Digital Conversion...

[caddyman]

Of course in an ideal world, having been in rehab for the requisite length of time, sober and permitted only enough cigarettes to keep her voice at the level of dissolute huskiness that makes it interesting, Amy Winehouse would be dragged into the recording studio and made to rerecord Valerie using The Zutons' original arrangement and backing track.

That would be the ideal.

At the moment the two versions of the song I know are superlative in one part and poor in the other. That is why this spliced version of the song needs to exist.

(Edited to add: The Mark Ronson version featuring Amy Winehouse comes close to being what I had in mind, so perhaps there's no need for a further version - endure the first 45 or so seconds before the song starts:).

I have just spent an hour or so plundering Furtle's CD collection and adding bits and pieces to my Walkman. I still have over 5gB of space on it and pretty much the entirety of my CD collection, less the classical, is already on it. That must be of the order of 700 CDs since the clear out of the extraneous stuff of little consequence. There is still a fair selection of albums that I need to listen to before I decide whether or not to copy them; I'm not sure when I'll ever find the time.

Comments

[november-girl.livejournal.com]

I doubt the Zutons were born when the song was originally arranged.

But I'm sure you didn't mean it that way...did you?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Well according to the album, the song is credited to Dave McCabe/Zutons. As Dave McCabe is a member of the band, I am assuming theirs is the original arrangement.

Of course, they could have written it in utero, but I suspect someone would have commented before now!

[november-girl.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it's a lot older than that - isn't it a late 70s/early 80s track?

Diffrent choon

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Stevie Winwood had a hit with a song of the same name umpteen years ago. Maybe you're thinking of that one?

Re: Diffrent choon

[november-girl.livejournal.com]

No. I'm thinking more of someone like Patti Smith - although I know it wasn't her.

Re: Diffrent choon

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia gives the following options:

* "Valleri," a rock song made popular by The Monkees
* "Valerie," a song by Steve Winwood.
* "Valerie," a song by The Zutons, notably covered by Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse.
* "Valerie" a song by Brother Firetribe
* "Valerie" a song by Reel Big Fish

Re: Diffrent choon

[november-girl.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm. *puzzled*

Re: Diffrent choon

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Let me know if you remember who you're thinking of. I'm always ready to give music I've never heard a go, even if it only turns out to be once!

[kathbad]

It sounds like it should be, but it is actually more modern than that...

[sea-strands.livejournal.com]

Speaking of the Furtle, I miss my daily dose!

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I have passed this intelligence to her. I suspect that updates including her holiday in Egypt will happen when she is back at work!