Blame It On the Stars (in Your Eyes)

“Blame It on the Stars (in Your Eyes)” is a Mike Sorrell and Randy Moon tune written in the 1980s. Don’t know the year because there was a question mark on the lyrics sheet for the year. Found a work tape on it with me playing an acoustic, gut-string guitar and singing it, but it didn’t have any harmony on it and I thought it could have some. I decided to see if I could come up with an arrangement with a full band and harmony that was close to what I was playing on the work tape. I listened to quite a few styles in BNB and finally found one that I thought would work. I was off and running.
There was another reason for redoing it, too. It was too short. A verse. A chorus. A bridge. It needed a instrumental section or some more words. I thought I would keep it the way Mike and I wrote it lyrically and just add a solo section and a key change. The key change was a little problematic because of the higher harmonies and my old worn out voice, but I managed to sing them, or squeak them out, maybe I should say. (However I managed, I did get them out.)
It’s another love song. (Imagine that!) One of the “Some enchanted evening” kind. Love at first sight. Heart palpitations. Sweaty hands. Can’t speak and wouldn’t know what to say if you could. That kind of song. I’m sure many of you have experienced this phenomena at some point in your life. Even though it’s a scary feeling, it’s well worth the daring it takes to plunge in, grab hold, hang on and see what happens. Sometimes you get lucky.
I seem to remember Mike saying that he and one of his friends were talking one night about an adventure his friend had with a woman he met at a bar or somewhere. (Mike had a lot of conversations with his friends about these kind of adventures and a lot of song ideas came from these conversations or similar ones.) At some point in the conversation his friend said he didn’t know why or what happened between them, but it must have been because of the stars in her eyes. Mike took note and later on it became a song. (I could be totally wrong about this, but it sounds reasonable to me. So, I’m going with it.)
I always liked this tune. Not sure why I didn’t take it to Rickey’s when I was going out there, but for whatever reason I didn’t. I think it turned out pretty good and I think Mike would like it, too. I really like the harmonies nad it has some nice guitar on it. Hope you like it.
Thanks to Placid Place and TommyVideo for the thumbnail photograph.
Thanks to Eros Art Videos (2), Placid Place, 易安CD, Payne Backgrounds, TommyVideo and Christian Bodhi for the videos from Pixabay, and Cottonbro Studio (2) for the videos from Pexels.