[bomp] Re: Smile All The While

["Crawdaddy Simon" <crawdaddy.simon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As I recall the single and the LP both have the funny trumpet, killer tune.

  CS


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Subject: Re: [bomp] Smile All The While


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> >
> > <<< 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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