Trixie Smith - Jack, I'm Mellow (1938) karaoke version
A simple way into the karaoke version when you want the arrangement to stay familiar and the lead vocal to step aside.
About this version
Sometimes you do not need a big setup. You just need the song without the lead and a straight path into rehearsal.
Useful for
singing practice at home
Useful for
cover rehearsals
Useful for
working on phrasing before a full take
A simple way in
A cleaner backing track for singing, rehearsal, and covers when you want the song to stay familiar but the lead vocal to step aside.
Start with the tricky section, not the whole song. A few good repetitions usually tell you more than one rushed pass from top to bottom.
Once it feels settled, go back to the full arrangement and check whether it still holds together. That is usually where the real answer is.
Notes
Extraits du film: Marijuana "Weed with roots in hell" (1936) de Dwain Esper / Hildegarde Stadie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026683/ Trixie Smith was born in 1895 in Atlanta and move to New York in 1915 where she performed on the traveling African American vaudeville circuit. She made her first recordings for Black Swan in 1922 after winning a prestigious blues singing contest at the Manhattan Casino in New York. Smith didn't record after 1925 until 1938, when she headed an all-star jazz group including Sidney Bechet and others on one recording session. But she continued to perform in musical revues, on Broadway and in several films. She died in 1943. Lyrics: I'm so high and so dry, I'm sailin' in the sky, Just smoke some gage, Come around babe, Jack, I'm mellow. I'm so high and so dry, I'm way up in the sky, The world seems light And I'm so right, Jack, I'm mellow. I'm going to put my nickel in a slot machine And play my solid sender, I'm going to strut, peck and Suzie-Q, Have alone a bender, I'm so high and so dry, I'm sailin' in the sky, I got my roach around And I can't come down, Jack, I'm mellow. I'm so high and so dry, I'm sailin' in the sky, Just smoke some gage, Come around babe, Jack, I'm mellow. I'm so high and so dry, I'm way up in the sky, The world seems light And I'm so right, Jack, I'm mellow. Jean-Philippe Boisbriand
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