tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3206662939830110562024-03-19T04:20:22.214-04:00Every Day I Write The BlogA song a day. What does it make me think of. What does it make me feel. Every day.PJ Finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15823291676704281042noreply@blogger.comBlogger1593125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-320666293983011056.post-28567656316178037392014-10-08T06:25:00.001-04:002014-10-08T06:25:37.694-04:00The New Basement Tapes "Nothing To It"Maybe you want to listen with your eyes closed first? Especially if you don't know anything about this project . . .<br />
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Hear the song on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq66_lWB7I4" target="_blank">Youtube</a>.<br />
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Okay, so if you didn't know the story behind this project, and you just heard it on the radio while driving down the street, would you say that it was a great, radio friendly song?<br />
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I don't know that I would. I mean, it's fine. Somewhat hummable. A little ragged. But is it a standout?<br />
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Now imagine that you know all about the back-story. <br />
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These are lyrics written by Bob Dylan in the late 60s. Never recorded. Dylan recently gave them to T Bone Burnett, who then assembled Elvis Costello, Marcus Mumford, Taylor Goldsmith (of Dawes), Rihannon Giddens (of Carolina Chocolate Drops) and Jim James (who sings here) to record an album's worth of these songs.<br />
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Do you hear the song differently, with that knowledge?<br />
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That's what makes a track like this so hard for radio.<br />
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If you have the context, then it is a fascinating song. But on it's own, it's not a great sounding <i>single</i>.<br />
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And most people who hear it, are not going to know the story behind it. There more likely to say, "What the hell?" and move on to the next station.<br />
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Or am I wrong? Does the song captivate you, even without knowing the story behind it?PJ Finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15823291676704281042noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-320666293983011056.post-18927194292898688882014-10-03T07:08:00.001-04:002014-10-03T08:03:43.563-04:00Sarah McLachlan & Randy Newman "When She Loved Me"Some thoughts on last week's Yard Sale . . .<br />
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My Mother-In-Law has a big end-of-summer Yard Sale each year. She invites a few neighborhood folks to set up in her yard too. So the event is rather massive. Between 9 and 3 last Saturday, literally hundreds of folks stopped by.<br />
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This was the first year we brought stuff of our own, for the sake of participating. And it was the first Yard Sale that our kids had ever known.<br />
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On the car ride to Gramma's, we tried to explain what a Yard Sale is. And, speaking the language of children, we gave them an example from an animated film.<br />
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"Remember 'Toy Story 2'? The one where Woody accidentally got sold? That was a Yard Sale. We're taking all our old toys and things, and selling them to people who might want them."<br />
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And we cautioned them to not bring any of their own belongings into the driveway, because someone could think that their special toy was actually for sale, and walk off with it.<br />
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To put a fine point on it, we played that Sarah McLachlan song, where poor Jessie gets left behind and everyone in the audience weeps like babies.<br />
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And while losing your favorite toy to a grabby Yard Sale-goer sounds like some kind of thing that only happens in the movies, let me point you to the conversation I overheard at the end of Gramma's Driveway.<br />
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"Look at that. Why would you want that? 521 Main Street? What good would that do you, unless that was you exact address?"**<br />
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This was an elderly woman who was admiring, but confused by the address marker at Gramma's house.<br />
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Because, if it's in the driveway, it must be for sale, ammiright?<br />
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We did surprisingly well with the Grandparent-set. We had a lot of baby gear and toys that my kids had outgrown. And the grandparents that filtered through all day long were happy to pick up that spare ride-on toy or set of blocks or whatever, that they could have handy for when the grandkids visit.<br />
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One item of great interest was the Jack-In-The-Box. It was fun to see who was delighted by it, and who it surprised/terrified.<br />
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It was the exact same model as the one Will Ferrell opens in "Elf." (And for my Cape Ann friends, it is made by the local company <a href="http://www.schylling.com/" target="_blank">Schylling</a>, where my sister <a href="http://every-day-i-write-the-blog.blogspot.com/2010/10/association-windy.html" target="_blank">Amy</a> used to work)<br />
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Somewhere in the middle of the day, a teenage boy picked up the Jack-In-The-Box and turned the crank. At the conclusion of "Pop Goes The Weasel" he gave a surprised "Hey!" <br />
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But not because of the pop-up clown.<br />
