Local Listener and Family Writes and Releases Song with Big Al
   The Song “The Sinking Titanic” marks it’s 100th year along with the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Darleen’s Mother was 14 years old when the ship sank.She and a friend began writing the song a few days after. Her friend passed away in later years. When Darleen was old enough to understand what happen,and found the song, she teamed up with her mother and began working on the song. After her mother passed, the song laid in a drawer for years, until Darleen brought it to Big Al Weekley in 2011.

  Big Al Weekley worked on adding music to the words of the song without changing anything so it would be just as it was written. Big Al teamed up with music arranger Dan Kane owner of Power Base Studio in Wisner Ne. and after recording the track, Dan Kane went to work on arranging the Single.

Writer Darleen Zimmermen of Lexington, NE.
Artist & Music Big Al Weekley
Music Arrangement By Dane Kane Power Base Studio

The History:
RMS Titanic was a passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. The sinking of Titanic caused the deaths of 1,514 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. She was the largest ship afloat at the time of her maiden voyage. One of three Olympic class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line, she was built between 1909–11 by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. She carried 2,224 people.

Her passengers included some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as over a thousand emigrants from Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere seeking a new life in North America. The ship was designed to be the last word in comfort and luxury, with an on-board gymnasium, swimming pool, libraries, high-class restaurants and opulent cabins. She also had a powerful wireless telegraph provided for the convenience of passengers as well as for operational use. Though she had advanced safety features such as watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors, she lacked enough lifeboats to accommodate all of those aboard. Due to outdated maritime safety regulations, she carried only enough lifeboats for 1,178 people – a third of her total passenger and crew capacity.