OLDIES

Made a remix from a cover song called "La Bamba" It is a Mexican folk song, originally from the 
state of Veracruz, best known from a 1958 adaptation by Ritchie Valens, a top 40 hit in the U.S.A

Enjoy..!!

LA BAMBA (Cover)

The sound of silence  (Cover song)

Only You

Love theme from "The Sandpiper"
Comp.: Johnny Mandel
Text: Paul Francis Webster
Guitar Arrangement: Laurindo Almeida
Guitar: Arno Behl

The Shadow Of Your Smile

This is an old song from 1935 and is part of the Great American Songbook. I added percussion to this with spoons, tambourine and a big cardboard box.  The guitars are my Gretsch Boxcar Resonator and a Dean 6-String Banjo/guitar.

Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter

The Best Things In Life Are Free

Classic tune from the 1930s written by Will Hudson and Irving Mills.  Lyrics by Eddie DeLange.

Moonglow

Decided to do a version of Let It Snow using guitar, vocals and messing around on Ableton with the drum rack and other midi options.

Let It Snow

This is one of those classics that swings.
I'm very glad Stéph (@DDJohn)agreed to make a Gypsy jazz version of it , He took a little advice from Benny Goodman ... and this is the result. 
Hope you like our Gypsy jazz version with Benny Goodman fantastic inspiration for the clarinet part !
And Stéph - MERCI! :-)

Cheek To Cheek - Stéph Laporte aka DDJohn

CD 7 mrt 2012

I Wish You Love

This is a song we do at sing along at work and is a lot of fun to play.

All Of Me

A cover of a beautiful traditional. 
Czech lyric and male vocals by Dejv
 Mix & Master by Lagya
Female vocals by Kat

www.midimusic.cz 

Scarborough Fair - a Czech cover

There's a full moon tonight and it reminded me of this song we do at work with residents during the sing alongs.  It came out in 1909 on the vaudeville circuit, was written by Madden and Edwards and was later a big feature during the Ziegfeld Follies revues.

By The Light Of The Silvery Moon

This is a classic Cole Porter tune that I have always enjoyed and I've been listening to a lot of Sinatra lately and decided to cover this.

I'Ve Got You Under My Skin

Close To You

At Last

Annbber - Sentimental Reasons - Tenderly -  Autumn Leaves

ChasinADream

Danny's Song (Cover)

This song began life in 1953 as a rumba entitled: “¿Quién será?” by Mexican composer Luis Demetrio.   Norman Gimbel added English lyrics and in 1954 the song, renamed “Sway” became a hit for Dean Martin.
	“Sway” has since been recorded by many artists, most notably Shaft in 1999, and Micheal Buble in 2003.
	My version has moved away from Buble's extravagant stage version towards a more acoustic but still danceable, maybe, sound.   Anyhow, it is a great song and I hope this version does not put you off.

Sway

Sway  (cover)

I present for you another remixing of a recent track . Again featuring the velvety vocal talents of the amazing POLLENFAX. https://soundcloud.com/pollenfax

From the 1936 movie "Showboat" and originally sang by the wonderful Paul Robeson. It is a song of its time ......

Old Man River (feat Pollenfax)

( REPOSTS  are  routed to Synthgrinder [REPOSTS] )
( https://soundcloud.com/user-813544615 )


++++. PROFILE NOTES ++++

Once a wannabe, not yet a has been.

It had been over a decade since I put together a song,
and for that matter basically walked away from music altogether.
Losing hope that I would ever have the time to put into music again,
I finally gave away my 3rd music studio.
I ran across SoundCloud around 2013,
and thought I might take what few songs I had recorded, 
and lay them to rest there.
And there they languished.

HOWEVER, around 2017 I went back to SoundCloud
and began listening a little more and a little more,
and actively taking a part in visiting the sites
of so many wonderful musicians and beautiful songs.
Also, more and more often I would discover that these artists
were blossoming everywhere around the world,
and most definitely worthy of high praise and compliments.

Then suddenly, these old dead soundtracks right here
began to have a bit of life breathed back into them.
From the kind words that began to come trickling in,
I thought, maybe, someday I might give this music thing a try again.

The thing that finally pushed me into action
was a particular SoundCloud artist…Sander Heerings,
AKA https://soundcloud.com/wane-of-summer
 

Not only was he encouraging,
but he began faithfully responding to a few questions,
then a barrage of them.

The final result seemed to be that after a couple of months,
the Old Grinder now has a 4th studio and, finally, a new song.
I hope there may be many more to come.

Thank you Sander, and to the multitude that have dropped in
to listen to these old songs, 
and most of all, for perking up my spirits.