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Topic: The going gets tough, the tough turn twinkie? |
David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 15 Sep 2005 11:37 am |
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Is anybody else cursed by a seemingly-incurable fixation with goofy, cornball music? I was cruising through my PDF/fakebooks-on-CD index this morning, looking for some heavy-duty jazz song or another (I can't even remember anymore now that I've frosted up). I accidently ran across "Frosty the Snowman" and immediately had to print it out and spent all day working up an insanely-bouncy, totally immature version complete with octave-box Chipmunk effects and the requisite cheap quacky wah-wah highlights. ("Gilligan's Island", "The Ballad of Jed Clampett", "Meet the Flintstones" etc. can all similarly ruin me this way.)
"Thumpety thump thump, thumpety thump thump, look at Frosty go!"
Q: How am I going to get anyone to take me seriously for my art, when my art sounds so much like cartoons?
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Jim Phelps
From:
Mexico City, Mexico
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Posted 15 Sep 2005 12:11 pm
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| Some, like Charles Schulz did pretty well with cartoons... |
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Les Anderson
From:
The Great White North
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Posted 15 Sep 2005 12:13 pm
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Do you have any idea how many people who have been called absurd have made it to the big time; or have made it to the big time by do something absurd? Never count anything out.
Remember the song “The Bird Is The Word” that was recorded by a couple of guys spoofing around at a university recording studio? The song became a million seller. If I recall, they called themselves the “Trashmen
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(I am not right all of the time but I sure like to think I am!)
<[This message was edited by Les Anderson on 15 September 2005 at 01:16 PM.] |
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Frank Parish
From:
Nashville,Tn. USA
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Posted 15 Sep 2005 1:43 pm
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| Send it to Disney. What have you got to lose? |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 15 Sep 2005 1:53 pm
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Hey, there are a few outstanding steelers making their living in Hollywood right now, doing soundtracks for cartoons. Don't knock it till you've tried it!
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Joy Wofford
From:
Battle Creek, Michigan, USA
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Posted 15 Sep 2005 3:31 pm
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Oh man Dave, now you've gone and done it. Read your post and it got me to thinking about the kind of songs that get stuck in your head....for days and days and days...
We're off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz..., and then there's the one that Huckleberry Hound always sang, Oh My Darlin' Clementine!
Does this make us twinkies? NO. We just have better taste in music than most folks.
Joy
PS....We'd all love to hear your Frosty the Snowman song, Please?
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Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
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Posted 16 Sep 2005 1:59 am
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You're not alone, David.
I can't help it; it's a happy sickness. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 16 Sep 2005 5:59 am
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A group that made a good go of it with goofy songs were "Spike Jones and the City Slickers". I have a set of CD's by this group and if you want to hear a bunch of crazy stuff, this is the ONE!  |
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 16 Sep 2005 7:05 am
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Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your view) I prefer the cartoon movies at the theatre to drama or action. Ants, A Bugs Life, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc, Madagascar, Shrek, all of the Dream Works & Pixar materials I find highly entertaining, as well as a testament to the advances in computer generated imagery and editing.
One of the funniest things I've ever seen is the short called "Birds on a Wire" that came out with a Pixar production. Also, the penguins in Antarctica scene from Madagascar is especially hilarious given that we live here in snow country. |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 16 Sep 2005 9:28 pm
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| Remember the song “The Bird Is The Word” that was recorded by a couple of guys spoofing around at a university recording studio? |
I think the name of the song is "Surfin' bird."
It takes some sort of perverse genius to come up with anything that inane and make a gazillion dollars from it. |
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Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
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Posted 17 Sep 2005 4:36 am
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Spike Jones
'Thank You Music Lovers:'
my earliest inspiration.
(haiku for the day) |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 17 Sep 2005 5:12 am
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Nietzsche |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 17 Sep 2005 2:53 pm
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seen written on a wall:
God is dead- Nietzsche
Nietzsche is dead- God
God is Nietzsche- dead |
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 18 Sep 2005 3:32 am
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Was that the same Nietzsche who died alone, locked up in an asylum, hopelessly insane and howling at the moon, or was that from a different Nietzche?
Recuerde el Alamo! |
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