1960's and before

From 1964, one of the best R&B songs ever, and still relevant:

"A Change Is Gonna Come"

I was born by the river in a little tent
Oh, and just like the river I've been running ever since

It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gon' come, oh yes, it will

It's been too hard living, but I'm afraid to die
'Cause I don't know what's up there beyond the sky

It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gon' come, oh yes, it will

I go to the movie and I go downtown
Somebody keep telling me don't hang around

It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gon' come, oh yes, it will

Then I go to my brother
And I say, "Brother, help me please"
But he winds up knockin' me
Back down on my knees

There've been times that I thought I couldn't last for long
But now I think I'm able to carry on

It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gon' come, oh yes, it will

Funkinova

Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come

The 1966 classic written by John Sebastian and performed by his group The Lovin' Spoonful was given a more modern treatment by Joe Cocker in 1994 which this version more closely resembles. Joe Cocker's version reached the top 10 in Switzerland, Austria and Belgium. Which only goes to show us international artists never know where our success is going to come from!   :-)

Lovin Spoonful - Summer in the City

A short but iconic instrumental from the 1964.

Herbie Hancock - Cantaloupe Island

Paul McCartney described this as one of the best songs ever written!

Beach Boys - God Only Knows

What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
No, not just for some but for everyone

Lord, we don't need another mountain
There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb
There are oceans and rivers enough to cross
Enough to last 'til the end of time

What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
No, not just for some but for everyone

Lord, we don't need another meadow
There are corn fields and wheat fields enough to grow
There are sunbeams and moonbeams enough to shine
Oh listen Lord, if You want to know

What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
No, not just for some, oh, but just for every, every everyone

Burt Bacharach - What the World needs Now!

These tracks were edited using the CVP705 and demonstrate the audio capability of the excellent keyboard. I am hoping that Yamaha will address the major weakness of having very limited free available memory after which I would give the keyboard 10/10. 

Beach Boys - Surfer Girl

Monkeys - Daydream Believer

These tracks were edited using the CVP705 and demonstrate the audio capability of the excellent keyboard. I am hoping that Yamaha will address the major weakness of having very limited free available memory after which I would give the keyboard 10/10.

Mason Williams - Classical Gas

Glenn Miller - In The Mood

Fleetwood Mac - Albatross

So it is never quite clear why one cover track might get a few thousand plays and others just a few. So I thought I would put this that I produced around three years ago back in the spotlight to see if it can get some more plays this second time around.

As one of my earlier tracks it is one of the first where I gave it a treatment that didn't try and be too close to the original.

2018 V1

David Bowie - Space Oddity (Instrumental)

Chuck Berry - Johnny Be Good

Beach Boys - God only knows

The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations

David McWilliams - Days Of Pearly Spencer

Dave Berry had a few hits, particularly in Europe, but this is the best one!

Dave Berry - Crying Game

The Searchers - Needles And Pins

Although this was based on an online midi file, I added quite a few tracks and instruments and remixed it to come up with a pretty good result, methinks.

Glenn Miller - Tuxedo Junction

Funkinova;

The Champs - Tequila

Richard Harris - Macarthur Park

Hi all, so from 2016 to 2024 I assembled and produced a large collection of covers of many of my favorite tunes as my own hobby (and many during COVID lock-downs!) and I have accumulated over 2,900,000 plays across the world which is awesome!

I am much more of a producer that a musician. These first 8 years of my music was mostly based on midi cover tracks often downloaded from the Internet but heavily reproduced and re-imagined variously on my two Yamaha keyboards (Clavinova and PSR 975), but also using PC midi editing & DAW software.

Towards the end of that period, I added some of my more original electronic music which I produced over the past two decades under the name of Funkleberry in order to consolidate my Soundcloud accounts. 

But in 2024 I got into AI music generation and I am now  a freelance songwriter and AI music producer. It's been a fun journey!

My first 4 AI Albums can also be found here:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4iZUxtVnHl09U3UJ0nbt2L OR

in Apple music (search Funkinova and/or AI Collective)

If you like anything you hear, please pass them on!