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LEGO WOODY!!!<br />
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We nearly reenacted the plot of "Toy Story 2" by accidently sell Woody at the Yard Sale!<br />
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Fortunately, just like the movies, it all ended well, with Woody coming back home with us, safe and sound. And the Jack-In-The Box, the talking dinosaur, the travel potty, the ride-on giraffe, the music table, the wooden trains and dozens of other treasures, headed to their new homes where somebody would love <i>them</i>.<br />
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** Not Gramma's real address PJ Finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15823291676704281042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-320666293983011056.post-89761607443378272762014-10-01T06:34:00.001-04:002014-10-01T06:34:32.662-04:00George Ezra "Budapest"Here's one of those earworms that could have a place on MVY, but . . . I dunno. What do you think?<br />
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The hook is super catchy, but also feels like Ezra is in that same zone as folks we don't play like Ed Sheeran or Matt Nathanson or Jason Mraz---guys who are great in their own way, but a bit commercial for our station.<br />
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On the other hand, that baritone ain't exactly what all the tweeners are into these days.<br />
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He reminds me a bit of an old MVY favorite who we haven't heard from in a while: William Topley.<br />
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What do you think?<br />
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Hear the song on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkqcHiI7d5Y" target="_blank">Youtube</a>.PJ Finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15823291676704281042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-320666293983011056.post-58322550141215858602014-09-27T06:30:00.000-04:002014-09-27T06:30:01.349-04:00Tweedy "Low Key"Parts of this work week were grueling . . . parts of the day-to-day grind of getting kids out the door, in the door, fed and into bed, were grueling.<br />
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I'm glad to end this week on a light note. <br />
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I follow John Hodgman on Facebook, and he posted this Tweedy video, since he makes an appearance.<br />
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Tweedy won me over the moment I saw Jeff in the yellow suit.<br />
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And as I was watching the video, I was laughing at how deadpan Spencer is. Then I recalled that (at least the one time I saw him in concert), he always seems kinda deadpan.<br />
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There are lots of little laughs in this one, straight through to the shocking conclusion.<br />
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While it doesn't actually sound hippie-dippy or like a 60s throwback, I did have to laugh when I read that his brand new song is called "Rainbow."<br />
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You don't get much more hippie-dippy sounding than that.<br />
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You're in the grocery store. There is a person. Often older. DEFINITELY a tourist. They are standing in such a way that they are blocking the aisle and are completely unaware that you are trying to pass them. There is just enough room for you to squeeze by, but you know that the second you try this, they are going to start walking and bump into you.<br />
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So there I was, staring at this tourist doing just this. Staring at him. Hating on him.<br />
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I mean really, is there ANY occasion where it is okay to wear an oxford shirt and a sport coat, with shorts? Does that make any frickin' sense whatsoever? How is it that when people go on vacation, they have no clue how to dress?<br />
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I was staring. I was hating. I was sure that if I looked down, he'd be wearing black socks.<br />
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Actually, I was wrong. He wasn't wearing black socks. He was wearing black <i>sneakers</i>, with white tube socks. Ugh.<br />
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What do the socks have written on them?<br />
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HOLY SHIT!<br />
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He moved and I pushed my carriage past him. I got about halfway down the aisle before I just couldn't let it go. I turned around.<br />
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"Excuse me. Sir? Do your socks say 'I (Heart) She & Him'?"<br />
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He looked at me blankly for a second, woken from his trance of looking at flavored coffee. Then he gave me a warm smile. "Yes. I love that band."<br />
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"Great band."<br />
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"My wife and I saw them years ago, in a little club, before they got big. Have you seen them?"<br />
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I did talk about how much I liked them, though I didn't drop <a href="http://every-day-i-write-the-blog.blogspot.com/2011/08/m-ward-never-had-nobody-like-you.html" target="_blank">my M Ward story</a>.<br />
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"Socks, huh," I said. "Usually people get a t-shirt."<br />
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"You can get anything these days," he smiled.<br />
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Truer words were never spoken during Tourist Season.<br />
