Sorry Donny but it was the best I could do under pressure LOL

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Please excuse the English accent HAH

Col

Col...great Vera Lynn tune brings back memories of a time when the whole world listened to the same music...

may I make a small suggestion...I don't know if you are multitracking on this song but in the future be aware of your Vocal Volume / Music ratio. it seems to be over powering in this mix. If you record music on two stereo tracks first then go back and record your vocals on separate tracks you can afterwards adjust gain, eq, fx, etc,...to make it more balanced,.....just a suggestion. Otherwise please continue with your great offerings love listening!

Hi Donny

I record lead vocal 2 mono tracks, harmony 2 mono tracks, drums stereo, keyboard stereo, 8 tracks in all and in this case very quickly. I'll finish off the mix when I get a few minutes spare.

I afraid I don't do over dubs all my songs are recorded at one hit. I'm more comfortable doing it that way.

Col

Col, it's ironic that you posted this WWII song, which you did an absolutely fabulous job with, BTW.

Last night I had to do songs from the WWII era, including all 5 military hymns, and lots of other period tunes.

Cheers,

Gary

Speaking about march music, the Korg M3XP had great sounds for this in its brass & woodwinds expansion(listen to the first bit, I recorded this quick demo with my former M3 last year). I still miss the M3XP for such sounds.

Very Nice.....thanx for sharing your work..

Gary.......those songs are what keeps my sanity. When the "present environnment" starts to get to me, I put on the headphones and listen to my mp3 WWII British songs (I recorded my whole collection onto my hard drive).

Another great song I discovered only recently was Long Ago And Far Away. I never heard that song before until I heard Gene Kelly singing it to Rita Hayworth in the film Cover Girl (and, of course, the graceful dancing in between).

Every one of those songs would make it on it's own as either just a melodic piece of music or as simply written "poetry" with NO music. Together (words AND music) it's a knockout punch!

Mark

BTW...I'm not able to listen to Colin's version (I have dial-up) but, I have to say, Bob Hughes (in another group) did a great cover of We'll Meet Again....one of my favorites (and the White Cliffs of Dover).

We did those songs in the English pubs night after night and I really miss playing them.

Colin......sock it to Donny with....Maybe It's Because I'm A Londoner!!!!

LONDON DOLLY BIRDS HAVING A BAD DAY!!!!

Oh my, I have hundreds of these songs. The songs from the late 1930s and all of 1940s are all in my daily gigs and the folks just love them.

Good job Col.

Deane

Col.....I'm just getting over a bad flu, feeling much better now after 2 weeks of suffering, sniffling, coughing etc.....
I love these WWII era songs and if I get the chance will record a medley of them that I always perform for you in a week or so when my voice is up to par again ok?

'Back in the day' - late 50's to early 80's - with the band in NY, we primarily played for weddings and dinner dances ... we had a couple of medleys of mostly 1940s tunes that we would play in the last half hour of the gig - we called them "The Money Set" because they would really get the crowd jumping and far more often than not resulted in an hour OT ... $$$$ ...


... of course in the 80s the songs often were 50s/60s RnR and disco ...

Can't wait to hear your medley, Donny ...

When I do the really old songs, people look at me like "that guy must be really old". Of course it all depends on the audience.
There are modern bands doing great swing music, but I think the audience is mostly dance clubs and older people. If you listened to 40's music as a teenager, you are most likely getting too old to dance to it now! Not to say you don't enjoy hearing it though. I enjoy it myself and I'm just a kid.
I love Stray Cats! Even that little short guy that played at the Super Bowl, can't think of his name, does some stuff similar to swing.

... that would be Bruno Mars ...?!?
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/arts/music/bruno-mars-says-hes-ready-for-his-big-stage.html?_r=0

Stray Cats, Big Bad VooDoo Daddy, Royal Crown Revue, Cherry Poppin Daddies ... all good stuff ...

Yeah Bruno, some of his stuff ain't bad.

Yeah...and the first song in the set would be "The Saints!"

Goodness.......does THAT bring back memories......hadn't thought about that in years.

Then there was to scientifically "time" that last break perfectly to give you that exact amount of time you needed, when you got back on the bandstand, to work the crowd into a frenzy and the closer you got to the finish line, the more intense the music got.....and you made sure you didn't end that last medley until at least 11:10 pm.

Fact is......I forgot there even WAS such a thing as overtime. But in those days, it was "understood" that the first 4 hours of the gig was just "warmup" and make sure you save the "money making" songs for the last hour.

And remember when...."remembering to bring your tuxedo was as important as remembering to bring your instrument!"

And.......Satin Doll, Hello, Dolly and New York, NY. Three songs I got so tired of playing I would break out in a rash whenever we did them.

All that really brings back memories I hadn't thought of in years. Hard to believe days like that even existed......it's so different now!

They still exist. You're just hanging out in the wrong honky-tonks!

A lot of songs from that era really play on the emotions...one of my favorites, "A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square" is very powerful, and even drew positive comments from the younger crowd.

One of the best written songs ever, in my opinion, and right up there with "Somewhere Over The Rainbow".

Ian

I'm always hard pressed to pick an all time favorite song, but if I HAD to it would be "All The Things You Are" ...

Mark ... you are so right about the timing, because when you got the OT you had to continue playing for a while at least ... but we were never 'clock watchers'... if the crowd was having a good time we were also ...we took breaks when we felt is was appropriate - to give the crowd and US a breather ... and I remember '4 hour gigs' that lasted 6 - 7 hours ... made more in OT than the first 4 hours ...

And it was while the dance floor was jumping like crazy that one of the guys in the band would approach the host and say something like "we only have 5 - 10 minutes left - don't you think you want your guest to continue having a great time?"

Played a gig in Long Island NY on property right next door to Billy Joel's house ... the groom was a beer importer ... outdoor wedding, huge tent ...
I would never wear my tux shirt and jacket to the gig because I would sweat so much getting set up ... we finish setting up and I got my tux shirt and tie but don't see my jacket ...I thought the guys were busting my chops, but sure enough I had left it at home ... the groom's uncle, who owned the house, had played with Guy Lombardo's band for years and fortunately, he was a pretty big guy also ... I was taken to a closet in the house where there were tux jackets of every color ... picked out a nice black one, and my day was saved ...

Tony, I still have three tuxes, two winter, one summer (white jacket). I don't get to wear them as much as I once did, and they still fit, though a bit tighter. When I played in Baltimore's Little Italy at Delanote's Restaurante a tux was mandated. Every employee wore a tux, the waitstaff, management and entertainers - it was the required uniform for the job.



Gary

Oh man the old days.....Tux Time

PS btw that's a Technics KN5000

You bought that KN5000 from me!

is there anyone you haven't sold or given equipment to ???
oh yeah,... me !