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Baby I Can't Please You (Instrumental)
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An instrumental interpretation of the hit song of 1994 by Sam Phillips. A song from her album, 'Martinis & Bikinis'.
guitar instrumental indian perscussion slippery bass
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Pop/Rock, Psychedelic, Ambient, Rhythm & Blues and beyond.
Major Snagg is the invented name of the 'band' that perform all my own musical creations. (songs and instrumentals). I play guitars, bass, rudimentary keyboards, harmonica, and sing. Melody has always been important to me... lyrics and guitar solos have to say or communicate something. I create musical worlds that I hope that you dear listener, will also want to explore and live in for a few moments...or longer if you feel that way inclined.
Song Info
Genre
Pop • Retro Pop
Charts
#40 in subgenre Peak #2
Charts
Peak #17
Author
Leslie Phillips
Rights
Concord Music Publishing LLC, Downtown Music Publi
Uploaded
March 14, 2025
Track Files
MP3
MP3 9.1 MB • 320 kbps • 4:00
Lossless
WAV 40.3 MB
Meta Data
BPM
122
Character
Danceable
coffee-place
dancefloor
Positivity
dark, sad, angry
happy
Appeal
unique
radio-friendly
Story behind the song
Several years ago, a friend from California sent me Sam Phillips' 1994 album, 'Martinis & Bikinis'. The album was produced by T Bone Burnett. A very good album (and a successful one) with lots of good songs on it. I especially like this song though. It has a very Beatles style structure in the chords. The 'Indian', style 'Tabla', percussion on the original was something I especially like about it. I managed to find a drum sound that's reasonably Indian sounding, hidden away in the drums library of my Yamaha PSR-E 373 keyboard. The actual drum sound is what the people at Yamaha call, Dndt Umum (#155 for those of you who may have a similar Yamaha keyboard), ... ? Goodness knows what Dndt Umum, is supposed to mean ... but it works fine within the context of the mix. I also recorded an additional drum loop track of a standard 'Western', drum kit from my ancient Zoom RT-123 drum machine, plus some manually played fills and hits etc. Guitar sounds were from my Yamaha Revstar RS 420 ... bass, as always, my Rickenbacker 4003. Guitar processing via a Line 6 Pod Go unit.
Lyrics
An instrumental version.
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Oddger
Mar 21
Very nice interpretation! It has George Harrison qualities, with the crafty guitar work and the Indian touch! Beautifully played. I may have heard this before, I now have to go and search the original as it sounds like a lovely tune!
Tony DeLecce
Mar 18
I never heard of Sam Phillips do I went and listened to the original track and a live cut. Really quirky little song. Your instrumentals are better than original I believe. Excellent work and San is a lady who knew ha. Great work
JESUS OLDMAN
Mar 17
Great job with this one.
rodrica
Mar 17
You do have a knack of finding great songs to cover, especially those that have escaped our radar! Love the instrumentation on this track, brilliantly produced & performed!
steveweyman
Mar 15
Another great instrumental by you David . Yes the drum and percussion sound great . Great guitar as always . You do find and produce some gems ! Great work !
Ridiculousdream
Mar 14
Parker Fly? Nice tune. Well produced.