PAUL KELLY
unveils new single and video
‘HUMMIN’ TO MYSELF’

OUT NOW

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WATCH VIDEO HERE 

EVERY DAY MY MOTHER’S VOICE
TO BE REVEALED MAY 1

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Paul Kelly is releasing two singles within a week of each other. Or, to look at it another way, he’s releasing A and B sides of one single attenuated in time. Better still, let’s just look at it as a Double A!

Today’s release, Hummin’ To Myself, is a cover from the early 1930s and the second, to follow on May 1st, is a stunning update of Paul’s song Every Day My Mother’s Voice performed with Jessica Hitchcock at Sydney’s Making Gravy show last December.

The songs are accompanied by entertaining videos which both reference football. Purely co-incidental, but perhaps it’ll help mitigate the pain of withdrawals for those who miss playing or watching their favourite sport this autumn and winter!

Here’s Paul on Hummin’ To Myself: “I first heard Hummin’ to Myself a few years ago at Claypots Bar in St Kilda sung by Margie Lou Dyer and her old time jazz band. I fell in love with it straight away and started messing around with my own version on guitar. During one of our recording sessions two years ago I threw it to the band who caught it and ran with it. My daughters Maddy and Memphis helped me out with the hums. The song is nearly a hundred years old but still speaks loud and clear. 

Recently, I went with my friend Andy Doherty, a freelance sports cameraman, to a local oval and shot a little video for the song, the opening words of which are:

‘I got the words, I got the tune

I’ve been rehearsing under the moon

But I ain’t got nobody to hear my song

I’m just hummin’ to myself’

As a child I played a lot of sport, Aussie Rules footy and cricket mainly. I played with my siblings in the back yard and also in school teams but there were still plenty of times when I would kick a footy by myself. Often I would play imaginary games in my head, commentating to myself as I made my heroic moves. That’s the feeling we were after in the clip. A kid with no-one to play with, emulating his heroes. My childhood heroes are long gone but AFL aficionados may recognise a few modern day re-incarnations creakingly copied. Dustin Martin’s The Big Don’t Argue, Robert Harvey’s Side-steps, Stevie Johnson’s Round the Body Shot For Goal, and an Eddie Betts Left Foot Snap. I even attempted a Blind Turn, a la Marlon Pickett in last year’s grand- final. I never had nor never will have Marlon’s lightning feet but imagination is a beautiful thing. I still play footy with friends in the park – alas, not right now – and in my mind as I lope around I’m forever Andrew McLeod.

No modern players do drop kicks anymore but that didn’t stop me adding a sweet little stab pass in the name of History and Teddy Whitten and Art For Art’s Sake.

I wore my old 1971 First Eighteen school jumper from Rostrevor College, Adelaide, for the shoot. It’s coming up to fifty years old now. I still wear it occasionally in the dead of winter. Solid wool. Soggy as in the wet but comfy as in the cold.

They don’t make shit like they used to.”   PK, April 2020

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Hummin’ To Myself

– S.Fain / H. Magidson /  M.Siegel (Warner Chappell Music)

Peter Luscombe – Drums
Bill McDonald – Bass
Ashley Naylor – Electric slide guitar
Dan Kelly – Baritone Guitar
Cameron Bruce – Hammond organ
Paul Kelly – Vocal and electric guitar
Maddy and Memphis Kelly –  Hums

Recorded by Steven Schram at Soundpark, Mar 14 and 15, 2018
Mixed by Steven Schram at Bangkok Ninja Academy
Mastered by Don Bartley at Benchmark Mastering
Video filmed, directed and produced by Andy Doherty
Drone shots by Peter Doherty

More to come next week on the new
Every Day My Mother’s Voice

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HUMMIN’ TO MYSELF
HERE

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AMNPLIFY – DB