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"Have a great day," I said to him, and sped off with my carriage, wondering what grocery store weirdness my next collision might bring.<br />
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Hear the song on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkzRyHa9a6g" target="_blank">Youtube</a>.PJ Finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15823291676704281042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-320666293983011056.post-15061027369334392672014-06-11T07:55:00.001-04:002014-06-11T07:55:02.199-04:00Neko Case "Thrice All American"I got a big kick out of this <a href="http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/av/2014/06/song-premiere-neko-case-kelly-hogan---these-arent.html" target="_blank">Neko Case/Kelly Hogan goof</a> on Sci-Fi and Fanboys and such.<br />
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And because I was sitting at the kitchen table on a late afternoon, I decided to go to the basement and pull out some of my older Neko Case records, like "Furnace Room Lullaby."<br />
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It's been a while since I'd gone back to the Neko Case of the 90s. The think that struck me was that on top of loving the record as much as ever, I just couldn't get over how little-of-a-clue that record offered, as to what Neko Case would sound like in 2014.<br />
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I mean, the voice is still there. The mystery. The confidence. The sly humor amid the darkness.<br />
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I guess I'm mostly talking about the country references, which are pretty much gone without a trace now.<br />
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In the late 90s, Neko Case seemed like she was going to be an enigmatic Patsy Cline for the modern age, crafting timeless, country-tinged dark ruminations.<br />
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And while the music of 2014 still feels timeless and dark, there is a complete absence of twang.<br />
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The strangest part about it is that it happened slowly and quietly, subtly. I mean, there's still a bit of twang in Case's voice in current songs like "City Swans." Just not in the instrumentation.<br />
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I was trying to think of another artist who so quietly, easily slipped out of country, without calling attention to it---so much so that you kinda forgot that's where they came from.<br />
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Wilco came to mind at first. But I do recall an interview with Jeff Tweedy, pre-"Yankee Hotel Foxtrot," where he was contemplating a future "zero Country reference" record.<br />
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Maybe Joe Henry? He was alt-country before alt-country was alt-country. Now he makes records as timeless and dark and somewhat-uncategorizable as Case.<br />
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Anyway, just an observation. It's nice to still be surprised by an artist.<br />
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Hear the song on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AXVBtBJjLw" target="_blank">Youtube</a>.PJ Finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15823291676704281042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-320666293983011056.post-31148343072498835712014-06-10T06:30:00.001-04:002014-06-10T06:30:40.846-04:00Public Enemy "He Got Game"Stick with me, MVY listeners . . .<br />
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I was following a Facebook thread last night from a friend whose musical tastes run shockingly similar to mine. The post was based around late 80s/early 90s rap music, starting with The Beastie Boys amazing back-to-back records "Paul's Boutique" and "Check Your Head." Further comments cited De La Soul, Black Sheep, Boogie Down Productions and Public Enemy, among others, as producing great albums in that era.<br />
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Then the thread host mentioned Public Enemy's "He Got Game" soundtrack, and wham! I was hit with a little bolt of lightning.<br />
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I am certain that I have not thought about that song since it played on WABN, some 15 years ago.<br />
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How certain am I that it was erased from my memory? When the song came on I thought, "Oh yeah, the song where they sample 'For What It's Worth' a little too heavily." While completely forgetting that STEPHEN STILLS IS IN THIS VIDEO!!! They didn't just sample, Stephen Fucking Stills performed with Public Enemy?!?!<br />
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This isn't the kind of thing that slips your mind for a second. Either it's there, or it's not there.<br />
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For me, it was definitely not there. Until now.<br />
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<i>Hey mvyradio listeners, I know many of your aren't interested in Public Enemy, but you gotta at least skip ahead to 2:20, when Stills shows up.</i><br />
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Take a second and look at the three pictures above. Do you know what the hand-written signs say? <br />
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That Picasso quote at the top of the post is oft recited in my house. It comes up because my wife is an elementary school art teacher.<br />
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She uses the quote with her students, as encouragement, explaining to them that they have a certain talent that even Picasso struggled to compete with.<br />
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And she uses the quote on those occasions when she if offering instruction to adults, particularly the ones who say "I can't draw" or "I haven't done art since I was a kid."<br />
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Tapping in to your inner-kid-ness is a talent.<br />
