G O L D E N   O L D I E S               3/29/91
    (Or Moldy Melodies,depending on your age or musical tastes)
                            Gary White
                       Voice - (408) 375-7336

       As a long ago brass player whose chops are so out of shape that my
   wife says even my kissing has gotten sloppy, It was great to find a way
   to make music again without having to do a lot of practicing and scales
   and all that stuff. I've had a lot of fun with ADLIB, and this file is 
   my attempt to share some of that enjoyment with others.
       I realize that many of you may not share my tastes in music, so please
   feel free to re-format your disk if you feel that's necessary after you've
   played these songs.  I have, on occasion, had to air out the computer room
   after some of the stuff I've downloaded.
        This is freeware, so do what you will with it. I would, however, be
   interested in your reactions.  Please give me a call if you suffer a severe 
   reaction.

   CHOPIN_A.ROL is an extract from a Chopin Prelude In A.  Not very exciting,
   but considering that I got it from my daughter's beginning piano book, I 
   began to see possibilities if I had some better charts to work with, so I
   bought my own book!
   
   LIMEHAUS.ROL is that book's version of Phillip Branham's "Limehouse Blues."
   It sounded a little dull with just a piano, so I added some percussion and
   came up with ---

   LIMHAUS1.ROL --- maybe a little closer to what the composer intended. (1925)
   
   BLUSETTE.ROL was to an attempt to recreate Jean Thieleman's "Bluesette",
   but as I remembered it in the 60's, it was written for a jazz trio with a 
   flute lead.  I can't get a decent flute sound out of this (why not? Flute
   is almost pure sine wave), so I used a clarinet - could be worse.  (1963)

   VALENTIN.ROL is Richard Rodgers' "My Funny Valentine".  Again, I think this
   was mostly performed by small combos with a flute lead.  Clarinet again.
   (1937)

   AFTRUVGN.ROL (Why won't they let us use more than 8 characters to name a
   file?)  is Creamer and Layton's "After You've Gone".  It suited me as a 
   straight piano piece, but the book provided absolutely no interpretive data,
   so I used my imagination (or maybe my rusty memory) for the dynamics and
   tempo variations.  Not quite as "down and dirty" as LIMEHAUS, but I had fun
   with it.  (1918)

   AFTRUGN1.ROL  - an experiment using some other instruments --- I still think
   piano sounds more believeable, wish more realistic instrument sounds were
   available.

   OLMANRVR.ROL (Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern - Ol' Man River - 1927)
   needs a lower key and a booming bass vocal to do it right, but even ADLIB
   has its limitations.

   LETBELUV.ROL (Ian Grant and Lionel Rand - "Let There Be Love" - 1940) was a
   Valentine's Day present for my wife. Yeah, I know, how schmaltzy can I get,
   but she liked it and it was a bunch cheaper than a box of See's candy.

   GEOBROWN.ROL (Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard and Kenneth Casey - "Sweet Georgia
   Brown", 1925) is not the best arrangement I've heard, but it's the only one
   I had.  The Harlem Globetrotters have a better arrangement, but I'm not tall 
   enough.

   LEAVES.ROL (Bernice Petkere - "Lullaby of the Leaves" - 1932) is a really 
   pretty piece that I heard performed at a dixieland jazz festival, sung by a 
   really pretty young lady accompanied by a really good combo. I liked their 
   version better, but that's probably because they used real instruments.

   SATNDOL.ROL (Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer and Billy Strayhorn - "Satin
   Doll" - 1958) - more clarinet.

   EARLYAUT.ROL (Ralph Burns, Woody Herman and Johnny Mercer - "Early Autumn" -
   1949) wasn't familiar to me, so the interpretation may leave a little to
   be desired.  Sounds like the original may have been interesting.
 
   FINALLY,

   SOLONG.ROL ("So Long, It's Been Good To Know You" - Woody Guthrie) probably
   doesn't even warrant the 2k or so that it takes in storage space, but since
   it was my very first effort (OK, very first weak try), I felt obliged to
   include it.  The melody line came from an old "Beginning Folk Guitar" book
   and I literally ADLIB'ed the bass line. Dumb, but what the heck, being a
   little bit crazy is what keeps me from going insane.

   NOTE: I have included with these an instrument bank file (STANDARD.BNK) that
         contains more than 800 instrument sounds. I would recommend that you 
         use it to replace yours if yours doesn't contain "piano11".  The
         higher piano notes sound much less "twangy" with it.  Don't worry 
         about losing anything, because I included all the instruments from the
         original "standard.bnk".