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My father, Martin Levin wrote the lyrics to “The Right Way.’ His friends Rich Smith and Chia Hui Lin wrote: Music, Vocal, and Piano. The song is about how he ordered his life and made no excuses. He answered, “I did it the RIGHT way and that is it. I hear my father all of the time. He speaks to me from the grave like no other.

The Right Way

Words: Martin Levin

I think it is time for me to tell the story of my life, the right way.

Still traveling the highways and byways searching for the new way. There were times I knew the new way was the wrong way, so…back to my way, the right way of hard work, long hours, standing tall, facing it all, as a man on my way, the right way.

Born at 158 Downey Street, San Francisco; came to Los Angeles in my youth, to live my life a new right way, The Scrap Iron Business. Rose my wife adds to my life, Sheila is born; Michael came along, then Ron. Ron is now gone. All college bound, left Huntington Park, my town. I was doing things my way, the right way. Bought a lot, rented it to the United States Post Office and to this day, they pay. Bought 30 acres in Montebello, just a hole full of water, but doing it the old way, filling the hole, developing the land, made huge profits, the people had to pay.

A new way, the right way, was sharing the profits with the family.

Business, land, risks, hard work, annuities, partners, sharing profits, salesmanship, developing new right ways for all of my days. Discovering and rediscovering the way me, for Rose and the family.

Busy planning every step of my life, doing it carefully the right way. Standing tall, facing it all as a man, as strong a model as I can. Finder’s fees, successful plans, paperwork, bids, guts, friendships, making money for me, for Rose and the family.

There is industry, plans, ability, agree or disagree, and a great need for privacy. Rose my wife, the partner in my life, lives at home with caregivers and me twenty-four hours a day, my only right way.

This story does not end but has a happy note. Health restored, plans renewed with my wife, partner for life, my children, my grand children, my great grandchildren. I love the with all of my heart and maybe a new way is better, but for me the right way is for me, for Rose and the family.

I have been enlightened once again by my father, Martin Levin. Whenever you are challenged to do something, do it thoughtfully and know it is the right way! I share this song with you today in his honor.