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Please use the discussion thread for commenting and do not comment in this thread. Online Streamer I am delighted to introduce our first ever Pop themed quarterly AB Forum “Beginners and Beyond†Recital! So, pull up a chair and have a listen. If it allows for more listening enjoyment, please download the below zip files that have been created. Hopefully they all work. Please report if any problems. Also, please enjoy the online streamer with link to it provided above. And, as always, please refer to the posts that follow in this main recital thread, for comments left by the participants and for individual audio links and videos. Thank you so much to all participants and to everyone that will be stopping by for a listen. A special Thank you to the tremendous support I always receive from Monica and Sam which makes Administration much easier. It all went much better this time. And of course thanks to all that have contributed to allow these events to take place. Now, on with the show ... Pop_Zip1 Pop_Zip2 Pop_Zip3 Pop_Zip4 Pop_Zip5 Pop_Zip6 Pop_Zip7 Pop_Zip8 Pop_Zip9 And here's the link to Sam S.'s terrific ABF recital index, that allows you to browse through and search for pieces in all of our past recitals: AB Forum Recital Index
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01 | | Performer's name: | Greener/Jeff | From: | Toronto | Experience: | Years | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Close to You | Composer: | Burt Bacharach | Duration: | 02:39 | Source of music: | Dad | Instrument used: | Heintzman, Normandie | Recording method: | 3 mics, Cubase | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | In 1970, "(They Long to Be) Close to You", though written by Bacharach and Hal David became a hit and was the Carpenters' first certified Gold single.
This is one of the earliest pieces I ever played on piano. I was shown it by rote and began playing this around the age of 10 or 12 I guess, in the early 70's soon after it came out. This is basically the same arrangement as I was shown, though the key change may have come a little later. It is a good thing I remembered it, because I didn't have it written down anywhere. |
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02 | | Performer's name: | Greener/Jeff | From: | Toronto | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | It's a Beautiful Day In This Neighborhood | Composer: | Fred Rogers | Duration: | 01:25 | Source of music: | Lead Sheet. | Instrument used: | Heintzman, Normandie | Recording method: | 2 piano mics, 1 voice mic & Cubase | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | Johnny Costa (and trio) served as musical director, arranger, and keyboardist for the children's television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood from the program's debut in 1968 until his death in 1996. The program's creator and host, Fred Rogers, regarded Costa as one of the most gifted musicians he had ever met. Rogers' choice was surprising because Costa's style was regarded as too complicated and sophisticated for a children's program. Rogers's though, also a fine pianist and musician in his own right, and creator of the theme song, insisted that Costa not dilute or necessarily simplify his style in any way and that kids understood music. If you listen, the trio was full on excellent jazz group, clever arrangements, very polished and all live.
My arrangement is nothing like that and is surely simplified for singing. Even so, the changes are coming quickly and it has made for a fun piece to do. |
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03 | | Performer's name: | Sam S | From: | Georgia, USA | Avatar: | | Experience: | more than I care to admit | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Moon River | Composer: | Mancini, Henry | Duration: | 04:07 | Instrument used: | 1927 Bechstein model L (that I rebuilt) | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | Lovely Laurie, my wife of 36 years, is playing the clarinet. I am attempting to keep up on the piano. We did this in one take, so it is what it is. I only had about 2 weeks to work this up for a nursing home performance, so figured I would use it for this recital too.
Goes along OK in two flats until !KEY CHANGE! into 5 flats - yikes!
This won the 1962 Grammy for Record of the Year. Made it's debut in "Breakfast at Tiffanys", sung by Audrey Hepburn. Later became the theme song for Andy Williams in his popular TV show.
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04 | | Performer's name: | Tim Adrianson | From: | Madison, WI | Experience: | 60+ | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | All I Know | Composer: | Jimmy Webb | Duration: | 03:16 | Source of music: | Sheet Music | Instrument used: | Kawai Baby Grand | Recording method: | TASCAM 400 | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | I consider Jimmy Webb and Laura Nyro to be two of the finest songwriters emerging from the 60s popular music explosion. More specifically, they were "piano-based", which makes them especially appropriate for this E-cital. Both became very successful at an early age, in their late teens/early twenties, then faded from public view in the 70s and beyond, but IMO retained their excellence apart from the spotlight.
Of my four Webb selections, "All I Know" may be the most familiar; Art Garfunkel, following his departure from Paul Simon, made this one of his signature songs in the mid 70s
In all cases, I will provide the Lyric, because both Webb and Nyro were IMO both as good lyricists as they were composers.
I bruise you; you bruise me We both bruise too easily Too easily, to let it show I love you, and that's All I know
All my plans are falling through All my plans depend on you Depend on you, to help them grow I love you, and that's All I know
When the singer's gone Let the song go on It's a fine line between The darkness and the dawn There's a light beyond
But the ending always Comes at last Endings always come too fast They come too fast, but They pass Too Slow
I love you, and that's all It's really all I know It's all I know It's all I know It's all I know |
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05 | | Performer's name: | Tim Adrianson | From: | Madison, WI | Experience: | 60+ | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | She Moves and Eyes Follow | Composer: | Jimmy Webb | Duration: | 03:43 | Source of music: | Sheet Music | Instrument used: | Kawai baby grand | Recording method: | TASCAM 400 | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | This is an early Webb piece, published in 1968. By this time, Webb had established himself as a major songwriter, with such hits as "Didn't We", "Up, Up, and Away" and ""MacArthur Park", but this one was never popularized. A pity -- I think it's one of his most truly beautiful songs.
