The girl from Ipanema – so what key do you play it in?

[JoeWhip]

C. It is easier that way.

[JoeWhip]

I was a little kid when this tune came out. I remember my dad had to add it to their set list. After about a year, he came to hate that song. Then later came feelings.

[JoeWhip]

My dad used to write all the songs out in a fakebook so he always had them for other musicians he had not familiar with them. He used to transpose them on the fly. He was really good at that. Near the end of his career, with the fancy new keyboards he could play everything in C if he wanted to and it came out in any key he wanted. I couldn’t do the stuff he could but my son the singer, songwriter and keyboardist has the same ability. It just skipped over me.

[JoeWhip]

All of his stuff was handwritten. He would listen to a record and write it down on blank music sheets you could buy in any record or music store, three hole punch it and put it into a binder. I still have some although he is long gone. 

[JoeWhip]

I have the gold MoFi CD mastered with the Gain System developed by Mike Moffat. Sounds great to me.

[JoeWhip]

1 hour ago, Audiophile Neuroscience said:

 

can you link to where you bought this? Thanks.

I bought it new in 1994 when it came out. 

[JoeWhip]

True, but maybe the original is the one that was wrong and they decided to correct it. I will have to check more into this. In any event the old Mofi gold CD has that great Verve tape sound of the era in spades.

[JoeWhip]

As a songwriter, you know you have made it when your song gets the Muzak treatment.😝