Download Instrumental    “Dear Dave:  I need an arrangement for ‘This Magic Moment’ but I don’t like The Drifters version (1960) or the Jay and the Americans style (1968). Can you do me one that combines the best of each?”  So,  Piero from Florence, Italy loves the song and wants to perform it, but doesn’t like the arrangements by the original artists in the 60’s.  After going back and listening to them, I would have to agree.  Great love song, but the mixes back then were muddled and cluttered with too much instrumentation.

Piero is a solo performer (singer) who uses backups for his music and gets a lot of them from this website.  Since he works alone, he needed vocal backups on one track and wanted violins to come in halfway through.  Okay, got that.  But he also thought a calypso beat with no definite snare hit on the 2/4 beat would be nice (the man knows what he likes).  Karen came up with the idea of using a wood block throughout the song with a rhythm very similar to what The Diamonds used in “Little Darlin” (she knows what she likes, too).  It worked, and Piero is happy – until he gets my bill.

Obviously, the lyrics are what makes a song a “love” song, and this one more than fills the bill – “This magic moment, so different and so new/was like any other, until I kissed you”.  Doesn’t that make you want to sigh and stare off into the sunset.  Contrast that with a song of today – “He wanna feel my summer rain/the thunder roll yeah he wanna bang”.  Now, there’s a magical moment for ya…