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And as a parent, it can be a necessity.<br />
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Our daughter is completing her first year of public school. Kindergarten. Her knowledge and her skills grow every day. One day she's sounding out the word "red." And what seems like a few days later, she's reading aloud, slowly but surely, through "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish."<br />
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Then she leapt into spelling. She is labeling pictures. Writing stories. And posting signs with important information for our family about our new kittens.<br />
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I always struggle to read these signs, and usually I have to ask my wife for help.<br />
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"Just read the letters," she tells me.<br />
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In other words, don't sound it out. Just say each consonant and vowel, as is. Our daughter isn't really blending letters, or writing the silent letters, or using the "soft" versions of letters.<br />
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Read it, as is. As it sounds.<br />
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The above pictures say:<br />
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"Bubble soap" (which was a potential name for one of our new kittens)<br />
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"Smelly Section" (note the corner of the house where we keep the trash barrel and the cat litter box)<br />
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"A couple of days ago I got two new kittens. They are fun. One is Kiki and the other one is Jasper." And at the top of the page it says "Toilet Paper."<br />
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On the same day I saw my daughter post <i>this</i> sign where she was trying to make a cat bed, I also heard the Patty Larkin track on MVY. That song makes me happy because it mentions Paul Klee, who is my wife's favorite artist (after our kids, of course) And yeah, I can hear how "disturb" could easily be sounded out by a 6 year old as "distubv."<br />
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<i>As of this posting, my favorite art teacher has not updated her site about her planned 2014 Summer classes, but you can keep checking <a href="http://theartshed.yolasite.com/" target="_blank">this link</a>. </i><br />
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It was always fun, on my old alternative show, to play throwback tunes. <br />
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Funny to think that it was nearly 20 years ago, that I was playing this song as a Throwback, then!<br />
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Jess did a Hot Seat on T Bone Burnett last week, and that jogged the memory of this tune.<br />
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Burnett was married to Sam Phillips and produced her "Martinis And Bikinis" album, one of my early 90s favorites.<br />
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Fun fact! The album cover picture led to her being cast as Jeremy Irons' mute terrorist girlfriend in "Die Hard With A Vengeance." <br />
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"Call Me The Breeze" is out as a single.<br />
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Should MVY play it?<br />
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On the one hand, does this version really add to or change your perception of the song? Not for me. It's a very tasteful take on the tune, but I don't feel like I'm experiencing anything new here.<br />
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And really, does anyone need to hear "Call Me The Breeze" every again? It's one of those songs that feels a little like driving by a McDonalds---you don't have to go in, to know exactly how the food is going to taste. Or in this case, listen to the song to know what it sounds like.<br />
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On the other hand, maybe adding the version to rotation provides a little lift to the version we play (MVY has the original JJ Cale song in rotation; we don't have the Lynyrd Skynyrd version in rotation). Alternating versions might make the listeners listen a little harder, wondering "Which version is this?"<br />
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The very pragmatic reason to play it, is that any airplay or record sales that come as a result of someone hearing it on MVY, means money for the songwriter. In this case, the estate of the late JJ Cale will benefit.<br />
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Cale was beloved by the great guitar players of the generation who followed him, but he never rose to the level of commercial success of the folks who are on this record. Playing the album will financially support the Cale family.<br />
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But when a listener flips the dial and hears a song, they probably aren't thinking any of these things.<br />
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Instead, they're making a snap judgement---do I want to hear what MVY is playing, or change the channel?<br />
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What do you think listeners will do when they hear this one?<br />
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And everyone had an opinion. <br />
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You may be a little surprised to know that even just a couple of hours before we were to go live, we hadn't picked a song yet.<br />
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A few weeks back, Barbara Dacey and I had agreed that we should air the "ocean waves" sound effect that comprised the last 20 minutes of our final broadcast on 92.7, fifteen months ago.<br />
