because:  Lennon and McCartney vocals by conover

Guitar, Lead Vocal, Lyrics and song by William Paterson 
@w-paterson-1-1
backing vocal, keyboards ,percusions, mix, and productions by conover
© 2015 Patersongs/Conover


Waiting On The Sun

Me and you 
Sitting in the rain
Waiting on the sun to come

Me and you
Digging in our pockets
Its no money no fun

Well some day soon
Something's going to happen
Lucks going to come our way
We cant give up
We got to keep hoping 
Tomorrows going to be our day

Me and you
Trying just to get by
Boy these days are hard

You cant get work
They don't want to pay ya
Unless you play the right card

Well some day soon
Something's going to happen
Lucks going to come our way
We cant give up
We got to keep hoping
Tomorrows going to be our day

Waiting on the sun
Waiting on the sun
Waiting on the sun
Waiting on the sun

LEAD BREAK

Well some day soon
something's gonna happen
Lucks gonna come our way 
We cant give up 
We got to keep hoping
Tomorrows gonna be our day

Waiting on the sun
Waiting on the sun
Waiting on the sun
Waiting on the sun

Me and you
Waiting on tomorrow
Wishing it all away

Me and you 
Drinking through the sorrow
It always seems to want to stay

Well some day soon
Something's gonna happen
Lucks gonna come our way
We cant give up
We got to keep hoping
Tomorrows gonna be our day

Waiting on the sun
Waiting on the sun
Waiting on the sun
Waiting on the sun......ect ......

END.

Waiting On The Sun (Patersongs/Conover)

Guitar, Lead Vocal, Lyrics and song by William Paterson 
@w-paterson-1-1
backing vocal, mix and production by conover
© 2015 Patersongs/Conover

This song is basically about relationships where two people love each other unconditionally.
Take the good with the bad and support each other no matter what.
That to me is what love is meant to be. 

When You Love Someone

I love you
You love me
That's the way its meant to be

Good or bad
Yours or mine
That's the way its meant to be

Sometimes life can get you down
Just call my name I'll come around

When you love someone it feels so good
When you love someone it feels so good

Good or Bad
Yours or mine
That's the way its meant to be

Up or down
Smile or frown
That's the way its meant to be

Without your love my soul would die
Without your love then who am I

When you love someone it feels so good
When you love someone it feels so good

First or last
Future or past
That's the way its meant to be

Sometimes life can get you down
Just call my name I'll come around

When you love someone it feels so good
When you love someone it feels so good.

END
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When You Love Someone  (Patersongs/Conover)

Don’t look down
Bruce Conover composed and performed original music.
Phil McWalter was invited in for lyrics and vocal and final sweetening.

You can see all you want from here
Don’t look down
It’s just your feet and a can of fear
And if you fall...
The water’s warmer on the far side of the bay

Don’t slow up
The world will never let you get off
Don’t slow up
Its just a spin on a fairground ride
And if you do...
The circus moves on to another little town

[Spoken]: “Run, rabbit run. Just keep on running, you don't have time to look back and see if everyone else is coming…”

Don't look down
[Trumpet cadenza]
Don’t cry out
Do you think you’ll just disappear?
And when you cry
The lights are going to shine so brightly on your face

Don’t look down
You can see all you need from right here
Don't slow up
They won't let you hide away for a day...

Don't look down
You can see all you want to here
And if you do
The world will never let you get away again

Don’t look down
Don't look down
You can see all you need from right here
Don’t slow up
They won’t let you hide away for a day
Don’t look down
Don’t slow up
Don’t cry out
© Oct 2014

Don't Look Down - Conover/McWalter

Cruise Kontrol

Cruise Kontrol
would be nice tonight
as we motor along the coast

loose kontrol?
we might.....
but only these two will know.

looking at me in the rearview
All I know is that I got to feel you
now………….

rinse and repeat 


This chassis was designed and built for a trip we take shortly up through Big Sur to Sausalito Ca.
The cliffs are treacherous along the coast of northern California but we will have ourselves and our Almighty Cruise Kontrol.

