“You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away”
Lennon/McCartney
G Dsus4 Fadd9 C G
Here I stand, head in hand,
C Fadd9 C
Turn my face to the wall.
G Dsus4 Fadd9 C G
If she’s gone, I can’t go on,
C Fadd9 C D
Feeling two foot small…
Ev’rywhere people stare,
Each and every day.
I can see them laugh at me,
And I hear them say:
G C Dsus4 D Dsus2 D
Hey, you’ve got to hide your love away.
Hey, you’ve got to hide your love away.
How can I even try?
I can never win.
Hearing them, seeing them,
In the state I’m in…
How could she say to me
Love will find a way?
Gather round, all you clowns,
Let me hear you say:
Hey, you’ve got to hide your love away.
Hey, you’ve got to hide your love away.
(Flute solo over verse chords) x2, end on G
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Make sure to check out all of the rest of our Beatles cover songs here on the Laptop Sessions acoustic cover songs music video blog!
Welcome, welcome to another edition of the Laptop Sessions featuring myself and the Traveling Acai Berries! We’re continuing our month-long tribute to Beatles cover songs tonight (have you seen the great posts by Chris and Jeff these past two weeks?) with one of their finest early songs in “If I Fell”.
“A Hard Day’s Night” is an interesting film. If you haven’t seen it, it’s really worth your while. If you haven’t yet fallen in love with the Beatles, then this movie will seal the deal. If you’re someone who wasn’t fortunate enough to live through Beatlemania, then this movie will show you what it was really like. The fact that the boys could be so fun loving and charming during all that craziness proves why they were such a special group.
But, throughout the hype, they remained relevant and cool. You might write-off some of their early hits like “She Loves You” and “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” as early-sixties fluff (you’d be an idiot, by the way), but there were some really introspective gems throughout their first few albums. Go ahead and listen to “Things We Said Today” or “No Reply” and you’ll hear what I’m talking about. These guys were not only great musicians and songwriters, but they were “deep, man”. John Lennon and Paul McCartney (and even George Harrison on his early work like “Don’t Bother Me”) were ahead of their time in so many ways that I can think of 50 more songs I want to record for the Laptop Sessions acoustic cover songs music video blog.
“If I Fell” is one of those songs that just “gets you”. I, for one, cannot stop singing it in my head. The tune is one that goes back into itself constantly and is on permanent loop up there. Couple that amazing tune with the harmonies of John and Paul (with Paul’s amazingly high vocals that I think I nailed pretty well) and you’ve got a classic Beatles song, indeed. Both my father and my fellow Acai Berry Steve said that this song stood out to them when they watched “A Hard Day’s Night” and to me, that says it all. When you’re up against the heavyweight singles on that album (like the title track) and the response is, “If I Fell really stood out to me,” then you know it’s a great song.
We couldn’t get Steve on camera again this week and Chris C. was busy studying sheet music (you can finally hear him this week!), so he was off-camera. We had our fourth member, Bill, there for the session, but he had to leave early and we couldn’t get his guitar playing on the video. I’m hoping that Bill can coax Steve on camera, as four people on camera makes you stand-out much less as an individual than when there’s only two people. Anyway, I hope to record some more songs in two weeks, so maybe I’ll soften him up by then. Next week is the last of our Beatles quatrain (like that little music term there?) and we’ve got a whole bag of tricks that should keep things fresh and interesting here on the best music blog ever created!
That’s right, I said, “Best EVER!” Believe me? Then comment about it! We’d love to hear from you and, yes, each comment you leave brings Steve one more inch closer to appearing on camera! So, get commentin’ and we’ll see you next week for another installment of Jim Fusco Tuesdays. Stay-tuned for an all-new video by Jeff Copperthite, coming up Thursday!
Welcome, everyone, to another Laptop Sessions acoustic cover song music video! The plan is to hold another recording session with my fellow “Traveling Acai Berries” later this week, but for now, I bring you the second video from our last session two weeks ago. Unfortunately, I still can’t bring myself to drop the $60 to get the Beatles Rock Band yet (that new mortgage looms large in the foreground) and the same goes for the remastered box set, which I’m just dying to hear.
Tonight, our video is “Eight Days A Week”, another addition to our collection of Beatles cover songs. It’s funny how this one became a video- Steve (whose shoulder is shown in this video) said, “Hey Jim- play a whole bunch of D notes on your guitar rapidly and let me try something.” Sure enough, within a few seconds, we started the song. Fast-forward a couple minutes (and a little discussion on harmony parts) and you had our fellow band member Chris C. sight-reading sheet music and playing the melody on his mandolin. That’s him there in the center of the video, transposing notes on the fly.