Here's the Lyric:
She moves, and eyes follow Longing to touch They want her so much, They stare
She speaks, and all listen They so want to hear She draws them all near, They care That she's there
She laughs, and laughter follows Like ripples follow a stone In pools of fallen rain
She goes, she goes, and light follows And those who have stayed See the room fade, and go bare
How long can I stand With heart Hollow
When wherever she moves, My eyes follow?
(Hummed reprise)
How long can I stand With heart Hollow
When wherever she moves, My eyes follow Her There |
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06 | | Performer's name: | Tim Adrianson | From: | Madison, WI | Experience: | 60+ | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Belmont Avenue | Composer: | Jimmy Webb | Duration: | 04:20 | Source of music: | Sheet Music | Instrument used: | Kawai Baby Grand | Recording method: | TASCAM 400 | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | This is Jimmy Webb in a subsequent generation: he collaborated with actor Chazz Palmintieri on a musical entitled "A Bronx Tale", in 2003. "Belmont Ave" is a song from that musical; it is IMO a well-nigh perfect evocation of a 20s-something (maybe teen) blue-collar night out in 1950s Bronx.
Here's the Lyric:
It's twelve o'clock, and all is well On Belmont Avenue
Here on our block is a magic spell from the El down to the zoo
And all through the night You can sleep tight: no harm will Come To You
It's twelve o'clock, and all is well On Belmont Avenue
At twelve o'clock, we say farewell With kisses sweet and free
No time to talk, but time will tell If our love is meant to be
'Til the morning breaks 'Til my love awakes, I'll watch the Whole Night Through
It's twelve o'clock, and all is well On Belmont Avenue
Tonight the Bronx is beautiful Has it ever been so nice? It's like sitting in the balcony, baby, at Loew's paradise at Loew's paradise
The chapel bell, from Mount Carmel It plays a closing tune
As in the dark, we kiss and tell Our story to the moon
It's our time and space It's the perfect place to watch those Dreams Come True
It's twelve o'clock, and all is well 'Cause all is well With you On Belmont Avenue On Belmont Avenue On Belmont Avenue |
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07 | | Performer's name: | Tim Adrianson | From: | Madison, WI | Experience: | 60+ | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Time Flies | Duration: | 03:10 | Source of music: | Sheet Music | Instrument used: | Kawai baby grand | Recording method: | TASCAM 400 | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | "Time Flies" is IMO one of Webb's most beautiful later songs; He published this in 1995.
Here's the Lyric (equally poignant, a perfect match to the music):
Life begins, and spirits rise And they become mem'ries that vaporize And the vapor becomes the dreams we devise And while we are dreaming, Time Flies
Night turns to dawn and dreams to sighs And sighs change to sweet love that never dies And love becomes laughter and lullabies And while we are dreaming Time Flies
While we are dreaming we meet and exchange Conversations routinely, and nothing seems strange But when we awake, there's a sense of unease That's another night's gone, just as quick as you please
Night turns to dawn, and then to bright skies And bright skies to picnics on warm Julys To deep umber autumn and winter goodbyes And while we are dreaming Time Flies
While we are dreaming Time
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08 | | Performer's name: | Tim Adrianson | From: | Madison, WI | Experience: | 60+and from | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Stoned Soul Picnic | Composer: | Laura Nyro | Duration: | 02:36 | Source of music: | Sheet Music | Instrument used: | Kawai baby grand | Recording method: | TASCAM 400 | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | Laura Nyro, like Jimmy Webb, emerged as a hugely influential songwriter in the mid to late 60s while only in her late teens early 20s. Like Webb, she faded from the popular music scene in the 70s and beyond, but still retained IMO a unique excellence, as did Webb. As in Webb's case, I've posted one song that made it big in the 60s -- "Stoned Soul Picnic", which the 5th Dimension popularized.
Like Webb, Laura Nyro's lyrics are as good as the music; in her case, though, she actually published each Lyric separately, in poetic format. Here then is the Lyric, as Nyro posted it:
Can you surry can you picnic? Can you surry can you picnic? Surry down to a stoned soul picnic Surry down to a stoned soul picnic There'll be lots of time and wine red yellow honey sassafras and moonshine Red yellow honey sassafras and moonshine Stoned soul
Surry down to a stoned soul picnic Surry down to a stoned soul picnic Rain and sun come in akin and from the sky come the Lord and the lightnin And from the sky come the Lord and the lightnin Stoned soul
surry surry surry surry There'll be trains of blossoms There'll be trains of music There'll be trains of trust trains of golden dust Come along and surry on sweet trains of thought -- surry on down Can you surry?
Surry down to a stoned soul picnic Surry down to a stoned soul picnic There'll be lots of time and wine red yellow honey sassafras and moonshine red yellow honey Sassafras and moonshine moonshine Stoned soul surry surry surry surry surry surry surry surry surry surry -- |
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09 | | Performer's name: | Tim Adrianson | From: | Madison, WI | Experience: | 60+ | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Brown Earth | Composer: | Laura Nyro | Duration: | 02:44 | Source of music: | Sheet Music | Instrument used: | Kawai baby grand | Recording method: | TASCAM 400 | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | "Brown Earth" is from her 1970 album "Christmas and the Beads of Sweat", where by now she had made her mark not only as a songwriter, but an equally riveting performer. Although the album is on the whole very dark and bleak, this song provides a sense of joy and wonder of the urban NYC scene in 1970.