Drive safely

Matt Warnick on Fender Stratocaster electric guitar

Cruise Kontrol

Loose salute to Coldplay
Music by Malik @sheryar90
Vocal by Conover

Some saw the sun
Some saw the smoke
Some heard the gun
Some bent the bow
Sometimes the wire must tense for the note
Caught in the fire, say oh
We're about to explode

Carry your world, I'll carry your world
Carry your world, I'll carry your world

Some far away
Some searched for gold
Some dragon to slay
Heaven we hope is just up the road
Show me the way, lord.... Because Im about to explode

Carry your world, I'll carry your world
Carry your world, I'll carry your world
Carry On

Coldplay Cover
Music by Malik https://soundcloud.com/sheryar90
Vocal by Conover

Atlas    (Conover & Malik)

Everybody knows Gene...Remix
Conover/McWalter and friends

Everybody knows Gene...Yes they do
You'll want to stay all day
And everyone is looking for you
Everybody seeks you out
No-one wants a party 
If Gene isn’t about
Are you hiding in the garden?
Are you swimming in the pool?
Is there music in the kitchen?
Are you on the hill you fool?

Everybody knows Gene...

We’re all counting on you coming
All gathered in your name
We’ve filled a dozen toasters
Got the music and the games 
Are you hiding in the attic?
Are you down inside the den? 
Can we hear you in a cupboard?
Or have you upped and fled again?

We’re playing hide and seek with Gene
Everybody knows Gene...
We’re playing hide and seek with Gene

We’re all counting on you coming
All gathered in your name
We’ve filled a dozen toasters
Got the music and the games 
Are you hiding in the attic?
Are you down inside the den?
Can we hear you in a cupboard?
Or have you upped and fled again? 
Everyone is looking for you
Everybody seeks you out
Are you hiding in the garden?
Are you swimming in the pool?
Is there music in the kitchen?
Are you on the hill you fool?

@phil-mcwalter took my original music bed and created a bit of an hommage to George Martin imagining another facet to The Fool On The Hill character. He said and I quote: "Bruce's track was so redolent of the Beatles already. The @conover bed included the main man singing the eponymous title lines "Everybody knows Gene..." and the lovely rich "bum, bum, bum" and "la, la, la..." bits! I cut it all up and sellotaped it back together in a different order; added lyrics, the song verse/chorus, and the additional orchestration (brass, guitars, strings etc). Good fun working with BC material as always! (Isn't the bass line stunning for one example!)"

AND NOW THE REMIX! I worked on Phil's version and edited, remixed and remastered, added a few friends contributions and some different seasonings, cooked it all up on Bruce's beachside barbecue and invited you all over to enjoy the new flavours! Please enjoy and bring a bottle! I promise not to hide!! Lyrics and provenance below:
© Conover-McWalter April 2016

Everybody Knows Gene (Conover & McWalter)

Guitar, Lead Vocal, Lyrics and song by William Paterson 
@w-paterson-1-1
backing vocal, organ, melotron, mix and production by conover
© 2016 Patersongs/Conover
Mastered by Andy Walter at Abbey Road Studios www.abbeyroad.com/engineer/andy-walter

I could easily fall in love
So easily in love with you
My head says no
My heart says go
Now what's a poor boy to do
You came at a time when I needed to find
Someone that I could believe 
I was so low, I had nowhere to go
I open my arms to receive your love
You gave me your number you told me to call
I did and I got no reply
But I have looked in your eyes and I saw paradise
I started to ask myself why
Why did you give me the come on stare
You open the door let me in
I've been out in the cold freezing ancient an old
You look like somewhere to begin again.
Now all I want is to make you smile
and give you all that you need
For however long this is going to last
Girl you planted the seed
Have my dreams come true
Is it really you
The girl I have chased all these years
Always out of my grasp 
And now here at last
Now I need her the most she appears to me.
I could easily fall in love
So easily in love with you

I Could Easily Fall In Love   (Patersongs/Conover)

I heard the original track with vocal by Torbjørn Vagle which blew me away with its authentic and visceral reality and heart. 
https://soundcloud.com/tobbenv/the-fool-on-the-hill-paul-mc-cartney-cover
I asked him if I could swing over top of his piano track four months ago and I've gone through a complete circle of approaches in that time. 
This was just the last one and I thought I should post something.
Mr. Vagle's version still tops the list.....

Just to clarify this is a cover of the Lennon McCartney song fool on the hill

Fool On The Hill    (Torbjørn Vagle/Bruce Conover)

Little Kiku you made me smile this morning
while we had coffee out 
the rain began to fall on our menu as we planned our famous day … 
and then you reach to me 
and that look in your eye could stop every single bird in this sky or at least they would try to slow down 
those little birds could slow down

are you not sleeping well
are you eating all right
do you worry of things that can go bump in the night
i love you Kiku

Are you not sleeping well
Are you eating all right
Do you worry of things that can go bump in the night
I love you Kiku
I love you Kiku

