*Tunes*

4th of July 2007 - Mount Rushmore Singers

Picture of Mount Rushmore with the four presidents animated to sing.... in answer to the most frequently asked questions (1) the song is "Sing a Song/I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" by the Gaither Vocal Band from their "Acapella" album. (2) Voice animation was done with CrazyTalk for each president separately and the four parts were put together with Sony Movie Studio.

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ps - good one there noi ,lol - laughing cop

Bush at Rushmore

President Bush gives a speech at Mt. Rushmore with humorous results in this short animation entitled Dubya and the Forefathers

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War (what is it good for)

colin rudd - mountains of mourne
hell he does a good job of this !!

The Mountains of Mourne
Oh Mary this London's a wonderful sight
with the people here working by day and by night
They don't sow potatoes nor barley nor wheat
But there's gangs of them digging for gold in the street
At least when I asked them that's what I was told
So Ijust took a hand at this digging for gold
But for aU that I found there I might as well be
Where the mountains of mourne sweep down to the sea
.
I believe that when writing a wish you expressed
As to how the fine ladies of London were dressed
Well if you believe me, when asked to a ball
They don't wear a top on their dresses at all
Oh, I've seen them myself, and you couldn't in truth
Say ifthey were bound for a ball or a bath.
Don't be starting them fashions now Mary Macree
Where the mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea
.
I've seen England's king from the top of a bus
I never knew him, though he means to know us;
And though by the saxon we once were oppressed
Still I cheered-God forgive me- I cheered with the rest
And now that he's visited Erin's green shore
We'll be much better friends than we've heretofore
When we've got all we Want we're as quiet as can be
Where the mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea
.
You remember young Peter O'Loughlin of course
Well now he is here at the head of the force
I met him today, I was crossing the strand
And he stopped the whole street with one wave of his hand
And there we stood talking of days that are gone
While the whole population of London looked on,
But for all these great powers he's wishful like me
To be back where dark Moume sweeps down to the sea.
.
There's beautiful girls here - Oh, never you mind
With beautiful shapes Nature never designed
And lovely complexions, all roses and cream
But O'Loughlin remarked with regard to the same,
That if at those roses you venture to sip
The colours might all come away on your lip
So I'll wait for the wild rose that's waiting for me
Where the mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea

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Les Humphries Singers - Mexico 1972

Les Humphries Singers - Mexico 1972
Sing Mexico, Mexico, Mexico, Mexico

In 1580 we sailed our little ship around the coast
Of Acrica down the Gaza strip.
We took some salty bacon and a hammock for a bed.
Then we mixed it with the Spaniards in the middle of the Med.

Well we hired our funds
Saw the pretty girls a comin'.
There wasn't quite as many as there was a while ago
We hired some more and then we started runnin'
All down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
Mexico, Mexico, Mexico, Mexico

Well Francis Drake said if you really want a fight
The best thing is to catch them in the middle of the night.
We hoisted anchor and powdered up the gun
Then we sailed around in circles and just waited for the fun.

Sing Mexico, Mexico, Mexico, Mexico

We cannon balls flew and the ship began to sink,
The water stated risin' so we really had to think.
And then by chance stood a man as blck as coal
So we grabbed him by the trousers and we plugged hin in the hole.

Sing Mexico, Mexico, Mexico, Mexico

Well we fired from the side port and we fired from the back
And then we fired from the galley and through every little crack.
We fired so much that the cook started cooking.
Didn't have to worry so we flew the union jack.

Sing Mexico, Mexico, Mexico, Mexico

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Les Humphries Singers - Mama Lou 1973

Les Humphries Singers - Mama Lou 1973
Hey hey hey hey!
Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma Loo

Mama Loo, Mama Loo
You got to get through
Mama Loo
Can rock and roll
Save your soul
Mama Loo, Mama Loo
You've got lots to do
Mama Loo
She's gonna go far
Got a hot rod car
She's a rock and roll star.

Mama Loo, Mama Loo
It's all up to you
Mama Loo
It's getting round
Funky sound
Mama Loo, Mama Loo
Back off Boogaloo
Mamma Loo
She's gonna go far
Got a hot rod car
She's a rock and roll star.

