Turn it Around
I wake up to the sound of your complaining
And outside of course it will be raining
Why does all this nonsense always happen to me
My clothes are boring, I have a bad hair day
When will luck ever be coming my way
Why do my wishes never become reality
Don’t be blue
Turn it around
Change your views
Upside down
Why was I born in this alien country
Where everyone always speaks so bluntly
Where everyone is self-centered and selfish, I don’t understand
No one ever puts me first
Pays me a compliment or quenches my thirst Every conversation always gets out of hand
Don’t be blue
Turn it around
Change your views
Upside down
Stuck in a job to pay my mortgage
Always have to listen to everyone’s garbage
I’ll never meet up to my parent’s expectations of me
Don’t be blue
Turn it around
Change your views
Upside down
Vibaphone solo: Tony Hoyting
Recorded at Wedgeview Studio and Studio Silvester June 2020
From A to B
October 2021
All Music and Lyrics: Ellen Pels
Except “Spring” and “Note Dame” Music: Ellen Pels and Tony Hoyting,
Lyrics: Ellen Pels
Arrangements: Ellen Pels en Tony Hoyting
Studiotechnique: Erik Spanjers
Mastering: Silvia Vermeulen
Production: Ellen Pels
Album Artwork: Roy Verhaag Studio Rrook
Recorded at Studio Moskou, Studio Silvester, Wedgeview Studios, Odeon Theatre Zwolle, and Wisseloord Studios
Ellen Pels Band:
Lead vocals: Ellen Pels
Piano, Fender Rhodes,
Keyboard, Vibraphone: Tony Hoyting
Acoustic and Electric guitar: Klaas-Jelmer Sixma
Bassguitar and Double Bass: Pieter Althuis
Drums: Joost Visser
Percussion: Gijs Anders van Straalen
Saxophone: Tibor Elferink
Trumpet and Flugelhorn: Libbe Oosterman
Trombone: Arend Huisman
Backing Vocals: Inze Meijer, Florens Eykemans, Mousmé Brocaar, Ellen Pels
Red Limo String Quartet:
Jonas Pap, Camilla van der Kooij, Dirk Feller, Sietse van Gorkom
Stageband Jazz Orchestra:
Trumpets:
Libbe Oosterman
Johan Boekema
Esther Fernandez Mata
Bas van den Broek
Jaap de Vries
Trombones:
Pavel Shcherbakov
Arend Huisman
Enne Feenstra
Gosse van den Berg
Saxophones and Flutes:
Steven Sluiter
Jan Schoemaker
Sander Baan
Richard Borchers
Bert Brandsma
Rythm:
Imre Kruis (drums)
Marco Kerver (double bass and bassguitar)
Thomas Hilbrandie (guitar)
Tony Hoyting (piano)
