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This is my recording of Louis Armstrong ‘What a wonderful world’. I was teaching it to a student the other night and realised that it might sound good – so I recorded it. The recording itself is just my guitar and myself. I didn’t try to emulate the piano in this recording and instead did a more ‘jazz chord guitar’ version. I hope you like it. As well – I highly recommend the version by the Ramones – as featured on [scrubs]. Its another fun interpretation of the same song.
Good evening all. My apologies for having spent so long between recordings. Hopefully it shan’t happen again. I have recorded a few songs in the last few weeks but I didn’t consider that they were quite at recording quality.
Tonight I have for you, my instrumental interpretation of John Lennon’s Imagine. In it, I’m playing my steel string acoustic. I’ve attempted to cover the melody, with as much of the piano part as possible. The bell-like sounds you’ll hear are harmonics – listen out for them in the third verse.
Enjoy.
This is my interpretation of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. It was recorded with simply my voice and my guitar. My version incorporates some elements and ideas from a few other covers of the song as well as some stuff I through in there myself. I’m really pleased with this recording.
Once again, on a personal note, thank you to all of you who have joined my Facebook group. More then 70 members! Now – you can also follow this on Twitter if that is your want. The twitter address is at http://twitter.com/onetakewonders
This is my first Pink Floyd recording on here – ‘Wish you were here’ from the album sharing the same name. I did have to slightly cheat and make it a two-take-wonder because there is no physical way that I could play the radio guitar part and normal guitar parts at the same time and make them sound good. I did try…
This song is about Syd Barrett, who stopped performing (left isn’t exactly the right term) with Pink Floyd near the end of their really psychedelic era and before Pink Floyd become superstars with their concept albums. During the recording of Shine on you Crazy Diamond (on the same album, also largely about Syd), Syd visited the studio. He had shaved of all the hair on his body, and was largely overweight. The rest of the band didn’t recognise him immediately. It was to be the last time that any of Pink Floyd were to see him.
This is my tribute to the passing of one of the great TV shows: [Scrubs]. The song is called ‘Superman’ however is colloquially (and perhaps better) known as ‘I’m no Superman’ – and of course as the theme of Scrubs. The original recording was by Lazlo Bane. I hope you enjoy it.
On a personal note, thank you to so many of you for joining my Facebook Group. 61 Members! That is – 60 people who are not me! And for those of you so equipped, remember that you can get the podcast from http://1takewonder.co.cc/?feed=podcast or on my website at www.1takewonder.co.cc.
I’ve recorded my 9th One Take Wonder, and another one which I am almost entirely pleased with. The song is ‘Wonderful Tonight’ and is one of my favourite Eric Clapton songs.
The history of the song itself is interesting. It was written to Patty Boyd, George Harrisons former wife (who had cheated on George with Eric after meeting whilst Eric recorded the guitar solo for ‘While my guitar gently weeps’ by the Beatles, and the love triangle resluted in the song ‘Layla’… meanwhile). As rumor stands, he wrote the first verse whilst waiting for her to finally finish getting ready for a party – so it wasn’t quite as romantic as the song appears, as much as it was a ‘Yes dear, your look wonderful, now lets go’
Enjoy
Another OneTakeWonder for May 13th – and one of the better ones so far.
The song is Moondance, by Van Morrison – complete with improv. solo, fingerpicked guitars (emulating a double bass with my thumb) and the slightly improvvy end. Enjoy
This is my 7th OneTakeWonder – Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out, as featured on Eric Clapton, Unplugged
OneTrackWonder #6 is an improvised solo guitar the famous jazz standard ‘Ain’t Misbehaving’ by Fats Waller
