Day 275: My Vienna songs
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Vienna 1971—A Student Journal
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Day
275 — My Vienna songs
03-May-1972
(Mittwoch–Wed.)
TRANSCRIPT
Possibility of getting a
student to play and sing my songs for guitar. Make a
nice recording of it.
REFLECTIONS
Vienna
songs. Today, I
am surprised that I may get someone to sing my corny
songs that I wrote. I don’t think it ever happened.
If I look back at the tapes I’ve found from
1971–1972, I believe that I have three original songs
that I had written that year. All for Anjali. I play
them on classical guitar and I sing along in a very
whimpy voice onto a cheap mono cassette recorder. And
of course, I can’t sing—but these tapes are really
bad. Although, the songs are truly corny by any
standards, they were songs from my broken-heart…I
missed Anjali. Today, they sound a bit depressed to
me. Hmmm.
One day, I might release them. It would bring a lot
of ridicule and laughter focused at me. Why would I
do that? Here’s what I would like to do:
• Get one famous hit record and become wealthy—I am
now respected. Then I say, here are my first songs
written when I was a kid and, yes, they are corny.
So, don’t be afraid to write your first songs—keep
writing and they will get better. Now, all I need is
a “hit.”
• Or do a “Then and Now” series, where I take my
songs (I have many from subsequent years) and then
redo and re-produce them in a modern style, showing
the before and after. Think of it as educational.
• Or tackle the biggest issue—I can’t sing. I need
others to sing my songs. Find them and do it. (I
would really need to redo the songs.)
One day, maybe.
My
first song—One Summer Day. In my
boxes of many items, I found lots of handwritten
music, notes, and many scribblings from my young
adult days, and even from Vienna. I remember
transcribing my Vienna songs years later, as well. I
searched and found those files. Here are a couple of
scans of my FIRST POP SONG EVER, “One Summer Day.”
Written for Anjali.
Here are the lyrics from “One Summer Day.” Hope you
can read them.
John
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