Morning came to the windows of the street sellin' red watermelon 5 cents a piece merry boat on the river freedom fresh dreams to deliver freedom over and over and over I call out your name God standing on the brown earth "get up" mama hollers shooflies in my doorway white dove's gonna come today white dove's gonna come today oh what a morning I feel so good oh what a morning of brotherhood
hold me by the light kittens run the neighborhood through ragamuffin boys all the world is new by the light of day
give with your heart and love will come to you kids come in all shapes and colors to the cool morning dew merry boat on the river freedom fresh dreams to deliver freedom over and over and over and over and over and over
God standing on the brown earth lovelight in the morning shooflies in my doorway white dove's gonna come today! |
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10 | | Performer's name: | Tim Adrianson | From: | Madison, WI | Experience: | 60+ | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Upstairs by a Chinese Lamp | Composer: | Laura Nyro | Duration: | 03:14 | Source of music: | Sheet Music | Instrument used: | Kawai baby grand | Recording method: | TASCAM 400 | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | "Upstairs by a Chinese Lamp" is another song from her "Christmas and the Beads of Sweat" 1970 album. Though she doesn't expicitly say so, it seems to me that most of the songs are evocations of various areas of Manhattan and the surrounding boroughs: in this case, it's Chinatown. I find it one of her most focused and haunting compositions.
Market in the cool white morning merchants sell as ladies buy milk,tobacco,soap and matches Sweep the floor while the dishes dry
spring whispered in her ear like soft mediterranean wailin'
Sleepy woman by the window dreaming in the morning air of the man who takes her sweetness by a chinese lamp upstairs
the steam of china tea you could hear the woman sing in the soft flames of spring
Spring has swept the scarlet sidestreets winds caress, undress, invite China Upstairs by a Chinese lamp they softly talk in the cool spring night |
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11 | | Performer's name: | Tim Adrianson | From: | Madison, WI | Experience: | 60+ | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Gibsom Street | Composer: | Laura Nyro | Duration: | 04:15 | Source of music: | Sheet Music | Instrument used: | Kawai baby grand | Recording method: | TASCAM 400 | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | Originally, I had three songs apiece by Jimmy Webb and Laura Nyro, but I really wanted to include "Belmont Street" in addition. Having done that, a fourth Laura Nyro song had to be "Gibsom Street" -- a place as dark and forbidding as "Belmont Avenue" was warm and romantic. "Gibsom Street" is from her 1969 album "New York Tendaberry" -- IMO, her most personal album (although I haven't heard her last ones in the 1990s)
Here is her dark, cryptic Lyric:
Don't go to Gibsom cross the river the devil is hungry the devil is sweet if you are soft then you will shiver they hang the alley cats on Gibsom street
I wish my baby were forbidden I wish my world be struck by sleet I wish to keep my mirror hidden to hide the eyes that looked on Gibsom street
(No more sorrow no more moanin' no more sorrow no more moanin' no more sorrow no more moanin')
There is a man he knows where I'm going gave me a strawberry to eat I sucked its juices never knowing that I would sleep that night on Gibsom street |
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12 | | Performer's name: | JoBert | From: | Germany | Experience: | A number of years. | Direct music link: | click to download | Video link: | https://youtu.be/rFSyJGdwjkQ | Home page link: | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJcDLkLZ0uqWMVNKxPGOvpA | Title of piece: | Skyfall | Composer: | Adele | Duration: | 04:41 | Source of music: | Sheet music found on the internet. | Instrument used: | Kawai CA97 with EX Concert Grand voice. | Recording method: | Built in recording feature (see details below). | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | When playing pop songs, I always like to use the opportunity to experiment with the built in features of my digital piano, to achieve effects that make the result closer to the pop original. This piece too is an experiment in this regard:
First, I wanted to have a background beat. Fortunately, one of the built in rhythms in my piano is very close to the beat in Adele's original, so I was covered on that front.
