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,...
by quarantoons | May 22, 2020 | Music
I got the big idea to do something Rockabilly, so I reached out to my bud Joe Rock (Joe Rock & The All Stars) and he was kind enough to oblige. After batting a few songs back and forth, the final result is this Robert Gordon tune from 1977. We got real gone,...
by quarantoons | May 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
Once we finished the track for ‘My Back Pages,’ I asked Robert Sole if he wanted to do another song, and we started throwing around ideas. We settled on something from the 60s, kinda left field, maybe a one-hit wonder – and this song checked all the...
by quarantoons | May 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
After yesterday’s dive into Seventies mellowness, I figured we better roar back with a rocker. One of the most criminally overlooked bands in the world (at least here in the States, in Europe they are gods) is a band called The Wildhearts. They’ve been...
by quarantoons | May 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
While I was waiting to get more tracks back for a few other songs, I thought I’d take a swing at Glen Campbell’s ‘Wichita Lineman.’ I wanted to stay close to the original, so I plugged in the keyboard and did some horn and string parts. The...
by quarantoons | May 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
After Danny Calvagna and I finished ‘Do You Believe In Magic,’ I asked him if he wanted to do another one. He immediately said ‘No Matter What’ by Badfinger. This track came together quickly and I was able to get a mix back to him in a day. He...
by quarantoons | May 7, 2020 | Music
John ‘Doom’ Davis plays bass and sings for 70s Rock Parade, a band known for their spot-on recreations of 70s rock hits. When I asked him what song he wanted to do, it didn’t take him long to pick this Bowie tune from the Station to Station album....
by quarantoons | May 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
This is the song that started the whole COVID A Go Go ball rolling in my head. Around late March, I had one of those random memories – I thought back to a rehearsal for Snakebite, the Whitesnake tribute band I was playing in with Mike Tirelli (Holy Mother,...
by quarantoons | May 6, 2020 | Music
This Gerry Rafferty classic was on my short list of songs to cover, and to get it done I enlisted two friends I’ve worked with extensively in the Neil Diamond tribute One Hot Night. The song would not work without the atmospheric keyboards, provided here by Rich...
by quarantoons | May 6, 2020 | Music
When I contacted Danny Calvagna (45 RPM) about doing a song, I had a darker tune in mind to kind of play against his band’s happy-go-lucky image. But in keeping with 45 RPM’s motto of ‘Come On, Get Happy!’, he said ‘How about something...
by quarantoons | May 6, 2020 | Music
When I approached my friend John Genua (The Rustlers) about doing a song, he illustrated perfectly why it’s a good idea to let the guests pick the songs – he’s been doing a live stream every week and had just added ‘My Back Pages’ to his...
by quarantoons | May 6, 2020 | Music
The choice of a Slade tune came about because my wife and I always noticed that the only Slade tunes getting played on the radio are the ones that Quiet Riot covered. Those are fine, but Slade recorded a bunch of other really good tunes, this one among them. This...
by quarantoons | May 6, 2020 | Music
You knew there’d be a Beatles song in here (and there will probably be more before we’re done!). This track features my friend Bobby D’Andrea on lead vocals. I play with Bobby in a band called Way Back When. Like me, Bobby is a hard core Beatles fan,...
by quarantoons | May 6, 2020 | Music
This Jagger/Richards tune from the movie ‘Performance’ has been on my ‘songs to cover’ list for years, so when I started talking to slide specialist Joey Masters (Grimm Jack) about doing a song, this one naturally came up. The lyrics are...
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