Little Kiku you know I have no way of finding you in this big dark city 
This big dark city tonight
come home
just come home to me

we can go out for coffee
we can stand in the rain
just let me explain
just let me explain

and then you reach for my hand
and I see that look in your eye
you could stop birds in the sky 
or at least get them to slow down
slow down
slow down
slow down
slow down 
slow down
It's 10 o'clock......
night night

Music composed and piano performed by Tom Régnier
Lyrics, organ, drums vocals, production and mix by conover
Guitar Solo by https://soundcloud.com/juswel
Cover art by Tom Régnier
Mastered at Abbey Road Studio by Alex Gordon
www.abbeyroad.com/engineer/alex-gordon

Kiku: conover/régnier/Welin

Conover plays and sings this version

History from the Beatles Bible:
Written by: Lennon-McCartney
Recorded: 1, 4, 5 August 1969
Producer: George Martin
Engineers: Geoff Emerick, Phil McDonald

Released: 26 September 1969 (UK), 1 October 1969 (US)

John Lennon: vocals, lead guitar
Paul McCartney: vocals, bass
George Harrison: vocals, Moog synthesiser
George Martin: electric spinet Baldwin harpsichord

The final song to be recorded for Abbey Road was John Lennon's Because. The song was inspired by Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and featured The Beatles' distinctive three-part vocal harmonies.

Yoko Ono was a classically trained pianist whose interests had moved towards the avant garde. One day in 1969, however, she played Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 - the Moonlight Sonata.


Lying on their sofa listening, John Lennon asked her to play the chords backwards, and wrote Because around the result. While not an exact reversal of Beethoven's piece, it contains a number of musical similarities.
The lyrics speak for themselves; they're clear. No bullshit. No imagery, no obscure references.
John Lennon
All We Are Saying, David Sheff
The vocal harmonies are one of the most distinctive aspects of the much-admired Because. Lennon, McCartney and Harrison sang together, and overdubbed their voices twice more, giving the effect of nine voices.

John wrote this tune. The backing is a bit like Beethoven. And three-part harmony right throughout. Paul usually writes the sweeter tunes, and John writes the, sort of, more the rave-up things, or the freakier things. But John's getting to where he doesn't want to. He just wants to write twelve-bars. But you can't deny it, I think this is possibly my favourite one on the album. The lyrics are so simple. The harmony was pretty difficult to sing. We had to really learn it. But I think that's one of the tunes that will impress most people. It's really good.
George Harrison, 1969
The vocal harmonies, isolated from their instrumental backing, can be heard on both Anthology 3 and Love. The Love album, however, features the sound of birds twittering in the background.

I wouldn't mind betting Yoko was in on the writing of that, it's rather her kind of writing: wind, sky and earth are recurring, it's straight out of Grapefruit and John was heavily influenced by her at the time.
Paul McCartney
Many Years From Now, Barry Miles
The instrumentation on Because was simple, with arpeggio accompaniment on harpsichord, guitar and Moog. Paul McCartney later bought the electric harpsichord, played here by George Martin, when EMI were reducing their instrument collection; it remains in his recording studio.

In the studio

On Friday 1 August 1969 Lennon, McCartney and Martin taped 23 takes of the basic track, with Lennon on electric guitar and McCartney on bass. Ringo Starr added a basic hi-hat rhythm, but this was for guide purposes only and wasn't recorded.

Take 16 was the best of the 23 attempts. With the backing track in place, Lennon, McCartney and Harrison recorded the first of their harmony vocal tracks. Two more were added on 4 August.

A final overdub was recorded on 5 August, when George Harrison taped a Moog part - the first time the synthesiser was used on the Abbey Road recordings. Harrison recorded it twice, filling up the last two available tracks on the tape.


Ah, because the world is round
it turns me on
Because the world is round
Ah, because the wind is high
it blows my mind
Because the wind is high
Ah, love is old, love is new
Love is all, love is you
Because the sky is blue
it makes me cry
Because the sky is blue
Ah, ah, ah, ah

because: conover

Composed and Performed by Jussi Welin https://soundcloud.com/juswel
Orchestration by Roman Czerny    https://soundcloud.com/gotchi
Flute performed by Jörg Stohwasser  https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx
vocals, production and mix by conover
mastered at Abbey Road by Alex Gordon
www.abbeyroad.com/engineer/alex-gordon
© 2017 Conover/Welin

Breathe deep the gathering gloom
Watch lights fade from every room
Bedsitter people look back and lament
Another day's useless energy spent
Impassioned lovers wrestle as one;
Lonely man cries for love and has none
New mother picks up and suckles her son
Senior citizens wish they were young
Cold-hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colours from our sight
Red is grey is yellow white
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion\\