Also, the original is quite bombastic. So to achieve this bombastic cinematic feeling, I layered an additional warm strings sound behind the actual piano sound. The problem was, that in the original, the bombastic part starts only after the intro, with the first refrain. If I simply started off with the layered strings right away, it would lessen the effect. But my piano is not really built for changing voices or effects in the middle of a piece (the controls are too fiddly for that), so I couldn't just switch on the background strings when I reached the refrain. Instead, I came up with a solution that takes advantage of the MIDI format:
I played the whole piece with the piano voice and the layered strings together, recording everything with the internal recorder. I also had the piano's metronome on with 75 BPM (the speed of the original) so that I would have an even rhythm. Luckily, the metronome is not recorded by the internal recorder. Then I exported the recording to a USB stick in MIDI format and took the MIDI file to my computer, where I opened it in a MIDI editor. In that editor, I removed the background strings voice for the whole intro part (except for the very first chord) so that the strings would only start with the refrain. I saved this modified MIDI file back to the USB stick and went back to the piano. Then I had the piano replay the modified MIDI file, together with the rhythm backing track I mentioned before. That's also the reason why I had to make the initial recording with the metronome, so that my recorded playing would now match the background beat, which was also playing at 75 BPM. And of course I had the piano record this playback (including the background beat) so that I could get the MP3 file that I needed for submission to the recital. |
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13 | | Performer's name: | patH (Patrick Hollstein) | From: | Germany | Experience: | Since 1974 | Direct music link: | click to download | Video link: | https://youtu.be/B2XIJMRY5dw | Home page link: | https://www.facebook.com/patrick.hollstein.58 | Title of piece: | Walk like an Egyptian (Bangles) | Composer: | L.Sternberg | Duration: | 03:09 | Source of music: | Play-by-ear | Instrument used: | Yamaha C2 SG | Recording method: | Zoom H2n, normalized with Audacity | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | Bronze medal winner in the Patparade 1994 |
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14 | | Performer's name: | patH (Patrick Hollstein) | From: | Germany | Experience: | Since 1974 | Direct music link: | click to download | Video link: | https://youtu.be/p2YlhV0pEYk | Home page link: | https://www.facebook.com/patrick.hollstein.58 | Title of piece: | Torn (Trine Rein, Natalie Imbruglia) | Composer: | S.Cutler/P.Thornalley/A.Preven | Duration: | 03:52 | Source of music: | Play-by-ear | Instrument used: | Yamaha C2 SG | Recording method: | Zoom H2n, normalized with Audacity | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | Gold medal winner in the Patparade 1997/98 (Trine Rein version) |
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15 | | Performer's name: | peterws | From: | N Lancs | Avatar: | | Experience: | Too many for some | Direct music link: | click to download | Video link: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlXZg5hcDD4 | Home page link: | https://www.youtube.com/my_videos?o=U | Title of piece: | Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm | Composer: | Brad Roberts | Duration: | 04:02 | Source of music: | Sheet Music with very little alteration! | Instrument used: | Roland FP50 | Recording method: | Straight to computer from headphone socket. | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | Wonderful song wi thoughtful words which I managed to make available on the vid. Now, the singer on this is so unbelievably bad, he`s good. And he must have written the song. Just must have! Never has an old voice sat on so young a frame . . Crash Test Dummies is the band`s name.
It was not easy to get this under my fingers. I let it go a year ago, and got it back again to record. Glad I did, it`s got some good contemporary touches written into it. And the usual crop of slip ups from me. I didn`t re record, because I quite liked the ending, and would probably have finished differently if I did. I had Gammon Pig and a fried goggy egg for tea. of, not forgetting the chips (sorry, French Fries) Wife had a fag after, I had some dark chocolate marzipan stuff whilst she did. |
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16 | | Performer's name: | peterws | From: | N Lancs | Avatar: | | Experience: | Too many for me | Direct music link: | click to download | Video link: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnniyjalp98 | Home page link: | https://www.youtube.com/my_videos?o=U | Title of piece: | You Raise Me Up | Composer: | Josh Groban | Duration: | 03:31 | Source of music: | Sheet music courtesy of Kyle Landry, free issue wonderful guy that he is. Not playable to someone of my abilities, but I gleaned a few bits which I present to you accordingly. This took about 5000 attempts to record without music since I didn`t relay on all of the score and its easy to get bamboozled at my age. "Bamboozled" sounds a whole lot better than "confused" but these things happen during recordings. Don`t they?? | Instrument used: | Roland FP50 | Recording method: | Line out from h phones into computer stereo input | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | As above. |
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17 | | Performer's name: | peterws | From: | N Lancs | Avatar: | | Experience: | Too many for everybody | Direct music link: | click to download | Home page link: | https://www.youtube.com/my_videos?o=U | Title of piece: | Eleanor Rigby | Composer: | Lennon McCartney | Duration: | 03:11 | Source of music: | Ear. | Instrument used: | Yamaha DGX630 | Recording method: | Line from H phone socket to computer input. | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | A departure from the norm is what you get here. I tried to update this (its a few years old,) but the update was inferior. Dontcha just love it . .I don`t think this has been submitted for any of the quarterly recitals, but maybe at the piano bar . . |
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18 | | Performer's name: | patH (Patrick Hollstein) | From: | Germany | Experience: | Since 1974 | Direct music link: | click to download | Video link: | https://youtu.be/iHpZNRk8XYQ | Home page link: | https://www.facebook.com/patrick.hollstein.58 | Title of piece: | Whenever, wherever (Shakira) | Composer: | Shakira/T.Mitchell | Duration: | 02:47 | Source of music: | Play-by-ear | Instrument used: | Yamaha C2 SG | Recording method: | Zoom H2n, normalized with Audacity | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | Gold medal winner in the Patparade 2001/02 |
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19 | | Performer's name: | patH (Patrick Hollstein) | From: | Germany | Experience: | Since 1974 | Direct music link: | click to download | Video link: | https://youtu.be/PTpYr0wecnU | Home page link: | https://www.facebook.com/patrick.hollstein.58 | Title of piece: | Born this way (Lady Gaga) | Composer: | Lady Gaga/J.Laursen | Duration: | 03:50 | Source of music: | Play-by-ear | Instrument used: | Yamaha C2 SG | Recording method: | Zoom H2n, normalized with Audacity | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | Gold medal winner in the Patparade 2012/13 |
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20 | | Performer's name: | patH (Patrick Hollstein) | From: | Germany | Experience: | Since 1974 | Direct music link: | click to download | Video link: | https://youtu.be/sNwVrMvdNkY | Home page link: | https://www.facebook.com/patrick.hollstein.58 | Title of piece: | Let it go (Frozen Soundtrack) | Composer: | K.Anderson-Lopez/R.Lopez | Duration: | 03:19 | Source of music: | Mostly play-by-ear; also an inofficial score someone on PianoWorld posted (I think) | Instrument used: | Yamaha C2 SG | Recording method: | Zoom H2n, normalized with Audacity | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | Gold medal winner in the Patparade 2014/15 |
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21 | | Performer's name: | Pianogrlnw (Ellen) | From: | Seattle area | Experience: | Off and on - on now for about 5 years | Direct music link: | click to download | Home page link: | https://soundcloud.com/ellen-w-1 | Title of piece: | This Masquerade | Composer: | Leon Russell | Duration: | 02:57 | Source of music: | Sheet music - In Recital for the Advancing Pianist: Jazz & Blues, The FJH Music Company | Instrument used: | Schimmel grand | Recording method: | H2N | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | Leon Russell composed and recorded This Masquerade in 1972. In 1976 George Benson, recorded a cover of this piece which won a Grammy the following year. In trying to maintain the pulse and feel of the cool jazz movement typified by Benson, I think I may have sacrificed some dynamic interest. The cover I'm playing was arranged by Kevin Olson.
