[cowparsleyman]

It's 1967, Your'e living in London, and the scene is grooooovy.

So you put on your best bri nylon cream shirt, brown suit and tie, leave the beret at home and hang out with your girlfriends down the Kings Road.

Biba and Mary Quant are busy, you saw Twiggy and Lulu down there once, but they don't come around here no more.

One Saturday night you are watching a band in Diff City, and this is the song you remember...it goes around and around in your head like a circle in a spiral in an ever-spinning wheel.

You take a cab back and crash out listening to the Beatles on your Dansette (with a  new needle that cost 2/11d - daylight robbery), pour yourself a beaker of Treetop eat a Bar Six and watch the Telly until the National Anthem and then the test card.

Best turn the light off, got work in the morning...
Part of the Genre Jumping suite, Working with The Urban Myths was one hell of a gas, man.




Credits:
cpm - Music, Lyrics, Instruments, Lead Anvil, Fairground Organ, hair styles.
The UrbanMyths - Ideas, Lyrics, hooks,lines, sinkers, loudness consultancy, Sideburns, Organ twiddling



Lyrics:
Blackbird came to me, he said hey man what are you doing
Get out of your bed It's a Sunday afternoon
Blackbird snag to me, tweeted condescendingly
Best years of your life are over soon

Brass band

Bridge:
Flying high above the rooves and playgrounds
Catch the wind beneath my wings and soar
See my neighbour talking to my Girlfriend
Wonder why I never noticed that before?

Repeat V1

Outtro
Blackbird Fly (flap your wings and fly away)_
Repeat...

[MonnoDB]

Chirpily perfectly 60s sound guys!!! Instrumentation is fab - some nice anvil and organ playing among a feast of other sounds... (only think I didn't love was the side to side panning of the intro drums but I'm sure that's just me).. Great lyrics.. interesting to hear tweeting in the "bird" context... nice touch actually.. Who's singing? Great vox - and love that loooooww "flap your wings..." response...

Nice outro and beautifully played.. better get that cleared before they sue you for all the dosh you make from this :-) lol.. vinyl crackle a nice touch..

Fab collaboration @5 guys named Lars and @cowparsleyman - this one is a lot of fun.. 

[pompeyjazz]

Ha ha Rich @cowparsleyman you always set the scene so well. We're any hallucinogenic substances involved. A great sixties mas up with touches if Tiny Tim, The Kinks and some Sgt Pepper thrown in for good measure and fabulous al coda of Blackbird. Really enjoyed the listen. I bet you had an absolute hoot working on this one      All you need is love man   

[PaulyX]

Ha! I LOVE a bit of 60s kitsch. If I had a time machine I’d head straight to 1967 for a gander. So this was a close substitue for that time machine. Charming plonky-plonk rhythm and I liked the Bonzo-dog fake brass band immensely. Groovy, man.

[Bostonfan2]

This sounds fabulous and fun! super catchy chorus and love all the vocals.
very clever ending, great work !

[cowparsleyman]

@MonnoDB - thanks Karen, yeah, i edited out the end for the release, It was me singing. it was a complete gas, but very difficult to arrange for some unknown reason, the verse came, then no ideas, so @5 guys named Lars helped with some ideas, and that’s how it went, until the end. Is it possible to sue for less than a penny...?

@pompeyjazz - cheers John, i try to set the scene - the only mind bending drug was Bovril or was it Ovaltine? Couldn’t resist the Beatles thing at the end , although it could come across as cheesy... but the 60’s were completely cheesy so I kept it in.

@PaulyX - Aha Bonzo Dog, yeah they were great...I got the inspiration for the voice brass band from Blott on the Landscape, an ITV comedy which I loved, all of the music was done this way...i always wanted to do something like that and this gave me the opportunity, glad you liked it.

@Bostonfan2 - thanks for your kind words, so pleased you like it.

Btw the anvil and the Strawberry Fields Mellotron are examples of the last 5% of a production, the ‘hooks’ and ‘sprinkles’ that make a song interesting, memorable and as you say Fun, knowing when it was finished was also tricky...

[5 guys named Lars]

Flattered to be credited by @cowparsleyman but it is very much CPM`s bird. I contributed very little..I made the metaphorical cups of tea..I make a nice cup of tea..peppermint & lemongrass... while CPM wrote,sang,recorded & produced the song. He is correct I relentlessly twiddled my organ..nae pummelled it (without any help from CPM whatsoever) while he continued to write it, record,sing & produce it. I had a fab time working with Rich, he`s a brilliant producer, a cool head & outta sight. Dig it !!

[Kafla]

Absolutely outstanding in every way possible , there is so much going on, it’s hard to take in - I can’t even imagine how you pulled this all together 😃

Such an ambitious idea , production and execution 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[kevysc]

You really captured the sixties, (cowparsley)man! Great touches and love the Blackbird at the end. Super stuff!

Kevin

[Wicked Deeds]

@cowparsleyman,

Ray Davies in the building, followed by Paul McCartney with a quirky delivery of playful melody from a bygone age.  There are so,many beautiful things going on here. Love the descending organ riff. This is a feast of sounds and I love this!

Paul

[MichaelA]

Well this is totally bonkers, in the best possible way, of course  The scene setting in the OP is very authentic and adds to the fun. The chorus caught me out, as it took the tongue in cheek element to another level, but quite contrasted with the melancholic message of Mr Blackbird.

I think I wanted the blackbird back again sooner after the mad bit, as it is a really catchy verse section.

But very nice first outro, before the erm second outro.

In awe of the imagination and technique that went into this!

[adamfarr]

Brilliant stuff - I thought bri nylon must be the new strings you were using?! Wish I could play Blackbird like that...

The song itself is really on the money for the period - I think I might have put the "brass" band a little later as that part is so hard to top.

But it's super fun stuff and so imaginative - well done you two.

[Grubstar]

Hi 
This is not only a great sixties pastiche but also a great song, it reminded me a bit of Hi Ho Silver Lining, The track is so  brilliantly produced and so redolent of the sixties.  I also loved the vocals as well as the lip trumpets and the Blackbird acoustic ending was the icing on the cake. Far out man.

[Binladeda]

 Great stuff Rich.  Full of 60's music nostalgia for me.  Bonzo Dogs, New Vaudeville Band, Mungo Jerry. it's all there.
 Love the Beatles touch at the end.  Typically first rate production/playing/composition
 Loved it old chap

 btw. still working on that lead . I'll get there...promise

[Kafla]

Went in for another few listens...on my headphones

I just love this , all of it...it’s like a whole album in one song

The deeper register flap your wings and fly away is totally awesome

I love all the little beeps and bobs , organs and fairground noises

The bass tone is gorgeous. Lyrically spot on...love the line about the neighbour and your girlfriend...hopefully they were just talking 😂

In all seriousness this kind of writing and prodcuction makes me really nervous about posting any more of my stuff 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Serious kudos on this masterpiece 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