Some of you will be familiar with this tune, and indeed it has been modified to include a bit of audio which was the basis of the theme. This bit of audio is the original recording of Stephen around 1982. I had looked for that recording for decades to be included just before the start off this song. Also, most recently I had redoubled my effort to find it to play for my beautiful wife as  she lay on her death bed. But, alas, I was only to find it the very day after her passing.

As you might imagine, the old cassette tape was full of hiss. So, my good friend and mentor, Sander (https://soundcloud.com/wane-of-summer), volunteered to help subtract that flaw and render Stephen's little voice to crystal clarity. Well, that is very much part of Sander's trademark. Thank you, Sander.

And below follows the original description of the song:


This is a song from a child which has no voice of his own. Having succumbed to the side effects of a childhood vaccination, he was never able to learn the spoken word...though through some miracle he seems to have developed perfect pitch. 

How would I know? Well, if I pick up various objects which can make a tone if they are blown into, though he may have heard it only once before, he will sometimes sing the note as it is being picked up. Blow into that object and, sure enough, he is in tune with it.

He was only about 3 years old when we were trying in vain to get him to speak into a tape recorder. Instead, he came up with this tune, which I decided to just add accompaniment. The original recording actually had his voice on it, but it has been lost over the years.

Stephen's Song (REMIX)

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MIX IT UP WITH THE BLUES
Copyright 2022 O'Brien/Lucidi/Olson/Rabosio/Licata/Offermann

Lyrics by Alex O’Brien, SOCAN
PJ Lucidi - Songwriting-Arrangement, Rhythm and Lead Guitars
Hollie Olson - Vocal, Backup Vocal, Vocal-Melody
Roberto Rabosio - Drums
Mario Licata - Bass
Steffen Offermann - Engineering-Mixing

If you’re looking for a new sound
If you want to be the next, the next big thing
If you hope to move millions and millions and millions
If you, if you want to be the king

Chorus:
Mix it up with the blues, I say
Mix it up with the blues
Cos nothing sounds sweeter
And nothing is as true
Ah mix it up with the blues

If you want to rock the ages
Like a great big, big, big, big lead balloon
If you dream to Rock the Casbah
And you’re dreaming that you gonna get there soon 

Chorus

If you want to spark the country
Reinvigorate, reinvigorate your soul
If you wish to leave hearts racing and racing
Oh you’re gonna turn that rock right into gold

Chorus

If you want to share the old songs
Of your island so proud and green
So if you plan to write a fairy-tale
Mm-hmm if you’re hip to start a brand-new scene

Chorus

Lead Guitar Solo

Chorus
 
If you long to be a prophet
If you want to see your name in lights
If you want to punk it over
Like to wear white stripes
If you’re looking for a new sound
You’re gonna electrify your genes
If you want to spark the millions and millions
If you want to be the Blues Rock Queen

Chorus

Fade Out:
(Nothing sounds sweeter and nothing is as true)
Mix it up, mix it up with the blues
(Nothing sounds sweeter and nothing is as true)
Nothing is as true, yeah mix it up with the blues
(Nothing sounds sweeter and nothing is as true)
Ah sweet-sweet, sweet-sweet blues, mix it up with the blues
(Nothing sounds sweeter and nothing is as true)
Nothing is as true, mix it up with the blues
(Nothing sounds sweeter and nothing is as true)
Sweet-sweet, sweet-sweet blues

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Mix it Up With the Blues

I´m proud of this song.. it brings a little light and hope into a world threatened by dark clouds.. thank you so much Hubert for your music and outstanding vocals!
 Only a demo..but this song was on the list for production by Freddy Koella (Bob Dylan Band, Willy de Ville, Carla Bruni a.o) .. we couldn´t  raise the money for the Studio including the rhythm -section of "Jackson Browne" so..we missed the deal.. shit happens!

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72 bpm
pc say e minor
but 90% of all note d or d♯ and zero e
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To celebrate 2000, I took a year off to write songs, novels, plays, and stories - and I've been doing that since. At the end of my first year, I won first prize in the USA Songwriting Contest in the Lyric Category for 'Drum Machines and Beauty Queens.' This led to co-writing songs with many excellent musicians, including those represented in songs posted here. 

More recently, I was one of seven finalists in the Crisis Lyric Category of the 2021 UK Songwriting Contest for 'Lockdown Blues,' and one of nine nominees in the 2021 International Song Awards with 'Didn't the River Know' and 'Blue and Gold.'

For the past two years, I've been collaborating with many talented musicians on Kompoz. I release many of these songs here and compile the best into albums released under Captain Stormfield's Trip on Spotify and other platforms (see links below).

Mix it Up With the Blues

AlexEOB