Somewhere on this site is an "Easter Egg."
Find it with a mouseover and win a prize!
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We now have a real-live MySpace page!
Check it out, and sign up to be our "friend," at
http://www.myspace.com/orpheusreborn2.

We now also have a Show Calendar page!
Click the "SHOWS" link above. You can now also send us feedback, comments, suggestions, or anything else your little heart desires at feedback@orpheusreborn.com.

We're now averaging between 4,000 and 6,000 plays of the songs or sound clips on our site. That's a lot. But the month of July, 2007, was incredible.
There were almost 17,000 plays of these audio clips!

On March 21, 2008, we passed 100,000 cumulative plays of these songs and clips. Wonder how long it'll take to hit a quarter of a million??? (Note that this does NOT include plays of the "Classic" song clips that may be accessed from the Alan Lorber Biography page.)

Update: We passed 150,000 cumulative plays on August 18, 2008. It took 31 months to reach 100,000, and only an additional 5 months to get to 150,000.

Visit our Discography pages to play YOUR favorites. Each play counts as a "vote" for that song as shown on our Monthly Top 75 page.

Stephen & the Snake have now joined the Iris Music Group stable of artists! The first single, comprising Heat Lightning and Left Hand Right Hand (you can listen to low-resolution versions from the Discography page) will be released shortly - we expect the songs to be available for download, world-wide, by the end of November. The guys also have a new web site under construction at http://www.stephenandthesnake.com.

"Back in the day," that is to say in 1968 and 1969, there were three weekly magazines that tracked the record industry. In addition to Billboard (which is still around today) there were also Cash Box and Record World. For the most part, Orpheus' recordings of Can't Find The Time and Brown Arms In Houston charted higher in these publications than they did in Billboard.

In addition, many radio stations published their own local weekly surveys, listing the top hits in their coverage area.

We've now established a Chart Data and Surveys page, including summaries of the national chart data for the recordings of the original Orpheus, links to the charts themselves where they are available, and a whole bunch of links to local surveys showing Orpheus' singles and albums.

Stephen & the Snake have finished another new song - give a listen to Heat Lightning !

Steve's song The Past Is Gone has been included in a new compilation from the Iris Music Group, called Parade Of Broken Hearts. Details are here.

Apparently there is a wee bit of a delay in the release of Rob Watts' book, The Sounds From Boston. We'll keep you posted once we have more details.

There's been another recording of Bob's tune Mick Ryan's Lament. This one is by Ray Doyle; click here to listen to a clip.
We've recently discovered another version, this one by the Dragseth Duo & the Backporch String Band on their CD Songs From The Porch. It's currently only available in Germany, but we're trying to get a copy.

Another new CD release, Bailed Out by Johnnie Mac, features Kathi as session drummer on several tracks. Click here to go to Kathi's part of our Discography pages, then scroll down to "Kathi as session musician." You can access the clips from there.

Stephen & the Snake are currently working on a new CD. They've finished the first tune, Left Hand Right Hand, which you can listen to here. The powerful lyrics were inspired by a poem by Francis "Woody" Woodbridge, Jr., a poet and former Congress Alley denizen, who recently passed away. Stephen interpreted and set the words to music to produce an extraordinary song.

LATEST WORD is that Rob Watts' book, The Sounds From Boston (scroll down for details), is scheduled for release on August 8 of 2008. Stay tuned!

CONGRATULATIONS
to Christine "Chris" Lucas of Tallahassee, Florida! Chris found the "Easter Egg" on our site (see above), and has won a complete set of Trak12 CDs! Chris was the first to discover this since October of 2005! Perseverence pays off!

Hurray! A new Orpheus Reborn song!
Click here to listen to All-Time Antique Store.
This is a studio version of a favorite from our live shows.

Celtic artist Ken O'Malley has recently released a new CD called ÓMàille, which includes a new version of Bob's tune Mick Ryan's Lament. Listen to a clip here. As you may recall, Ken had released another version on the compilation Ceiltis. Listen to a clip of that one here.

Kathi now has her own web site featuring her art works. Check it out at www.kathitaylor.com. Her material is amazing!

Our buddy Tom Zagryn has located the original master tapes of all of the Blue Echo Productions material from 1963-1965! We've had them digitized at The Gallery Studios in East Hartford, CT, and will be posting clips when they are remastered. The first of these,
Bobby Is The Boy by the Chanelles, is now up! Give a listen, and check the Change Log for further postings.

The Iris Music Group (http://www.irismusicgroup.com) has announced the release of the Stephen Martin Anthology: Even Autumn, IMG-265.



This is the first in a planned series of compilations of Steve's songs and recordings, produced by Alan Lorber. Details are here.
Read Alan Lorber's biography and listen to sound clips of a bunch of his work here.

There's a really interesting book in the making - The Sounds from Boston (working title, subject to change) by Rob Watts is scheduled for publication by Ocean View Press in 2008. Rob interviewed Harry, Steve, Jack & the Snake on August 21 of 2005, and both Orpheus and Orpheus Reborn are expected to be a featured part of this project. Read more at www.bostonauthor.com.

We now have a SITE MAP to help with navigation, and a CHANGE LOG to show you what's new "at a glance." See the links at the bottom of each main page.