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My first idea was that we would play "Riviera Paradise," which was the last song on 92.7. It seemed to suggest that we were picking up right where we left off. But then it didn't seem original enough.<br />
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While brainstorming, Barbara suggested Carly Simon's "Never Been Gone," which is perfect on a number of levels, since it is specifically about the Vineyard, and the joke that "mvyradio feels like it never was away" was pretty funny. <br />
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But we set that idea aside, because we really wanted the first song to be something upbeat. (Hilariously, the 2 comments I saw online about "Never Been Gone," which ended up being the 3rd or 4th song we played were along the lines of, "I can't believe you didn't play that one first!" and "Ugh, I can't believe they played Carly Simon!?!" So I guess we did strike the appropriate middle ground)<br />
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It was Barbara who came up with the unconventional choice of playing James Brown's "I Got You."<br />
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Though it's not a tune we would regularly play, the spirit and vibe matched the moment.<br />
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But that wasn't the <i>first</i> song on the new 88.7.<br />
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What I knew all along was that we were going to have to turn on the new transmitter and be certain that everything was working properly, before it was safe to announce to the world that we were going to "launch" 88.7.<br />
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And we had no idea when <i>that</i> was going to happen.<br />
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We were scheduled to have the antenna hung on the tower, last week. But rain prevented the contractors from doing the work.<br />
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They were supposed to start Monday, but they couldn't get a ferry reservation.<br />
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They got to the station early Wednesday, but by mid-morning, they realized that a couple of necessary cables had not arrived via UPS. We tracked the package and found that it was on-Island, so I furiously started texting a couple of guys I know who work for UPS, to see if we could pull some strings and get it there. It came shortly after lunch.<br />
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I kept wandering down to the engineer, who was hooking things up in the basement.<br />
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"Now? How about now? Are we close?" I was like a 4 year old.<br />
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The plan, once the thing was live, was to put the ocean wave on, send out a press release to the media and send an eblast to our listeners giving them a 45 minute heads up. Craig, the engineer, just had to finish his work to set this all in motion. <br />
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Finally, he came running upstairs, and simply gave me the thumbs up.<br />
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Craig, Barbara and I ran out to the parking lot, and put on the car radios.<br />
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88.7FM was on the air. <br />
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"Does it sound good? It is a go?"<br />
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It was "The Moment." Completely random that the Toad The Wet Sprocket song was the one on the air when the switch was flipped. But there it was, coming out of our speakers.<br />
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We all smiled. And yes, a tear or two was shed.<br />
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Toad The Wet Sprocket was on 88.7FM, which probably only had 3 listeners, Craig, Barbara and me.<br />
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I ran back inside and put the waves on the air.<br />
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The moment had arrived.<br />
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I was quite interested in the forum titled "The Tori Dilemma." The question at hand was, if you are a station that breaks new artists, but you've been doing it for years and years, what do you do when your new artists, have become established artists? You're not really breaking new artists if you are playing the new Tori Amos, Natalie Merchant or Sarah McLachlan. But if you don't play them, you are effectively ignoring the artists you told your listeners were important to pay attention to.<br />
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For MVY, we're not necessarily chasing a younger, more fickle audience. We still try to break new artists, but we're comfortable sticking with the heritage acts, even if they are "old." <br />
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Yeah, you're everywhere, but that I'm not.<br />
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I have to admit, I had never heard this underwear joke, until I heard Barenaked Ladies "Pinch Me" in 2000.<br />
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How did I miss this in childhood?<br />
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Well, that won't be true for my own kids.<br />
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I started saying "LOOK UNDER THERE!" to them, to trick them into saying "underwear."<br />
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It only took a few times for them to turn it around on me.<br />
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Now, pretty much every day starts with them saying to me, "Dad-dad-dad-dad-dad! Look under <i>theeeere</i>." <br />
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And I dutifully and happily play the fool who says "under <i>where</i>?!?!" eliciting peels of laughter.<br />
