People go about their lives, moved by events around them and shaped by their successes and failures. We all strive for some connection to others, to family and friends, and hope to be part of those events and experiences for others; to help shape others means that something of us lives on after we’ve gone.

Music has the ability to hang around in the public mind. Kenny Rogers is no longer with us, but you can easily opt to listen to his music, hear his performances of his own songs. Elvis hasn’t been around for some time, now, but his music is still right there. Everyone’s heard of “The Twelve Days of Christmas”… but, while the earliest audio recording of the song appears to be from 1949 (performed by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters on Decca Records), the music comes from far, far earlier. The melody for the modern version of the song is based on an arrangement by Frederic Austin in 1905. But even that doesn’t begin to illustrate the longevity of this song. According to EasySong’s list of Christmas Songs in the Public Domain, it originated in the 1500s. That’s staying power.

We here at ForgetMeNot Records want to help artists achieve some small slice of that sort of immortality. We’re all here for just a short time; it’s the things we do to shape the world around us that can persist.

And music lives on…