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22 | | Performer's name: | Riddler (Ed) | From: | Florida | Avatar: | | Experience: | Two or three years of lessons as a kid; three years of jazz lessons as an adult; and a lifetime of noodling and playing by ear. | Direct music link: | click to download | Home page link: | http://edsjazzpianopage.blogspot.com/ | Title of piece: | Alfie | Composer: | Burt Bacharach and Hal David | Duration: | 04:00 | Source of music: | Lead sheet | Instrument used: | Yamaha P-120 | Recording method: | Pianoteq/Audacity | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | This song was composed by Burt Bacharach and Hal David for a 60's movie of the same name. The song was not actually integrated into the storyline in any way, just tacked on at the end, during the credits. It has a bit of a contemplative mood, with lyrics that start with: "What's it all about, Alfie? Is it just for the moment we live?", and so on. It has been recorded by many pop singers and jazz groups. This is my arrangement, from a lead sheet. |
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23 | | Performer's name: | Medden (Simon) | Experience: | 2 years and 7 months | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | House of the Rising Sun | Composer: | The Animals | Duration: | 01:58 | Source of music: | From sheet and ear | Instrument used: | Kawai CN-34 | Recording method: | Direct to USB | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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24 | | Performer's name: | Medden (Simon) | From: | London | Experience: | 2 Years and 7 Months | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Lady Madonna | Composer: | The Beatles | Duration: | 01:06 | Source of music: | Taught | Instrument used: | Cn-34 | Recording method: | USB | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | My teacher taught me Lady Madonna, and I taught myself House of the Rising Sun.
It's fun to take a break from classical to play some light hearted stuff. Hope you enjoy them. |
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25 | | Performer's name: | newbert | From: | Upstate New York | Experience: | A few years of lessons as a child. 45-50 years away from piano. Back at it for the past 3 years. | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel) | Composer: | Billy Joel | Duration: | 03:49 | Source of music: | "Goodnight, My Angel" was written by Billy Joel for his (and his wife's at the time, Christie Brinkley) daughter, Alexa. I'm playing this from sheet music, slightly modified towards the end. Lots of RH chords in this piece, which is something I'm not used to. So it took awhile for me to get somewhat comfortable with this piece. | Instrument used: | Kawai VPC1 and Ravenscroft VST. | Recording method: | Recorded using Reaper. conversion to mp3 using Audacity software. | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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26 | | Performer's name: | newbert | From: | Upstate New York | Experience: | A few years of lessons as a child. 45-50 years away from piano. Back at it for the past 3 years. | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | New York State of Mind | Composer: | Billy Joel | Duration: | 06:29 | Source of music: | Back in May 2014, I submitted this very same piece to my second ABF quarterly recital. While I was happy with it at the time, I cringe when I listen to that performance now. So, I decided to revisit the piece, playing from the same basic score, but adding (in parts) my own arrangement which (I hope) sounds a bit (but only a bit) closer to Billy Joel's actual arrangement. I worked out some approximations of his licks and runs (including the bridge played by the sax), so I hope that my efforts were successful and at least sounds more musical than it did back in 2014. Nevertheless, I had lots of fun working it out, and it's now a piece that I'll keep current in my limited repertoire. | Instrument used: | Kawai VPC1 with Galaxy Vintage D VST | Recording method: | Recorded with Reaper, converted to mp3 using Audacity software. | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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27 | | Performer's name: | newbert | From: | Upstate New York | Experience: | A few years of lessons as a child. 45-50 years away from piano. Back at it for the past 3 years. | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | When She Loved Me | Composer: | Randy Newman (Performed by Sara Mclaughlin) | Duration: | 03:19 | Source of music: | ....and Now for Something Completely Different (as Monty Python used to say). I know that I listed another Billy Joel piece on the preview listing for this recital ("Honesty"), but honestly (yes, that's a pun) the arrangement I have just didn't sound good. Or perhaps it's just my interpretation of it.
Instead, I decided on this piece, which I've always liked. It's from "Toy Story 2". Not a movie that I grew up with (I was about 45 years old at the time), but perhaps someone in our group here did? | Instrument used: | Kawai VPC1 and Galaxy Vintage D VST (I think). | Recording method: | Recorded using Reaper, Converted to mp3 with Audacity software. | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | The score I have actually continues from where I ended things. It modulates one key up (which I really like the sound of), but I just couldn't master this in two separate keys. One key was hard enough for me. In spite of cutting my sheet music's version short, this version ends exactly where Sara McLaughlin's version of it ends, so there's that at least.
