This song was recorded at Audio Recording, Inc. in Seattle by legendary engineer, Kearney Barton (who recorded The Kingsmen “Jolly Green Giant” of “Louie, Louie” fame, The Sonics “Psycho”, The Frantics “Werewolf”, and many others.) It was an 8 track analog studio, recorded onto 1 inch reel tape. This was one of the last songs I recorded at Audio Recording, Inc. It was 1993, the same year I wrote the song. I performed all the instruments and overdubs, only recently finishing the last few backing vocals in my home studio called Melodic_Interplay_Notes_Expression Studio, which is really an acronym for MINE. I think there are several vocal parts, lead and backing, drums, bass, two electric guitars, and backwards tape loops. The backwards tape was just having the engineer rewind one of his one inch reel to reel tape back to the beginning. I asked him if he could record that actual sound and he said he never tried before but that he could. I liked it since it made a few people who listened to a tape recording of this song believe that their tape machine was eating up the cassette. Near the end of the song, I performed the bass part with a pick and sideswiping the strings, making it sound like a percussive bass instrument. At the time of recording, Kearney said that in his 35 years of engineering, he never heard anybody play the bass like that and thought the sound and idea was excellent. To finish off this particular mix, I had to convert it from a cassette format (which was the only format I had this in) onto the Audacity program on my computer with a JVC TD-W254 Double Cassette Deck 3 motor Silent Mechanism.
This was the 440th song that I wrote. It was actually done on a bet (without money involved.) A young gal that I went to school with worked at a video store a couple years after we graduated. It was one of the few video stores I frequented and she and I chatted several times through-out that summer. I told her I was a musician and that I liked to write songs and make demos, etc. Since I knew her last name was a bit unique, I told her that I could write a song with her name in it. She said that would be interesting and wanted to see what I would come up with. Within a week, I wrote and recorded it in the studio. I did two versions of this song, and worked on both of them until deciding to use the first version. When I gave it to her to listen to, she put it in the tape player and thought the player was eating my cassette tape because of the backwards noises that started that song. I laughed and told her it was supposed to be like that. Then, after she listened to the song, she had this pale look on her face and said, “We gotta talk.” And before she even went into what I knew she was going to say, I told her, that even though it’s in the first person, which I find easiest to write, it’s not about MY feelings and that my feelings about her remained as friends only. After breathing a sigh of relief, she seemed to enjoy the song and accepted it for what it was; which was basically an exercise in my writing abilities. And this song holds special meaning to me due to the structure of the song. I have a chorus starting off the song which is unusual in its own right, but I have different kinds of bridges and a secondary verse that’s different than the other verses. So, musically, it’s actually one of my favorite recordings. I also enjoy the way my voice feels and sounds so lazy, just like the recording, a kind of laid back and kick your shoes up feeling. Nothing about the recording is perfect, but it’s interesting enough to keep me from doing another version of this song and settle for this unique version. (At the very end of the song, you’ll hear a faint grinding noise. That was me scratching the Neumann microphone with my fingernail, which made Kearney bust out laughing shortly afterwards.)
Recorded at Audio Recording, Inc. in Seattle, WA. and MINE music Studio in Auburn, WA.
lyrics
Daniele Tsezana, Let Me Find A Way
To Tell You That I Love You Everyday.
And Everyday I Cannot Speak My Heart When We’re Apart.
Daniele, My Girl, You Put A Spell On Me
And I’m So Lonely Though In Ecstasy,
Because My Fantasy Is You Alone In My Home.
Share My Thoughts! Share My Dreams! I Can’t Let You Go.
Make Love—In Time—You’ll Be Mine And I Know
We’ll Feel And Share Together Forever,
Though I Don’t Know If We’ll Never, Ever Drift Apart.
Share My Hopes! Share My Schemes! Romance Is Passing By.
Love Will Stay If You’ll Stay By My Side.
Don’t Let This Feeling End This Way. These Are The Words I Have To Say.
Daniele Tsezana, I Just Hope And Pray
To Be With You To Share My Life Someday.
And Someday Soon I Hope You’ll Share My Life As My Wife.
Daniele, My Love, I See Your Hazel Eyes,
Your Long Black Hair And Make-Up In Disguise.
I Turn For Love But You Tell Me Good-Bye, And I Cry.
Daniele, Daniele, Oo Daniele.
I am a musician, singer, and songwriter doing this part-time but have been doing it all my life. I started singing before I
could talk at the age of one, and wrote my first real song at 15 years of age. (If you count avant-garde as a song, then the age would be 7.) I currently own my own recording studio; and I write, perform, and record my own music (and other's from time to time.) I am Santairs....more
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