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This one came about when noodling with a few chords and then realising that they were the verse from To Sir With Love. Music written by Mark London, lyrics by Don Black for the 1967 film.

Anorak note 1 - Currently the only Single release by a UK Artiste to have reached No1 in the USA but been uncharted here, probably as it had been demoted here to the 'B' side of "Lets Pretend" and so not classified. Bizarre!.

Anorak note 2 - Lulu was one of the first modern day singers to use Melisma (that Whitney/Maria style vocal warble) in her singing style. You can hear it in the original.

This is dedicated to the best English Teacher in the world, my 3rd, 4th and 5th Form English teacher at Secondary School in the 60's, Mr Don Cooper, whose love and passion for the delights and vagaries of the English language and its Literature was infectious and I caught the disease. Lol! God Bless you, Sir.

So here is a new Arrangement what I wrote. The BT, available on request, was created in my BandInABox. Sorry for the short Fade Out - Mistake in final editing!! Ooops!!

https://app.box.com/s/1spf933m08y2yq7g2pts2k2g0fav01nw

Brason Strat, Kinman FVs, old Q2EFTP patch 11, Joyo ACTone.
Enjoy, or not.
Cheers
Ian

Hi Ian
Good listening................a very interesting and enjoyable sounding
arrangement of this tune creating a impressive recording

Pete

Hi Ian,
Really excellent, I just inquired about Band in a Box, I did not know exactly what he could achieve automatically so if I understood correctly apart from your lead guitar all the accompaniment is done automatically after having selected the chords and instruments
That's impressive
Bravo my friend

Allclaphands wrote:Hi Ian
Good listening................a very interesting and enjoyable sounding
arrangement of this tune creating a impressive recording

Pete

Hi Pete
Thank you. I certainly enjoyed putting it together - shame I spoiled it irreversibly at the end. Never mind!
The key change at the end worked out quite well.
Cheers
ian

chtiburnsman wrote:Hi Ian,
Really excellent, I just inquired about Band in a Box, I did not know exactly what he could achieve automatically so if I understood correctly apart from your lead guitar all the accompaniment is done automatically after having selected the chords and instruments
That's impressive
Bravo my friend

Hello Denis
Thanks you for your kind feedback.
I dont want to sound as if I'm advertising BandInABox but essentially you are correct - you choose a Style from its Library which has specific instruments allocated for it (or make a bespoke one up like this one), type in the chords into the grid, choose different instruments if the ones in the Style you have chosen are not quite right and away you go. Thats a simplistic version of what I do - the reality is that I do get up to all sorts of little "trick" in the software to enhance the final result.
Best regards
Ian

I like that a lot, Ian!!

For a vocal, it's got enough melody to stand up as an instrumental in its own right.

A lovely melody and your skill with BIAB has done it justice (along with your guitar playing of course !!)

Very nice.

Hi Jim and Roger - thank you for your find response.
There are few nice twists in the melody to make it worthwhile as an Instro. The Key is C but when the Chorus comes in it goes to a B7 chord and then to Key of D before getting back to C. Then I moved the second chorus UP a semitone by using a C7 to make the change etc etc. All jolly good fun.
BB handles these things effortlessly - make me look good ! lol!
Cheers
ian

Hi Ian
I am sure that this work requires a lot of work, simplicity is all relative
Good job my friend
Cheers Denis