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60's - Billy Strange & His Orchestra - Peter Gunn by Kenny Peters

60's - Billy Strange & His Orchestra - Theme From Pussy Galore by Kenny Peters

This sound is the epitome of 60's instrumental beatnik merged with musicians and orchestras, and done well. Billy Strange played a mean-ass guitar and brought some current themes to a different pop light on this collection. My dad played this album a lot when I was a kid and I was thrilled to find it on YouTube but all the songs were sped up. I have corrected their pitch and speed on these. Not su...

This sound is the epitome of 60's instrumental beatnik merged with musicians and orchestras, and done well. Billy Strange played a mean-ass guitar and brought some current themes to a different pop light on this collection. My dad played this album a lot when I was a kid and I was thrilled to find it on YouTube but all the songs were sped up. I have corrected their pitch and speed on these. Not su...

This sound is the epitome of 60's instrumental beatnik merged with musicians and orchestras, and done well. Billy Strange played a mean-ass guitar and brought some current themes to a different pop light on this collection. My dad played this album a lot when I was a kid and I was thrilled to find it on YouTube but all the songs were sped up. I have corrected their pitch and speed on these. Not su...

This sound is the epitome of 60's instrumental beatnik merged with musicians and orchestras, and done well. Billy Strange played a mean-ass guitar and brought some current themes to a different pop light on this collection. My dad played this album a lot when I was a kid and I was thrilled to find it on YouTube but all the songs were sped up. I have corrected their pitch and speed on these. Not su...

This sound is the epitome of 60's instrumental beatnik merged with musicians and orchestras, and done well. Billy Strange played a mean-ass guitar and brought some current themes to a different pop light on this collection. My dad played this album a lot when I was a kid and I was thrilled to find it on YouTube but all the songs were sped up. I have corrected their pitch and speed on these. Not su...

This sound is the epitome of 60's instrumental beatnik merged with musicians and orchestras, and done well. Billy Strange played a mean-ass guitar and brought some current themes to a different pop light on this collection. My dad played this album a lot when I was a kid and I was thrilled to find it on YouTube but all the songs were sped up. I have corrected their pitch and speed on these. Not su...

This sound is the epitome of 60's instrumental beatnik merged with musicians and orchestras, and done well. Billy Strange played a mean-ass guitar and brought some current themes to a different pop light on this collection. My dad played this album a lot when I was a kid and I was thrilled to find it on YouTube but all the songs were sped up. I have corrected their pitch and speed on these. Not su...

This sound is the epitome of 60's instrumental beatnik merged with musicians and orchestras, and done well. Billy Strange played a mean-ass guitar and brought some current themes to a different pop light on this collection. My dad played this album a lot when I was a kid and I was thrilled to find it on YouTube but all the songs were sped up. I have corrected their pitch and speed on these. Not su...

This sound is the epitome of 60's instrumental beatnik merged with musicians and orchestras, and done well. Billy Strange played a mean-ass guitar and brought some current themes to a different pop light on this collection. My dad played this album a lot when I was a kid and I was thrilled to find it on YouTube but all the songs were sped up. I have corrected their pitch and speed on these. Not su...

This sound is the epitome of 60's instrumental beatnik merged with musicians and orchestras, and done well. Billy Strange played a mean-ass guitar and brought some current themes to a different pop light on this collection. My dad played this album a lot when I was a kid and I was thrilled to find it on YouTube but all the songs were sped up. I have corrected their pitch and speed on these. Not su...

This sound is the epitome of 60's instrumental beatnik merged with musicians and orchestras, and done well. Billy Strange played a mean-ass guitar and brought some current themes to a different pop light on this collection. My dad played this album a lot when I was a kid and I was thrilled to find it on YouTube but all the songs were sped up. I have corrected their pitch and speed on these. Not su...

This is an album cut off a Carpenters album from the 70's called 'A Kind of Hush" that was the beginning of their commercial decline, and is definitely on their sweeter side, but I love the sentiment of the song and especially the line "You are one of the few things worth remembering", both in lyric and chord arrangement/structure. It also seemed the perfect song to give my partner of nearly 19 ye...

This incredible song from Gino Vannelli's "Nightwalker" album is the last tune on the first "side" if you're talking from a vinyl or cassette point of view...the whole album is a true masterpiece in his catalog. There's never been a karaoke track available to it, and the album has long been a favorite of mine and my friend Glenn Lukin's, who ran a very popular set of shows back in the 90's & 2000'...

This song found a home with the movie "Phenomenon" but it has been recorded by a few other folks other than Eric Clapton, who wrote it and had a major hit with it. Wynona Judd had also recorded a version of the song as well. I began singing it within the year it was released because it was just a great tune and I stumbled across this recording tonight and ran it through the mastering software to e...

As my mixing capabilities have grown I decided to remix and remaster this Christmas Classic.... 2016

Always a favorite tune, this was also covered by Anne Murray who had a very large hit with it as well. This is in the original Kenny Loggins/Jim Messina arrangement, which is my favorite. It's a great song that still pops up on radio today. I love the lyric to this song because so many people can identify with it, especially the chorus. But I like it because it can be seen as both a commentary/nar...

Carpenters recorded this song in 1970 and it instantly became a Christmas classic, still played today at the holiday season. With Karen Carpenter being one the most influential vocalists to my development, I had always dreamed of meeting her. Of course, that was cut short by her passing away in 1983. Fast forward to 2015, when I decided it would be fun to try & match up my recording of this song w...

In my opinion, this is one of the finest of the contemporary Great American Songbook tunes ever written, of course by the great Leon Russell, who just passed away in November 2016. This song has been covered by so many people, many of whom are among my favorite artists. This version is patterned after Carpenters from a 1972 album with the same name. While theirs was not a single, it was the lead o...

I think Rob Thomas is a great songwriter and I actually prefer a lot of his solo material to the work with Matchbox Twenty but the bulk of it is bleed-over in style with little differentiation. I thought this was a great tune and had a hint of 80's stylistically. One of the biggest benefits I received from singing at the bar solidly for nearly 3 years was that I was able to break out of my comfort...

One of the all time great R&B "old-school" songs.... the incredible Lou Rawls had a huge hit with this and it's something I never thought I'd sing for sure because the beginnings of the verses are so low, and that sure wasn't in my range... but as I started getting a bit older and my voice changed with more usage over the years I found I could do it. This was recorded in 2015; remixed fully and re...

A song that will be used in a project I'm just about to finish up, picked specifically for its lyric content and haunting melody combination. The timing couldn't have been more perfect with my increased capability to isolate my own recorded vocals. This song has a beautiful melody and long standing place as a favorite of mine. It's not a well known hit and was covered by The Carpenters in the 70's...

A tune that can be used for many varieties of the word, "Proud" is about a decade old or so but has never been remixed correctly and definitely never mastered through software. I spent a good portion of the day today messing around with it. I'd LOVE to have a full band to play this and alter the arrangement a slight bit, but I think it's a great tune with some fantastic lyrics and I had a lot of f...

One of my all time favorite songs, this has been covered quite a few times but George Michael really slammed it down and this version is based on his recording. A few different versions on my own have surfaced and they have never been cleaned up and some are even at the wrong speed, which results of course in a higher pitch. This is the corrected speed and pitch and the only bother to me is that i...