I've been listening to a lot of the Hep Stars music lately, really enjoying the 60s vibe of all their songs as well as some really stunning harmonies that they would add to their arrangements. Mostly the Hep Stars covered existing popular songs at the time, but Benny ended up getting inspired to write his own songs. According to Benny, some of them, namely Sunny Girl, had good tunes but bad lyrics, however if not for those supposedly bad songs, he wouldn't have become the amazing composer and songwriter that he is today! I really enjoy Benny's original songs for the Hep Stars, and so I decided to compile them for this video. (Nevermind that after I spent a good hour or so prowling Discogs to source out all of Benny's original tracks from the Hep Stars discography did I see that someone already did that on Wikipedia... hehehehehe...) Anyways, I hope you enjoy this video, I had a lot of fun making it!
5 сен 2024