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SONGS FOR THE AGES

“Leave Something Good Behind.” – Glenn Frey

An expanding digital ebook

Dedication

“Music is a healing force. It is a force for good. It knows no boundaries, no hatred, no ethnicity, no nationality. It is the universal language of love. In these troubled times, I hope this website and the book Set the World to Music can help to bring about a lasting peace. As Michael Jackson told us, it is time to heal the world.”

Hal Pollock, Founder
Esquire Records, July 2022

Welcome to Esquire Records

SONGS FOR THE AGES

“Leave Something Good Behind.” – Glenn Frey

An expanding digital ebook

Dedication

Hal Pollock, Founder
Esquire Records, July 2022

Welcome to Esquire Records

SONGS FOR THE AGES

“Leave Something Good Behind.” – Glenn Frey

An expanding digital ebook

Dedication

Hal Pollock, Founder
Esquire Records, July 2022

Let There Be Peace

Imagine if you can a world that lives in harmony
Where people of all nations love each other and are free
Is it possible one day this is a vision we might see?
The people or world joining hands to let it be?

Why are we always killing each other?
Taking up arms against our own brother?
Isn’t it time to love one another?
Let the whole world live in peace

Let there be peace across the land
And love no matter where you stand
If only life could be so grand
Let there be peace

Why can’t we all just work together to find a common ground?
What does it take and will we ever turn this world around?
Lay down our arms extend a hand fight for the greater good
Finally have the kind of world we always knew we could

How many brothers have to die?
How many mothers have to cry?
Is there still hope for you and I
To find a lasting peace?

Join me in just this simple prayer
That all God’s children one day share
Here and there and everywhere
A true and lasting peace

Let there be peace across the land
And love no matter where you stand
Reach out and touch somebody’s hand
Let there be peace

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John Says Hello

People who write songs often say that they feel that someone is using them as a channel. I have felt that way at times. It was the morning of August 14, 2022, exactly fifty eight years from the day I saw the Beatles at Cleveland Stadium. I jumped out of bed, just another day in a life, and immediately saw the title in my mind’s eye - Let There Be Peace. I thought about John, the first Beatle to file past me at after the kids chased them off the stage. He was smiling and chuckling (thought it was funny), carrying his guitar in his left hand as he said “Hello.” The affable John, the picture of youth. There was a glow about him. He headed straight into the trailer, a few feet away, that my dad had secured for the Beatles.

It sat directly behind the stage at second base. The trailer contained four little cubicles that we had decorated for each of the Beatles in their favorite color. A zebra skinned couch in the living where the Beatles would sit while being interviewed by reporters and DJs. Moments later I would spend the next 45 minutes with the Beatles in that trailer, as the kids rocked the trailer trying to get them out. I was forever changed.

I thought about what John would say about the war in Ukraine if he were alive today. How he would plea for peace. How perhaps he could have worked his magic. I sat down at the computer and the words just fell out, all in an rush, almost intact, as they often do. I was that kid again, standing in the shadow of the great John Lennon, like he was using me as his channel.

It is now the morning of August 17, 2022. I just realized that Let There Be Peace came on the morning of the 58th anniversary of my seeing the Beatles. Thank you John.

Let There Be Peace

John Says Hello

People who write songs often say that they feel that someone is using them as a channel. I have felt that way at times. It was the morning of August 14, 2022, exactly fifty eight years from the day I saw the Beatles at Cleveland Stadium. I jumped out of bed, just another day in a life, and immediately saw the title in my mind’s eye - Let There Be Peace. I thought about John, the first Beatle to file past me at after the kids chased them off the stage. He was smiling and chuckling (thought it was funny), carrying his guitar in his left hand as he said “Hello.” The affable John, the picture of youth. There was a glow about him. He headed straight into the trailer, a few feet away, that my dad had secured for the Beatles.

It sat directly behind the stage at second base. The trailer contained four little cubicles that we had decorated for each of the Beatles in their favorite color. A zebra skinned couch in the living where the Beatles would sit while being interviewed by reporters and DJs. Moments later I would spend the next 45 minutes with the Beatles in that trailer, as the kids rocked the trailer trying to get them out. I was forever changed.

I thought about what John would say about the war in Ukraine if he were alive today. How he would plea for peace. How perhaps he could have worked his magic. I sat down at the computer and the words just fell out, all in an rush, almost intact, as they often do. I was that kid again, standing in the shadow of the great John Lennon, like he was using me as his channel.

