I wasn't sure what artist I was going to enhance or even the song of the artist and decided on another Monkee song now one less to do. So here it is--enjoy! Kenn
One of my favorite Monkee songs. I really love this. Micky is one great singer and drummer. He really has a fantastic voice. I just love him, along with the rest of the group. 🙂
I was very fortunate to have met the Monkees except for Mike in-person at an autograph singing a few years ago. It was very cool because I had a chance to talk to them briefly and shake their hands!
After great In depth study mulling over the Monkees career I have to proclaim they are one of the best pop bands of all time. Yes people wrote songs for them and even played for them but this is just too good for words.....
Cool tune enhanced by Mickey's smooth vocal!!! If I said it once I said it a hundred times, these talented guys really did know how to rock and create songs with staying power, even 50 years later!!! RIP DAVY, MICHAEL AND PETER
The vocals and music here is in my opinion one of the best Pop songs ever recorded. The enhancement on the vocals are mind blowing! The hook is there along with it being catchy,
I absolutely loved hearing the opening on "She" when this album first came out back then, it was a pretty nasty sound from scrubbed clean tv pop band and it was good. 8)
The song she is the most awesome and excellent song that the Monkeesis could ever make. It is definitely a amazing song and I just had to add it to my playlist
Yep! This is one of my favorites! Haven't heard it in over 50 years! ...and I still remember the lyrics! Although I wish you could have somehow used an Autotune on the backing vocals. They always made me cringe. Your enhancements wonderfully filled in the original crappy, cheap stereo-mix and made it sound fantastic! Thanks for reviving this classic!
The TH-cam audio sound like a "Transistor radio" compared to the original wave file--that will rattle you head like an sound explosion. TH-cam deliberately destroys the original sound quality so it sounds like crap!
Lyrics: She, she told me that she loved me, And like a fool I believed her from the start She, she said she’d never hurt me, But then she turned around and broke my heart Why am I standing here, Missing her and wishing she were here(Hey) She only did me wrong; (Hey) I’m better off alone She, she devoured all my sweet love, Took all I had and then she fed me dirt She, she laughed while I was cryin’, It was such a joke to see the way it hurt Why am I standing here, Missing her and wishing she were here (Hey) She only did me wrong; (Hey) I’m better off alone And now I know just why she Keeps me hangin’ ‘round (Hangin’ ‘round) She needs someone to walk on, So her feet don’t touch the ground (Don’t touch the ground) But I love her, (Love her) I need her, (Need her) I want her, (Want her) Yea! Yea! Yea! Yea! Yea! Yea! She! Why am I standing here, Missing her and wishing she were here (Hey) She only did me wrong now; (Hey) I’m better off alone (She) Why am I missing her? (She) I should be kissing her
Definitely a great song. Any thing that the Monkees recorded were good songs. Who wrote this song? Who recorded it 1St was it Del Shannon or The Monkees? I've also heard Del Shannon's version & it's a great song. But unfortunately his version didn't become a hit. But both songs indicate what the music sounded like & what was taking place in the 60's. It's a great song & The Monkees were also a great band. They also had a good TV Series & at times it was funny.
Do you do requests like maybe Star Collector or another Davy Jones kicker like She Hangs Out. He did a pretty good job on these versus the ballads they pushed off on him.
I did do those 2 you just mentioned so you have to check my channel out cause I'm unable to categorize them by artist and they are scattered on different pages cause there are over 350 enhanced songs.Kenn
This song is awesome! The stereo & mono versions sound the same & I remember this being performed on my favorite episode "Monkees at The Circus", along with "Sometime In the Morning" (my favorite Monkees song). Have you seen the episode? It's fucking awesome how they saved the circus from shutting down & again, Micky is the best Monkees singer ever!
Absolutely love this song when this song first came out my brother and neighbour and I would pretended to be the monkees in the loungeroom what fantastic memories
Kenn, you have a real knack for enhancing old favorites-the jazz organ sounds so much better with it's enhanced presence, and the unison runs between bass and guitar can be heard much better than in the original. This sounds SO much better, and that's a compliment considering the original song is so cool in the first place!
