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Gary, amiller, Paul, Grem, Joad, Lynn, Freddy, Tom Thanks so much for listening and taking the time to comment.

Hey thanks! ?

https://vimeo.com/349172287/7520be7ea9 At the risk of totally embarrassing myself I'm posting this slide show/video. Back in the 1950's when everything was in black and white and analog, my father made an audio tape of my brother and me singing a couple of songs. I cleaned up the tape noise and then chopped up the audio into short phrases, then arranged them to make them fit the background music I wrote. Might be obvious in a couple of places. All done in Cakewalk. Nowadays your entire life has been recorded from your very first day on earth, but back then it was pretty rare to have an audio recording of yourself. Have to say that my singing talents have gone downhill since then. Audio in CbB Video in Vegas Pro.

amiller What Gary said above. Very expressive playing. I'm always amazed what you guitar guys can do.

Gary I was pretty sure you were overcome with genuine emotion while singing. Good decision to keep those parts in instead of re-doing them.

Paul I like the voc and the lyrics very much. The guitar accompaniment is great. Good job!

RexRed I think I commented on the "vintage" sound of one of your previous songs and this one also has that nice 50s or 60s feel to it. You know, back when music was good. Interesting that you manually adjusted the levels of each voc syllable - hey I'm not the only one :-). Enjoyed the song and have to say your singing is ready for prime time.

Kenny Yes I did enjoy the playing. Professional caliber as usual. Do you ever hit a wrong note? ?

Sailor55 The blues is one of my favorite genres and you did this one really well. Love the lyrics too.

amiller, gary, steve, lynn Thanks. I wasn't sure if I should post the song or not so I appreciate the positive comments.

Very cool airy synth at beginning. Really good melodic changeup at 0:52 and 2:05 Impressive drum track. Kind of abrupt change 1:36 but I like how you added in the synths as it went along. I think I can recognize a kakku song anywhere now. ? Nice job.

Beautiful song. There's singing and then there's singing with emotion. You expressed the sentiment of the lyrics incredibly well with your compassionate delivery. I listened on headphones bluetoothed to my laptop at Starbucks. I couldn't make out some of the words esp those sung at a lower volume. I think the voc could be clearer if you EQ'd out the muddiness around 80Hz or so. Of course, this opinion is from an older guy whose hearing ain't what it used to be so take that into consideration. Love the photo. ?

Kenny I'm always blown away and inspired by your guitar playing. Would be cool to see a video performance some time.

I love your music Freddy. It always puts a smile on my face.

Lynn The light reverb on the voc is just right. Guitar accompaniment is excellent. The horns ~2:20 didn't work for me. Really liked the section ~ 3:20 with just the bass, voc and minimal percussion. Great job esp on the lyrics!

Very moving tribute to your father. I agree with Tom about the piano volume. Really like the theme starting ~2:40.

I saw a bumper sticker that said It's Not That I'm Old. Your Music Really Does Suck. Always wanted to write a song with those words so here it is. Maybe the lyrics are a little snarky? I had a lot of trouble with the vocal track. When it sounded ok on my studio monitors it was too muted and muddy in the headphones on my mp3 player. Tweaking the EQ made the ss's and ch's stand out too much. De-ess'ing made me lisp. I went in and brought down the volume of individual ss's and over enunciated t's and b's and that introduced some clicks to deal with. Anyway, this is what I got. Thanks for listening.

Maybe not exactly what you're looking for but you could try the Prelinger archives https://archive.org/details/prelinger You can find all kinds of free public domain stuff. There are links at the upper left corner to videos, audio, texts etc.

Good job on syncing the video with the music. Are those your legs dangling off the building? Really good gtr track. seemed like the resurrection of an old song worked out really well.

Thanks everyone for the comments. Always encouraging. Tom, yeah that strum wasn't supposed to be there as soon as you hit the Play button. Sorry for the GI issues or any ensuing cardiac arrests.

daryl I like the song a lot - the guy singing is incredible. I'm impressed with the vocal track which I assume you did some work on? If so, would you work on mine next? Just kidding, but it does convince me to learn more about mixing vocals.

bob o As mentioned above you write perfect lyrics for the genre. And it's easy to make out the words because you have that great voice and the mixing ability to make it stand out. You really have that wanna-hit-the-open-road feeling here

pcode Terrific song. Good mix and very clear vocal. Effective reverb. Not so sure about the vibrato effect near the end though. I don't know anything about Urdu music but did you use a particular scale in this song? Couple of notes I wrote while listening 1:13 auto tune effect? 1:31 bass glitch?

Jeff, I checked out a couple of Professor Longhair YT videos since I wasn't familiar with him. Gave me a better idea of what you were going for so I listened to your song again. Have to say the drums are a pretty cool accompaniment and the horns seem to fit in perfectly. I'm impressed with your piano composition - really melodic and fun.

Beautiful song, Steve. The background voices are very effective and complement your vocal well. I like the Irish pipe. I always take notice of lyrics. Really like the variations on 'falling from this world' and the repeating phrase in the last line of each verse, a technique that I'm going to steal. I'm probably not interpreting the words as you intended but that's okay. 'Peers' not 'piers'