Bradley Nelsen's very own music 1010 blog

  Week Six Bradley Nelsen              Be My baby     Performed by the Ronnets     Composed by Phil Spector          Be my Baby is such a simple song, A cookie-cutter, Upbeat, love song that has shaped several future songs for years to come. But despite its simplicity, this song is great, Not to mention a great example of love songs in this era and a great example of Phil Spector's work. Phil Spector is one of the greatest composers and songwriters of his time, who got to work some of the best bands of the era, like the Ronnets and even The Temptations. Phil Spector's "wall of sound" trope that he is famous for is extremely evident in this song. There are always Drums in the background paired with some fast-paced maracas. Be my baby, being a passionate song about love and kisses, is definitely targeted towards a younger audience, another cornerstone for Phil Spector's songs being claimed as "Teenag...

  Week Five Bradley Nelsen             Sh-Boom         The Chords                         The Chord's version of Sh-Boom is probably one of the more popular tracks selected by students for their blog. I will be hoping onto this tradition as well, In an attempt to share some of the nostolgia behind this track for me, and possibly some of the nostolgia felt for the people listening to it for the first time in 1954. Sh-boom was a doo-wop, R&B song that was released right as that style of music was beggining to die down and right as Rock and Roll was beggining to rear its head for the first time. But for the dedicated listeners of R&B Sh-boom by the chords was an excellent call back to the genra at its finest. This song was later revived in 2006 by one of our favorite cartoon films Cars. Hearing this song in college after the movie being one of...

  Week Four Bradley Nelsen                    Nature Boy               Nat "King" Cole               Nature boy is an excellent example of what a ballad should be structured like in a song and what it should sound like. A ballad in the music world is a song that tells a story, this story in particular being about our very own "Nature Boy" an enchanted young individual who roams the rocky land and tretcherous waters to tell stories and spread love across the nation. This, being a mystical life with no stress and no worries, is nothing but a fantasy to most. A fantasy that is captured perfectly by the tone and instruments used in the music. The loud horns at the start of the song allow us to envison a decent uppon a lush, green and beautiful world that our beloved nature boy lives in. The woodwind instruments create a mild mannered tone to the image t...