AlanDP
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Al Jolson lyrics as sung by Mr. Burns.
No video this week, and I will try to keep text brief...
This week let's play music from artists that have appeared on The Simpsons. This show has always made me smile, and I at least I could use a little more of that lately.
A good place to start, if you haven't already though of something you'd like to do, is here: http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6228944/the-simpsons-every-music-guest-chronological-order
In the case of artists who are also in (or better known from) bands, you may play songs by that band. For example, George Harrison or The Beatles; Carrie Brownstein or Sleater Kinney (I'd like to see that actually). Other artists since the publication of the Billboard list are: Sammy Hagar, Heavy Young Heathens, Matthew Sweet, Pharrell Williams, Johnny Mathis, Yo-Yo Ma, Donald Fagen (of Steely Dan), Snoop Dogg, Common, RZA.
If you are feeling particularly cheeky you can play a song from the show (e.g., Stop the Planet of the Apes I Want to Get Off, etc.).
For the Songsmiths out there, either satirical songs (in keeping with the theme), or songs of hope or renewal (something else I could use a little more of lately).
Usual rules... multi tracking or other instruments ok, but ukulele front and center, begin and end at midnight Hawaii time Sunday and Sunday, collaborations are great, yadda, yadda, yadda.
This Season has NO Song Limit.
No prizes, but for every song played myself and Mrs. Pavement are going to donate $1 to disaster relief for the Sonoma and Napa fires. https://www.redwoodcu.org/northbayfirerelief
We will split the total 4-ways equally towards relief efforts in each of the four affected counties.
So, in a way, Randy may have actually made an accurate prediction.
Hi Andy, just wondering where the link to the YT playlist is, it's the way I like to watch.
Homer often talks to his brain......
Andy explained in the anticipation thread, they will have no internet until Sunday, they wrote this:
We decided last night to head for the mountains tomorrow morning to escape the smoke from the Sonoma and Napa County fires. Expect sSeason 296 to go up late tonight or early tomorrow morning before we leave for a place with no internet until Sunday afternoon. Sorry for the irregularity, especially seeing as how this is my first hosting gig.
So I guess the playlist is not going to be up until they return, unless somebody else makes one of course .
Hey Andy,
Hope you stay safe.
Not long after The Simpsons went on the air, the 63rd greatest guitarist of all time (Rolling Stone said, anyway) recorded one of the first covers of the show theme. The late Danny Gatton with his many stringed instruments.
When I saw the theme, it was "groan" because I have never watched the Simpsons.
Then I followed the link on your OP...
Can we write a song about a Simpsons character?
Hi Andy, just wondering where the link to the YT playlist is, it's the way I like to watch.