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According to Ultimate Guitar, the song is written in common time with a moderately fast tempo of 105 beats per minute. It is a piano-based rock ballad in the key of F which modulates a step up to G halfway through the song. The track follows a basic chord sequence of Am–Em–Am–C–G–Am–Em–D in each verse.
Elvis Presley covered the song on his 1970 album Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old). The song was re-released as a B-side to "Guitar Man" in 1981 with new music under the direction of Felton Jarvis. Jerry Reed, the composer of the original "Guitar Man" song, and the guitarist on the 1967 Elvis session, recorded new guitar parts for both tracks.
Guitar is the first album by American guitarist Tony Rice, released in 1973. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] At first, this album was issued by Red Clay Records , Japanese bluegrass album label, entitled "got me a martin guitar" in 1973.
The song was recorded in the key of C major and follows the traditional AABA form followed by a short instrumental solo and a repeat of sections B and A. [7] [8] "Walkin' After Midnight" features instrumentation from an acoustic guitar, basic drums and piano, steel guitar, electric guitar, and acoustic bass.
The vi chord before the IV chord in this progression (creating I–vi–IV–V–I) is used as a means to prolong the tonic chord, as the vi or submediant chord is commonly used as a substitute for the tonic chord, and to ease the voice leading of the bass line: in a I–vi–IV–V–I progression (without any chordal inversions) the bass ...
The guitar solo was played by Dave Gregory on Eric Clapton's psychedelic Gibson SG the Fool, then owned by Rundgren. [65] Gregory spent hours rehearsing the solo. [ 66 ] Years after the fact, he realised that he had subconsciously lifted the "little five-note runs" heard in the trumpet line of "Magic Dragon Theatre" from the Utopia's Ra (1977).
Carl Smith had a minor hit with the song in 1969, taking it to #25 on the country singles chart.; David Houston cut the song for his 1979 LP From the Heart of Houston.Houston's version peaked at #33 in the Billboard country charts that year, making it his last top 40.
Peluso came from a musical family, his mother being a successful opera singer and his father being the music director for NBC radio on the west coast. [1] His mother was Emily Hardy (1908-1983), a soprano who performed most notably with The San Francisco Opera Company (debut 1933, Musetta, La Bohème) and the Metropolitan Opera (debut 1936, Gilda, Rigoletto).