Doing Things Wrong

Swing Out Sister

I've liked this band ( duo actually ) since the first time I saw this video on the UHF video channel because we didn't have cable. Corinne Drewery is not like today's squeaky singers, she can hit the high notes, and the low ones too - listen. This was their first and biggest hit.

I remember when she sweeps her hand across the screen, the video went from black-and-white to color. This is entirely black-and-white.

Hey, I found that version

No lip-syncing for this one, she hits every note every time, live. With Level 42 as a backup band !!! That's two great jazz-pop outfits that got very little airplay back in the day. Now I hear them at the supermarket. The audio sync is a little off towards the end.

The band's original bass player was the keyboard player's left hand, as the old joke goes. Mark King is much better.

Here's a great old Motown standard

All assembled and strung up with D'Addario round-wounds. The action fell into place with just a little adjusting. I set the intonation with a yardstick, which works better than you'd think. Add 3/16" for the E string, 0 for the G, and split the difference in between.

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