ukuLily Mars
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I "pastiched" this song into something we can sing here on Alan's Island of Seasonista Misfits.
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This is adorable! Thanks, Ginny!
I "pastiched" this song into something we can sing here on Alan's Island of Seasonista Misfits.
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Oh, gosh. I never knew you folks had been posting here already. Thank you! What a lot of fun. I'm off to listen!!
Can I ask a question? I like the idea of"Islands of misfits" but it has me ever so slightly confused. Can anyone explain how this thread differs from the links and videos thread. I hope you don't mind me asking that question as I'd like to make sure I fully understand the idea behind it folks. I think I'd like to post here but wanted to be sure I was doing it in the right thread. Thanks - Dave.
This may or may not be my best foot, it's hard to tell, but they're having a Beatles vs. Stones month over at Ukulele.fr so I had to come down on the Stones side, Here's Dear Doctor from Beggar's Banquet just for laffs
As I understand it, this thread is for those videos you would have posted if the current week's host hadn't ignored your advice and written the rules you asked him/her to write.
The links and videos is for any video & a few seasonistas post their current entries there as well.
I "pastiched" this song into something we can sing here on Alan's Island of Seasonista Misfits.
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"Smile" is a song, originally used as an instrumental theme in the soundtrack for the 1936
Charlie Chaplin movie Modern Times. Chaplin composed the music. While some believe the
words were written by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons.
Many people have sung this song but I have always wondered what it would have sounded
like it Noël Coward had sung it.
It has a delightful melody but I am not so sure of the advice contained in the song.
Hiding every trace of sadness to my mind would be a decidedly unhealthy thing to do.
Emotions need to be expressed not repressed.
Do things really get better if you smile? The unemployed get a job, the dying make a recovery,
the bankrupt become financially secure... just because they smile. Don't think so.
Perhaps it is just hinting that we should have a positive outlook on life, but at the same time
I can't help wondering if we followed the advice of the song we would be masking our true emotions.
Remember in "Strictly Ballroom" Scott's mother even though in torment always had to have on her "happy face"
Anyways I can imagine Noel in the cocktail lounge tinkling the ivories of his piano and crooning
away to the troops going off to fight against Hitler.
Smile boys.. war REALLY isn't SO bad.
I tried to do this song straight with my normal voice by just could not do it because of the discongruity
between the words of the song and the human experience, but I could sing it as Noël Coward because
he personifies the British stiff upper lip mentality... and i get to give a wry little smile at the end
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THis is a FAIL for the heartbroken season because of the multi tracking, the false voice,
the straw hat, the waistcoat and some seriously tampered with ukulele which has a
perverse reverse loop running through it in the background and some overlaid twiddly bits,
and besides it is OLD... but I like it cos it is inventive, and because of the delicious
absurdity of some of the comments.
Very interesting and it half confirms a theory I have had for a long time
namely the weather is controlled by the facial expressions of the masses.
As I understand it, this thread is for those videos you would have posted if the current week's host hadn't ignored your advice and written the rules you asked him/her to write.
The links and videos is for any video & a few seasonistas post their current entries there as well.
Hi Guys,
Here's my story on this. I started this one for a place to add bonuses that weren't allowed in the actual contest in order to stay out of the way of the host of any particular season just because these themes won't leave me alone sometimes.
Someone, I forget who, indicated that this would besmirch the virginal purity of the seasons and that I should take my impertinance elsewhere. So I did and started the 'do what you want, post what you want' thing under contests. I didn't see any way to remove this forum so I thought it would just die a dead death and sink to oblivion at the bottom of the list of other misfit forums.
Imagine my surprise when Ginny told me that folks had continued to post here, so I think this is the happy place to stay if you all agree and the other one can either be deleted (okay eugeneukulele? I don't know if I have the authority to do so but maybe you can?) and we can stay here and grow and prosper and have some fun or not as the spirit moves us,
Sound good?
Ginny told me that folks had continued to post here, so I think this is the happy place to stay if you all agree and the other one can either be deleted (okay eugeneukulele? I don't know if I have the authority to do so but maybe you can?) and we can stay here and grow and prosper and have some fun or not as the spirit moves us,
Sound good?
Here's one that fits the bill for this thread then. I was going to enter it in Season 84 and then re-read the rules and realised its one entry each. So with best foot in mind I decided to look at my youtube viewings. This one is number two in my viewed entries by quite some way but on closer inspection of the data I realised its actually the ONLY song where the minutes watched exceeds the number of views so in effect this would make it the most popular one wouldn't it? Anyway, here is a remake with a percussionist whose fee was most agreeable ;-) I've tried it in a different key that is slightly better suited and less straining to my voice.
Seems we have two threads to do this in now...I like the title of this one better so here we go.
Billy Joe Shaver, again.
The hell with Bill and his one video limit