BUMPS, SEGUES and INTERLUDES.

Having uploaded a little throwaway ditty a fair number of weeks ago, called The Be-Bop Song’, it got me reminiscing of vinyl additions in the past. In between some of the album’s songs, or start and end of albums, little ditty tunes/songs were present. Just tunes for tunes’ sake. Known as bumps, segues or interludes.

This ditty above was the Be-Bop Song. It was simply a little exercise of learning GB experimenting.

A few days ago, I was adding a tune/lyrics to it (on GarageBand) that was one I had hopeful grander designs for. I just sang in a quick ‘jolly’ way. I wanted to see if the guitar layers interfered with a chosen vocal tune. Or, if it did, then just to re-record later down the line and add further layers for a further fuller song choice.

Here is the little ‘Fun Times’ instrumental. With simple vocal. I tried it on a megaphone choice in GarageBand, but it sounded nothing like a megaphone. Was thinking of the strange English vocal presentations from the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and the New Vaudeville Band. So dropped the idea. And……no. I will not get a real megaphone anytime soon either!

The vocal result above made me smile. It was a lightweight ‘Fun Times’ incidental file away. But…….I got to thinking of my love for little incidental tunes like these bumps, segues or interludes when I was growing up and listening to vinyl. Those 30 seconds to 1 minute tunes that came in between the main songs. Faded in then faded out. Just extra one offs.

BELOW: ANOTHER SMALL SEGUE TUNE….WITH/WITHOUT VOCALS.

Other little songs like this were recorded on a Pentax Optio camera a very long time ago. A cheap low pixel camera. But the video option meant capturing vocal sound, so I had a few songs captured on it. These remind me of those little incidental album inclusions too.

When I had a little Pentax Digital Camera with Video capabilities on it, I recorded little 1 minute videos into it. Just very basic music. So was thinking of the ‘Fun Times Throwaways’ again. I may re-record these again and do them later down the line. Call them the ‘Oddity Inclusions’.