I was really trying to impart some feeling into this rendition, so I hope that shows. |
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28 | | Performer's name: | Tubbie0075 | From: | Australia | Experience: | 6 years | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Love Me Tender | Composer: | Elvis Presley | Duration: | 02:15 | Source of music: | Richard Clayderman Book 5 | Instrument used: | Kawai RX-2H, 2008 | Recording method: | Zoom H4, Logic Pro X | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | I don't know that many pop music. Off the sleeve, this is one of the few I could record without much practise. I suck at pop music! |
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29 | | Performer's name: | h8dk97 | Experience: | Started learning piano in September 2015 | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Jacob's Theme (theme from Twilight movie) | Composer: | Howard Shore | Duration: | 03:14 | Source of music: | sheet music | Instrument used: | Yamaha P255 | Recording method: | Recorded directly on digital piano | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | This is the only non classical piece I can play, I learned it when my teacher was on holiday. Hope it qualifies for pop recital :-) |
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30 | | Performer's name: | Greener/Jeff | From: | Toronto | Experience: | Years | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Daniel | Composer: | Elton John | Duration: | 03:50 | Source of music: | Lead sheet | Instrument used: | Heintzman, Normandie | Recording method: | 3 piano mics, 1 voice mic + Cubase | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | Thought I would give singing a go for this Pop recital. I remembered, the little I'd tried of it in the past I always enjoyed. The same goes now. I find it fun to try and a bit comical because I know I don't have good projection. I've only sung in choir before and never solo (once for about 7 seconds). Certainly never in public on my own (I did a few times in childhood) and this is the first time I've ever recorded with voice. One challenge is finding things in an appropriate key. I had to transpose nearly every one and the others I'd been working on too for this recital. Anyway, it is fun and I'd like to occasionally keep working at it.
I tried to choose pieces not too strenuous for singing. This one had kind of a Bossa Nova feel to it I thought, which is the rhythm I ended up using for it. Neither part is any big stretch, but syncing them is never easy I find and can always use more work. |
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31 | | Performer's name: | Peyton | From: | Maine | Experience: | Many years | Direct music link: | click to download | Video link: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ul_dy2LnpM | Home page link: | http://www.peytonart.com | Title of piece: | Famous Blue Raincoat | Composer: | Leonard Cohen | Duration: | 05:05 | Source of music: | Ear | Instrument used: | Young Chang grand | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | I have always loved this piece. My favorite Leonard Cohen pieces are really those from his first five or so albums. His songs were so raw and honest. My favorite line in this song is "And if you ever come by here, for Jane or for me. Well, your enemy is sleeping and his woman is free. And thanks for the trouble you took from her eyes, I thought it was there for good so I never tried."
I recorded this song a number of years ago and thought I would re-do it for this recital. I tried and tried and, in the endÃ�¢ï¿½Ã�¦ I like my old recording better. So I hope you will forgive me for submitting an older recording. |
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32 | | Performer's name: | Michiyo-Fir (Jade) | Experience: | Played as a child, stopped for almost a decade, restarted March 2015. | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Can You Feel the Love Tonight | Composer: | Elton John | Duration: | 02:20 | Source of music: | The Lion King Hal Leonard edition | Instrument used: | Yamaha C3 | Recording method: | Zoom H1 | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | I've decided to keep this one super short and sweet. The actual sheet music has a repeat of almost the entire piece except for the last few bars which I thought was repetitive and uninteresting so I decided to do a play through and skip to the second ending.
I've always loved the Lion King since I was 4 (amongst many many other musical/disney/broadway shows) so I thought it would be neat to include this beautiful Elton John piece in the pop recital. I hope this brings back some memories for other Lion King and/or Elton John fans. |
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33 | | Performer's name: | Jen Weir | From: | Corpus Christi TX | Experience: | 8 | Direct music link: | click to download | Video link: | https://youtu.be/1SLeXcjSvx0 | Home page link: | https://www.youtube.com/jenniferbweir | Title of piece: | Comfortably Numb | Composer: | Pink Floyd | Duration: | 05:36 | Source of music: | Sheet music arrangement by Vika Yermolyeva | Instrument used: | Yamaha CP50 digital stage piano | Recording method: | digital to PC | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | This was the most difficult Vika arrangement I've done so far, even though it seemed fairly easy when I first looked at it. I think Pink Floyd is a challenge to play on a single instrument. I had scrambled eggs for lunch. |
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34 | | Performer's name: | Jen Weir | From: | Corpus Christi TX | Experience: | 8 | Direct music link: | click to download | Video link: | https://youtu.be/ViiSaulFIm8 | Home page link: | http://youtube.com/jenniferbweir/ | Title of piece: | The Doors - Riders on the Storm | Composer: | The Doors | Duration: | 04:47 | Source of music: | Sheet music -- arrangement by Vika Yermolyeva | Instrument used: | Yamaha CP50 digital stage piano | Recording method: | digital to PC | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | I played this song a long long time ago in the 1980s when I got a Rhodes Electric piano in high school. I had some sheet music that really resembled this arrangement by Vika, but without the cool solo part. It came back pretty quickly when I got her arrangement because it was in the same key and I used to play it ALL the time! |
