Train on Wikipedia) was borrow the riff from "Love my Baby" and use it on "Mystery Train." Here is the transcription to "Love my Baby" and yes it is great rockabilly style track it does not have the same lick as "Mystery Train."
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Junior Parker's Love My Baby
Junior Parker's of course did the original version of Elvis Presley's "Mystery Train." If you listen to Junior Parker's version of 'Mystery Train" it is much slower in tempo than the Presley version. "Love my Baby" was the b side to Parker's "Mystery Train" and listening to the track it sounds like Presley, Scotty Moore and company may have taken the arrangement of "Love my Baby" and used it for "Mystery Train." What Scotty Moore did not do as is widely claimed (look up Mystery
Train on Wikipedia) was borrow the riff from "Love my Baby" and use it on "Mystery Train." Here is the transcription to "Love my Baby" and yes it is great rockabilly style track it does not have the same lick as "Mystery Train."
Train on Wikipedia) was borrow the riff from "Love my Baby" and use it on "Mystery Train." Here is the transcription to "Love my Baby" and yes it is great rockabilly style track it does not have the same lick as "Mystery Train."
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I love how at 1:32 the piano (I think it's the piano) goes to the V instead of the IV...lol. I dig the old records where they let some mistakes and sloppy playing stay if they got a good feel on the take (or maybe it was just a question of economics). Anyway, great tune and a great and useful blog. Thanks
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