Non-Competitive Section : Offering No.2.For Old Times Sake !An Instrumental. Is Nostalgia, Retro?Has it to be old, unhappy and sad? or could it be different, happy,unchanging and new too?Classical, Vocal, Instrumental.Your choice for the Evergreen ! Rock and roll evolved in part out of the larger dance band trend when advances in audio technology made it easier for small combos to energize a party or club. So it was only natural that instrumental hits, which had already evolved into a rock-based form, would continue to soak up the new influences around it. The second instrumental to riff off the jazz-pop standard “Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise,” “Walk, Don’t Run” is nevertheless different from Santo and Johnny’s deathless “Sleepwalk” in that it takes a great deal more liberty with the melody. Typically, the Ventures rewrote it entirely around the old chords (borrowing heavily from Johnny Smith’s 1954 version), sped it up to surf-rock speed, and left the minor keys in, creating an enigmatic but still rocking little number. And although Dick Dale was playing “Let’s Go Trippin’” in public as far back as 1958, the Ventures beat him to the studio, marking this number as the official chart arrival of surf music; it was so popular it hit the charts again four years later in an updated version, and found new life in an improbable Christmas medley with “Sleigh Ride”! The brief is a quote from a master Robert Fontenot, an Old Music Expert.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 06:30:26 +0000
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