John Dyhouse

Now.... I wondered about an instrumental tocomplete the track listing for, the current album. By coincidence, I came across a genre that I had never heard of, called Quiet Storm. So I googled it and found that it was thought to have been identified in the 1970's; perhaps jazzy, R&B and associated with romantic songs, just the thing to finish off the album. Now the chosen image may be thought to be...

Just one more track to sneak in today. written in the mid-seventies. Again one of my early favourites which was over-looked on the first run through of the note books. I really hope that you like it.

I haven't been doing a great deal of editing my old, original lyrics. It was a deliberate decision at the start of this AI project. I used Suno's AI assisted capabilities to bring a little life to these often forgotten lyrics, and I had over 250 songs to work through. OK I know there is an argument for quality rather than quantity, but these songs are a personal history and are a reflection of the...

Oh wow, one of my favourite songs, almost forgot to include this. Must have turned over two pages and missed this one. I already have at least 3 versions of my singing this song with a simple ukulele backing. Glad I found it on a last minute search through the notebooks. I hope you like this song as much as I do.

Felt the lyrics deserved a big ballad with a rock orchestra. my first thoughts were country, but by the time I had typed them in, I had changed my mind. Hope you like it as much as I do. Originally written early 1960's, but again a song which I didn't sing very often, listeniing to this, I realise why - it simply needs a bigger backing than I could give with my acoustic guitar.

I keep finding them... I was way too hard on myself - and on the songs from my past. This was written in the late 60's (possibly early 70's) - I am beginning to see how much of a mess my first lyric notebook is in as regards dating. Prompting Suno for a slow jazz-ballad, Americana, and orchestra with full brass section has delighted me. I had to do a little editing in Audacity and may not have bee...

I found this fun song, and realised I had not bought it upto date yet. For some reason I wrote this song, back in the sixties as a calypso number. Maybe I mixed up Lance Percival (remember that was the week that was, maybe not, you are probably too young) with Bob Marley.????? Anyway I tried to get Suno to give me a calypso track. Our ideas on calypso seemed to be miles apart, so I ended up with R...

Second skim thru my oldest lyric notebook have thrown up songs, which I did not ever perform very often and they got forgotten - as they do. However, using SUNO AI to bring them upto date, I have rediscovered songs which I am happy to say, I am proud to aknowledge. This particular song has also thrown some of my dating assumptions in to disarray. I can date this one to a particular year, because I...

Been working overtime today with all those tracks that I have had second thoughts about brining upto date. I have given this a synchopated, pop sound - I think. Originall based on a chicago blues song (style and chord sequence) from a guitar tutor I used to learn how to play finger style( yep?) on my first ever guitar. Of course, Suno has its own take on my prompts, as it does.

Still finding lyrics which I thought, I could not use, in my project to update all my old songs, This one was written in April, 1980. Again, the issues I no doubt had have largely been overcome by a little editing, but at this time, I was "churning" out lyrics and simply leaving those which did not "work" - not really finishing them, I guess. Not a concious decision, I must have had some feeling f...

I seem to have glossed over a few more songs which maybe I shouldn't have done. A few small edits and repetitions of a couple of sections - seems to be all that is needed. Maybe I was being too hard on myself by ignoring them. Any thoughts?

This is, I think, the first R&B/soul track I have uploaded. I think it was the lyric which was the problem, simply difficult to fit the genres I normally work with. I tried 2/3 including jazz and it was the jazz which came closest to my original feeling for this lyric. Sruggling, I suddenly realised with "soul" as a theme, I ought to try R&B but slow and sultry - it seems to have worked, I am plea...

A new version of this song, updated by using Suno AI,

This is another song I overlooked because the lyric was "too short" .As with the last uploaded track, I simply repeated the whole lyric and includeda couple of solos. I really am glad I looked back and found these two songs in mu very first notebook for my lyrics, this song from the mid to late 1960's.

As I approach the end of my project to record all my 250 or so songs (written since 1959), I am looking thru my lyrics collection and wondering if any od the ones which I have left out "should" be included. This is one that I wrote around 1962 (+ or -) before I became a Teenager. I am not sure why I nearly discarded this song, I was always very fond of it. So here it is updated withbacking from Su...

An experiment. I found a genre called meditation on Suno, and wondered if I could use it to present a poem with an orcestral backing. Would it be able to present the poem by speaking rather than singing. Well it did not work this time (I will be trying again) but I did enjoy the result.

I don't often write songs based on personal experience, this is one a few rare occasions. A very close family member had a very bad experience, which changed his life drastically.

A somewhat strange lyric with unfortunately no real "release". But as part of the project to update my old song catalogue, I had decided not to do any more than minimum editing - maybe when I have more time as I di like this song very much.

Looking back on lost delights, I have now got to a period when I captured lyrics of my songs on a laptop, would you believe thst guess is 2010-2020. I wrote very little in the early years of the millenium, turned for a few years to "ART", and the art work on this image is one of my pastel paitings from that period. No connection between the two creations, just the idea of "hills"

I am falling in love with the pseudo-flameno /alternative rock style. Trying not to use it too often though. Another song without a clear dating, but likely to be around 2020. From memory I would say before the pandemic struck. I hope you like this as much as I do, although if you are not that fond of the acoustic guitar, if you have got that far, you could end by 3:30. After that it's all there i...

The first of two versions of this song, I actually prompted for guitar and harmonica - but Suno only gave me the guitar. So I tried again. This time I got guitar and harmonica - and piano. However, the tempo was raised, which I did not like quite as much. An apples and pears decision, I flunked out and picked both! The next upload will be the slightly faster version. I really do love both!

As promised the up-tempo cover of the last song, with additional instrumentation Hope you like it?

A song for "tree huggers" from the 1960's. I wrote this after being inspired by an article in a newspaper on the international day of the tree, this year (2025) it is on July 25th. A little bit of fun really, I wanted 2 more songs to complete a playlist/album without drawing on material from this millenium. There were a few songs I had passed over in putting songs from my back catalogue through th...

Another song from the 1960's which seems to have nearly been forgotten, but this makes up for it - I hope. The next batch wil be songs written since the millenium.

I have said it before, the AI can work so much better when the lyrics are well stuctured, short well "punctuated" lines and with explicit tags where possible. I also find that lone wordy prompts can confuse the AI, and lead to more randomness. Well on this one, after 2 iterations I had 4 usable tracks, unfortunately I had to choose 3 of them to forget. The reasons where almost ridiculous, The firs...