One of the revolutionary changes that the Blues System brought about was the idea of playing a minor scale under a major chord progression. Prior to the Blues, if you asked a musician to play a minor scale under a major chord progression, the guy would've rolled his eyes and told you to leave him alone. That is just how radical a change minor-under-major is.
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"White Christmas" is an Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting, released in 1942. The version sung by Bing Crosby is the world's best-selling single with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide. When the figures for other versions of the song are added to Crosby's, sales of the song exceed 100 million.
Accounts vary as to when and where Berlin wrote the song. One story is that he wrote it in 1940, in warm La Quinta, California, while staying at the La Quinta Hotel, a frequent Hollywood retreat also favored by writer-director-producer Frank Capra, although the Arizona Biltmore also claims the song was written there. He often stayed up all night writing. One day he told his secretary, "I want you to take down a song I wrote over the weekend. Not only is it the best song I ever wrote, it's the best song anybody ever wrote."
Special huge thanks to Gene Ferriter who made the higher video quality of this recording and future recordings possible. Thanks, GenO! You're my Maine man!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnD5PrK4RGk
For musical grammar Nazis, yes, there are some errors in the chord progression. I just tossed this one in off the cuff so that's bound to happen. This hails back to the super cool days of surf rock, prior even, to the British Invasion. It was a sort of California thing.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neUnwU_rVxg
Here is a rocker that quotes some classic rock & roll moments in the lyrics. One of the ten songs to be featured on our up and coming record.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFk9pEaBROM