VIDEO
Number 16 in my series of singles and videos.
Anything Can Shake Your Tree is the jazziest to date, featuring a brass section, percussion and jazz guitar.
It’s about a Shoeshine working in America, earning a nickel or dime to get by, and the line in the song “ Anything can shake your tree” really means anything can come along and change your circumstances, and how hard it was to earn a living in that era.
Set in the late 1930s, we used black and white archive footage for the backdrop to set the scene.
I play saxophone, guitar and keyboards in this video, we also had some great props for authenticity.
The style is very jazzy and musically there is a lot more going on than in my previous tracks, this song is also being released on limited edition 7” vinyl.
It has a sultry vocal, similar to Sade, and has an 80s sound and feel to it, this song has a male vocal part in it too.
For the solo on the piano I used a Roland Juno 106 synthesizer which was popular in the 80’s and I mixed it as a flute sound.
The other synth used was a Roland Jupiter 6, again a popular synth in the 1980s.
Percussion wise we used congas and a bell tree and Nigel my producer programmed the drums using a Roland TR 909 drum machine, triggering a Linn Drum LM2, both popular in the 1980s and very much used in the club dance scene today, both highly collectable and sought after!
We did this video in widescreen so I was able to play a few roles and appear as three of me at once, which we haven’t done before, I think it works ,as it gives enough room on the screen without cluttering the shot.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did recording and filming it.
Thanks for watching and listening, please consume my music !
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LYRICS
Words & Music & by Debbie Curtis
Keyboards & Guitar : Debbie Curtis
Saxophone : Neil Woodcock
Guitar : Dave Reynolds
Percussion : Pete Randall
Trombone : Eddie Curtis
Trumpet : Jez
Bass : Paul 'Finbar' Saunders
Backing Vocals : Alan Vaughan
Produced by Chris Baker & Nigel Ward (Browning)
Engineers : Dimitrios & James
Recorded at Jackson Music Studios & DCRBB
Mixed at The Chocolate Factory
Remastered at DCRBB
A 42nd Street Records Production for DCRBB 1986
© Debbie Curtis : DCRBB Records & Music Publishing 1986
Re-Released Digitally 2015
Re-Mastered and Re-Released 2024
ISRC : GBWCA1500031
UPC Barcode : 889211968985
PRS Tunecode : 537877FN
Catalogue Number : 1500031
Alternative Catalouge Number ST-DEB-1
ISWC T-314.289.208-4
Recording Date : 19860101
Release Date : 19860102
Do da dm do da do
This aint no way to spend your day
Daddy once said it aint no easy life as a shoe shine
A nickel or dime is all you get each time as a shoe shine
Anything can shake your tree
Anything can shake your tree
It’s no easy life when you gotta shine shoes
Lord its hard now
You gotta pay rent each day and daddy learnt the hard way
He gotta know how
Anything can shake your tree
Anything can shake your tree
Do do do do do do do do do do
Your daddy once said there aint no easy way you can escape it
Cos when a nickel or dime is all you get each time things can shake it, shake it
Anything can shake your tree
Anything can shake your tree
Anything can shake your tree
Anything can shake your tree
Do do do do do do do do do do
Daddy once said it aint no easy life as a shoe shine
Cos a nickel or dime is all you get each time as a shoeshine
Anything can shake your tree
Anything can shake your tree
Anything can shake your tree
Do do do do do do do do do do
Do do do do do , do do do
Do do do do do do do do do do
Do do do do do do do
Yeah
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