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hello people! welcome to season 95 of the ukulele – my theme for this season is sounds of the seventies – disco, glam rock and abba
ok, now that intro vid is not strictly accurate – because we're gonna be saying HELLO SEVENTIES! not goodbye seventies. and unlike the song in the video, we are gonna be celebrating the marvelousness of the seventies, not (hopefully) saying the seventies were rubbish. however it was the only song I could think of with the word “seventies” in the title, and it's a great song, and it's by yazoo, and I love yazoo. so there you go. it's my intro vid. and it is what it is!
when I look back at the seventies from NOW, I think punk was EVERYTHING. but at the time, when I was just a nipper, knee high to something that was itself probably not very tall, the big things on my little musical horizon were – oh wait you guessed! - disco, glam rock, and abba.
so, I would like you to join me in celebration of these 3 great musical whatsits, as follows...
1. you can post up to three official entries. (choosing freely from the categories.) (ie. you can post 3 disco songs, or one disco or two abba, or one disco one abba one glam, or oh you know on and on and on (as abba would say) - i'm sure you get the picture!)
2. if you can post three vids, and you find you still have the music in you, then you can post one additional bonus entry. (again – choose freely from any of the three categories.)
PRIZES. there will be three prizes – one for first place, one for second place (these will be my first and second fave vids from the official entries), plus a third prize for a song picked at random from all the remaining entries (this time that will include bonuses.)
all three prize winners will get a 70s compilation cd to party and groove to.
OTHER CONSIDERATIONS...
you can multitrack and use effects and wotnot and fancy video stuff and all that sort of thing if you want to. if that is your bag.
you can post when it starts being sunday in hawaii, I like to check the day and time there HERE
contest ends midnight hawaii time next sunday
BONUS POINTS FOR...
1. wearing eyeliner (but only if you're a bloke.)
2. including a pet or pets in your video. (this has nothing to do with the theme, I know, it's just something I like to see.)
3. songs by the three degrees
4. songs by suzi quatro
any queries or anything that's not clear or anything i'm doing horribly wrong, please post here or PM me.
good luck, have fun - I plan to
and no punching, kicking or gouging.
now – run along, children, and bring me all my favourite songs...
oh... if you need a bit of help thinking of fab songs to bring me, here are a few places to start looking...
some top disco songs
wow there isn't a whole bunch of good info on glam rock – anyone else got ideas for links, and lists of artists and songs? until/unless someone comes up with something better here is a place to start...
and abba
okie dokie
let the seventies party begin
ooh hold on let it begin in about five more minutes - I just wanna say, I sometimes have trouble posting comments over on youtube... therefore I'm thinking the best thing for me might be to JUST comment over here on the thread, to make life easier for me, and stop me wanting to set light to the computer and chuck it out the window. (or at least to stop me wanting to set light to the computer and chuck it out the window QUITE SO MUCH!) I hope that will be ok with eveyone.
ok
start partying!
PLAYLISTS
disco
glam rock
abba
bonus vids
ok, now that intro vid is not strictly accurate – because we're gonna be saying HELLO SEVENTIES! not goodbye seventies. and unlike the song in the video, we are gonna be celebrating the marvelousness of the seventies, not (hopefully) saying the seventies were rubbish. however it was the only song I could think of with the word “seventies” in the title, and it's a great song, and it's by yazoo, and I love yazoo. so there you go. it's my intro vid. and it is what it is!
when I look back at the seventies from NOW, I think punk was EVERYTHING. but at the time, when I was just a nipper, knee high to something that was itself probably not very tall, the big things on my little musical horizon were – oh wait you guessed! - disco, glam rock, and abba.
so, I would like you to join me in celebration of these 3 great musical whatsits, as follows...
1. you can post up to three official entries. (choosing freely from the categories.) (ie. you can post 3 disco songs, or one disco or two abba, or one disco one abba one glam, or oh you know on and on and on (as abba would say) - i'm sure you get the picture!)
2. if you can post three vids, and you find you still have the music in you, then you can post one additional bonus entry. (again – choose freely from any of the three categories.)
PRIZES. there will be three prizes – one for first place, one for second place (these will be my first and second fave vids from the official entries), plus a third prize for a song picked at random from all the remaining entries (this time that will include bonuses.)
all three prize winners will get a 70s compilation cd to party and groove to.
OTHER CONSIDERATIONS...
you can multitrack and use effects and wotnot and fancy video stuff and all that sort of thing if you want to. if that is your bag.
you can post when it starts being sunday in hawaii, I like to check the day and time there HERE
contest ends midnight hawaii time next sunday
BONUS POINTS FOR...
1. wearing eyeliner (but only if you're a bloke.)
2. including a pet or pets in your video. (this has nothing to do with the theme, I know, it's just something I like to see.)
3. songs by the three degrees
4. songs by suzi quatro
any queries or anything that's not clear or anything i'm doing horribly wrong, please post here or PM me.
good luck, have fun - I plan to
and no punching, kicking or gouging.
now – run along, children, and bring me all my favourite songs...
oh... if you need a bit of help thinking of fab songs to bring me, here are a few places to start looking...
some top disco songs
wow there isn't a whole bunch of good info on glam rock – anyone else got ideas for links, and lists of artists and songs? until/unless someone comes up with something better here is a place to start...
and abba
okie dokie
let the seventies party begin
ooh hold on let it begin in about five more minutes - I just wanna say, I sometimes have trouble posting comments over on youtube... therefore I'm thinking the best thing for me might be to JUST comment over here on the thread, to make life easier for me, and stop me wanting to set light to the computer and chuck it out the window. (or at least to stop me wanting to set light to the computer and chuck it out the window QUITE SO MUCH!) I hope that will be ok with eveyone.
ok
start partying!
PLAYLISTS
disco
glam rock
abba
bonus vids
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