“Behind The Scenes Making Of Ascending A Ladder To The Stars” not only gives viewers clear meaning to the song lyrics through images and narration, but it also gives us an interesting inside look on how it was created in the studio. Pedulla, who is the audio mixer says “I tried to get a nice foundation and Joe filled in the instrumentation. It was nice that we were able to use the B3 and the fender Rhodes through the Leslie that added a nice kind of vintage vibe to it.”  Pedulla, who is also visually impaired uses a screen reader to help lay the audio tracks for the song.  You can hear it 8 mins and 40 seconds into the video.  Joe Mayer, who is the melody composer, focuses on his choice to use the mandolin, fiddle, and organ as the instruments to be used in the the song ; “What I tended to do was take the chords structure and I just kind of like to move around with one or two notes within those chords, slide them up and down and then I just hear something in my head and I try to follow it.”  True words of an artist!  

Singer, songwriter Marc Hittner, explains, “I wrote this song to pay tribute to the workers of New York Harbor.”  His reference to “A sister’s acrobatics trapeze, backflips of the gymnast” depicts the everyday workers who literally bend over backwards to do their jobs, such as ship painters dangling off the sides of ships too boat pilots climbing up accommodation ladders; workers we often tend to forget about.  The song also focuses on the dangers of the accommodation ladders that ship pilots need to climb up in order to dock ships.  

Ascending A Ladder To The Stars is available when you click here for streaming platforms of your choice. NYHC intends to feature a new artist every month with these docu-scensory videos.  Want to share your songs backstory or even need help recording a song?  Look no further because NYHC is here to help. Reach out to our content department at [email protected]. Of course, the musical themes should be marine related to appeal to our water-loving audience but we are always open to creating content for any musician.

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Due to the size and depth of the USNS Comfort, US Navy Meteorologists and Oceanographers prepared the weather forecast and the underwater topographic maps.  Logistics were already in motion well before the ship’s departure from Norfolk Naval Operations Base.

Back in New York Harbor, Donjon Marine, a local dredging company, was permitted to deepen the harbor for safe transit and docking at Pier 90 Manhattan Cruise Terminal.

Monday morning, the Sandy Hook Launch was waiting.  Captain Tim Ferrie was on board. He cautiously ascended ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ at the Ambrose Station meeting point in the New York Bight.

The Sandy Hook pilot delivers the Flag of New York State that was unfurled above the Comfort as it entered New York Harbor.

At the helm of USNS Comfort, alongside Commander Patrick Amersbach and Captain Andrew Lindey, Tim Ferrie wore his mask in the face of COVID-19 precaution.

A salute from the New York Harbor flotilla accompanied the hospital ship up the Hudson River into Berth 4 of the Marine Terminal.

The configuration of the Navy Hospital ship was not unfamiliar to Captain Ferrie. Both USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy are converted super-tankers. Similar specifications to many other tankers that a routinely enter New York Harbor carrying oil. This was another delivery in the hundreds of deliveries the Sandy Hook pilots make every day and every night.

Captain Ferrie was presented with the traditional Navy Challenge Coin by Commander Amersbach.  New York Harbor Channel applauds all the members of the Sandy Hook Pilot Association.

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