1950's

This week’s tracks are C'mon Everybody by Eddie Cochran and La Bamba - Richie Valens.

I am unfamiliar with these tracks from the 1950’s so it was interesting for me to hear and learn them. These songs are quite empty in the way that today’s music has many layers and relies heavily on production and midi instruments. I listened to another other song that was from 50’s I found one called Chubby Checker – Lets Twist Again to sing also just so I could get the phrasing right and get the 50’s vibes flowing.

C’mon Everybody is a feel-good song with a raw underproduced sound with repetitive lyrics. This song was easy to get to grips with and get the feel for, the band also found it relatively easy. it pulled together when I put some slap back echo on the mic give it that vintage sound.

La Bamba is an upbeat song and has a simple chord structure. It is an easy repetitive song for the band. I struggled with the lyrics as it was in Spanish and I couldn’t quite get to grips with it for the following weeks practice so I did the backing vocals as the guitarist picked up the song well and suited him a lot more than me as a male vocalist.