Wayne Gardner - Sounds
 

 

The songs in the "Publicity" section are as follows:

Be My Baby Tonight - This is a country song from John Michael Montgomery. This song was first released in 1994 reaching number one in both the US and Canadian Country Music Charts. Got a great chorus. Sing along with it.

Hello Again - Very well known song from Neil Diamond. Featured in the film "The Jazz Singer". It was nearly not in the film. The song that had been earmarked was called "September Morn". At the last moment they decided on this one.

A little about the songs in the "Covers" section:

When I'm singing Neil Diamond songs I'm not trying to do an impression as such but I sing them in his style, however, there are two Neil Diamond songs in the "Covers" column I have recorded as myself. Hopefully. Then there is "Summertime". This is an acoustic version and is my own arrangement of this iconic song from "Porgy and Bess".

The three songs in the "Originals" section are very different and written 22/23 years apart.

Another Friday Night was written last year and is one of my favourites of my own. I've always admired song writers who write "story" songs so this often comes out in my stuff (hopefully).

Snapshot in Time (My Jenny) - Well, we went on holiday recently (June 2010), to Spain. We flew on a famous Irish airways plane. Pretty strict on there baggage allowances. You want to take a guitar, you buy it a seat. No need to tell you I went guitarless. First holiday without one. Still, it was a good holiday and I read alot and the inspiration for this song came from a book called "Under the Knife" by Tess Gerritsen. Great book but the line that hooked me was "It was only a snapshot in time, a single image captured on a sheet of photographic paper". Just poetic in itself.

When Will It End was written in 1987 and is also a "story" song. The lyric has been updated recently for two reasons. One is personal and the other is because of changing times. One line said "I light a cigarette, turn on the TV" and I gave up smoking in 1991. Just felt it had to be changed to "I rubbed my tired eyes".

Another line went "I'm in a smokey bar by half past five" and as there is no such thing as a smokey bar anymore I felt I had to change it to "noisey bar". Mind you, they're getting few and far between but that's another subject I'm currently working on.

More sounds coming soon. Better put some fast stuff on here me thinks.

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