What type or types of apparatuses/devices do you use? What kind of software, if any, do you use in the enhancements? And finally, what technics do you apply during the enhancements of the track/music? Because what ever you do, the improvements sound great. I like them. Thanks!
Hi Trevor. I use a Yamaha 1602 (16) track mixing console given to me by a friend. I bought a Sterling Pro Studio Microphone. The process goes something like this.(1)I start out with a clean digital audio file from a CD and do a RESTORATION from that MAGIX AUDIO CLEANING LAB (adjusting the 3 band compression/dynamics, EQ & brightness (2). Then I move that file over the MAGIX AUDIO STUDIO 7 (multitrack program) on my HP computer and place it as track 1 or the MAINFRAME TRACK. The microphone is plugged into the sound mixer and fed into the back of the computer by aux in audio channel so it can be picked up by the multitrack program. (3) Then comes the critical task of deciding what instruments, percussion, vocals and keyboard might be needed to enhance the original. This is most critical job of all. There is no manual on doing this. You either know what you are doing or you do not. The TECHNIQUES change from song to song/artist to artist which is a real challenge. It helps first if you are a musician of some sort and have a working knowledge of the genre of music you are working on I do best with the songs of the era I grew up with 60's 70's era. It paramount that you understand the MINDSET of the artist so as not to destroy the original. Not everyone agrees on this. Some people don't want anyone messing with the originals and others love it when I do-more like it than don't. I do use special recording techniques similar to what I know that Geoff Emerick and George Martin used on the Beatles recordings. One technique it so record an electric guitar through a mic and plugged in at the same time. Using piano notes placed strategically at certain parts with other instruments gives it a more sophisticated or highly polished sound. Same with guitars! You want to adjust the EQ pods on the mixer and reapply them again on the multitrack program. Lennon used this technique on Nowhere Man's lead guitar. It's called signal "piggy-backing". I sometimes feed 2 or 3 signal processors into each other for an exotic sound or digitally sample an instrument on my Casio SK-1 and play it back at different octaves. I also like "pitch adjustment" where you can digitally change the pitch 1 or 2 octaves for unique sound. That's a few suggestions I have and there are dozens more. You just have to experiment what what works best or sounds best. I use my gifted ear to tell if something is an improvement or should be changed or eliminated. Hope this helps! Kenn
Hi Trevor. I use a Yamaha 1602 (16) track mixing console given to me by a friend. I bought a Sterling Pro Studio Microphone. The process goes something like this.(1)I start out with a clean digital audio file from a CD and do a RESTORATION from that MAGIX AUDIO CLEANING LAB (adjusting the 3 band compression/dynamics, EQ & brightness (2). Then I move that file over the MAGIX AUDIO STUDIO 7 (multitrack program) on my HP computer and place it as track 1 or the MAINFRAME TRACK. The microphone is plugged into the sound mixer and fed into the back of the computer by aux in audio channel so it can be picked up by the multitrack program. (3) Then comes the critical task of deciding what instruments, percussion, vocals and keyboard might be needed to enhance the original. This is most critical job of all. There is no manual on doing this. You either know what you are doing or you do not. The TECHNIQUES change from song to song/artist to artist which is a real challenge. It helps first if you are a musician of some sort and have a working knowledge of the genre of music you are working on I do best with the songs of the era I grew up with 60's 70's era. It paramount that you understand the MINDSET of the artist so as not to destroy the original. Not everyone agrees on this. Some people don't want anyone messing with the originals and others love it when I do-more like it than don't. I do use special recording techniques similar to what I know that Geoff Emerick and George Martin used on the Beatles recordings. One technique it so record an electric guitar through a mic and plugged in at the same time. Using piano notes placed strategically at certain parts with other instruments gives it a more sophisticated or highly polished sound. Same with guitars! You want to adjust the EQ pods on the mixer and reapply them again on the multitrack program. Lennon used this technique on Nowhere Man's lead guitar. It's called signal "piggy-backing". I sometimes feed 2 or 3 signal processors into each other for an exotic sound or digitally sample an instrument on my Casio SK-1 and play it back at different octaves. I also like "pitch adjustment" where you can digitally change the pitch 1 or 2 octaves for unique sound. That's a few suggestions and there are dozens more. You just have to experiment what words best. Kenn
Thank you very much, T.M.E.C. You provided more information than I thought you would. I much appreciated. I often wondered how it was done. You seem very professional and knowledgeable about it. Once again, thank-you very much. I've subscribed to your channel and been watching your videos and I like the job you do on the chosen tracks. They sound great for the most part, but on some of the Monkees' tracks just seem like they needed some bass-boost. I'm a big fan of theirs, and I have most of their music on CD format, but some of them sound a little harsh and under-produced. So that's why I wondered how you managed to improve the sound that makes a big difference. I wish I could do that to some of my other CDs from other bands that may have some badly done production. Seems like fun.
