When I was fourteen and the throes of my first real celebrity crush (Leonardo DiCaprio in “Romeo and Juliet”), I asked my mother who got her heart doing jumping jacks when she was my age. She didn’t have to think twice. “Paul McCartney,” she said, smiling to herself. Thus was a love affair with The Beatles passed from one generation to the next.

Mom bought me a copy of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band (her favorite of their albums), and after I’d listened to it enough times to stamp in on my DNA, I moved on to explore the rest of their music. My favorite of their albums is “Abbey Road” (though “Revolver” is a very close second); it was their last together as a band and, I think, their most epic. “Golden Slumbers” is one of the most beautiful songs on the album, and one of my all-time favorite Beatles tunes. So, as an homage to Mom, I decided to record it. Happy Listening!