Silly Little Girl

A bit too long, but never mind. Bit of an ELO feel. I must have been quite influenced by them.

Shopping Around

Wistful little tune with pizzicato string arrangement.

Some Day (I'm Going to Marry Her)

A track made in January 2004 using samples from the BBC Radio drama McLevy.

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I Told You So, McLevy

Demo of tune that became "Dear Miss Sunshine".

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"Sometime" 2007 demo

You Showed Me

Trying to do a song that was beyond my vocal skills.

You Never Wrote (2007 demo)

A tune I wrote in the '80s, redone in 2006.

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Prisoner of Love (instrumental)

Mother

2006 idea. Don't know where the "Jesus" lyric came from!

Cuts off abruptly for technical reasons :)

Heigh Ho (What Do You Know?) demo

An '80s tune rerecorded in 2006 on new technologee to render it more fab.

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Spaghetti Bolognese

An '80s tune of mine, redone in 2006 to be more overblown.

Five Past Nine

An '80s tune of mine that used to be called "Red Ambulance", reworked in March 2006 to be more epic.

Get Ready Now (instrumental)

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Why Do You Call Me Up Just To Put Me Down?

Finders Keepers

This Little Town

Reggae with a waltz rhythm underneath throughout.

Oh Mama

A 2004 recording which uses a vocal originally recorded in about 1980, transferred from a 4-track reel-to-reel.

I Love My Old Grey Bear

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Esme, aged nearly 3 (in 1996) Singing About Hercules

From a live lunchtime concert broadcast on Radio 3 from St Paul's Church, Birmingham on 22nd January, 1987. Christopher Royall, countertenor, Margaret Phillips, portative organ, with The Sixteen's Harry Christophers presiding. This was the first time I'd ever heard Evening Hymn, and I've never heard it done better since,

Evening Hymn by Henry Purcell, sung by Christopher Royall, countertenor

Mama Told Me Not to Mess Around with a Girl Like You Unless I Wanted My Heart Broken In Two

The Weakness In Me

Once Upon a December (French lyrics)

Whichever Way the Wind Blows (version 2)

Broke Down

Buddha No Blues

Crying Shame

What Planet Are You Livin' On?

Last Summer Fair

Words not finalised. David Buckingham on harmonica.

Scunthorpe

The Light Pours In

Mama's Little Baby

"All you pretty girls!  Form an orderly queue ..."  

Extended version of the song I posted some time ago. 

All You Pretty Girls (2)

I think I may have nicked the tune of the chorus from somewhere, but I've no idea where from.

My Life (She Don't Care)

Mandy Miller's 1956 recording remixed by me.

Nellie the Elephant Remix

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Domino's

Made up as I recorded it, then overdubbed. (May 2017)

All in the merry month of May,
I heard the children say,
"Glory to God on high",
That's what they told me.
All in the merry month of May,
Wait for me.

All In The Merry Month of May

I Was Looking for Love (but love found me)

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Best listened to on decent headphones.
All music and words written by me, unless otherwise stated. Some of the songs use lyrics written by my friend David Scott. The earliest songs here were recorded around 2000, but most are post-2007. I play keyboards, basic guitar bits, and sing. I do all the recording myself. Few of the recordings are perfect, but I just wanted to get them "out there" on the web, just to see if anything comes of it.
Gear: iMac G4, Cubase VST 5.1
Mic: Rode NTK, with TC Helicon Perform VK for some vocal effects
E-H Grand Canyon looper/echo
Main piano: Yamaha DGX-620
Synths: 
Yamaha Motif XS6, Roland JD-Xi, Korg M3-73, 
Alesis Fusion 8HD, Korg Karma.
Guitars: 
Alvarez 12-string, Ovation Applause electro-acoustic 6-str, Recording King 6-str acoustic.
Percussion: 
Steinberg Groove Agent 1 (love it!), drums from keyboards, tambourine.
Everything but the Groove Agent output is recorded acoustically i.e. no MIDI control except on the Groove Agent drums. This is because none of the other MIDI works!

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