Singing to Sarah, part 1.
Yay, new baby!
Time has, of course, become limited. However, I'm told that's no excuse for not keeping up my blog. So we're going to try a new format. Yesterday, I plopped Sarah down on her BoppyLounger in the studio, and sang to her. Guitar and vocal, no edits or overdubs, one set of live mics and a baby as an audience. This approach and variations on it are likely to dominate the blog for a while. Plus there will be some shameless mining of archival recordings.
Anyway, this week's presentation is a cover version of a favorite song from 1980. Get the .mp3 of my rendition here!
Then go watch the video for the original version on YouTube. It's awesome.
Time has, of course, become limited. However, I'm told that's no excuse for not keeping up my blog. So we're going to try a new format. Yesterday, I plopped Sarah down on her BoppyLounger in the studio, and sang to her. Guitar and vocal, no edits or overdubs, one set of live mics and a baby as an audience. This approach and variations on it are likely to dominate the blog for a while. Plus there will be some shameless mining of archival recordings.
Anyway, this week's presentation is a cover version of a favorite song from 1980. Get the .mp3 of my rendition here!
Then go watch the video for the original version on YouTube. It's awesome.
5 Comments:
Wow. I can't believe I have never heard of this song. I really did grow up on another planet until 1986.
Yep!
Well, as CS10 pointed out to me yesterday, this tune was before OMD's BIGBIGBIG hits, but it was a top 40 hit in most major markets (including the US). Of course at the time CS10 was living in the Canadian Wilderness and you were on another planet, so you are both excused.
On another matter that's been brought to my attention: no, I do not think it's weird to sing to my daughter about atomic bombs. She'll have to learn about them eventually; why not through syrupy pop music?
I consider it to be in the grand tradition of the disturbing (in retrospect) children's rhymes I grew up with. "Ring-a-ring-a-rosie..." and so on.
Of course you don't think it's weird singing songs about atomic weaponry to infants—you went to the University of Chicago.
Oh my God! So did Barack Obama!
Oh wait... Oh my God! So did I!
No freaking way! I've never heard this before either. Love love love the 80s videography.
And quite nice picking at the end of your version.
I agree that this is completely in keeping with the Ring Around the Rosie tradition.
Rachel
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