Yay! My first attempt at making a song with the Voice Band iPhone app.
I realise this sounds a total offbeat church choir version of When You Say Nothing At All (especially during the chorus), but I swear the tempo seemed so much faster when that metronome was ticking away during recording. I promise the next one will suck less. This was made in half an hour from downloading the app to figuring it out, so I guess with that out of the way, future recordings should be less speed-bumpy.
(Here's the rather unmusical 'score' I typed out as a cue for the bass recording, which was the first layer I started with.)
Listening to the classic hits station on the way to work (because I am 50), it occurred to me that the music of the '70s was so unabashedly—for lack of a better word—frank.
In the midst of hard rock music taking flight that decade, were all this seemingly-innocuous little ditties. Sure, they're pretty enjoyable songs, but it starts to get moderately icky to know your religious aunt knows all the words to these.On the radio this morning was this one by Sheer Elegance, called "Life is Too Short Girl". I must have heard it a million times before, but for some reason, this morning I was really listening to the lyrics.
Life is too short girl, that's why I must be moving on and on Keep my body flowing, my mind growing baby
Watching it again on YouTube brought me to this song, which I used to sing along to on long car drives up to Malaysia with my parents.
Arms of Mary, by the Sutherland Brothers
She took the pains of boyhood, and turned them in to feel-good, Oh, how I wish I was lying in the arms of Mary
But I digress. Let's close this post now with quintessential 1976 number, "Afternoon Delight", by the Starland Vocal Band, made popular again for this generation by Ron Burgundy. That "My Humps" song has got nothing on the '70s.
