Week 6 Choosing a 60s song

"we had a discussion about what song we wanted to do in the 60's. I had some ideas about a band called budgie who did a song called bread fan but I found out it was recorded in 1971 - I liked it because there was lots of effects and effects and panning in the speaker which was cool sometimes. We started looking at youtube at some possibilities. We looked at  the Kinks, The Beach boys. I learnt that the beach boys had been very influenced in their studio work by the beatles (Sargent peppers). I didn't want to do those tracks though because theyt weren't enough of a challenge and didn't really interest mre that much. I suggested the Animals and we looked at 'House of the rising sun' ot grabbed me because there was lots of organ playing. I  found that 60s stuff is more relaxed and passive than the 50s stuff weve been doing. It'll certainly be a different ride"

here are the chords and words and a clip of me playing it for the first time

freddy practicing

House of the rising sun

Am    C        D          F
There is a house in New Orleans,
Am        C      E7
They call the "Rising Sun",
Am       C       D           F
It's been the ruin of many a poor girl, (boys?)
Am     E        Am    E7
And God, I know, I'm one.

My mother was a tailor,
She sewed those new blue jeans,
my husbend he's a gambling man,
(drinks) down in New Orleans.

My husbend in a gambler,
He goes from town to town,
The only time, he's satisfied, is when
He drinks his liquor down.

Oh, mother, tell your children
Not to do what I have done -
Spend your lives in sin and misery
In the House of Rising Sun

One foot on the platform,
The other's on the train,
I'm going back to New Orleans,
to wear that ball and chain.

Going back to New Orleans,
My race is almost run,
I'm going to spend the rest of my life,
Beneath that "Rising Sun".

Week 5-recording the vocals

This week me and my tutor recorded down the vocals which were fairly easy as i knew the lyrics off by heart but it took several takes before we got down a fantastic take afterwards we played around with and added some affects that being we used compressions reverbs and EQs however still we were limited down to 2 tracks as in the 50s.  Finally after mixing everything down together it was time to get our record by any means necessary. Unfortunately we didn't have a record scratcher but who would? So we saved it to a memory stick to try and burn it on a cd however i got home and tried but it wouldn't let me so on my next session i will see if i can get my record scratched to a cd. The session went really well and i thurally enjoyed singing "hound dog" it was a privilege to sing one of the kings greatest rock en roll hits it was nice basic and so simple to sing. So if you happen to do the fifties as any music project id recommend some Elvis?  Also as well as patting myself on the back for working hard towards the project I'd like to thank my tutor and the studio owner for putting their input in the song and i would be honoured to play with them again for our future hits so thanks guys. I believe that ive learnt an awful lot of history of music from this project and i can't wait in till we start our next project THE 60S!