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

The body was traced directly off the guitar, finished in very dark brown poly with tan Tolex. The neck is a reissue that has lain around for years. The bridge was originally left-handed, a few minutes with a file and it was right-handed. The double lipstick is switchable series/parallel/single-coil, for some variety. This is my first dry-erase pickguard.

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