Reaching for the Moon—Irving Berlin, 1930 (Recorded November 29, 2012) Here’s another “Moon” song, a lovely Berlin Ballad that I snagged from the recording that appears on the excellent Sinatra compilation, Moonlight Sinatra. I use the baritone ukulele on this one. I had to remix my original recording and work on the EQ to tone down some of the bass, but otherwise, it turned out OK.
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Here it is, my interpretation of the "Great American Songbook" (I like to call it the "Great 20th Century Songbook"), including works by Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, and other less-well-known song writers of the Tin Pan Alley jazz-pop genre. You'll also find an assortment ranging from cowboy ballads, Hawaiian-style songs, R&B, folk, show tunes—a sampling of the kinds of music I grew up listening to. I make these recordings in my home studio using a Macintosh-based audio workstation and post them here, warts and all. For most of the tunes, I'll sing and play a ukulele live, then overdub occasional whistling, scatting, sound FX, or percussion.
I hope you come by to visit regularly. Enjoy!
I thought this was going to be ‘(It’s Like) Reaching For the Moon’, as sung by Billie Holiday and a song I love and have been trying to play for sometime. However, I now love this too! (I wouldn’t have minded the baritone a bit more bassy, actually…..)
I love the song you refer to…would like to do that some day, too. (There are so many thousands of great old tunes that I’d like to record, I’m sure it would take me a hundred years to get through half of them!) Interesting thought about the EQ on that song. The original version just seemed too thick at the bottom, so I cut it a little—not much, really.