Hey hey hey, Ma-ma-ma Loo
Ready, steady, go, man, go
My Mama Loo's so nice to know
Mama Loo ...

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speaking of pot heads lol
take this waltz leonard cohen

Apparently he copied Frederico García Lorca
(here are the two poems side by side ..)
http://www.webheights.net/speakingcohen/waltz.htm

Take This Waltz
(After Lorca)
Little Viennese Waltz

Now in Vienna there are ten pretty women.
There's a shoulder where death comes to cry.
There's a lobby with nine hundred windows.
There's a tree where the doves go to die.
There's a piece that was torn from the morning,
and it hangs in the Gallery of Frost --
Ay, ay ay ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz,
take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws.

In Vienna there are ten little girls
a shoulder for death to cry on
and a forest of dried pigeons.
There is a fragment of tomorrow
in the museum of winter frost.
There is a thousand-windowed dance hall.

Ay, ay, ay, ay!
Take this close-mouthed waltz.


Little waltz, little waltz, little waltz,
of itself, of death, and of brandy
that dips its tail in the sea.


I want you, I want you, I want you
on a chair with a dead magazine.
In the cave at the tip of the lily,
in some hallway where love's never been.
On a bed where the moon has been sweating,
in a cry filled with footsteps and sand --
Ay, ay ay ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz,
take its broken waist in your hand.

I love you, I love you, I love you,
with the armchair and the book of death
down the melancholy hallway,
in the iris's dark garret,
in our bed that was once the moon's bed,
and in that dance the turtle dreamed of.

Ay, ay, ay, ay!
Take this broken-waisted waltz

This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
with its very own breath
of brandy and death,
dragging its tail in the sea.


There's a concert hall in Vienna
where your mouth had a thousand reviews.
There's a bar where the boys have stopped talking,
they've been sentenced to death by the blues.
Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture
with a garland of freshly cut tears?
Ay, ay ay ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz,
take this waltz, it's been dying for years.

In Vienna there are four mirrors
in which your mouth and the echoes play.
There is a death for piano
that paints the little boys blue.
There are beggars on the roof.
There are fresh garlands of tears.

Aye, ay, ay, ay!
Take this waltz that dies in my arms.

There's an attic where children are playing,
where I've got to lie down with you soon,
in a dream of Hungarian lanterns,
in the mist of some sweet afternoon.
And I'll see what you've chained to your sorrow,
all your sheep and your lilies of snow --
Ay, ay ay ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
with its "I'll never forget you, you know!"

Because I love you, I love you, my love,
in the attic where children play,
dreaming ancient lights of Hungary
through the noise, the balmy afternoon,
seeing sheep and irises of snow
through the dark silence of your forehead.

Ay, ay, ay ay!
Take this "I will always love you" waltz.

And I'll dance with you in Vienna,
I'll be wearing a river's disguise.
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder
my mouth on the dew of your thighs.
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,
with the photographs there and the moss.
And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty,
my cheap violin and my cross.
And you'll carry me down on your dancing
to the pools that you lift on your wrist --
O my love, O my love
Take this waltz, take this waltz,
it's yours now. It's all that there is.

In Vienna I will dance with you
in a costume with a river's head.
See how the hyacinths line my banks!
I will leave my mouth between your legs,
my soul in photographs and lilies,
and in the dark wake of your footsteps,
my love, my love, I will have to leave
violin and grave, the waltzing ribbons.


Leonard Cohen

from the original by
Frederico García Lorca

A couple of Rodgers & Hammerstein love songs - hell they could compose / write .

"If I Loved You" - Mario Frangoulis with Deborah Myers

Mario Frangoulis singing with Deborah Myers a Rodgers & Hammerstein II song for the Voices for Darfur 2004 concert in London's Royal Albert Hall

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South Pacific - Some Enchanted Evening 1958

Carousel 1956- If I Loved You (reprise)

Gordon MacRae as Billy Bigelow and Shirley Jones as Julie Jordan in Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1956 film "Carousel". Gordon MacRae singing If I Loved You (reprise) during the scene where Julie (Shirley) finds the star on the table Billy (Gordon) left for Louise who refused to take it and ran in the house

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What's The Use Of Wonderin

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Hey, how do you upload a video from YouTube so that it doesn't come up like the mess I created?

