="async" src="http://www.garypowell.com/blogs/wp-content/wp-photos/craig_toungate_sings.gif" align=left />Jesmax Music, BMI, owned by composer Gary Powell, is pleased to have placed the Craig Toungate song <i>&#8220;The Laughing Song&#8221;</i> on Walt Disney Records&#8217; CD entitled <i>&#8220;Disney&#8217;s Merry Little Christmas&#8221;</i> which is exclusively sold at retail Target stores.  </p>
<p>Craig Toungate, <a href="http://www.garypowell.com/blogs/?p=25">a frequent vocalist for Walt Disney Records</a>, is appropriately credited on this album as &#8220;C.T. the Elf&#8221; and a very happy elf he is. Craig&#8217;s performance is a live recording which was captured at an <a href="http://www.studioconcerts.com" target=blank>&#8220;In the Studio with Gary Powell&#8221;</a> performance earlier in the year.  This is the first song for Craig Toungate to be released by Jesmax Music on a Walt Disney Records&#8217; project.  Please click here to visit <a href="http://www.craigtoungate.com" target=blank>Craig Toungate&#8217;s site</a>.</p>
<p><center><i>Please note that I sell no Disney products on my site.  This CD can be purchased exclusively at Target stores across the country.</i></center></p>

<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->{"id":96,"date":"2006-12-21T01:00:47","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garypowell.com\/blogs\/?p=96"},"modified":"2008-07-26T02:19:56","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T08:19:56","slug":"jesmax-signs-laughing-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.garypowell.com\/blogs\/publishing\/jesmax-music\/jesmax-signs-laughing-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesmax Music Signs &#8220;The Laughing Song&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.garypowell.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/wp-photos\/craig_toungate_sings.gif\" align=left \/>Jesmax Music, BMI, owned by composer Gary Powell, is pleased to have placed the Craig Toungate song <i>&#8220;The Laughing Song&#8221;<\/i> on Walt Disney Records&#8217; CD entitled <i>&#8220;Disney&#8217;s Merry Little Christmas&#8221;<\/i> which is exclusively sold at retail Target stores.  <\/p>\n<p>Craig Toungate, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garypowell.com\/blogs\/?p=25\">a frequent vocalist for Walt Disney Records<\/a>, is appropriately credited on this album as &#8220;C.T. the Elf&#8221; and a very happy elf he is. Craig&#8217;s performance is a live recording which was captured at an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studioconcerts.com\" target=blank>&#8220;In the Studio with Gary Powell&#8221;<\/a> performance earlier in the year.  This is the first song for Craig Toungate to be released by Jesmax Music on a Walt Disney Records&#8217; project.  Please click here to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigtoungate.com\" target=blank>Craig Toungate&#8217;s site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><i>Please note that I sell no Disney products on my site.  This CD can be purchased exclusively at Target stores across the country.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<h2>The Laughing Song<\/h2>\n<p><i>Words and Music by Craig Toungate<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Everybody wants to feel good<br \/>\nThat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a right you have in your life<br \/>\nThe mysteries of the world understood<br \/>\nTo just the minimum of strife<\/p>\n<p>When you feel like you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re gettin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 too uptight<br \/>\nYou\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re too caught up in the aftermath<br \/>\nTell you what you do to set your little mind right<br \/>\nAll you got to do is laugh<\/p>\n<p>That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s right<br \/>\nSometimes you just got to laugh<br \/>\na little bit to lighten the load<br \/>\nYou know what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m saying?<\/p>\n<p>(Ad lib laughing)<\/p>\n<p>Life\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one big experiment<br \/>\nWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just like fish inside the bowl<br \/>\nWe sit and wonder where the time went<br \/>\nOne day you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re young next day you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re old<\/p>\n<p>Your rent\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s overdue and your car\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on the blink<br \/>\nYour neck\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stretched out like a big giraffe<br \/>\nYour head\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gonna explode if you have to think<br \/>\nI think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for you to laugh<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s right<br \/>\nI said laugh, laugh<\/p>\n<p>(Ad lib laughing)<\/p>\n<p><i>(Copyright Jesmax Music, BMI 2006)<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.garypowell.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.garypowell.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.garypowell.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.garypowell.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.garypowell.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.garypowell.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.garypowell.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.garypowell.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.garypowell.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}