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. To finish off this particular mix, I had to convert it from a cassette format that was about 17 years old onto the Audacity music editor program on my computer with a Denon DRM-700 cassette tape deck. The Combined Players: Wayde Brown—guitar, lead and backing vocals, tambourine, maracas, wood block, bongos, flute, chimes/Sean Crain—bass, backing vocal, piano/Dan Penland—drums, backing vocal/Donna Austin and Jennifer L. Newman—Backing vocals. This new mix of this song makes it the 495th song that I wrote. There were originally two versions of this song done within a year of each other called, “Sleeping in Dreams (Carol Jeanne’s Theme) and “Sleeping in Dreams (Morning’s Theme).” After a few years, I removed the “Carol Jeanne’s Theme” reference since it truly didn’t hold any meaning to the song itself. I knew a Carol Jeanne and, if I remember correctly, she helped inspire the music to this song by her personality alone, but it’s not something that I consider relevant today. The first version of this song was very slow and melodic, though I felt it was missing something, but it remained my favorite version. The “Morning’s Theme” version had parts I liked to it as well, but not as much as the original version, plus it was much faster and recorded with one guitar, bass, and drums, all recorded live in a couple takes, including the lead and backing vocals. It was basically how we sounded when we performed live. Dan, the drummer, passed away in 2011 and I revisited this song again. With a little more engineering knowledge under my belt, I decided to a Beatles “Strawberry Fields Forever” concept by combining the two versions of the songs I had into one version that I liked. I partially sped the slower version up just a little while significantly slowing down the faster version to mesh it into one song. I added a few extra effects into the song, remixed and mastered it, and now have a final product that I truly like, albeit a bit psychedelic by nature, which actually was what I originally envisioned. It’s not supposed to be a pretty and perfect tune, but a slightly odd sensation, like being in-between the conscious and unconscious states of sleeping and waking. This version is so different than the other two that I consider this an almost entirely new song. SLEEPING IN DREAMS (SLEEPY MIX) I REMEMBER THE DREAMS THAT YOU LEFT FOR ME. YOU TRIED TO HIDE YOUR SOUL, BUT THAT WON’T WORK ANYMORE. I’M SLEEPING IN DREAMS ALL NIGHT, WISHING TO HOLD YOU TIGHT. I’LL HELP YOU THROUGH THE PAIN IF YOU GIVE ME THE CHANCE AGAIN. ONLY IN MY DREAMS ARE YOU REAL. HELP ME TO FIND THE REASONS! I REMEMBER THE DAYS WHEN YOU WERE AWAY. YOU GAVE ME HOPE AND PROMISE. NOW WHAT CAN WE DO WITH THIS? HARD TIMES WILL EXIST EVERYWHERE, SO FIGHT FOR YOUR FREEDOM TO BE WHO YOU ARE. I’VE BEEN SLEEPING IN DREAMS OF YOU, WISHING YOU’D LOVE ME TOO. I’M HERE FOR YOU ALWAYS. JUST COUNT ON ME TO SAY, “I LOVE YOU!” Written and performed by Wayde K. Brown & The Santairs Copyright 2012—All Rights Reserved Recorded at Audio Recording, Inc. in Seattle, WA.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 23:32:21 +0000
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