For the last two hours I've been really into
Bonnie Guitar - Dark Moon. I guess Elvis did this song... and some other people, but I don't know if I've ever heard it before. It's the kind of song where you feel like you've heard it even if you haven't. I feel that way about a lot of songs. Then again, maybe that's because I have in fact heard them before. IN ANOTHER LIFE. WHOA.
What kind of name is Bonnie Guitar anyway? I don't know, but I'll be seeing about her other songs.
In this one she sings how I like to sing, with almost too much vibrato, a style which was basically abandoned by 1957, when this song was recorded.
In my head I can see the notes floating down the staff like feathers when she sings "away up high in the sky, tell me why, tell me why you've lost your splendor?"
I can't explain that but it makes sense in my head.
I want to record this song through a telephone onto a tape far away and then accompany it with harmonium organ, guitar effects and distracting static.
I want to sing it as a duet with Bing Crosby a cappella.
I guess I'll just listen to it one more time.
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