It is now the morning of August 17, 2022. I just realized that Let There Be Peace came on the morning of the 58th anniversary of my seeing the Beatles. Thank you John.

Let There Be Peace

John Says Hello

People who write songs often say that they feel that someone is using them as a channel. I have felt that way at times. It was the morning of August 14, 2022, exactly fifty eight years from the day I saw the Beatles at Cleveland Stadium. I jumped out of bed, just another day in a life, and immediately saw the title in my mind’s eye - Let There Be Peace. I thought about John, the first Beatle to file past me at after the kids chased them off the stage. He was smiling and chuckling (thought it was funny), carrying his guitar in his left hand as he said “Hello.” The affable John, the picture of youth. There was a glow about him. He headed straight into the trailer, a few feet away, that my dad had secured for the Beatles.

It sat directly behind the stage at second base. The trailer contained four little cubicles that we had decorated for each of the Beatles in their favorite color. A zebra skinned couch in the living where the Beatles would sit while being interviewed by reporters and DJs. Moments later I would spend the next 45 minutes with the Beatles in that trailer, as the kids rocked the trailer trying to get them out. I was forever changed.

I thought about what John would say about the war in Ukraine if he were alive today. How he would plea for peace. How perhaps he could have worked his magic. I sat down at the computer and the words just fell out, all in an rush, almost intact, as they often do. I was that kid again, standing in the shadow of the great John Lennon, like he was using me as his channel.

It is now the morning of August 17, 2022. I just realized that Let There Be Peace came on the morning of the 58th anniversary of my seeing the Beatles. Thank you John.

Where it all began

With the Beatles in '66

August 14, 1966
Cleveland Stadium

Hal Pollock enters the Beatles’ trailer with the Beatles

Beatles Inspire the Opening of

The In Spot

Dance & Night Club

Eastgate Coliseum
Mayfield Heights, Ohio

In May 1967 my dad opened a side business; a teen club.
Meeting the Beatles infected him with the music bug and
made him want to become a music promoter.

We debated over the name of the club. I wanted to call it The Fallout Shelter. This was not long after the Cuban missile crisis so I was conversant with that term. My parents wanted to call the club The In Spot. My parents won.

That was the time period of the Greasers and the Squids. The Greasers were the kids with slicked back hair and leather jackets. The Squids were “the collegiates;” beige cuffed pants, Madress shirts, and penny loafers. I was a Squid.

The Greasers loved soul music. The Squids loved rock. Each group wanted to claim the club as their own. We settled on Friday night as Greaser night, Saturday night as Squid night. Sunday afternoons were up for grabs.

The In Spot was located in a large rectangular entertainment facility in Mayfield Heights, Ohio known as the Eastgate Coliseum. The Coliseum opened in 1960. It was a very cool place to spend a few hours, an afternoon or an evening. It had 50 bowling lanes, an Olympic-size indoor swimming pool, an indoor miniature golf course, a huge game room, billiard tables, and a party center. The party center later became the In Spot.

Many wonderful groups and artists played The In Spot. Mostly local talent, but some national acts. It became a legendary Cleveland teen club. Eric Carmen and his high school band The Sounds of Silence with Marty Murphy were regulars.The James Gang, the teen group of Glenn Schwartz, Jimmy Fox, and Dale Peters.

Glenn was later replaced by Joe Walsh and Glenn Schwartz joined Pacific Gas & Electric and scored a hit with Are You Ready? Cleveland legend Michael Stanley with the Tree Stumps. Bocky and the Visions. Pittsburgh's Jaggerz performing The Rapper. Then came Wicked Wilson Pickett to sing Funky Broadway and In the Midnight Hour. I still remember Wilson with my dad and I in the office before the show. He was upset. The club was initially a soul club, and the Greasers loved soul music. In particular Wilson. We figured bringing Wilson Pickett in the flesh would pack the house. But the club was in a white suburb, and the Greasers did not cotton to us bringing a Black act. The picketed Pickett. Not with signs, they just didn’t show up. Because the crowd was small Wilson refused to go on stage unless we paid him first - in cash. My dad peeled off $3,700.00 in greenbacks. Wilson took the stage and put on an unbelievable show.

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Protect Our Children

Daughters and Sons - Tribute

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The Song For America

(For Which We Stand)

The New National Anthem?

The National Contest for the Music for this Song Is Now Open.

