Скачать или смотреть I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC (GUITAR COVER FROM THE MOVIE “FAME”)

It was 1980 – I had just returned from visiting my parents in New York clutching my brand new beautiful black Gibson Les Paul. I was playing in a band called Bagatelle, a very popular gig band at the time. I was in my mid 20’s still with the naïve view that the world was my musical oyster, so the movie ‘Fame’ and its budding young musicians was something I could readily identify with. The theme song was immediately put into Bagatelle’s set list but my favourite was always the finale – ‘I sing the body electric.’
The idea for that song came to composer Dean Pitchford on his way to a dinner party…the title is from a Walt Whitman poem of the same name - he went straight to the bathroom on arrival and wrote the first verse on toilet paper before he forgot them. The movie ‘Fame’ was originally called ‘Hot Lunch’ until someone found out halfway through production that Hot Lunch was NY slang for oral sex….
Anyway I always wanted to do a guitar arrangement of this piece and finally found an orchestral backing track that I could edit out the non-orchestral instruments and layer on 3 guitars.