Lets see. Two lousy guitars (12 and 6 strong acoustic) and a electric Epiphone 6 string. A Yamaha Keyboard. A 12 channel (Yamaha 1602) sound mixing console. A Studio Steadman studio Mike and a computer multitrack program called ?Magix Audio Studio 7 and Magix Audio Cleaning Lab. That's it!
Never heard that question before. I use a Yamaha 1602 Sound Reinforcement mixer for my enhanced recordings. My recording and mixing talent actually comes from having a home recording studio in my friends basement in the 1990's in which we would experiment with a Tascam 8 track (sound on sound) reel-to-reel. We would kind of reverse engineer classic oldies songs and rebuild them making our own versions on the multitracker. That eventually led to making enhanced versions of oldies classics. Hope that answers your question. Kenn
You OUGHT to be a pro. You have very good ears. Do you have any enhanced versions by the 4 tops? I just bought a 2 CD set of them and the sound is very muddy.
One of my favorite Monkee songs. I really love this. Micky is one great singer and drummer. He really has a fantastic voice. I just love him, along with the rest of the group. 🙂
I was very fortunate to have met the Monkees except for Mike in-person at an autograph singing a few years ago. It was very cool because I had a chance to talk to them briefly and shake their hands!
My sentiments exactly - Well Done!
After great In depth study mulling over the Monkees career I have to proclaim they are one of the best pop bands of all time. Yes people wrote songs for them and even played for them but this is just too good for words.....
You are right. 👍 This my favorite. 😀
Rest in Peace Micheal Nesmith - Most of all Thank you and the Monkees for all the great music that sounds better today than ever!
Cool tune enhanced by Mickey's smooth vocal!!! If I said it once I said it a hundred times, these talented guys really did know how to rock and create songs with staying power, even 50 years later!!! RIP DAVY, MICHAEL AND PETER
The vocals and music here is in my opinion one of the best Pop songs ever recorded. The enhancement on the vocals are mind blowing! The hook is there along with it being catchy,
Micky vocals on this song are amazing!
I absolutely loved hearing the opening on "She" when this album first came out back then, it was a pretty nasty sound from scrubbed clean tv pop band and it was good. 8)
Good observation.
Boyce and Hart could do no wrong in the 1960's
In fact, speaking of B&H, maybe a good enhancement of "I wonder what she's doing tonight" is in order.
The song she is the most awesome and excellent song that the Monkeesis could ever make. It is definitely a amazing song and I just had to add it to my playlist
whoa! very nice. eargasm in the headphones. This is how it should be heard.
Loved this great track for so many years...what has been done to it sounds amazing now!!
Your talent is truly INCREDIBLE!!!!! Thank you for delighting our ears with your amazing enhanced versions of classic songs!!!!
This is one of my favourite monkee songs
Who outsold the Beatles and the Stones combined in 67
Yep! This is one of my favorites! Haven't heard it in over 50 years! ...and I still remember the lyrics! Although I wish you could have somehow used an Autotune on the backing vocals. They always made me cringe. Your enhancements wonderfully filled in the original crappy, cheap stereo-mix and made it sound fantastic! Thanks for reviving this classic!