I love the way the song songs with the two guitars and the mandolin. You can really hear the mandolin part in the second half of this cover video and it adds such a cool dynamic. We’ve got some great videos planned that will feature the mandolin, which I’m pretty excited about. I will forever be a chord player (and improv. soloist) on the mandolin, so it’s cool to play with someone that can translate sheet music into a mandolin part.
Steve and I combined for some great singing in this video, if I do say so myself. For some reason, I’m singing this with so much confidence and we had some nice parts together, especially on the “Eight days a week, I lo-uh-uh-uh-ove you” part. And, I feel so much more easy-going when Steve’s playing guitar with me because I don’t have that feeling that I have to be the entire band. I can strum, learn some licks, etc. Very exciting stuff!
On a personal note, things are going well, but I don’t know how- we’re tearing the condo up, getting ready to sell things for some extra pre-house cash and working on getting the condo “rental-ready”. That’s in addition to working and doing extra night and weekend work to ensure we’re okay financially when we move into our new place about a month and a half from now. Thankfully, Becky is always one to look on the bright side with a sense of knowing- I’m not a fan of those who just see the rosy side of things for the sake of seeing it that way…
Anyway, I kind of wish I had eight days in a week so I could get all this stuff done. Thankfully, some aspects of life (job, marriage, family) are stable now, so it makes dealing with the unstable things in life (like living your life by the whim of a mortgage company that doesn’t answer the phone) that much more bearable.
I’ll look forward to our next recording session on Friday and hopefully we’ll be back with new videos next Tuesday night. Hey, maybe this time we can finally introduce the fourth Acai Berry…but we’ll all have to wait and see. Until then, have a great week!
Hello everyone!! I’m back from obscurity to bring you another obscure Beach Boys song!
I’ve been on my honeymoon for the past two weeks. You’ll notice a certain new accessory on my left hand in the video- I actually notice the difference when playing. To sum up the trip and the wedding- everything went great. Great weather, had a good time at the reception, wasn’t nervous at all, heard good music, went great places, hotels were nice, and just got to live the Hawaiian experience for two weeks!
Back to reality now, but there’s a lot to look forward to- a new house on the way and a new life as a married man. It’s both exciting and tiring and I think I need a couple more days to decompress after my vacation! You see, my wife (weird to say that) is the type that needs to see and do anything and everything while on a trip. So, there really wasn’t much relaxation. I need another vacation! 🙂
Anyway, Hawaii is an amazing place- from the weather to the people (who are very jolly, as the Beach Boys have said) to the scenery. One of our favorite places was Lahaina, which is a nice town along the coast that boasts many art galleries and the second largest banyan tree in the world! So, of course, this Beach Boys song was stuck in my head the entire time. Becky and I walked around the town that day and even though it was only in the mid 80s, that “near the equator” sun made it feel like it was 100 or more. But, the day was nice and I will remember Lahaina fondly.
I hope to have some time in the near future to post some photos, etc.- things I’ve been wanting to do, but haven’t gotten a chance to. I hope you all followed me on Twitter (http://twitter.com/jimfusco), as I chronicled all the great (and hilarious) things we saw and did on the honeymoon.
I know Jeff is a fan of tonight’s song, as I played it on one of our BSYNHO shows we did for our significant others. I hope my acoustic cover version does it justice. “Lahaina Aloha” comes from an album that didn’t sell well and is officially the last ever Beach Boys album, as I truly don’t think there will ever be another. “Summer in Paradise” isn’t all bad- just half. I actually really enjoy the other half of the album- Bruce’s “One Summer Night”, with great vocals from Al, and Mike’s “Strange Things Happen”, which is one of Becky’s favorites, as well.
But, “Lahaina Aloha” is the perfect song for the acoustic cover song music blog tonight, as the islands of Hawaii are still very fresh in my mind.
Just as a last funny note- while on the ship, we saw The Second City, which is a comedy troupe not unlike the cast of “Whose Line is it Anyway?”. They were very good and did a hilarious skit where they pointed out that the word “aloha” in Hawaiian can mean either, “Hello”, “Goodbye”, or even “I love you”! So, they would sing songs that fit with that. For instance, they did the Doors hit: “Aloha, aloha won’t you tell your name…” And, they ended the skit with the best one- the Beatles “Hello, Goodbye”, or in Hawaiian: “Aloha, aloha! I don’t know why you say Aloha, I say Aloha.”
Anyway, with that, I bid you the same- ALOHA! It’s great to be back to the best blog ever created!
