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Sunny by Bobby Hebb Piano, strings, French horn. (Cadenza)
60s
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D Camp's fictitious chamber orchestra. Composed or re-arranged by D Camp. Enjoy.
I am Mr D Camp. My hobby is composing and arranging tunes using music software. Ever since I could listen to music, I always wished I could re-arrange it. I did not have a group of musicians. Now in the computer age with music software I am able to listen to what I hear in my head. The 178th street chamber orchestra is my fictitious group of virtual musicians who sometimes collaborate with other fictitious groups such as the Bathgate Avenue Boys Choir or the Beneath-the-Expressway Rhythm Kings. I compose original tunes. I re-arrange existing tunes. I try to keep these as short as possible. Two minutes is an epic. Some are easy listening. Some are experimental. I do this for my personal enjoyment but I hope you enjoy too. Thank you.
Song Info
Genre
Classical • Chamber Music
Charts
Peak #45
Peak in subgenre #4
Uploaded
January 13, 2021
Track Files
MP3
MP3 1.4 MB • 128 kbps • 1:31
Story behind the song
Sunny is connected with another infamous day November 22, 1963. That day John F Kennedy was assassinated and Bobby Hebb's brother was murdered. Within 48 hours Hebb wrote the song as an expression of a preference for a "sunny" disposition over a "lousy" disposition. "Sunny. You smiled at me and really eased the pain. Now the dark days are gone, and the bright days are here." My back story with this song: Vinnie Bell was a guitarist who invented the electric 12-string guitar and the electric sitar which can be heard on "Cry Like a Baby" by the Boxtops and more. You hear him playing on "The Sounds of Silence" by Simon & Garfunkel. He died in 2019 in Tenafly NJ. After the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame scoured his home, there was an estate sale. In his basement/studio I found a cassette of the album "Les McCann Plays the Hits" 1966. It was created by the album's vibraphonist Warren Chiasson for the album's guitarist Vinnie Bell. Warren listed the tracks and musicians on the 2 recording sessions in NYC and LA. Sunny was recorded at both sessions. Another of the tracks "Compared to What" was later a big hit for McCann and saxophonist Eddie Harris in 1969. I attended their concert at Wollman Skating Rink in Central Park July 1 of that year. Harris's "Listen Here" turned me onto jazz. Oh yeah. The music. I liked the chord progression. My version starts with piano arpeggio, then the strings pitch in and then the french horn plays a tune. You will not find Hebb's melody here. This can be called a contrafact or an accompaniment.
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