Spoken word penned by Graeme Edge of the Moody Blues
Voiced by conover
Artwork by https://soundcloud.com/dominiquefrench and conover
Photograph c) 2014 Nicolas McComber
https://mccomberphoto.wordpress.com

B r e a t h e D e e p.   (The Conover/ Welin Adventure)

https://soundcloud.com/faktor4 provided snippets used in the intro and outro.
https://soundcloud.com/mayor-of-donutville provided the ending guitar outro.
https://soundcloud.com/bruce-conover

The melody sends a loose salute to Norwegian Wood by the Beatles

Should I Say It?

Acoustic Guitar, Bass, lead vocal, lyrics and song by William Paterson @w-paterson-1-1
Drums by Rick Medlock @Rick-4-1
electric Piano and Hammond C3 Organ by @tobbenv
Backing Vocals, mix and production by Bruce Conover
© 2019 Patersongs/Conover
Mastered at Abbey Road by https://www.abbeyroad.com/engineer/andy-walter

Love is Free

I had a dream
and in my dream she came and told me
not to worry
She said that everything be fine
and when I woke
Then I remembered of a girl who used to love me
from another place in time

and she said
let the sunshine from your soul
you got to loose control
let the truth come from your heart
you can make a brand new start
let the spirit run wild and free
There’s no other way to be
No other way to be.

Give love , see love, feel love, be love
All love All love is free
Give love , see love, feel love, be love
All love All love is free 
Love is free

I have a dream 
my father told me he’d be standing there beside me
when I faced my darkest day
I felt him there
I felt his hand upon my sholder as he guided me
showing me the way

He said
let the sunshine from your soul
you got to loose control
let the truth come from your heart
you can make a brand new start
let the spirit run wild and free
There’s no other way to be
No other way to be.

Give love , see love, feel love, be love
All love All love is free
Give love , see love, feel love, be love
All love All love is free 
Love is free

Love Is Free (Patersongs Conover)

Acoustic and electric Guitar, Bass, Lead Vocal, Lyrics and song by William Paterson
@w-paterson-1-1
Backing vocals, mix,  wurly Piano and Hammond C3 Organ by conover
© 2020 Patersongs/Conover

Let the sunshine shine like before 
Before the rain came calling at our door

Me myself and I 
Only we know how we feel 
Me myself and I 
Were so surreal 
Me myself and I 
Only we see what we see 
Me myself and I 
Only me

Don't you wake me tomorrow 
Don't you wake me today 
Let me sleep off this sorrow 
Make the world go away
Let the sunshine shine like before 
Before the rain came calling at our door

Me myself and I 
Only we know how we feel 
Me myself and I 
Were so surreal 
Me myself and I 
Only we see what we see
 Me myself and I 
Only me

Let me tell you a secret
 Let me tell you a lie 
Here's my love you can keep it
 If you think we should try
Let the sunshine shine like before
Let the sun shine
 Before the rain came calling at our door
Let the sun shine in

Me myself and I 
Only we know how we feel
 Me myself I 
Were so surreal 
Me myself and I 
Only we see what we see
 Me myself and I 
Let it Be

Open the window and let the sun shine in ; )

Me Myself and I  (Patersongs/Conover)

The Lagniappe Recorder
Manhattan Beach, California
The gear: 
Universal Audio Apollo Quad computer recording interface
Plug-ins by Fairchild, Neve, Pultec, Studer, Manley, EMT, Lexicon,Oxford, API,Trident, Summit. SSL, Massenburg, Hellios, Trident, Ocean Way,Ampex, Oxford, Manley, Elysia, Api, Moog, Lexicon, Cooper Time cube.
MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018) Retina ssd, Thunderbolt display
Korg Triton pro 76 keyboard 
Audience ClairAudient 1+1 V2+. Personal Reference Monitors.
AUDIENCE ADEPT RESPONSE AR12 TS 12-OUTLET POWER CONDITIONER with dedicated AC line to main box on pole.
All cables by Audience.
Logic Pro 10 Recording software.
Rode K2 tube microphone with 1954 NOS cryo- genic Telefunken tube
Sennheiser HD 650 headphones with Cardas cable.
RPG and ASC Sound treatment panels and tube traps installed in and behind control area
The Lagniappe Recorder
Lagniappe is a small gift given to a customer by a merchant at the time of a purchase (such as a 13th doughnut when buying a dozen), or more broadly, "something given or obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure."
Or as I say "a little something special".