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Hear the song on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3NE6UuaLiY" target="_blank">Youtube</a>.PJ Finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15823291676704281042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-320666293983011056.post-53453787020868290372014-05-13T06:56:00.001-04:002014-05-13T06:56:53.746-04:00Tune-Yards "Water Fountain"I can't imagine this song joining MVY regular rotation (can you hear this coming out of "Lay Lady Lady"?).<br />
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That said, it is the stickiest, most memorable, hummable, joyful song on the iTunes playlist right now.<br />
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Enjoy! <br />
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Now that I have kids, a wife, and you know, stuff, many of the symbols of bachelorhood have been relegated to the basement.<br />
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Like the giant tower of CDs.<br />
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It was my kid's birthday party. So the house and backyard were packed with nearly 20 pre-schoolers, plus their parents (many of whom I only really know from drop-off) and various relatives.<br />
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And my wife said, "Can you put on some fun music?"<br />
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So I dashed down to the basement and came back up with a 1/2 dozen discs that I had quickly picked off the shelf, assessing that they'd be generally acceptable to the crowd.<br />
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That was a couple of weeks ago.<br />
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Yesterday was Mother's Day, which meant that it was time to give the house a big clean, since we were having family over.<br />
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I found the pile of CDs from my son's party, still next to the stereo. And seeing the names of the spines made me laugh.<br />
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Ray Charles<br />
Al Green<br />
Johnny Hoy & The Bluefish<br />
Otis Redding<br />
James Hunter<br />
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What appeals to pre-schoolers, grandparents, Dads forced to take their kids to a birthday party on Saturday who are trying to enjoy themselves by drinking a beer, Moms who are enjoying the company of other Moms who understand their struggles better than their spouses and Grandparents who look at their grandkids and remember when they were the hosts of these chaotic preschool parties?<br />
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What appeals to all these groups? <br />
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Soul Music.<br />
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It cuts across all demographic lines, works for all groups, creates the right mood.<br />
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Soul Music <i>makes</i> the party. Even a preschool one.<br />
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I mention this, in part, because Robert Cray has a new album called "In My Soul." It's his tribute to classic soul music. And for our <a href="https://www.thedatabank.com/dpg/559/spdf.asp?formid=donate_gift" target="_blank">Friends of mvyradio</a> Drive, we're giving folks a copy of the record if they donate $100 to support our non-commercial station. Think about making that donation, and getting your own disc of music to make <i>your</i> party just right.<br />
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I was driving through Virginia during April vacation, and saw a sign for Monticello. <br />
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From the deep recesses of my brain, popped this tune, which I'm sure I haven't thought about since the 90s.<br />
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I mean, I knew every word, every inflection. I knew how long the pause was from one song to the next, so I could start humming, in sync with the music. In fact, at a certain point, I didn't really need the cassette at all. I could have sung/hummed the whole album, in real time.<br />
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WBCN was promoting that Steve Miller would be stopping by the station, and he would be playing live in the studio. He had a new album out, but he was sure to play some old hits too.<br />
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And he did oblige, launching into a spaced-out version of "Fly Like An Eagle," solo, on an electric guitar.<br />
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<i>"Time keeps on slippin' slippin' slippin . . . into the future . . ."</i> Miller sang, and I sang too.<br />
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Then something strange happened.<br />
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Miller sang <i>"Feed the children, who don't have enough to eat."</i><br />
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I kinda froze. What was he going to do?!?!<br />
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Now maybe you're saying to yourself, "I don't get it. What's the problem?<br />
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Here's the problem.<br />
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The lyric is <i>"Feed the babies, who don't have enough to eat. Shoe the children, with no shoes on their feet."</i><br />
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But he had flipped a word, singing <i>"Feed the </i>children<i>, who don't have enough to eat."</i><br />
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Was he going to have to complete the word flip and sing, <i>"Shoe the </i>babies<i>, with no shoes on their feet"? </i>That doesn't make any sense. Babies don't need shoes!<br />
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And it's not like he can stop the song to gather himself and think his decision through. He's going to have to do something.<br />
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We're only talking about 2 seconds. But I learned a valuable professional lesson in the space between the lines.<br />
