BigDaddyUker
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Every once in a while, a Season comes up that has a song I never thought I could do, but then I work and it comes through.
One question for our host - can I assume that when you say 'Calypso' you are including 'Soca'? (soul calypso from Trinidad) I have a deep and abiding love for David Rudder, so I'd like to try some of one of his numbers.
Ahoy good people
Here is my first attempt at Calypso. This song is originally by Lord Invader but I first heard this song in th eFallout video-game series where it was performed by the Andrews Sisters.
Here is my take
Fingers in ears young listeners, here's some Jamaican Calypso filth done in my best Jamaican accent which wouldn't sound out of place in an old Benny Hill sketch !!
My interpretation of calypso is as far from Calypso as you can get
Nice production especially the barbershop quartet harmonies.
Singing harmonies takes a special skill. Some folks can just do it
without thinking and never hit a bum note. To do it for four voices
is a special acheivement. Does it come naturally to you or did you have
to learn how to do it?
While grousing about how hard it would be to play a skiffle song this week, Melissa asked me what skiffle is. “Kinda Jazz Folk fusion played on found objects, homemade stuff...”
“You made an ukulele...at least that is part of it right?”
Right. I built this Uke in my garage right after I started playing back in 2010. I made the resonator out of a tart pan and the pickups are phone piezo’s dipped in 8 coats of tool dip, sandwiched in beer bottle caps and then mounted on 1/8” walnut. No plans- just lots of man cave time, and I don’t play it enough so here we go.
before the beatles were in the beatles, three of them were in the quarrymen - a skiffle group. here's one of their songs. i hope it's skiffle-y enough??? wiki tells me it's skiffle, blues, AND rock and roll
"in spite of all the danger"
Another fine medley you've got us intoLonnie Medley
lol!!!!!!! yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-ha! with summer definitely feeling like it's here, start notching up those bare knee bonus points for me right now, people!!!!!!! (actually, very often i go and put some longs on before i start recording a vid, just to spare people my pale, paler than pale, and really rather knobbly knees, however sometimes it's just too hot to do that!!!!)Remember the old days of SOTU when bonus points were given for
the showing of bare knees... you just won yourself some extra points
there BEV.
That is an interesting song... sort of DO-WAP feel to it. I remember when
you started playing the UKE you had a very unique style... you only played
upstrokes... do you remember those day... those were the days my friend.
I think you brought some of that style back for this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qXlnzkSX8g
Not discouraged by my attempts to marry a genre I know nothing about to a pop song I love in Trent's Bluegrass week, here is what I intended as a Calypso version of the White Stripes 'Fell In Love With a Girl'
And by Calypso I mean I paid attention to how I was strumming, put on a funny voice, and added some rudimentary accompaniment on a pink Hello Kitty keyboard that we rescued from a charity shop years ago.
In honour of our host I also ****ed about with some video effects until the post-processed video skipped a bit.
This is about 2 hours work. I even lit a candle because the lighting in my living room is rubbish
My turn for skiffle, and a great sing along song (so I don't have to carry it ... )