Musicians Are Invited to Submit Proposed Music to Esquire Records

The Song For America

(For Which We Stand)

Lyrics by Hal Pollock

For every man this land must be
A place of hope and liberty
Where each man can be truly free
To realize his destiny

For every woman let there be
An equal opportunity
To lead in our society
And still to raise a family

For every child in this land
We all must lend a helping hand
So they may come to understand
The dreams that make this country grand

For every man let freedom ring
For every woman let us sing
For every child in this land
These are the things for which we stand

With every morning that we rise
Pay homage to the flag that flies
The stars and stripes that symbolize
The peace we find in these fair skies

God bless this land that we hold dear
To which we come from far and near
In search of peace and without fear
For liberties that we find here

For every man let freedom ring
For every woman let us sing
For every child in this land
These are the things for which we stand

The Song For America

(For Which We Stand)

The New National Anthem?

The National Contest for the Music for this Song Is Now Open.

Musicians Are Invited to Submit Proposed Music to Esquire Records

The Song For America

(For Which We Stand)

Lyrics by Hal Pollock

For every man this land must be
A place of hope and liberty
Where each man can be truly free
To realize his destiny

For every woman let there be
An equal opportunity
To lead in our society
And still to raise a family

For every child in this land
We all must lend a helping hand
So they may come to understand
The dreams that make this country grand

For every man let freedom ring
For every woman let us sing
For every child in this land
These are the things for which we stand

With every morning that we rise
Pay homage to the flag that flies
The stars and stripes that symbolize
The peace we find in these fair skies

God bless this land that we hold dear
To which we come from far and near
In search of peace and without fear
For liberties that we find here

For every man let freedom ring
For every woman let us sing
For every child in this land
These are the things for which we stand

Monster For President

Political rivals fight for control of Monster Nation
by Hal Pollock

Monster for President’ is a story that reveals the ups and downs of a political race between rivals for control of Monster Nation.

All ages will enjoy this comical political parody following the Prez and the Challenger along the campaign trail.

Watch and read their great debate. An ace reporter presents some interesting information that might change voter’s opinions. Will the election end in a surprise? Who will become the next President of Monster Nation?

Find out by downloading the app or purchasing the hardcover storybook. The app contains many interactive elements. Guaranteed to entertain and delight children and adults from ages 12 & up.

Get the book!

Buy the Book
$12.95

Download the Book
$1.29

Monster For President App $1.99

"Don't Die With Your Music Inside You."

Wayne Dyer

Meet The Brittles

Will the Brittles Return in 2023?
Will Apple Corps Let It Be?
Will Esquire release The Brittles Invasion?

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Meet The Brittles

Read the lyrics to Esquire's proposed Beatles' tribute to their fans, Forever Yours

Will Forever Yours be the final Beatles’ song?
Should Paul write the music?
Will Paul and Ringo record the song?

Meet The Brittles

Will the Brittles Return in 2023?
Will Apple Corps Let It Be?
Will Esquire release The Brittles Invasion?

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Meet The Brittles

Read the lyrics to Esquire's proposed Beatles' tribute to their fans, Forever Yours

Will Forever Yours be the final Beatles’ song?
Should Paul write the music?
Will Paul and Ringo record the song?

Many New Songs are Coming Soon!

Esquire is now collaborating with Ukrainian Virtuoso pianist Evgeny Khmara on 10 new songs. They are in the process of being recorded.

American vocalist Rima Clark is currently recording two of the songs including Esquire’s proposed new Olympic theme

The Best of You. Christopher Weeks in the UK is recording others The Little Story and Moments of Love.

Esquire is also now completing a 500 page songbook for release later this year. Many of the songs will be premiered here. Check back to hear the new songs.

Esquire is collaborating with artists around the world. Many songs are being recorded now. Check back for updates.

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News

Hal Pollock has joined forces Ukrainian Virtuoso pianist
Evgeny Khmara to produce ten new songs.
This is the stuff movies are made of and talks about
50 musicians scurrying around Kyiv to create the track

NEWS – 2/23/22

This is the stuff movies are made of. As Ukraine stands surrounded on three sides by Russian troops, and the world fears the outbreak of a new world war, the resilient Ukrainians assemble a 50 piece orchestra to record three alternative orchestra tracks for Fairy Tale.

NEWS – 2/23/22

This is the stuff movies are made of. As Ukraine stands surrounded on three sides by Russian troops, and the world fears the outbreak of a new world war, the resilient Ukrainians assemble a 50 piece orchestra to record three alternative orchestra tracks for Fairy Tale.

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