by quarantoons | Jun 10, 2020 | Music
After working on two songs from the Sixties (‘My Back Pages’ and ‘Smile A Little Smile For Me’), Bob Sole and I were talking last weekend about what to do next. We decided to jump forward a couple of decades and do this Squeeze hit from...
by quarantoons | Jun 1, 2020 | Music
This Queen track features members of my band Way Back When – Bobby D’Andrea on lead vocals and Gary Hyatt on bass, with Mike McKeon from the band Stagecoach on drums. We added it to our song list just before everything got locked down, so when we started...
by quarantoons | May 30, 2020 | Music
This song has been rolling around in my head for a couple of weeks, since I was cleaning out my office and found a promo button for the single. This is the best-known song by a Canadian band called The Pursuit of Happiness, from their 1988 album Love Junk. It was the...
by quarantoons | May 28, 2020 | Music
Doom Davis and I racked our brains for the better part of an hour deciding what to follow up ‘Golden Years’ with, and after calling out 20 or 30 songs we settled on this Tears For Fears track suggested by my wife. This one was actually a few weeks in the...
by quarantoons | May 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
I continue to be amazed at the song choices people are making for this project – songs that I’d never think of doing, but when I hear them I think ‘excellent choice.’ The choice of this 1967 hit by The Association was the idea of my old friend,...
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