[Harp-L] Stand by Me

[Joseph Leone]

I always play this tune on a D cross-harped. But when you get to the syllable ‘ling’ in the word ‘dar-ling’ you need to have the #5 draw reed raised up one sharp. 
You might be able to overblow that note but I have never heard anyone do it cleanly. Which is why I came up with doo-wop tuning in 1959 in the first place. I 
tried to give a seminar on this at spah about 20 years ago. (You were there as I recall). But it wasn’t well attended as I was opposite the hall from a big name
player and they drew more attendees.  :(

broken shoes joe

> On May 22, 2018, at 2:40 PM, philharpn--- via Harp-L <harp-l at xxxxx> wrote:
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> For those who heard "Stand By Me" (By Mike Stoller, Jerry Leiber and Ben E King) at the Royal Wedding.
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> The song came out in 1961--Leiber and Stoller  were producing a recording session for King and King had part of a song and they finished it up.
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> The Song was originally in A with what is now called The 50's Progression: I vi IV V chords.  (A-F#m7-D-E7) -- if you want to play along with the record??!
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> In the key of C (which is what most sheet music shows) the chords are C -Am - F  - G.
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