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35 | | Performer's name: | Jen Weir | From: | Corpus Christi TX | Experience: | 8 | Direct music link: | click to download | Video link: | https://youtu.be/CMcERG_cBdg | Home page link: | http://youtube.com/jenniferbweir/ | Title of piece: | More Than a Feeling | Composer: | Boston | Duration: | 03:47 | Source of music: | sheet music arranged by Vika Yermolyeva | Instrument used: | Yamaha CP50 digital stage piano | Recording method: | digital to pc | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | This is a slower, more stress-free romantic arrangement of Boston's famous rock song. |
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36 | | Performer's name: | barbaram | From: | Ireland | Avatar: | | Experience: | 4 as a teen + 3 as an adult | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Bridge Over Troubled Water | Composer: | Paul Simon | Duration: | 05:24 | Source of music: | Sheet music | Instrument used: | Old Roland fp-5 DP | Recording method: | Digital to PC, using Audacity | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | I learned this as a teen and relearned for the recital. It's got quite a few clunkers I know, as well as more fundamental issues around how I play it. This is not a piece I ever worked on with a teacher, either then or now, and it suffers from that. It nearly makes my mum cry when I play it now, as she has such strong memories of me playing it at home when I was young. |
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37 | | Performer's name: | Timbo101 | From: | Melbourne Australia | Experience: | Approx 4 years, 35 year break, restarted 4 months ago | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Jurassic Park Theme | Composer: | John Williams | Duration: | 02:13 | Source of music: | Sheet music | Instrument used: | Yamaha P115 | Recording method: | Headphone out to Zoom H1, trim in Audacity | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | Had half a dozen attempts to record this piece. This recording is probably the best of the lot - I managed to hit the right notes (mostly) in roughly the right order, however timing and dynamics are still a work in progress. |
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38 | | Performer's name: | carlos88 | From: | Colorado | Experience: | Year 4 back as an adult | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | America | Composer: | Simon and Garfunkel | Duration: | 03:20 | Source of music: | Simon and Garfunkel | Instrument used: | Yamaha | Recording method: | Zoom | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | One of my favorites for a long time from S&G.
Second pop song that I've worked with a teacher on - mostly focused on reducing the volume in the left hand, trying to voice the right hand chords better, especially when the pinky is supposed to by the loudest note in the chord. |
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39 | | Performer's name: | carlos88 | From: | Colorado | Experience: | 4 years as a returning adult | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Bohemian Rhapsody | Composer: | Queen | Duration: | 05:26 | Source of music: | Queen | Instrument used: | Yamaha | Recording method: | Zoom H4N | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | I somehow missed most of Queen as a youth. My first memories of them are of "Flash, ahhhh, Savior of the Universe" and of course, from Highlander. Not really their best.
But they've become one of the many groups I've come to appreciate as an adult, and more so now after playing a few of their pieces this year. The key changes and the transitions to them in this music are brilliantly done.
This was my first pop song that I've learned as a returning adult - and I now appreciate the different difficulties from most classical music. It hasn't been easy trying to get better at the fast repeated chords, the voicing in the right hand, and trying to reduce the left hand volume. |
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40 | | Performer's name: | Greener/Jeff | From: | Toronto | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Bein Green | Composer: | Joe Raposo | Duration: | 02:09 | Source of music: | Partial Lead Sheet. | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | This was a tune from Sesame Street, originally performed by Jim Henson as Kermit the Frog on both Sesame Street and the Muppet Show. It was later covered by Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles and other performers.
Coming from a family with a Surname of Green, my family has got good mileage with this tune. I know my Dad had an arrangement of it for his supper club trio and performed it in the 70's when he had a singer in, which he often did. My sister performed and recorded it in the 90's and now I am trying my version of it, on you guys here .
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41 | | Performer's name: | dire tonic | From: | uk | Experience: | don't ask | Direct music link: | click to download | Video link: | https://youtu.be/nebz8wVG9os | Title of piece: | High Heel Sneakers | Composer: | Tommy Tucker | Duration: | 01:42 | Source of music: | own arrangement | Instrument used: | VPC1 + samples | Recording method: | cubase | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | It's a routine 12-bar blues and not a lot to the original tune hence the improvisational style. Piano as a rhythm instrument has long fascinated me - R&B is open to so many possibilities. I did longer takes but this one had the better feel and the fade hides a premature ending (of course!). |
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42 | | Performer's name: | dire tonic | From: | uk | Experience: | years and years | Direct music link: | click to download | Video link: | https://youtu.be/DGUD2Mfewp8 | Title of piece: | Nobody does it better | Composer: | Hamlisch/Sager | Duration: | 01:53 | Source of music: | own arrangement | Instrument used: | VPC + samples | Recording method: | cubase | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | I was torn about extending this to a second verse but not wanting to do a clone of the first (ah, my memories of Grieg) chose the easy way out...keep it short! A couple of wobblers and a minor panic when I forgot what Carly sings at the end.
