Tag: smokey-robinson

  • day 33: Being With You

    Being With You by Smokey Robinson.

    It is a little irrational how much I sincerely love this song. I can not remember what inspired me to learn this one sometime in my last couple years in New York, but I did, and I annoyed my friends with it, and I made it my own. I guess some of us went through an Easy Listening phase, and I latched onto this gem from 1981. I do wish I had the chord changes I played back then written down, but the capo-oriented version here seemed like fun, too.

    There are, uh, multiple tracks on this one. Took some self-control to leave it at once backup vocal, because my lead vocal needs some help here. The opening imitation sax riff is more evidence that I am better at adding effects and layers than I am at mashing the keyboard at the right time. (This is not a metaphor.)