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Sorry for the low quality into clip, I did it just now on a webcam.<br />
A bit of preamble, if you will.<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mercer" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">Johnny Mercer, arguably one of the greatest American lyricists of the 20th century, left these words unpublished.<br />
After Mercer's death, his widow, Ginger Mehan Mercer, arranged to give some unfinished lyrics he had written to Manilow to possibly develop into complete songs. Among these was "When October Goes." Manilow applied his own melody to the lyric and issued it as a single in 1984 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_October_Goes" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">source
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<p dir="auto">Johnny Mercer, posiblemente uno de los más grandes letristas estadounidenses del siglo XX, dejó estas palabras sin publicar.
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<p dir="auto">Después de la muerte de Mercer, su viuda, Ginger Mehan Mercer, hizo arreglos para darle a Manilow algunas letras inacabadas que había escrito para que posiblemente se convirtieran en canciones completas. Entre estos estaba "Cuando se va octubre". Manilow aplicó su propia melodía a la letra y la publicó como sencillo en 1984.
<p dir="auto">Mercer was from Savannah Ga, I am from Claxton, 60 miles inland. When this song came out and I heard it for the first time it was as if someone had reached into my chest and grabbed my heart.<br />
I finally bought a sheet music transcription in 2018, but have never been able to pull together the licks I wanted, and I could never sing the line "I hate to see October Go" without crying real tears.
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<p dir="auto">Mercer era de Savannah Ga, yo soy de Claxton, 60 millas tierra adentro. Cuando salió esta canción y la escuché por primera vez fue como si alguien me hubiera metido la mano en el pecho y me hubiera agarrado el corazón.<br />
Finalmente compré una transcripción de la partitura en 2018, pero nunca pude reunir los licks que quería, y nunca pude cantar la línea "Odio ver a October Go" sin llorar lágrimas de verdad.
<p dir="auto">I've been working on this for over a month, to get it done before the end of October.<br />
It still needs work, but time has run out.<br />
In the video, it is me playing, no midi accompaniment, no band.<br />
In the background, when you see a still photograph, that was taken by me, if it is a video clip I got it from Pixabay, except for the very last clip, raindrops on a window, I took in 2019 from my apartment window, in October.
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<p dir="auto">He estado trabajando en esto durante más de un mes, para tenerlo listo antes de finales de octubre.<br />
Todavía necesita trabajo, pero el tiempo se ha acabado.<br />
En el video soy yo tocando, sin acompañamiento midi, sin banda.<br />
En el fondo, cuando ve una fotografía fija, que fue tomada por mí, si es un videoclip, lo obtuve de Pixabay, excepto por el último clip, gotas de lluvia en una ventana, lo tomé en 2019 desde la ventana de mi apartamento, en octubre.
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And when October goes
<p dir="auto">The snow begins to fly<br />
Above the smoky roofs<br />
I watch the planes go by<br />
The children running home beneath<br />
A twilight sky<br />
Oh, for the fun of them<br />
When I was one of them<br />
And when October goes<br />
The same old dream appears<br />
And you are in my arms<br />
To share the happy years<br />
I turn my head away to hide<br />
The helpless tears<br />
Oh, how I hate to see October go<br />
And when October goes<br />
The same old dream appears<br />
And you are in my arms<br />
To share the happy years<br />
I turn my head away to hide<br />
The helpless tears<br />
Oh, how I hate to see October go<br />
I should be over it now, I know<br />
It doesn't matter much how old I grow<br />
I hate to see October go
<div class="pull-right">Y cuando se va octubre
<p dir="auto">La nieve comienza a volar<br />
Por encima de los techos humeantes<br />
veo pasar los aviones<br />
Los niños corriendo a casa debajo<br />
un cielo crepuscular<br />
Oh, para la diversión de ellos<br />
Cuando yo era uno de ellos<br />
Y cuando se va octubre<br />
El mismo viejo sueño aparece<br />
y tu estas en mis brazos<br />
Para compartir los años felices<br />
Giro la cabeza para esconderme<br />
Las lágrimas impotentes<br />
Oh, cómo odio ver ir a octubre<br />
Y cuando se va octubre<br />
El mismo viejo sueño aparece<br />
y tu estas en mis brazos<br />
Para compartir los años felices<br />
Giro la cabeza para esconderme<br />
Las lágrimas impotentes<br />
Oh, cómo odio ver ir a octubre<br />
Debería haberlo superado ahora, lo sé.<br />
No importa mucho la edad que tenga<br />
Odio ver ir a octubre<br />
<h3><center><em>"And When October Goes"
<p dir="auto"><sup>Video and recording by<br />
<em>Jerry E Smith<br />
©10/30/2022<br /><br />
Words by Johnny Mercer,<br />
Music by Barry Manilow, this arrangement by JES<br />
<code>I miss my family members who are pictured in the video<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span>
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Such a lovely song and a great story behind it! 💜
Thank you Ms Kitty, you are too kind. will continue working on it. I want to have it so that I don't need the music in front of me, to be truthful, I'm really only using it to remind me where certain changes happen, otherwise it is a lot of improvisation, which I NEVER thought I would hear myself saying.
@thekittygirl 💚
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Muy bien lograda tu participación, Jerr, con una categoría resaltante en todos los sentidos. Felicitaciones.
Me tomó semanas no llorar cuando intentaba tocar la canción.muchas gracias amigo @lecumberre
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It was a pleasure to listen to you dear Jerry, our respects.
Thank you so much @musicandreview, It really has been a labor of love. If I had waited another week, I probably could have done it by memory and maybe with all the little slips (there was one place just as I was transitioning into the instrumental break, where I missed a particularly personal type of arpeggio (if you look at my face, you can see me grimace as I settled for what I had, rather than start all the way from the top again) but all in all, I am very pleased with the result
Hello friend excellent touch of the piano and very good interpretation I really liked a hug and peace be with you 🤗🎹🎶
La paz sea contigo tambiénGracias @sultanmix777 mi amigo. Me hace feliz que te haya gustado mi interpretación de esta canción.
Hello friend @jerrytsuseer, I couldn't listen to your video due to the poor quality of my internet. It didn't open here, but I'm sure you did it very well and I wish you success.Hola, amigo @jerrytsuseer, no pude oir su video debido a la mala calidad de mi internet. No abrió acá, pero estoy segura que lo hizo muy bien y le deseo éxito en el evento.