Re: [bomp] Smile All The While

["BlackMonk" <BlackMonk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: <NankerPhlg@aol.com>
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Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 1:22 PM
Subject: [bomp] Smile All The While


>
> <<< If Michael knows the song, he's also intimately familiar with  all 
> nine
> re-mixes >>>
>
> That's what Mike Fornatale said about me in the promotional blurb for the
> first few Shaw Nuff gigs...But this morning I was thrown by something I'd 
> never
> heard before.
>
> A co-worker had the Long Island oldies station on, and they were playing
> "Smile A Little Smile For Me" by The Flying Machine...which was surprising 
> since
> they, like a lot of oldies stations, seemed to have chopped down their
> playlist  to "Only oldies that *everybody* knows"...You know, "My Girl," 
> "Get
> Together,"  "Satisfaction."
>

Yeah, CBS used to be like that, then it got so bad that I miss those days.

> But no matter, as I've always liked this song a lot. It may be a little 
> too
> much on the pop side for some, but I like it.

I love it. Maybe the saddest sounding bubblegum song ever.

Anyway, *every* time I've  heard
> this record in the twenty or so years I've known about it, there was  a
> keyboard after the second chorus playing the melody for a few bars,

Second chorus? Unless you have REALLY different mix, it's almost at the end 
of the song.

and I  always
> liked this part because it sounds exactly like this real cheapo toy 
> keyboard a
> friend of mine had when we were kids

I always thought it was a toy horn of some sort, or a trumpet recorded to 
sound like a toy horn. A cheapo keyboard makes more sense.

...and I can't help but think of  that
> thing whenever I hear that part of "Smile A Little Smile For Me."...And 
> just
> before that part of the record came up this morning, I said to the 
> co-worker,
> "I love this bit, with the really corny keyboard."
>
> Except...it didn't come up. Over the bars where it would have been, there
> was instead the singers going "Ba ba ba ba, ba ba....." to the melody.
>
> I've *never* heard that before. I have that song on a few comps, but it's
> always the one with the keyboard. Where did that come from? Which one was 
> the
> actual "hit single" version?
>

No idea where it came from, but the single has the keyboard. 

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