Like I missed you by John Dyhouse

Like I missed you -12a by John Dyhouse

Sorry about this, I believe it is called procrastinating, the wonderful sunny weather in the UK after what seems like months of rain, had seen me trying to get my garden ready for summer. This evening, while relaxing after a busy day, I came across this song - a track I had to cover using the new VOICE feature from Suno. (it also needed a correction to the lyric). I feel much better about it now, hope you like it.

The weekends, I find, are a very quiet time om Sound Cloud. So I decided to take the opportunity to upload a couple more poems (set to music).

There is a story that resulted in this poem - something that rarely happens with my "songs" which tend to be triggered by a phrase or similar which I come across and feel it would make a decent lyric. Some years ago, I spent a weekend in Brighton, here in the UK; a place with a reputation for quirky shops in an area known as THE LANES. My wife dragged me into a men's outfitters, and saw a shirt on display. Well my dress code might have been called "boring" or "dowdy". Lots of different shades of grey, white and maybe blue,; but certainly plain coloured, never a trace of a pattern. This shirt was certainly based on white, but had a bright red, large paisely pattern. Very much not ME. But my wife insisted, it was bought, quite expensive, rarely worn and became something of a talking point.

Anyway, it eventually got it's own poem and here it is with a slightly amusing treatment - barber shop quartet with a tuba and xylophone.

MY NEW SHIRT

Today,

I purchased a brand new shirt

A little bit red but, OK;

It's colourful, patterned

Will stand out in a crowd,

Wearing it makes a statement,

"This is me, and I'm proud"

To be just a little bit different.

Just for once in my life

I'll stand tall

So don't tell me it's flash;

Nothing so rash!

It's just a little bit loud

- That's all.

A little pretentious piece.

I just decided to add another poem to the album. I never used a journal jar myself, but joined many challenges from web sites I belonged to at one time. I wanted a female voice for this poem and selected a VOICE/persona which I had created from a classical piece of music. I was a little surprised by the result but came to accept if not to like it. Love to know how you feel if you should listen to the track.

MY JOURNAL JAR by John Dyhouse

Each day I open up my journal jar,

When I find time to rest.

I pick a slip from deep within,

To provide a little test.

Chose at random that's the key

And write a poem upon request.

A poem based upon the prompt

Now in your hand, Just do your best.

That's all I ask, and nothing more,

Apply your writer's mind. Invest

In words, attest to deeds to come.

Or maybe even deeds repressed.

Just write, compose, transcribe your thoughts;

Don't leave them unexpressed.

Don't wait, it will work out in the end,

resulting in a poem, to leave you most impressed.

This is a song I wrote in the late sixties (sorry I keep guessing, I did not keep very good records in my youth) but I was always unhappy about not being able to find a rhyme for the last line of the bridge. I was listening to an old playlist/album and this lyrical issue again jarred with me. As I was busy around the home I was late with another new song, so of course I decided to do a cover with a clone of my voice - I love this new feature. I had originally uploaded a solo version to Suno in my mad rush to refresh all my songs with Suno ; So I simply used the lyrics as written. This time I did something which I should have done long ago; instead of searching for a rhyme for that line, I simply turned the problem upon it's head and changed the line which I was trying to rhyme with - simples. No problem at all. It improves the whole song for me. So here is a newly improved version, I hope you like it as much as I do.

Realised that I did not have a Suno version of this acoustic song. So using the recent v5.5 and the voice feature, covered an original live recording of this track (written & performed by myself, solo) Suno was prompted to add a little extra instrumental support with a Spanish guitar. Hope you like it

This is a very old song, which I had not paid much attention to over the years; but it jumped out at me as being suitable for testing the VOICE cloning feature. I see to remember that when I wrote it, I was inspired by a similarly named song by a new band from Australia. Yep, The Bee Gees.

Another cover of one of my original songs, Near the end of my trial of the Suno Voice feature. Saw a comment on FB today that claimed the voice was not actually a clone; it was more probably the closest pick by Suno from its library of voices that sounded like the supposed voice to be cloned. I have to say that mirrors my own experience. Depends very much on the song genre/style. May need to create a library of my own clones for each genre and style. Maybe those claiming this works well, only create similar songs.

PS I think this is a pretty accurate clone on this track, but well improved and more like a professional singer.

A cover of one of my early songs using the new Suno Voice feature. This has proved to be a little "hit & miss"; on this track definitely a miss. Suno video for the release of the Voice feature (beta so far) did warn that it one should train the AI with an audio clip in the same genre as the song to be generated! Here I sang in my normal voice on the training clip but this track has turned out a little jazzy and the voice seems to be quite different, although I wouldn't have thought it would have been. I can recognise myself , in there somewhere but is not obviously the same person singing. I have covered other songs where nobody could recognise me as the singer at all!