Originally posted 2009-03-26 02:37:20.
By Jim Fusco:
Two for the price of one sale today on Jim Fusco videos, as our internet was down on Tuesday, preventing me from posting my all-new acoustic cover song video! Tonight, I bring you another new artist to the music blog in Elton John. INCREDIBLE that we haven’t done a song by him yet- ten Pearl Jam songs and not one from EJ? I think that’s some form of discrimination… 
Anyway, tonight’s song is one that I knew only a certain section of before I truly learned it for my acoustic video. I knew the “Ah…” part in the song because it’s so catchy. I must’ve heard it on the radio a bunch of times and that’s what I took away from it. Listening to the entire song and really paying attention, I noticed that this is truly a great recording. I LOVE the guitar that come in on the chorus, playing these electric guitar arpeggiated notes. Heaven!
There’s also some great backing vocals going on during the song- it creates such a lush sound and everyone knows how I love a good backing vocal choir! My roommate Dana helped me out tonight, as this turned out to be one of his favorite songs- he knew every word and helped me out a TON when it came to the inflection on the singing, especially on the choruses.
This song wasn’t an easy one to play or sing. But then again, isn’t that what the Laptop Sessions acoustic cover songs music video blog is all about? We don’t take the easy way out, folks- we challenge ourselves on a daily basis. Chris, Jeff, and I have held-off playing certain songs for months because we wanted to perfect them. I still have to hear it from my father every week that I haven’t done “Here Comes the Sun” or “God Only Knows” yet. But, for those songs, you need to perfect them before debuting them to the world. And that’s what I plan on doing.
You should’ve seen Dana’s eyes when I told him I was covering this song on acoustic guitar. I proceeded to tell him, however, that the videos I get the most views on are the ones where people go, “Wait, someone did that song on GUITAR? I gotta see this.” Everyone always goes in so skeptical (I get a lot of messages saying, “I thought this would suck, but I was pleasantly surprised!”) and I can understand why- I mean, look at the 99.999% of YouTube cover videos out there that truly do STINK. But, as we said a long time ago here on the music blog, the goal of the Laptop Sessions is to put an end to bad YouTube covers forever!
I hope you enjoy my rendition- I practiced it about twenty times and made sure everything was correct. I’m happy to debut Elton John’s music here on the music video blog and hope that Chris and Jeff will decide to tackle some of his songs in the future. But if I hear Chris singing “Candle in the Wind”, I may have to break his acoustic guitar. Until…well…next post…a couple minutes from now…have a great one!
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This is one in a series of acoustic cover songs, original music, and free mp3 downloads here on the Laptop Sessions Music Video Blog.
March 28th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
After hearing this, I beg of you to please cover “Your Song” by Elton John!