The Years

Dayle Stanley (Dates unknown)

Dayle Stanley is from Gloucester, Massachusetts, and never traveled far from there. In this year, 1964, The Holy Modal Rounders were voted best new group by the Boston Broadside, and Dayle Stanley was voted female vocalist of the year. I loved her album, After The Snow, from which this song was taken. She wrote it at the age of 12. We became friends, and in the early ‘70s she called to ask a favor. She was recording an album in New York City on spec, and asked if Antonia and I could put up some band members that were coming with her. We were glad to help. That’s how we met Martin Mull, who was her guitarist. He had just graduated from RISD, the Rhode Island School Of Design, and had completed a series in the style of ‘40s Disney animation cells, which he was selling, framed, for $100 each. He gifted us with one, which I still have and cherish. The recordings did not go well, and the album never came out. We lost touch with each other and the years passed. I got hold of Dave Wilson, who had been the editor of the Boston Broadside, and asked for contact information. He told me he heard she had developed dementia, and gave me the number of the one person he knew who might have further information. I called, but that person never got back to me so I have no more information about this lovely song, which is the most obscure of the 100 besides the 1992 song, “Laura The Horse”, which Antonia and I wrote.