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The variety of artists who have recorded Blue Moon reads like music Pianoforall Review history: Django Reinhardt Mel Torme Billie Holiday Dizzy Gillespie Louis Armstrong Elvis Presley Julie London Sam Cooke Frank Sinatra Dean Martin The Supremes Bob Dylan and even My Morning Jacket.But the most famous version recorded by Pittsburgh-based doo-wop group the Marcels came as a shock in 1961 when the song was known as a slow lilting ballad. Composer Richard Rogers hated it so much that he submitted full-page advertisements urging people not to buy it.
Despite the negative reaction from the musical elite it was a massive hit. The Marcels' version which immortalized the phrase bomp-baba-bomp-ba-bomp-ba-bomp-bomp became an international #1 hit and is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.The controversy that surrounded the Marcels' Blue Moon only served to add another element to its already unusual history which began in 1935 with composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart.
After making beats for many years I often ask myself if it's really beneficial to have complex software to distract me from what I really want to be doing. Are you into making beats for rapping or instrumental music If so you may feel the same way and may be looking for more accessible beat maker software.
I have found that simplicity often helps me to come up with the more interesting beats. I'm not talking about super-simplicity such as only having the option to put the drum hits on only four slots of a four note pattern. That is too simple and is approaching old-school 808 drum machine programming territory. However even the 808 is more complex than the situation I described. In fact many of the originally notorious drum machines that helped birth the slamming hip hop beats of the late 80's and early 90's really weren't much more complex even those that added samplers and more advanced sequencers.
Despite the negative reaction from the musical elite it was a massive hit. The Marcels' version which immortalized the phrase bomp-baba-bomp-ba-bomp-ba-bomp-bomp became an international #1 hit and is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.The controversy that surrounded the Marcels' Blue Moon only served to add another element to its already unusual history which began in 1935 with composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart.
After making beats for many years I often ask myself if it's really beneficial to have complex software to distract me from what I really want to be doing. Are you into making beats for rapping or instrumental music If so you may feel the same way and may be looking for more accessible beat maker software.
I have found that simplicity often helps me to come up with the more interesting beats. I'm not talking about super-simplicity such as only having the option to put the drum hits on only four slots of a four note pattern. That is too simple and is approaching old-school 808 drum machine programming territory. However even the 808 is more complex than the situation I described. In fact many of the originally notorious drum machines that helped birth the slamming hip hop beats of the late 80's and early 90's really weren't much more complex even those that added samplers and more advanced sequencers.
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