Hi, anyone remember this one I wrote way back? Well I finally overcame the challenges and recorded it
https://soundcloud.com/gtbr/a-first-class-life-07-12-2014-2218Could a moderator please transfer to wip
Thanks,
GTB
Here's an early version of a new song.
I may be about 12 months too late for this but when I saw Wallace Henry Hartley's violin sold last week for £900,000 I got interested and discovered some amazing things, e.g:
The captain (Stanley Lord) and 2nd officer Stone or the Californian saw 8 flares launched from the Titanic. Later they saw it appear to list and all it's lights go out. They did not wake their signal man to make contact & investigate. Their ship was close enough to have saved many more lives.
Prior to his position on Titanic, bandleader Wallace Henry Hartley worked on it's two sister ships (Lusitania and Maritania), both of which held the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic crossing (later signified by the Hale trophy). Mauritania held it for 20 years, Lusitania was later sunk by u-boat with a loss of over 1100 lives.
It is thought Wallace introduced the Tritone substitution to dance - this will feature when I work out some chords.
Hartley had become engaged (to Maria Robinson) shortly before leaving on Titanic, he didn't want to go.
Women and children went in the first lifeboats, many of which weren't even half full. Many families lost their only breadwinner. Two dogs were saved.
Wallace's body was recovered and returned to his home town, Colne, where 40,000 people lined the streets for his funeral.
A first class lifeVerse 1
He was just an ordinary boy from the mills of a northern town
Until that day in 1912 when 1500 drowned
He played for both her sisters first, the fastest in the fleet
They held the trophy twenty years, the world was at their feet
Verse 2
Once more to Southampton, he didn’t want to go
He told his sweet Marie “just a few more weeks to go”
We Hale our music heroes, so many we have lost
But don’t forget those 8 good men who stood there ‘till the last
Prechorus
Women and children first, men of influence and worth
A pomeraniun, a pekanise, left the watery berth
chorus
They’d played for the Astors and welcome them aboard
And now they were told to find a few more soothing chords
They finished by the grand stairs, while men waved to their wives
And there they made history with the performance of their lives
Verse 3
And still they played with dignity while rockets traced the sky
A night to remember with a tear in your eye
As Lord of California watched the signals in the night
Their faces turned to Stone with the disappearing light
Bridge (spoken) – play nearer my god to thee (or Autumn) in background
On the piano, Theodore Ronald Brailey
On the cello, Roger Marie Bricoux
On bass, John Frederick Preston Clarke
On violin, John Law Hume
And Georges Alexandre Krins
On cello, Percy Cornelius Taylor
And John Wesley Woodward
Bandmaster & violin, Wallace Henry Hartley
Verse 4
40 thousand people lined the streets of a northern town
Came to pay their last respects and lay your body down
And Wallace Henry Hartley ‘s name will live forevermore
A legend in our lifetime, and a hero to us all
Prechorus
Women and children first, men of influence and worth
A pomeraniun, a pekanise, left the watery berth
chorus
They’d played for the Astors and welcome them aboard
And now they were told to find a few more soothing chords
They finished by the grand stairs, while men waved to their wives
And there they made history with the performance of their lives