WOW! There are things here that I've never heard before. Great job.
Great song sounds great and I love these pictures too thanks
One has to know the original and listen thru headsets to appreciate Kenn's improvements.
This is one of my favorite Monkee songs. The clarity and definition of the different parts is incredible in headphones!
Nice job, Kenn. Sounds really good. EDB
One of my fond musical memories of my youth! Great job with the video!
Fantastic job! Genuinely sounds superior to the original.
Definitely one of the Monkees best songs!
jeffthewhiff I agree with you
Yes it is! Saw them in concert in the 80s'.Waited outside after the show..Hoping to catch a glimpse.!
YES INDEED!!!
The enhanced sound is excellent...
I think Boyce and Hart wrote for everybody back then.
I bought a cassette from the London airport witching planes. There was this B-side. Magnificent!
Man, these enhanced recordings are ear-poppers.
The TH-cam audio sound like a "Transistor radio" compared to the original wave file--that will rattle you head like an sound explosion. TH-cam deliberately destroys the original sound quality so it sounds like crap!
@@cinematic35 is why l then go to Pandora when hearing here first....yours blows the mind and ear drums!😍
A timeless and "Real World Correct" dating comment.
First song I've EVER turned the volume down on because it was too loud through my headphones. Great enhancement.
This one definitely in my top ten Monkee favorites. It's a timeless treasure.
I. .LOVED. THE. MONKEES. BUT. MICKEY .WAS. MY .FAVE. I. LIKED. HIS. GREAT. SINGING HE. HAD. A. GREAT. VOICE. ❤😂😅😊
wow !!! - the sound is excellent - I only listen on YT with HD Headphones and this is a quality sound track indeed.
One of the great proto-typical punk rock songs. It remains relevant today
When rockin' out listening to this Kick Azz Kenn update; I crank up the volume on my headsets/ear buds wayyyyyy past the recommended safe db levels.
LOS MONOS HERAN TREMENDO.MÚSiCOS Y CANTANTES NO.PASAN DE MODA!!!
LOVE ❤️ IT !!!!
I heard your additional keyboards, Kenn! Sounded great! Thank you!
I love this song. One of my favorites!✌️
Lyrics:
She, she told me that she loved me,
And like a fool I believed her from the start
She, she said she’d never hurt me,
But then she turned around and broke my heart
Why am I standing here,
Missing her and wishing she were here(Hey)
She only did me wrong; (Hey)
I’m better off alone
She, she devoured all my sweet love,
Took all I had and then she fed me dirt
She, she laughed while I was cryin’,
It was such a joke to see the way it hurt
Why am I standing here,
Missing her and wishing she were here (Hey)
She only did me wrong; (Hey)
I’m better off alone
And now I know just why she
Keeps me hangin’ ‘round (Hangin’ ‘round)
She needs someone to walk on,
So her feet don’t touch the ground (Don’t touch the ground)
But I love her, (Love her)
I need her, (Need her)
I want her, (Want her)
Yea! Yea! Yea! Yea! Yea! Yea! She!
Why am I standing here,
Missing her and wishing she were here (Hey)
She only did me wrong now; (Hey)
I’m better off alone
(She) Why am I missing her?
(She) I should be kissing her
Definitely a great song. Any thing that the Monkees recorded were good songs. Who wrote this song? Who recorded it 1St was it Del Shannon or The Monkees? I've also heard Del Shannon's version & it's a great song. But unfortunately his version didn't become a hit. But both songs indicate what the music sounded like & what was taking place in the 60's. It's a great song & The Monkees were also a great band. They also had a good TV Series & at times it was funny.
written by tommy boyce & bobby hart
Good Monkee tuneage.
You rule,Kenn! Thanks.again!
Is this a album version?
Sounds just like the LP- Bravo!
Do you do requests like maybe Star Collector or another Davy Jones kicker like She Hangs Out. He did a pretty good job on these versus the ballads they pushed off on him.
Never mind I just found Star Collector.
