After the successful single release of Broken Lines from the CD "Folis Paradyce"on U.S. AAA Radio in the secondary markets, Quintessential Records was gearing up for the second single release when an Act of God changed marketing strategy. Sherwood was at the Mark Taper Forum on a Saturday night in downtown Los Angeles watching the musical "Ragtime", when his pager watch beemed the message, "Princess Di Dies".

That night all television stations covered the news of her untimely death, playing inappropriate music behind the expose's. In 1981, Sherwood had written a romantic ballad for the modern day fairy tale wedding of Prince Charles to Lady Diana, entitled, "Lady Diana". He pulled out the old cassette, re-wrote the lyrics to be a dedication to the late Princess, sequenced and recorded the orchestration on Sunday. By midnight, he was recording the vocals and classical guitar. Monday morning, he did three mixes to dat tape and took the tape with him to a recording session at Bell Sound Studios, Hollywood, CA. While in one room doing a recording session, in another room, Engineer - Buddy Halligan was mastering the best mix of "A Tribute to Princess Diana". Sherwood's intention was to send the mix to the television stations for the on-going expose's, but also sent a copy off to WBLG, Bowling Green, KY, station in NY, and 104.3 Los Angeles. All three stations had heavy call-ins from women crying. Henceforth, the next release by Sherwood Ball. Part of the proceeds of the recording went to The Princess Diana Fund in UK.

After the radio stations had run their course on "The Candle in the Wind" and "A Tribute to Princess Diana", the radio station programmers were calling the promoters asking "What next from Sherwood Ball?". This was now early November. Sherwood had a musical track of a song from Steve Porcaro and wrote the song, "Dreamin' of Christmas in L.A.", a funny song with an infectious groove. Sherwood then teamed up with R&B/Pop producer-co-writer, Peter Roberts, to record and produce the rest of what was to be the EP, Dreamin' of Christmas in L.A.

Even though it's the title of the CD, there is only ONE Christmas song on the EP.

Musicians:
Sherwood Ball - vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards
Ted Sarafian - keyboards, programming
Tim Redfield - Keyboards - programming

Mixed, recorded and mastered by:
Peter Roberts

Mastering on the Tribute to princess Diana by: Buddy Halligan