{"id":7537,"date":"2021-02-24T23:58:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T05:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=7537"},"modified":"2021-02-25T00:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T06:00:17","slug":"if-you-were-ever-to-go-retro-jazz-standard-type-ballad-love-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/if-you-were-ever-to-go-retro-jazz-standard-type-ballad-love-song\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;If You Were Ever To Go&#8221; | Retro jazz standard-type ballad love song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gDbphT1u75g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;If You Were Ever To Go&#8221; | Words and Music by Conrad Askland. Vocals by Leisha Skinner.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a surprising spike of interest in this song today on my YouTube channel at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/ConradAskland\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/ConradAskland<\/a>.\u00a0 &#8220;If You Were Ever to Go&#8221; is a retro jazz standard-type ballad love song for female vocals, piano and strings with a Nelson Riddle orchestra vibe.<\/p>\n<p>I actually wrote this song back in 2016 while taking the class &#8220;Music for Film and TV&#8221; with Berklee College of Music. It was an assignment to write a song that could be used as background music while two people danced and talked in a lounge with a live band playing in the background. This class focused on writing stylistic music that could be used by music supervisors for placement in tv shows and web series.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The vocalist, Leisha Skinner, is one of my favorite local vocalists to work with here in the Pacific Northwest. My first time working with her was back in 2006 when I relocated from Southern California to the Seattle area. In 2006 I came up to the Seattle area to conduct the Elton John musical &#8220;AIDA&#8221; and Leisha was the lead role in that show (she was &#8220;AIDA&#8221;). Since then we&#8217;ve always been working on different shows but I always see her perform whenever I can. (My personal favorite shows that I&#8217;ve seen her in the last few years are &#8220;Legally Blonde&#8221; and &#8220;Annie&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>My YouTube channel is currently putting out a new video of my music every single day. When I scheduled this song for release I really didn&#8217;t expect the amount of interest it received today. I really love the vintage sound of the orchestrations I created for the song and of course Leisha&#8217;s wonderful vocals and interpretation. Especially during COVID it really meant a lot to me today when I saw how many people were posting about the song online. Much love all the way around. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2016 I recorded two vocal versions of this song and the second version will be released around May 2021.<\/p>\n<p>jazz ballad | jazz ballads vocals | jazz ballad brushes | jazz ballad songs | love ballad jazz | jazz ballad music | beautiful love jazz ballad music<\/p>\n<p><strong>LYRICS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you were to go<br \/>\nAnd leave me alone<br \/>\nI would smile<br \/>\nThe biggest smile<br \/>\nThen I would sit<br \/>\nAnd cry all my life long<br \/>\nIf you were ever<br \/>\nto go<\/p>\n<p>Home\u2026<br \/>\nIs anywhere that we\u2019re together<br \/>\nAnd I would still love you forever<br \/>\nIf you were ever to go<\/p>\n<p>Faith<br \/>\nGives me the strength to carry on<br \/>\nBut I could never be satisfied<br \/>\nIf you were ever to go<\/p>\n<p>You know this melancholy<br \/>\nDidn\u2019t come out of nowhere<br \/>\nIt\u2019s that instinct I have deep inside<br \/>\nWhen I see you looking<br \/>\nWay off in the distance<br \/>\nI know you are thinking<br \/>\nOf somewhere<br \/>\nshiny and new<\/p>\n<p>Home<br \/>\nIs anywhere that we\u2019re together<br \/>\nAnd I would still love you forever<br \/>\nIf you were ever to go<\/p>\n<p>If you were ever<br \/>\nTo go\u2026<\/p>\n<p>#jazzballad\u200b #jazzvocal\u200b #lovesong\u200b<br \/>\nIf You Were Ever to Go \u00a9 2016 Conrad Askland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If You Were Ever To Go&#8221; | Words and Music by Conrad Askland. Vocals by Leisha Skinner. I&#8217;ve had a surprising spike of interest in this song today on my YouTube channel at https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/ConradAskland.\u00a0 &#8220;If You Were Ever to Go&#8221; is a retro jazz standard-type ballad love song for female vocals, piano and strings with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4123],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-1Xz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7539,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537\/revisions\/7539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}