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¹ Here are notes provided by the recorder of "O Parvardigar": "[H]e [Pete Townshend] brought three microphones, three stands and a stereo Stellavox (like a Nagra 4 but stereo) - a great portable 7" reel to reel tape recorder that was state of the art for it's time. The microphones were one Shure and two Neumons if I recall--they might have even been SM-69s--I can't remember.... Anyway, it was live analog recording with no board, so I had to ride gain on mic levels so as not to clip, and mix it as I recorded it."

² These songs were recorded with an unknown digital recorder.

³ These songs were recorded with an unknown video camera.

⁴ "Roses for the Queen" was recorded with a Zoom H4n Handy Recorder.

⁵ "Kya Tumne Suna Hai" (Have you heard the word?) was composed for the movie "In the House of Their Father," which premiered at the East-West Gathering 50th anniversary commemoration program that took place at Meherabad in 2012.

⁶ The words of "Khodavandegar Mahboob" (Beloved God) are the Farsi translation of "A Prayer for Baba's Lovers," which is also known as the "Beloved God Prayer." The English transliteration of the Farsi words in the song is "Khodavandegar mahboob hameye maa ra yari farma yari farma, ta to ra bishtar o bishtar, bishtar o bishtar va baaz ham bishtar doost bedarim, ta shayesteye vesale to gardim va hame maa ra yari farma, ta daamane Baba ra ta be akhar mohkam negah darim, ta daaman Baba ra ta be akhar mohkam negah darim."

⁷ Here are notes provided by the recorder of these songs: "The main singer was recorded on a Shure Beta-58, our best dynamic vocal mic. Simon and Carla and other singers were recorded on Shure SM-58s and the chorus overheads were a pair of Audio-Technica AT4041 mics with the cardioid cartridges. The keyboard was recorded direct in to the Mackie mixer. I recorded into Pro Tools 8.0.5 through a DIGI002R interface. The mic pre-amps and instrument interface were in a Mackie Onyx 800R, connected to the DIGI002R via optical cable (ADAT Lightpipe). I mixed in ProTools, making minor adjustments via Waves Renaissance Reverb and Renaissance EQ plugins. Then I compressed and normalized the mixes in Sound Forge 6.0 using Sound Forge's built-in graphic EQ feature."

⁸ "Ala Paha Deva Ala" (Behold, God has come!) was written for and sung at Baba's visit to Pandharpur in 1954. Baba went there at Gadge Maharaj's behest, and He gave darshan to throngs of people gathered next to the Chandrabhagha River for a nighttime kirtan session. Gadge Maharaj told the crowd, "Have the darshan of Meher Baba! Jagat Guru Meher Baba! Try to realize how fortunate you are that although you came here to worship the Lord's image in stone, you find instead amidst you the Lord of the universe. You can never realize how happy I am that Meher Baba is near me today." (Lord Meher, Vol. 13, p. 4576)

⁹ The man heard in the background of this recording requesting "prasad" and laughing is the late Meherabad resident Gitaram Tiwari.

¹⁰"We Welcome You" was composed for the Westerners attending the East-West Gathering.

¹¹ "Meher Raj" was composed by Rustom K. Irani, the father of Baba's mandali member Meheru Irani, and was the first arti written for Baba in Gujarati. It was also sung to Baba by His mandali member Katie Irani and appears on her cd Singing for Baba.

Copyright information: the copyright of each song is held by the songwriter(s) or their representative(s), and each recording is posted by permission of the copyright holder(s) or their representative(s) (when known) and the individual performer or lead singer(s) of a group. The copyright of a recording of a song performed by the song's composer (of the words and music) or of any song in the public domain is also held by the performer(s).

Purchasing information: the studio versions of many of the recordings can be purchased at the performers' websites, which can be visited by clicking on the hyperlink of a performer's name in the above table. If a performer does not have a website or his or her music is not available for purchase there, it may be purchased at www.meherbababooks.com, www.sheriarbooks.com, or http://www.meherbaba.co.uk/music.html. Other Baba music may be purchased at http://www.searchlightbooks.org/audio.htm or http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss/180-3399414-5937616?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=%22Meher+Baba%22. More music from Baba's Samadhi and elsewhere may be downloaded for free at http://avatarmeher.org/31-2 or http://trustmeher.org/meher-baba-music/aarti-and-songs-by-meera-kale.

Recording information: the recordings were made with an Olympus LS-11 Linear PCM Recorder. The limiter function on the recorder makes a recording sound less vibrant than it otherwise would, and it was used until 1.5.2013, so all recordings after that should have a richer tone to them, and the recording of "Surrender" from 23.12.2012 was made with the low-cut switch accidentally in the on position. The recorder was chosen based on the reviews and sound samples at http://www.wingfieldaudio.com and the reviews at http://taperssection.com.

Webpage information: Meherabad Moments is a private webpage not maintained by the Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust.

Contact information: the webpage designer may be reached at meherbaba@hotmail.com.

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