Amy Winehouse

This really is a video of any live studio session in 2014 where we were recording the song Valerie. Valerie was originally recorded by the Liverpool band The Zutons in 2006 nevertheless it was developed famous by Mark Ronson featuring Amy Winehouse. After working together with Winehouse in her Straight back to Black album Ronson featured her on Valerie in their album of covers called Version. It was released on 14 June 2007 inside the iTunes Store. It entered the united kingdom album chart at # 2 on 22 June 2007. Mark Ronson describes the sound as Motown / Stax.

Valerie was the 3rd single on the album plus it peaked at number 2 within the British charts, but was kept from your top spot through the Sugababes. It had been within the top 10 for 12 weeks and sold more than 300,000 copies. The song ended the season as the ninth biggest seller, behind number 1's "Bleeding Love", "Umbrella", "Grace Kelly" and others. "Valerie" also charted from the New Zealand and Switzerland charts as well as were able to top he Dutch Top 40 for four weeks.

The drum track on the Valerie Drum Cover version includes a really nice feel and bounce and we wanted in an attempt to recreate that for this session. We were all pleased with the take therefore we used it on the recording.

Unlike inside a live setting, inside the studio, each note counts. I like to try and just play in the pocket and present the engineer as little to complete inside the edit as is possible. This is only one take beginning to end with nothing changed.

The session ended up being to record some new material in order to promote my Function band VIP. The band continues to be working professionally more than fifteen years throughout the uk and abroad. Together with Amy Winehouse tracks like Valerie we perform a wide variety of material through the genres of Pop, Soul, Motown, Disco and Funk. We even offer a jazz option. Amy Winehouse was well-known for enjoying and performing Jazz and several said that her voice had inflections in the great Ella Fitzgerald and Billy Holiday.