The Wagtunes Corner (Featuring My Best Yet)

[wagtunes]

Aaron, thanks for the listen and the feedback. Much appreciated.

[wagtunes]

8th and final track from my upcoming CD "Celestial Navigation"

Couldn't have picked a better way to end this.

My next project is going to be titled "Show Tunes"

Back in 2003, I started doing an album with that title. I finished 2 songs and then I don't remember what happened. All I know is I didn't write another song until 2008 when I did my CD "5 Years After" and I never finished Show Tunes.

Well, now I'm going to finish it but will be starting it from scratch. I don't know if I'm going to redo the first 2 songs (the recordings were pretty bad compared to my stuff today) or just go with a brand new concept or just do a whole bunch of songs in the Broadway style. TBD.

Anyway, here's the last track of Celestial Navigation

Universe Home

The universe is my home
The only home I ever knew
It makes me feel safe and sound
The way I used to feel with you

But that was so long ago
And now I just put on a show

Cause you know they say
You can't ever go back home
You can try all you like
But you'll always feel so alone

The universe
Is the only home
That I ever knew
That I ever knew

https://soundcloud.com/steven-wagenheim/universe-home

[Bansaw]

Nice analog feel to this one. I was waiting for the vocal to come in, but it came in the latter section. Interesting.
Some pretty good percussion, starting at 3:00.

[Bansaw]

p.s.: Like Temperature rising too. The Cyber Diva does a pretty good job.
The sounds and arrangement remind me of a late 70s, early 80s synth track.

[wagtunes]

Nice analog feel to this one. I was waiting for the vocal to come in, but it came in the latter section. Interesting.
Some pretty good percussion, starting at 3:00.

This was a strange project for me. It'll be nice getting back to making "normal" music again. Wonder how many show tunes fans are here?

[wagtunes]

p.s.: Like Temperature rising too. The Cyber Diva does a pretty good job.
The sounds and arrangement remind me of a late 70s, early 80s synth track.

Temperature's rising is one of those songs that I could never have done justice to singing. I think she does an amazing job on it. It fits her voice perfectly.

[vurt]

Wonder how many show tunes fans are here?

see poll results

[wagtunes]

Wonder how many show tunes fans are here?

see poll results

Yeah, oh well. Don't care. Broadway was my first love so I'm doing this for me and not for all the people here who won't be listening to this stuff.

[vurt]

as it should be.


i do enjoy some, not many i admit but there are some that take me right back to my childhood.
mainly the ones they made in to films obviously, bit for example, fiddler on the roof gives me shivers

[vurt]

aside but similar...
you ever looked in to british music hall songs?
i think the idea of those might interest you

could be useful for lyrics more than the music. (often it would be a single instrument)

[wagtunes]

as it should be.


i do enjoy some, not many i admit but there are some that take me right back to my childhood.
mainly the ones they made in to films obviously, bit for example, fiddler on the roof gives me shivers

I'll be doing stuff in the style of...

King And I
Sound Of Music
South Pacific
Oklahoma
Carousel
My Fair Lady

And so on.

[wagtunes]

aside but similar...
you ever looked in to british music hall songs?
i think the idea of those might interest you

could be useful for lyrics more than the music. (often it would be a single instrument)

British music hall songs. I never even heard the term before. I'll check them out. Always open to listen to new things.

[vurt]

king and i and south pacific, a few of the songs again yup. and another would be calamity jane.

wasnt big on sound of music, the theme did not go well with me.

but! they used to put them on tv ocassionally and we as a family at my grandparents house would sing parts

[vurt]

aside but similar...
you ever looked in to british music hall songs?
i think the idea of those might interest you

could be useful for lyrics more than the music. (often it would be a single instrument)

British music hall songs. I never even heard the term before. I'll check them out. Always open to listen to new things.

sort of the original pop music over here. the hook was important!
songs written for the common man, rather than high class symphonic stuff.
so often would contain double entendres.
i suppose george formby would be the most famous example.

like i said, its lyrically im thinking, not saying do quirky ukulele songs.
but i have noticed a few songs where you will use an entendre or two.

[wagtunes]

These are the 33 musicals I'll be listening to in order to prepare for this along with their production dates. Some are not the original productions but the movies from the plays.

42nd Street - 1933
Alice In Wonderland - 1951
Annie - 1977
Annie Get Your Gun - 1950
Anything Goes - 1934
Babes In Arms - 1937
Brigadoon - 1947
Bye Bye Birdie - 1960
Camelot - 1960
Carousel - 1945
Cinderella - 1957
Damn Yankees - 1955
Gypsy - 1962
How To Succeed In Business - 1961
King And I - 1951
Little Shop Of Horrors - 1986
Mary Poppins - 1964
Les Miserables - 1987
Music Man - 1957
My Fair Lady - 1964
Oklahoma - 1955
Oliver - 1968
Phantom Of The Opera - 1986
Pippen - 1972
Producers - 2001
Rothschilds - 1970
Shendandoah - 1975
Show Boat -1927
Sound Of Music - 1965
South Pacific - 1949
Spamalot - 2005
Sweeney Todd - 1979
West Side Story - 1961