BTW, did you know the avalanches were from Melbourne?

This is an awesome song from a fantastic album.

2020hindsight said:

lol - violin like you've never heard it before !!
(and that goes for the singing as well )

I will survive

and for COMPLETE contrast , lol ....
(less humourous, slightly more sexy lol)

bond (Explosive)

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That 2nd video is the theme (guess you could call it that) from the Athens Olympics, Love those ladies, the tune fires me up... "Eye of the tiger style". And thats sexy as! Geeze I gotta go knock the top of that now. Kidding LOL... sorta

so are you going to let me in on th esecret Pat?



cheers,

sam76 said:

so are you going to let me in on th esecret Pat?



cheers,

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Secret
Do you mean knock the top off that one?

MY Quaker Parrot singing, If Your happy and you know it!

Parrot Singing: HOW MUCH IS THAT DOGGY IN THE WINDOW

(lol - reminds me, when the kids were small. I taught our dog at the time to sing that last one - I'd sing "how much is that doggy in the window"
and he'd reply "woof woof"
"the one with the waggily tail "
"woof woof"
etc

we cleaned up at the scouts "bring a pet night" lol.

sam76 said:

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VfAuFAgHpzc"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VfAuFAgHpzc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

Hey, how do you upload a video from YouTube so that it doesn't come up like the mess I created?

BTW, did you know the avalanches were from Melbourne?

This is an awesome song from a fantastic album.

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sam
funny as.. lol
as for embedding youtubes - here goes - but I notice yours is slightly different format ...
http://www.youtube.com/v/VfAuFAgHpzc
= 2 parts
http://www.youtube.com/v/
and
VfAuFAgHpzc


I'll give it a go, but not confident
add [youtube...] in front ( ignore dots)
then VfAuFAgHpzc
and then [/youtube..] after (ditto)




what did I mean by strange format?
usually there is an equal sign ,
you delete all characters in the web address including the "=" sign

Note that you have
http://www.youtube.com/v/VfAuFAgHpzc
(you delete down to and including the second slash "/")

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whereas I would usually get an address in the following format, and delete down to and including the "=".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfAuFAgHpzc

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PS, sam, that is how I do it anyway - it ends up with a neat "embedment" instruction.
But I'm sure there's an easier way - just I don't know it.

On this occasion, I'm using the Johnny Howard monarchist argument "If it works for me, I'll keep using it until something better comes along"

2020hindsight said:

PS, sam, that is how I do it anyway - it ends up with a neat "embedment" instruction.
But I'm sure there's an easier way - just I don't know it.

On this occasion, I'm using the Johnny Howard monarchist argument "If it works for me, I'll keep using it until something better comes along"

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Thanks Legend!

I'll give it a shot.

Have a good 'un

Emmylou Harris - Two More Bottles of Wine

Sweet Home Alabama

Speaking of catchy guitar playing..
There are a stack of these :-
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=guitar+licks&search=Search

Top 20 Coolest Guitar Licks

Roy Orbison - Lana
Roy Orbison - Leah

Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison with Westlife
recorded 2006 - 18 years after he "gave up singing".
Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Orbison

Roy Orbison with Westlife on "Duets Impossible"...

"The show was produced by carefully researching archive footage featuring stars from the past. Then by isolating the artist - both visually and vocally - from the original footage we were able to superimpose them performing along side pop stars from today. The musical backing tracks were re-recorded and re-mixed allowing us to feature solo's from both artists as well as sections of the song where they sing together."

Aired by the BBC on 24th December, 2006

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Katie Melua & Eva Cassidy - Over The Rainbow

Katie Melua - The closest thing to crazy - Live in Belfast

Katie Melua - 'If You Were A Sailboat'

Katie Melua - I Cried for you