I did do those 2 you just mentioned so you have to check my channel out cause
I'm unable to categorize them by artist and they are scattered on different pages cause there are over 350 enhanced songs.Kenn
This song is awesome! The stereo & mono versions sound the same & I remember this being performed on my favorite episode "Monkees at The Circus", along with "Sometime In the Morning" (my favorite Monkees song). Have you seen the episode? It's fucking awesome how they saved the circus from shutting down & again, Micky is the best Monkees singer ever!
Yes, I will be showing that episode to my English class at the end of this month. We have Monthly Monkee Mania here in China.
WOW. SO POWERFUL. NICE JOB. And rest in peace Mike. he would definitely approve.
I saw them during there 50 Year Tour. This was the best song; Mickey was still belting it out!
This is sooooooo good!
#Fab!
Absolutely love this song when this song first came out my brother and neighbour and I would pretended to be the monkees in the loungeroom what fantastic memories
Good song
UN Hermoso tema Me encanta la Canción y La música!!!
😊
😊🎉
Not a Monkees fan but i really enjoyed this. :)
Kenn, you have a real knack for enhancing old favorites-the jazz organ sounds so much better with it's enhanced presence, and the unison runs between bass and guitar can be heard much better than in the original. This sounds SO much better, and that's a compliment considering the original song is so cool in the first place!
EXCELENTE CANCIÓN, CON EXCELENTE SONIDO!! GRACIAS POR BAJARLA CON TANTA CALIDAD! ES UN PLACER ESCUCHARLA!!
Fantastic work. Never heard it so clear.
very very clean. Never sounded better!! And the photos were really awesome
So much better!!
These enhanced recordings are very good and the stereo of it is superb too and this is great.
What type or types of apparatuses/devices do you use? What kind of software, if any, do you use in the enhancements? And finally, what technics do you apply during the enhancements of the track/music? Because what ever you do, the improvements sound great. I like them. Thanks!
Hi Trevor. I use a Yamaha 1602 (16) track mixing console given to me by a friend. I bought a Sterling Pro Studio Microphone. The process goes something like this.(1)I start out with a clean digital audio file from a CD and do a RESTORATION from that MAGIX AUDIO CLEANING LAB (adjusting the 3 band compression/dynamics, EQ & brightness
(2). Then I move that file over the MAGIX AUDIO STUDIO 7 (multitrack program) on my HP computer and place it as track 1 or the MAINFRAME TRACK. The microphone is plugged into the sound mixer and fed into the back of the computer by aux in audio channel so it can be picked up by the multitrack program.
(3) Then comes the critical task of deciding what instruments, percussion, vocals and keyboard might be needed to enhance the original. This is most critical job of all. There is no manual on doing this. You either know what you are doing or you do not. The TECHNIQUES change from song to song/artist to artist which is a real challenge. It helps first if you are a musician of some sort
and have a working knowledge of the genre of music you are working on
I do best with the songs of the era I grew up with 60's 70's era.
It paramount that you understand the MINDSET of the artist so as not to destroy the original. Not everyone agrees on this. Some people don't want anyone messing with the originals and others love it when I do-more like it than don't.
I do use special recording techniques similar to what I know that Geoff Emerick and George Martin used on the Beatles recordings. One technique it so record an electric guitar through a mic and plugged in at the same time.
Using piano notes placed strategically at certain parts with other instruments gives it a more sophisticated or highly polished sound. Same with guitars!
You want to adjust the EQ pods on the mixer and reapply them again on the multitrack program. Lennon used this technique on Nowhere Man's lead guitar.
It's called signal "piggy-backing".
