New Tunes

04/09/10 10:27 PM

I just added a few new tunes to the Library including:

Female Vocals:
Mambo Italiano & Slow Boat to China from the album “Bette Midler Sings The Rosemary Clooney Songbook, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (Andrew Sisters)

Male Vocals:
Cha Cha Cha D’Amour (Dean Martin), Ol’ MacDonald Had A Farm (Sinatra), Something Stupid (Sinatra), Down w/Love (Bobby Darin)

Instrumentals:
Blue Moon, New w/latin feel (written for the CD), Soul Bossa Nova, Secret Agent Man.

Also in the Works:

Fever (female vocal), I Won’t Dance (female vocal), Begin the Beguine (from the movie “It’s Delovely” latin version-female vocal), Carolina in My Mind (James Taylor), In the Cool, Cool of the Evening (Bette Midler-female vocal)

Recording Update

04/09/10 09:57 PM

We go into the studio a week from Saturday. The last rehearsal is this Sunday. I am anxious to get started and put down some tracks. The rehearsals have gone well and you’re gonna like the end product.

I had a bit of a delay getting the license to record the tunes. But we are on track now. It seems that “Stompin’ at the Savoy” has 25% ownership that is not licensed thru the Harry Fox Agency. So I had to track down the other owner to get permission. If we were doing an instrumental version it would have been 100% thru Harry Fox, but Michelle is singing that tune with us and the vocal version is different. She really does a great job with this tune, you’re gonna love it.

This has been a lot of work. I’m still working on the cover design and the credits. I’m trying to decide if we should have some t-shirts and/or caps made too. It might be nice, if there is any interest.

“It won’t be long now”, that’s what they said when they cut off the monkey’s tail.