Henry Pants
Here’s a song that I sing to my cat, who, like the song, is named Henry Pants. Because he has a lot on his plate and a short attention span besides, this song is less than a minute long. It features autoharp, glockenspiel, and the “Min-O-Matic” rhythm box.
Fun Facts:
1) The “choked” autoharp in the beginning is achieved by holding down two chord buttons at once, so that the only undampened note (F, in this case) is the one common to both chords (F and Bb). Mechanics!
2) I slowed the song down a little bit in order to sing the harmony part. (I sped it back up again afterward.)
3) Everything in this song is hard-panned. The lead vocals are up the center, autoharp all the way to the left, and everything else all the way to the right. (There’s a little bit of autoharp on the right, too, because I forgot to unplug the monitor speakers when I recorded the harmony vocals.)
4) This is a fun song to sing. You can sing it to your cat (or dog! or…hamster?) if they have a name that rhymes with “Pants.” If you are not so fortunate, I guess you can sing it to this picture of Henry Pants, himself. Here are the words.
