Become As One (Demo)

Electronics meets ukuleles in my cover of Rage In Eden by Ultravox

Rage In Eden (Ultravox cover)

My cover of Calm After The Storm by "The Common Linnets" who represented The Netherlands in the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest.

Calm After The Storm (The Common Linnets cover)

A cover version of a John Shuttleworth classic performed on the great man's favourite keyboard, the Yamaha PSS-51. Recorded specially for my dear Claire. 

Here are the words so you can sing along...

You’re like Manchester you’ve got Strangeways   	      	
But you’ve got Styal too and I miss you while I’m away
 
You’re as pretty as that city in autumn too
And you’re like Manchester ‘Cause I love you
 
You’re like Manchester you’ve got Strangeways   	      	
You are my queen and like a certain town, will always rain!
 
You’re as pretty as that city in autumn too
And you’re like Manchester ‘Cause I love you
 
But if you're like Manchester don't you Cheetam me   	      	
If I Rusholme to find you’ve been in Whalley’s Range, I won’t be pleased
 
My Belle Vue of the world will become a Fallowfield
But no, I can trust yer, You're like Manchester...


You're Like Manchester (John Shuttleworth cover)

An alternative Christmas song that I wrote and recorded pretty quickly just to get the idea down. Its even got sleigh bells on it!

It's Christmas And We Love It!

An orchestral cover of the Pet Shop Boy's track "Luna Park" complete with breathy vocals.

I've even included a Pet Shop Boys original album cover for the art work (I think).

Luna Park (Pet Shop Boys Cover)

If you are a big fan of Tim (Simon Pegg) and Daisy's (Jessica Stevenson) adventures in Spaced you may get a kick out of this. It uses a whole bunch of carefully chosen sound bites taken mostly from the first series and weaves them into a thump-thump-thump tune.

Skip To The End (A Spaced Homage)

An instrumental cover of Hymn (originally by Ultravox)  performed by a full orchestra (in software form). This is taken from my album "We Are Two Minutes From The Kazoo Factory" which is a concept album, the concept being each track is exactly two minutes long.

Hymn (Ultravox Cover)

A series of samples taken from the OMD album Dazzle Ships combined with my own backing. The main song is "ABC Auto-Industry" with various samples from the tracks "Dazzle Ships (II, III and IV)", "This is Helena" and "Time Zones"  This is taken from my album "We Are Two Minutes From The Kazoo Factory" which is a concept album, the concept being each track is exactly two minutes long.

ABC Auto-Industry (OMD Cover)

Death is Forever, an original song by SLR

Last year I wrote a bond theme in case the book "Death is Forever" was ever made into a film. Since Adele has recorded the theme for Skyfall, I've missed out this time but I decided to record and present it now in plenty of time for the next film.

Death is Forever (Bond Theme)

This is a quick recording to demonstrate a song that is being worked on by the ukulele group I'm involved with teaching in Newbury.

It features the songs "Fly Me To The Moon", "Love Story Theme", "Wild World", "Killing Me Softly", "I Will Survive" and "Its a Sin" sung at the same time to the same chords.

Not George Frideric Handel (Teaching Aid)

A vocal and ukulele track specially recorded for Claire to add cheer to her day

Ain't Misbehavin' (Fats Waller cover)

The Pirates and the Sea and Me, an original song by SLR

Just in case there are any more pirate based films ready to be made, how about using this for the theme music?

The Pirates and the Sea and Me

My first orchestral piece featuring a full virtual orchestra, recorded in 2006 and taken from the album "Patterns and Rescued Friends"

Dawn

I've been writing songs and music from an early age. Although most of my recording are instrumentals, I have written a load of songs with words and here you will find some of them.

S.L.R.

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