"Mother and Child Reunion" cover by Ted - 1972

[Ted]

Mother and Child Reunion

By Paul Simon
Released 1972

Recorded on Micro BR
Some tweaking in Audacity to subdue an annoying hum.
Mixed in GarageBand
Ted: Guitars, bass, and vocals
The organ sound is the SY-1 synthesizer triggered by a guitar – so technically there are three guitar parts here.

I learned this song a long time ago when I thought I should learn some familiar songs for occasions when I bring my guitar to, say, a campfire situation. Ultimately I learned that nobody wants me to bring a guitar to a campfire situation.

The song title comes from a menu at a Chinese restaurant: A dish with chicken and eggs.

I wanted to do this all on the Micro BR, but I wasn't happy with the drum possibilities.

[StephenM]

I really like this song and it's a very cool cover and you are funny (as in the way you told about the learning to not bring the guitar to a campfire, ha)...

I didn't have false hope hitting play on this... good job!

[Hook]

Love this song & you've done well here. That organ sounds fab, nicely done.
Rock on!

[Rene Asologuitar]

Congrats.
This is not an easy song to sing around the campfire.
But you did it very very well, and I truly enjoyed it!
Thanks for sharing.
Rene

[Ted]

Thanks y'all.

I didn't have false hope hitting play on this... good job!

I just got what you did there. 

That organ sounds fab, nicely done.

I know! This sounds better than any of the organ patches in GarageBand. All I did was play cowboy chords.

This is not an easy song to sing around the campfire.
But you did it very very well, and I truly enjoyed it!

Thanks. It's not easy for me to sing anywhere. Those harmonies were particularly hard to nail. I lowered it from A to G, and maybe I should have gone lower than that. F? I just tried it in F. Much easier for me to sing there.

[Zoltan]

Well done dish! Well arranged and performed.

[kenny mac]

Nice one Ted your vocal/vocals really sits well on this.
Nice all round performance.
Great cover.

[cuthbert]

The song title comes from a menu at a Chinese restaurant: A dish with chicken and eggs.

All these years I didn't know that. But it makes perfect sense.

Very faithful to the original, and I like how you kept the reggae feel to this - the instrumentation sounds great. I would never have guessed that the organ sound came from the SY-1! And I didn't notice any hum, so Audacity seems to work well on the hum reduction.

Well done!
 

[TPB]

This is a really hard song to cover and you have pulled it off nicely
You can play at my campfires anytime
Tim

[Farrell Jackson]

Well done on this cover Ted. As several have mentioned this is not an easy song to sing but you handled it quite well!