Throughout my entire life I have loved music. I grew up listening to an assortment of music from church music to hard rock to oldies. Growing up with two older sisters, an older brother and a mother who was the church pianist, my musical taste could be described as eclectic.

The Beach Boys, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Heart, Olivia Newton-John and a number of hymns were always playing on the radio or from the living room.

For me, though, I never was musically inclined except in my dreams. Sure, I took the obligatory piano lessons through fifth grade, and I can read music. The song I am most famous or infamous for would be “The Yellow Rose of Texas,” because it was the only one I knew.

Around four years ago, I was roaming Walmart, looking for ideas for children’s church when I came across the “musical instrument” section in the toy aisles.

There were guitars, keyboards, drums and the cutest little thing ever. It was a harmonica - a C diatonic, 10-hole harmonica. I paid less than $10 for the harmonica, a self-teaching book and a DVD with songs on it. Perhaps it was not a good idea to buy one at that cost, but for a starter, I figured why not.

As I studied the harmonica, I found many artists, female and male, play the harmonica.

Bruce Springsteen, Huey Lewis and of course, Bob Dylan are the first musicians who come to mind. Females include Alanis Morissette and Amy Ray. “American Idol” Taylor Hicks also is a player.

So I set out within a few days to learning to play the harmonica. Most of my friends and family don’t know that I can play. (I guess they do now.) My parents, brother and sister-in-law know and, of course, my parents’ church know too because I have played a few church songs in front of them.

I started reading through lots of websites and hitting music stores to find harmonica tabs to play. All I could find at first were church songs. Don’t get me wrong, I love church songs. I just wanted to try something different.

And one day I found different - thousands of free tabs (harmonica music) from The Beatles.

The Beatles’ album, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” was released in the United States today - well, on this date in 1967. For those trivia buffs, the album took 700 hours for the boys from England to record where their first album took 12.

Songs on the album included “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” “A Day in the Life” and “With A Little Help From My Friends.”

The world still hums, whistles, taps their toes and bops their heads to those tunes.

Apparently, so do dogs.

My canine companion has to put up with a lot from me, including hours of practice with the harmonica (and I am still really a beginner). He hasn’t done much, and usually sits on the floor close to my feet and chews on his toy.

Sunday night, I was working on a Beatles’ classic, “Can’t Buy Me Love,” when Buddy sat up and stared at me. His little head started bopping. As I hit the chorus, Buddy decided to hit it with me.

Together, for what seemed like an hour but really was just a few minutes, Buddy and I performed duet after duet of songs.

I forgot about the soreness in my muscles, muscles I didn’t know I had, from moving. Buddy forgot about the itch that had caused a rash on his left thigh.

Mr. Anonymous said - or thinkexist com says he did - that ” Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul.”

Now, if Buddy and I could take our act on the road - boy, what a story that would make!

Remember Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers (“Islands in the Stream”) or Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond (“You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” - what a classic!) or Lionel Richie and Diana Ross (“Endless Love”) ?

Buddy and I could do a cover of The Beatles’ “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” and call it “Bow, Woof and Ruff.”

Watch out Colbie Caillat and Jason Mraz - here we come …

Buddy and Becky …