Archive for September, 2007
Pink Petticoat
Posted by Johnny in Country, Country Contemporary on September 23rd, 2007
Some fellow-musicians celebrated the 25 birthday of their band Pink Petticoat. My best idea for a present was of course doing a song. This one. Unfortunately, I had the flu and couldn’t go partying. Not sick enough to stop recording, though. So Joop, happy anniversary with your band, and here it is, EU country style. Enjoy the song.
Song by Julian Wilson & Johnny Hoeve
STYLE: country traditional
Wait
Posted by Johnny in Pop Contemporary on September 23rd, 2007
Capital letters please… Another recording for updating the song material. Some people say songwriting is also doing the tracks, the recording. It is one reason why I mostly do a first (homestudio) recording fully arranged – just my suggestion of what it could be. If I feel like, I then can always do a more basic version. But this one is defenitely more “track” than “song”. I cannot hear another version than this one…
Song by Julian Wilson & Johnny Hoeve
STYLE: pop.
All Because Of You
It’s again a ballad, the second in 1 week – it must be the weather…
Like most songs from this site, this one could also be done in another style. I just made it a rock ballad (say Brian Adams) for a first recording.
Song by Julian Wilson & Johnny Hoeve
STYLE: ballad, pop, rock.
How Are You Now? (Stay)
Posted by Johnny in Ballad, Latin, Pop Ballad on September 2nd, 2007
The song’s title originally is Como Vai Voce (song by brasil artist/composer Roberto Carlos – spanish title “Que Sera De Ti“). I always liked the Daniela Mercury version of that tune a lot, and wanted to have an english version of it. Special thanks to Ana Christina who gave me the story of the song. Thanks to that I could do an english lyric that was true to the original. Daniela Mercury’s version (o o so so beautiful!!) is an acoustic guitar ballad – I turned it into a pop power ballad – but if you want me to do the acoustic guitar version, the piano version, the orchestral version, etc. — o well that can be done also.
Here’s the Daniela Mercury version:
Song by Roberto Carlos – English lyric Johnny Hoeve
STYLE: pop ballad, rock ballad, acoustic ballad, brasil ballad, any style ballad…