Monday, April 10, 2017

"County Fair"

When I listened to the Surfin' Safari/Surfin' U.S.A. re-issue a couple days ago, some of the instrument parts in "County Fair" sounded pretty easy to figure out.  While working on that over the last two days (I have the guitar phrases and the bass part), I discovered something about the middle sections, where the barker is trying to convince the speaker/singer to win a stuffed koala bear for his girlfriend.  During both of those sections, the organ plays Juventino Rosas' "Over the Waves."  There are some variations in the rhythm (which are necessary since "County Fair" is in 4/4 time, but "Over the Waves" is originally in 3/4), but the melody is the same.