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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 song was recorded along with 13 other songs in a 12 hour session. It was the first session where I met Kearney Barton. I wanted to do this since I knew The Beatles recorded some of their best sounding stuff very much like this. To this day, I like the fast pace of music since it seems more lively to me. By taking too long on a song and second guessing yourself, you tend to bog down the creative process. I'd rather have a few rough areas and even mistakes in songs rather than spending months on a perfect recording that stifles creativity. This song features Wayde Brown (me) on guitar and vocal; my dad Clinton Brown on bass, and Bill Fletcher on drums. We performed this live in two takes, only overdubs being the lead guitar. Bill Fletcher made one mistake just before the last verse that neither he nor I liked but since I was running out of voice and had to record one more song, we let it go. Thanks to the digital age, I was able to correct it. I remember after the session was over, Kearney said he was very impressed at what we accomplished, especially since we never met before and had barely talked about a game plan. We kind of just went in and did it. The 12 hours included a quick, rough mix down as well.
To finish off this particular mix, I had to convert it from a cassette format onto the Audacity program on my computer with a JVC TD-W254 Double Cassette Deck 3 motor Silent Mechanism.
This is the 90th song I wrote. My father wrote a specific bass part for a song called “New Orleans” by Gary US Bonds. I liked it so much that I wanted to write a song around that specific bass riff. Little Richard was one of my favorite singers I was listening to back then, so I wrote a song that had that kind of flavor it to. I'm not exactly a great screaming singer, but this was my first crack at it. The lyrics are about as basic as it can get too, kind of what I was looking for, alike “Be-Bop-A-Lula.” This song probably qualifies as the song I wrote in the least amount of time. I timed it in under 2 ½ minutes. The song itself is just under that. I kind of wrote it as I went along and didn’t change a thing.

Recorded at Audio Recording, Inc. in Seattle, WA.

lyrics

Baby, What Cha Doin'? I Said Now Baby, What Cha Doin'?
Who You Foolin'? What Cha Doin'?
I Said Now Child, Do You See? I Love Ya, Do You Love Me?
Oh How I Love Ya, Please Believe Me.

Now How Ya Baby, How Ya Doin'? Baby, What Cha Doin'?
Who You Foolin'? What Cha Doin'? Wow!
(Solo)
I Said Now Baby, Do You Love Me? Darlin', What Can It Be?
What Cha Sayin'? Do You Love Me?

Baby, What Cha Doin'? Child, Who You Foolin'?
Please Don't Ruin What Cha Doin'!
Baby, What Cha Doin'? Darlin', What Cha Doin'?
Now Who Ya Foolin'? Tell Me What Cha Doin'!

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from SLEEPING IN DREAMS redux (2024 Remaster), released May 6, 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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