I sometimes feed 2 or 3 signal processors into each other for an exotic sound
or digitally sample an instrument on my Casio SK-1 and play it back at different octaves. I also like "pitch adjustment" where you can digitally change the pitch
1 or 2 octaves for unique sound. That's a few suggestions I have and there are
dozens more. You just have to experiment what what works best or sounds best. I use my gifted ear to tell if something is an improvement or should be changed or eliminated. Hope this helps! Kenn
Hi Trevor. I use a Yamaha 1602 (16) track mixing console given to me by a friend. I bought a Sterling Pro Studio Microphone. The process goes something like this.(1)I start out with a clean digital audio file from a CD and do a RESTORATION from that MAGIX AUDIO CLEANING LAB (adjusting the 3 band compression/dynamics, EQ & brightness
(2). Then I move that file over the MAGIX AUDIO STUDIO 7 (multitrack program) on my HP computer and place it as track 1 or the MAINFRAME TRACK. The microphone is plugged into the sound mixer and fed into the back of the computer by aux in audio channel so it can be picked up by the multitrack program.
(3) Then comes the critical task of deciding what instruments, percussion, vocals and keyboard might be needed to enhance the original. This is most critical job of all. There is no manual on doing this. You either know what you are doing or you do not. The TECHNIQUES change from song to song/artist to artist which is a real challenge. It helps first if you are a musician of some sort
and have a working knowledge of the genre of music you are working on
I do best with the songs of the era I grew up with 60's 70's era.
It paramount that you understand the MINDSET of the artist so as not to destroy the original. Not everyone agrees on this. Some people don't want anyone messing with the originals and others love it when I do-more like it than don't.
I do use special recording techniques similar to what I know that Geoff Emerick and George Martin used on the Beatles recordings. One technique it so record an electric guitar through a mic and plugged in at the same time.
Using piano notes placed strategically at certain parts with other instruments gives it a more sophisticated or highly polished sound. Same with guitars!
You want to adjust the EQ pods on the mixer and reapply them again on the multitrack program. Lennon used this technique on Nowhere Man's lead guitar.
It's called signal "piggy-backing".
I sometimes feed 2 or 3 signal processors into each other for an exotic sound
or digitally sample an instrument on my Casio SK-1 and play it back at different octaves. I also like "pitch adjustment" where you can digitally change the pitch
1 or 2 octaves for unique sound. That's a few suggestions and there are
dozens more. You just have to experiment what words best. Kenn
Thank you very much, T.M.E.C. You provided more information than I thought you would. I much appreciated. I often wondered how it was done. You seem very professional and knowledgeable about it. Once again, thank-you very much. I've subscribed to your channel and been watching your videos and I like the job you do on the chosen tracks. They sound great for the most part, but on some of the Monkees' tracks just seem like they needed some bass-boost. I'm a big fan of theirs, and I have most of their music on CD format, but some of them sound a little harsh and under-produced. So that's why I wondered how you managed to improve the sound that makes a big difference. I wish I could do that to some of my other CDs from other bands that may have some badly done production. Seems like fun.
I had this on the 45...not sure what was on the B side.
What do you use to enhance?Sounds so good
Lets see. Two lousy guitars (12 and 6 strong acoustic) and a electric Epiphone 6 string. A Yamaha Keyboard. A 12 channel (Yamaha 1602) sound mixing console.
A Studio Steadman studio Mike and a computer multitrack program called ?Magix Audio Studio 7 and Magix Audio Cleaning Lab. That's it!
Magaly Radoux!!!
Thank - you, For this timeless music.
BADASS keep it up!!
so sad, yet so beautiful.
more of the monkees both editions were,so great
AWFUL!!!
MONKEE KONG!
Nobody knows.
Copio siempre.
Loving it!
words
Kenn, are you a pro music mixer?
Never heard that question before. I use a Yamaha 1602 Sound Reinforcement mixer for my enhanced recordings. My recording and mixing talent actually comes from having a home recording studio in my friends basement in the 1990's in which we would experiment with a Tascam 8 track (sound on sound)
reel-to-reel. We would kind of reverse engineer classic oldies songs and rebuild them making our own versions on the multitracker. That eventually led to making enhanced versions of oldies classics. Hope that answers your question. Kenn
You OUGHT to be a pro. You have very good ears. Do you have any enhanced versions by the 4 tops? I just bought a 2 CD set of them and the sound is very muddy.
WOW!!! That sounds better than ever!!!