Hello, I’m author J. H. McIntosh the creator of Professor Remembers Music Memories. This site is the culmination of a lifelong hobby of writing fictional stories and original songs to accentuate events in the stories.

The first batch of ten original songs were recorded at Eastern Sound in Methuen, MA in 1985.

A little more than ten years later, my brother Jimmy and I recorded 12 new originals in a recording studio in North Carolina mountain country.

In late 2023 and into 2024, working with composers in Argentina, Egypt, Italy, Morocco and the USA I wrote lyrics for the first fifty songs for the 90 songs that go with It’s Impossible. In the fall of 2025 I began using AI to generate music for the lyrics I wrote for the remaining 40 chapters.

It’s Impossible is the sequel to “Can’t Stop It” (episode one in the Jimmy Rogers Chronicles).

“Can’t Stop It” is based on actual events in the life of fictional character Jimmy Rogers, a senior in High School who is in a battle to break from his father Red Rogers’ long held belief, “life is a cruel joke, barely worth living”.

Red Rogers has felt this way ever since, as a teenager he was blamed for the death of his own Father. When bad things happen in life, one either moves closer to God or further away. Sadly, Red went in the wrong direction.

This had a profound impact on the lives of Red’s eight children and especially on the life of Jimmy’s mother, Esther Rogers.

If Jimmy loses this battle, and adopts his Father’s bleak outlook on life he will take his own life and the mystery behind the death of his best friend David Perkins and David’s girlfriend Cathy Carlson will go unsolved.

The story is told by Aaron Rizzer, a/k/a Professor Remember (shown above). As the founder of Professor Remembers Roadhouse & Bakery Café (a home for music creators and lovers), he’s Okay with Jimmy’s cousin David Perkins band, The Rhythm Kings practicing in the basement of Remembers. The “Kings” also performed on the main stage at Professor Remembers Roadhouse & Bakery Café.

Following the opening scene, as the credits roll, we hear Jimmy singing The Saturday & Sunday Blues. One of several original songs punctuating events in this coming of age/murder mystery.

This song was written out of the anguish one feels when he believes he has lost everything.  And that’s exactly how Jimmy felt when he found his girlfriend Maria Scappelli in the arms of another. Jimmy writes several songs from that same wellspring, including “If Tears Were Dollars”, “Outside of Your Love”, “Almost Out of My Mind” and “Deep Down Inside I Cry”.

He witnessed Maria in the arms of another right after hearing of the death of David and Cathy, followed by news that the Langford Factory where Jimmy worked after school had burned to the ground.

Was his father, right? Is “life a cruel joke, barely worth living?

Jimmy is wrestling with life’s paramount decision. Whether to live life with a sense of hope and optimism or to live life void of hope and purpose, one filled with tragedy and despair.

Up to this point Jimmy has tried to walk the line between his mother Esther Rogers’ hopeful view and his father Red’s dim outlook on life. Which path will Jimmy choose?