How much am I freaking out? Oh a lot. This glowing meteor just landed in my backyard, the latest from Russ Ellis, this one featuring his granddaughter Bella. Climb aboard, strap in and put on your space helmets, kitties, cos we are blasting off to EDM pop heaven. For track 10 on this album, I am proud to present, Apollo 11! I’m over here discoing down in my Spaceman Spiff pajamas, people. I invite you to have a listen, download if you like, read Russ’s liner notes and share it to the moon!
-Dinsky
Liner notes from Russ:
Dave Ellis and Lauren Rivera blessed my wife and me with our first grandchild in the year 2000.
And what a blessing. Bodacious. Dancie. Verbal. Tuneful starting at around three.
So, in thinking about collaborations for this album, I thought of her. Bella and her father had come up with some playful collaborations over the years. I was certain she would be up for it.
When I asked her, she readily agreed. Bella suggested some possibilities from a menu of compositions she was creating in her dorm room at San Francisco State University, where she is a student in the Theater Arts Program.
We settled on Apollo 11, largely because I had just watched a PBS documentary on the mission called “Eight Days to the Moon and Back”. I reviewed the documentary for the astronauts comments that I found interesting.
Bella made a few adjustments, and her Daddy Dave mixed it. Here it is.
Lyrics:
Fly so high, up above.
Fly so high, soaring through the sky.
Apollo 11, I hear the rocket taking off.
Soaring through the sky.
Fly so high, soaring through the sky.
Apollo 11
Apollo 11
Apollo 11
Fly so high, soaring through the sky.
Apollo 11, I hear the rocket taking off.
Soaring through the sky.
Fly so high, up above.
Apollo 11
Credits:
Music: Bella Ellis
Voice: Russ Ellis & Bella Ellis
© 2020 Ellis, Ellis and Ellis
Zadell Music, ASCAP
Produced by Bella Ellis and Dave Ellis at Ellis Island Studios
