https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/summer-kisses-when-shes-gone/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:39:21 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/summer-kisses-when-shes-gone/#post-306689 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:08:13 +0000 Before he cheats and The carol of the bells. Some parts of the song reminds the carol, they have a very similar rhythm.

BTW, the carol has a very nice melody. And what amazing harmony! :shock:

I didn't know it. We didn't sing it. I found this version... I don't know how to describe it...

Thanks!]]> Opinions and Polls Nuno https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/summer-kisses-when-shes-gone/#post-306689 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/summer-kisses-when-shes-gone/#post-306657 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:42:06 +0000 Opinions and Polls Ricochet https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/summer-kisses-when-shes-gone/#post-306657 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/summer-kisses-when-shes-gone/#post-306042 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:32:46 +0000 Opinions and Polls Ricochet https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/summer-kisses-when-shes-gone/#post-306042 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/summer-kisses-when-shes-gone/#post-306021 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:53:23 +0000
Very funny things! :lol:]]> Opinions and Polls Nuno https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/summer-kisses-when-shes-gone/#post-306021 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/summer-kisses-when-shes-gone/#post-305912 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:37:24 +0000 Dogbite's new song is Dm, G, F, A.]]> Opinions and Polls KR2 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/summer-kisses-when-shes-gone/#post-305912 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/summer-kisses-when-shes-gone/#post-305909 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:16:22 +0000 Hi Nuno,

That's a coincidence – so did I! :mrgreen:

It was for the Sunday Composer Workshop forum tasks that we're both doing (Week 6).

I usually do them at the keyboard, as there's one right next to the computer, and I start by hitting some random arrangement of keys and then seeing what I can make out of it. That day I hit the four notes D F G A and ended up writing an eight bar melody line based around multiple variations on that run of notes (it was the Isomelody exercise).

About half way through improvising some different rhythms I thought… “wait a minute… that one sounds slightly familiar…” and sure enough, if I shifted one key to the left, started the same hand pattern on the C instead of the D (making it C E F G), and out came the start of “Oh When the Saints….”

Of course, the move to the left changed the arrangement of semitone intervals slightly, but it did make me realise how small the step sometimes is between melodies that sound nothing like each other.

A midi of my melody, which doesn't sound even slightly like The Saints

Cheers,

Chris]]> Opinions and Polls Chris C https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/summer-kisses-when-shes-gone/#post-305909 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/summer-kisses-when-shes-gone/#post-305890 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:13:56 +0000 Opinions and Polls lars https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/summer-kisses-when-shes-gone/#post-305890 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/summer-kisses-when-shes-gone/#post-305887 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:09:10 +0000 The following year , Cruise recorded a Lynch and Badalamenti produced cover of the Elvis Presley song "Summer Kisses, Winter Tears" for the soundtrack of Wim Wenders's Until the End of the World. These things happen. Tonight they seemed more similar to me. But you know sometimes the covers change also the melody.

Ricochet, I agree. Some weeks ago I "invented" something like When the saints go marching in! :lol:

Thanks!]]> Opinions and Polls Nuno https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/summer-kisses-when-shes-gone/#post-305887 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/summer-kisses-when-shes-gone/#post-305807 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:04:37 +0000 Bill Withers released Ain't No Sunshine in 1971 I'm forced to go with
Vic's theory.]]> Opinions and Polls Celt https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/summer-kisses-when-shes-gone/#post-305807 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/summer-kisses-when-shes-gone/#post-305806 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:00:32 +0000
"Ain't No Sunshine" was written and recorded in 1971 by Bill Withers for the "Just As I Am" album.

There are similarities, especially in the two title lines - they share almost the exact same melody. It's possible - it wouldn't have been the first time it's happened! - that Bill had heard the Elvis version, retained the melody in his subconscious and dragged it out at a later date.

:D :D :D

Vic]]> Opinions and Polls Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/summer-kisses-when-shes-gone/#post-305806