Love Songs Lost

I've written about Gundella off and on for close to fifteen years and probably know as much about her as anybody alive does now that her daughter Madilynne has passed. At least the newsworthy stuff and not necessarily the personal aspects of her life which she didn't publicly share in her writings.

One thing she never discussed publicly was her first marriage to Bernard Mulleague. She simply stated that he had died in a car accident despite the fact that he lived nearly forty years after their divorce some time in the 1950s. Having always been interested in the man's backstory I did some digging and found out that he had a shady past having gone to juvenile lockup and prison for theft on numerous occasions.

I'm not certain of the time frame when Marion and Bernard divorced but I would assume that it was sometime after her daughter Madilynne was born in 1952. Since Marion was a school teacher she wasn't dependent upon him to provide, which may or may not have contributed to the demise of their marriage.

Anyway, here are two songs that Bernard apparently wrote music for in collaboration with lyricist David Garcia DeLao. I'm not sure if it is a typo but DeLaO's name is spelled with an uppercase O on both entries in the Library of Congress Copyright Office. I've searched for both unpublished songs and haven't been able to find anything else about them but this is a start in that direction.