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"Mandolin Rain" is the third track from The Way It Is, the debut album for Bruce Hornsby and the Range. The song was co-written by Bruce Hornsby and his brother John , and featured Range member David Mansfield on the title instrument.
It was recorded by Perry Como on September 16, 1958, and released by RCA Victor Records as a 45 rpm single, catalog numbers 47-7353 (mono) and 61-7353 (stereo). It reached number 47 on the Billboard chart.
"Mandolin Wind" is a song written by Rod Stewart. It was first released on Stewart's 1971 album Every Picture Tells a Story and later as the B-side of a single from that album, his version of " (I Know) I'm Losing You ."
The following is the basic tune with the lyrics of the chorus. These tabs assume the player has a diatonically fretted instrument tuned to one of the 1-5-8 open tunings like G-D-G or D-A-D, such as one might find on a mountain dulcimer or a stick dulcimer. 2 2 2 2 3 9 Boil them cab-bage down, down. 2 2 2 2 1 1
R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck was only trying to learn a new instrument, the mandolin, and recorded himself. When he played back the recording the next day, he heard a catchy riff from his sessions.
Tablature (or tab for short) is a form of musical notation indicating instrument fingering or the location of the played notes rather than musical pitches. Tablature is common for fretted stringed instruments such as the guitar , lute or vihuela , as well as many free reed aerophones such as the harmonica .
The fiddle and mandolin of the early version were also replaced by guitar, and a verse was omitted. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] This version (King 45-5269) was released together with "How Mountain Girls Can Love" as a single that October 1959.
The song is based on a shuffle rhythm and features Paul Westerberg playing a mandolin. Peter Buck of R.E.M. plays guitar on the song, including the solo after lead guitarist Bob Stinson couldn't come up with an adequate solo himself. [4] Buck recalled, "I was just sitting there, and Bob said something like, 'I can't play a solo on this fucking ...