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DON'T CRY BABY (INSTRUMENTAL)

from IT SEEMS SO STRANGE [Digitally Remastered] by The Santairs

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This song was hugely inspired by Creedence Clearwater Revival's song, “Rude Awakening #2.” I always got a kick out of The Beatles, Chicago, CCR, and other hugely popular groups that have recorded and released avant-garde material. As a musician, I find the stuff quite boring. But as a writer and listener, I find avant-garde music extremely interesting. I have been deeply inspired by some of these songs and have written more “mainstream” songs because of them. When I was younger, I'd listen to avant-garde music followed by classical music. It really plays some interesting tricks to the ears.
This song was recorded back in 1986 and was originally just an instrumental. I later wrote lyrics to it and had 3 different versions of this song. This song starts off slow and moves heavily into the avant-garde, then flows back into a melody again, and continues back and forth until the end. The original recording was done on a two track stereo system. I took this version from an old cassette tape and edited it on the Audacity software, adding more of a flavor to this tune, including on-line drums and overdubbing various percussive instruments. (You can hear the massive amount of tape hiss which I kept in there. The program is limited on how much hiss I can actually smooth out, but I decided to keep the full glory of the old tape hiss in tacked.)
This song was transferred from cassette tape from a Denon DRM-700 3 head cassette deck with silent mechanism onto digital form.

This is the 152nd song I wrote.

Recorded at The CELL BLOCK Studio in Auburn, WA.

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from IT SEEMS SO STRANGE [Digitally Remastered], released May 26, 2014
Wayde K. Brown

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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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