The World is Waiting for the Sunrise Jack Hutton - Mr. Eyebrows This CD is my personal tribute to Ernest Seitz and Gene Lockhart, who wrote "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise" in mid-town Toronto (just below the corner of St. Claire and Avenue Road) in 1916 when both were in their mid-20s. Seitz was a first rank Canadian concert pianist from World War 1 until the mid-40s. Lockhart went on to fame as an actor on Broadway and in Hollywood.

For one month, starting Feb. 12, 1999, the recording studio was literally the living room at the Bala home, which my wife, Linda, stepson John, and I share on Lake Muskoka. Ernest Seitz and Gene Lockhart would chuckle about the way family life carried on while I recorded directly from my Kurzweil digital piano onto an 8-track digital recording unit. John (13) watched "The Simpsons" on TV two feet from the piano, while Linda interrupted L. M. Montgomery research to do the family laundry. As you will hear, I turned into a second pianist on 15 out of 25 tracks. It was totally spontaneous, so listen in the same spirit of fun! Sound engineering was brilliantly done by Jim Field (the son of Toronto bassist Dave Field), who co-leads Rhea's Obsession, a popular Celtic rock band in Toronto, with his wife Sue Hutton, my daughter. It was a family affair because Linda took the "Eyebrows" photo on the cover. Jack Hutton, long-time piano player for the Rainbow-Gardens Jazz Orchestra, now lives in Bala, Muskoka. He has been performing and researching ragtime and popular music for more than 30 years, and enjoys playing for visitors at Bala's Museum with Memories of Lucy Maud Montgomery, which he and Linda founded in 1992. In 1997, Jack received the Pauline McGibbon Life Achievement in the Arts award at Ray Thompson Hall. His next big project is completing a book on Ernest Seitz, Gene Lockart and "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise".

Produced by Music Manufacturing Services, Toronto CD jacket printing by Watts Printing, Gravenhurst (Cover assembly: Rae Watts) Sound Engineering: Jim Field Sunrise cover photo by Terry Hrynyk "Eyebrows" photo by Linda Jackson-Hutton Thanks to Dr. Kagool (aka Paul Brodie) for our friendship and our chats at Bee Jays Grill in Bala. It was Paul who prodded me into doing this CD.