Moderators daddymack Posted January 5, 2015 Moderators Share Posted January 5, 2015 Beatles and Stones songs are ripe for re-interpretation...so are early Kinks (Van Halen didn't go far enough with 'YRGM', IMHO), Herman's Hermits and the rest of the Brit Invasion material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pogo97 Posted January 5, 2015 Members Share Posted January 5, 2015 I'd be delighted to hear someone re-interpret Herman's Hermits' "No Milk Today." Written by Graham Gouldman. Very sparse lyrics (a bit regional -- I had to look up "two-up two-down") and three glorious strains. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32bVUFshSAo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members steve mac Posted January 5, 2015 Members Share Posted January 5, 2015 I used to live in a two up two down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pogo97 Posted January 5, 2015 Members Share Posted January 5, 2015 As, apparently, did Severus Snape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members senorblues Posted January 7, 2015 Author Members Share Posted January 7, 2015 I'd be delighted to hear someone re-interpret Herman's Hermits' "No Milk Today." I was contacted by a guitar player recently who said he had a singer that wanted to do songs of that genre and era exclusively - DC5, Searchers, Herman's Hermits, Zombies, etc. I'm having a hard time remembering any of those songs being covered later and making it to the Billboard list. I'm also wondering who the target audience would be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pogo97 Posted January 7, 2015 Members Share Posted January 7, 2015 Geezers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members senorblues Posted January 7, 2015 Author Members Share Posted January 7, 2015 Geezers Guilty as charged. I'm a fair amount older than either of them. I confess to playing some of this stuff in high school when it first came out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted January 7, 2015 Moderators Share Posted January 7, 2015 Geezers 'zackly...and their wimminz...who adored all those cute Brits way back when....and bought all those fanzines....and watched Hullabaloo, AB67, Shindig, Where the Action Is, ...that is the audience I get the best reaction from....women 55-70... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members senorblues Posted January 7, 2015 Author Members Share Posted January 7, 2015 Oh you meant that was the target audience. My guess is that people my age would rather hear other genres from that era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members senorblues Posted January 7, 2015 Author Members Share Posted January 7, 2015 'zackly...and their wimminz...who adored all those cute Brits way back when....and bought all those fanzines....and watched Hullabaloo, AB67, Shindig, Where the Action Is, ...that is the audience I get the best reaction from....women 55-70... 55 makes you a prescholler when those shows were aired from '64-'66 . . . . but I take your point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pogo97 Posted January 7, 2015 Members Share Posted January 7, 2015 55 makes you a prescholler when those shows were aired from '64-'66 . . . . but I take your point. Yeah, but lots of them had older brothers and sisters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members steve mac Posted January 7, 2015 Members Share Posted January 7, 2015 I usually start my set with Herman's "I'm into something good" nice lively tune, easy to play as a solo, easy to sing and my crowd either know it from the original or from Naked Gun movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members senorblues Posted January 7, 2015 Author Members Share Posted January 7, 2015 Well I'll be darned . . . It's a Carol King / Gerry Goffin tune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pogo97 Posted January 7, 2015 Members Share Posted January 7, 2015 Early 60's brit pop : listen --carefully-- to American Black music, play and sing with boy's choir vocals, and sell it back to the US. Seems like a good business model in retrospect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted January 8, 2015 Members Share Posted January 8, 2015 I'm also wondering who the target audience would be. The singer himself, most probably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted January 8, 2015 Moderators Share Posted January 8, 2015 The singer himself, most probably. I resemble that remark! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted January 8, 2015 Moderators Share Posted January 8, 2015 Well I'll be darned . . . It's a Carol King / Gerry Goffin tune. Now I want to arrange this a la the Beach Boys...it really has all the elements, doesn't it? The Herman's Hermits version was just a tad 'light' for my taste...then again, it was a huge hit for them, so what do I know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Voltan Posted January 9, 2015 Members Share Posted January 9, 2015 and all the freedom... it's a trade off... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Voltan Posted January 9, 2015 Members Share Posted January 9, 2015 I kinda think teh beach boys are a little light there too... if you're going to step it up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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