I think I might be acquiring a taste for schmaltz. Time to brush up the arpeggios. |
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43 | | Performer's name: | WiseBuff | From: | Colorado | Avatar: | | Experience: | Over 20...but I hate to list that because I would expect better music after that many years. Ah...but I love to play. | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Hallelujah | Composer: | Leonard Cohen | Duration: | 04:21 | Source of music: | Arrangement by Philip Keveran | Instrument used: | Grotrian grand. The Clara Schumann replica | Recording method: | Zoom Q3 | Technical feedback wanted: | No | Additional info: | I have always loved this melody...rather haunting. I'm pleased with the speed I pushed it to but it still is more choppy that I wanted. Funny when I'm playing it sounds just perfect and then I listen to the recording and cringe. There are several good spots and I plan to put it away for a while and try to improve it. I record as one step in decreasing performance anxiety. |
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44 | | Performer's name: | Cinnamonbear | From: | Rockford, IL | Avatar: | | Experience: | Lots and lots, but I am undisciplined and reckless | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Jean | Composer: | Rod McKuen | Duration: | 02:55 | Source of music: | "The Big 62R" Song Book (sheet music anthology) | Instrument used: | 1940 Lester spinet, very ripe tuning | Recording method: | Tascam DP-004 into CuBase AI4 | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | I played this at an assisted living center for the first time the other day, and several staff members sang along and then came to the piano to check out the words on the score, so we took it around the block, again. I did not expect it to be so spontaneously well received! |
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45 | | Performer's name: | Cinnamonbear | From: | Rockford, IL | Avatar: | | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | The Look Of Love | Composer: | Hal David, Burt Bacharach | Duration: | 03:22 | Source of music: | "The Big 62R Song Book" (sheet music anthology) | Instrument used: | 1940 Lester spinet | Recording method: | Tascam DP-004 into CuBase AI4 | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | This song was popularized by Dusty Springfield. I fell down the YouTube rabbit hole one night and found a stunning live performance of it by Diana Krall that turned me into a breathless, drooling fool. But I got over it. Dusty's is the definitive version for me. |
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46 | | Performer's name: | Cinnamonbear | From: | Rockford, IL | Avatar: | | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Windy | Composer: | Ruthann Friedman | Duration: | 01:48 | Source of music: | "The Big 62R Song Book" (sheet music anthology) | Instrument used: | 1940 Lester spinet | Recording method: | Tascam DP-004 into CuBase AI4 | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | Popularized by The Association. I remember when this song came out--it played over the radio for a week at the same time every morning as I was getting ready for school. In a nod to the era, and in respect to the notation on the score which says, "Repeat & Fade," I did it studio style. |
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47 | | Performer's name: | Nick | From: | England | Experience: | about 5 years | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Your Song | Composer: | Elton John | Duration: | 03:50 | Source of music: | Extremely loosely on Noviscore music (recommended) | Instrument used: | Yamaha CP5 | Recording method: | Straight out to Boss micro BR | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | The song is very long and meandering. I do not have the ability to improvise verse on verse, so just made a very short version of it. |
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48 | | Performer's name: | Nick | From: | England | Experience: | About 5 years | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Against All Odds | Composer: | Phil Collins | Duration: | 03:26 | Source of music: | The Ultimate POP ROCK Fake Book | Instrument used: | Yamaha CP5 | Recording method: | Straight out to Boss Micro BR | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | 100% My Own arrangement from the Fakebook. ENJOY if you can!! |
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49 | | Performer's name: | Richard (zrtf90) | From: | Ireland | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five | Composer: | Paul McCartney | Duration: | 05:02 | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five (Paul McCartney) One of his best outside The Beatles and an old familiar favourite for me.
Summer of '69 (Bryan Adams) One of my favourites on guitar, here transcribed for piano and based more on the MTV Unplugged performance than the album track.
Behind Blue Eyes (Pete Townshend) This has special memories for me, again transcribed from guitar though I played it on piano once or twice back in the seventies.
Run (Snow Patrol) A more recent addition to my repertoire from a more local outfit and another guitar transcription.
If You Think You Know How to Love Me (Chapman-Chinn) The second number that I've played on piano before.
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I was in two minds about posting anything after the trouble I've had trying to record the piano through Pianoteq and then overdub -- but the voice overdub is always behind.
As the last few hours dwindled away dire tonic came out of the blue and posted a couple and then Andy, Cinnamonbear, who'd given me the overdub advice after the GAS job, posted his. I felt duty bound to oblige.
I've settled for a mike job, piano and voice at the same time. It's how I'm used to doing it though I did have the same trouble as last time, getting the mike positioned to get the voice and piano in balance. It didn't work for the Chinnichap number but the others aren't so bad. Anyone with sensitive ears can fast forward. At least I've a bit more confidence in the genre than the GAS.
Had dt and Andy shown up sooner I might have time to redo these but the voice was failing with the light and the hourglass so here's the best I can do under pressure.
There aren't too many mistakes - a few off pitch entries to wince at (the trouble with singing along to the records in the wrong key for me) and the occasional hammering on the keys - but I've not had time to listen after a night's sleep so...God bless all who sail in her.
Thanks, dt, for the suggestion, Andy, for the advice and inspiration, and Jeff, for doing all the work and, well, for being Jeff! |
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50 | | Performer's name: | Richard (zrtf90) | From: | Ireland | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Summer of '69 | Composer: | Bryan Adams | Duration: | 03:36 | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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51 | | Performer's name: | Richard (zrtf90) | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Behind Blue Eyes | Composer: | Pete Townshend | Duration: | 03:53 | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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52 | | Performer's name: | Richard (zrtf90) | From: | Ireland | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | Run | Composer: | Snow Patrol | Duration: | 05:56 | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes |
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53 | | Performer's name: | Richard (zrtf90) | From: | Ireland | Direct music link: | click to download | Title of piece: | If You Think You Know How To Love Me | Composer: | Chapman-Chinn | Duration: | 03:52 | Technical feedback wanted: | Yes | Additional info: | Catchy title! |
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