Fall Free For You Ringtone by Secondhand Serenade
Fall For You is a song by American acoustic rock emo band Secondhand Serenade the solo project of John Vesely. It was the first single from Secondhand Serenade’s second studio album A Twist in My Story. John Vesely formed Secondhand Serenade in his home town of Menlo Park in California, USA, in 2004. Vesely was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area in a musical family and as the son of a professional jazz musician father, commenting that “getting into music was a natural thing” for him. He spent 8 years playing bass in local bands, featuring in a number of acts ranging in style from ska and hardcore to rock and pop. One of the bands he played in, Sounds Like Life, included fellow Bay Area artist Ronnie Day. After years of playing bass, he opted for an acoustic guitar. Vesely follows in the tradition of John Ondrasik’s Five for Fighting. Vesely was also the son of a Czech immigrant. Vesely began writing his own songs when he met his wife Candice Vesely. She had wanted him to play a song and “serenading her with a bass guitar was out of the question.” He has admitted he found his “true calling” when he picked up the guitar. The pseudonym Secondhand Serenade is a reference to the way in which his songs were ‘serenades’ sung to his wife Candice, with whom he has two young sons. People around the world are merely getting to hear the songs ‘second-hand ‘While Vesely continues to market the affectionate biography, the couple broke up in 2008. Vesely was heart broken as can be seen in many of his songs. He released “A Twist In My Story” as a reference to the divorce. . The single was released as a digital download on January 21, 2008, peaking, after receiving a lot of airplay in summer months, in September 2008, at #8 on the Billboard Pop 100 charts and #21 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