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If it's live, let it go.<br />
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I've opened up the microphone on live radio tens of thousands of times. And sometimes, you make mistakes. You stumble over a word. Or a whole sentence. You misplace modifiers. You accidentally swear. You introduce a Bruce Hornsby song as "Bruce Cockburn."<br />
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And when you do, there's not much you can do. Once it has gone out, you can't bring it back. The only thing you can do it go forward. You can compose yourself so you don't fuck up again. But you go forward.<br />
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That's was Steve Miller did that day.<br />
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He sang <i>"Feed the children, who don't have enough to eat. Shoes the babies . . ." </i>and then he just let his voice drift off, and filled with his guitar. He picked up the lyrics with the next line, <i>"House the people, living in the street, oh-oh there's a solution"</i> and he just kept going.<br />
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I took that lesson to heart. Even Steve Miller, a guy who probably sang "Fly Like An Eagle" more times than even I had, can screw up from time to time.<br />
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But professionals don't let a stumble completely derail things. They just gather themselves, and plow ahead undaunted.<br />
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It's great advice for DJ's, and for life.<br />
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But clearly, I am an old man.<br />
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My friend <a href="http://every-day-i-write-the-blog.blogspot.com/2010/08/small-factory-last-time-that-i-talk-to.html" target="_blank">Lori TB</a> gave me the heads up that Lorde does a cover of The Replacements' "Swinging Party." (She wrote "<span data-measureme="1"><span class="null">I 100% always think of you when I hear anything at all to do with the 'mats.")</span></span><br />
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<span data-measureme="1"><span class="null">My first thought was "How does Lorde even know this song?"</span></span><br />
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<span data-measureme="1"><span class="null">My second thought was the realization that this song came out in 1985. Lorde wasn't born until 1994!</span></span><br />
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<span data-measureme="1"><span class="null">I'm not complaining that a young artist covered The Replacements. I just find it shocking. In the same way I'll find it shocking when they move Wheel Of Fortune's time-slot on the TeeVee. </span></span><br />
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For instance, standing in front of the elevators of the Florence, South Carolina Doubletree Hotel, it does not seem like they should be playing David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold The World."<br />
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But on the tail end of a long vacation, somehow it seemed appropriate.<br />
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I'd just come from Disney, where the art of merchandising is perfected, and amazing.<br />
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I mean, it's no revelation that the amusement rides promote the movies and the movies promote the rides, and they both promote the t-shirts and stuffed animals and acres of plastic crap that is every which way you turn.<br />
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But I did find myself both impressed an horrified and the marketing onslaught.<br />
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And as I stood there in front of the elevators, I thought, yeah Bowie, you're right, you can slap a logo on just about anything and sell it. Even the world.<br />
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Whenever I am telling a younger person about the stupid things I used to do, I invariably mention my one trip to the Kentucky Derby.<br />
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Being a group of poor 20-somethings, it was our plan to sneak alcohol onto the Fair grounds. But security was tight. How to get it in there?<br />
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Sandwich bags, filled with grain alcohol, stuffed into the bra of one of the women in our group. She looked rather busty, but no one frisked her chest!<br />
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Then it was soda and grain alcohol all day.<br />
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I placed my 2 dollar bet on a random horse, and couldn't believe it when I won!<br />
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They say Disney is the happiest place on Earth, but I have to say, I have never been in a happier place than in a massive line of drunk folks who had all picked the Kentucky Derby winner and were lined up to collect.<br />
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The Derby is this weekend. "The horses are on the track!"<br />
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Hear the song on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V5Zoe84BjE" target="_blank">Youtube</a>.PJ Finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15823291676704281042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-320666293983011056.post-28879756580928472352014-04-29T10:43:00.000-04:002014-04-29T10:43:42.486-04:00The Beatles "Twist And Shout"We're adopting new kittens from a shelter today and we're all really excited.<br />
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So excited, that we spent (what felt like) hours inside a pet store, picking out food and a carry cage and new cat toys and a litter box and etc, etc, so we'd be prepared for their arrival.<br />
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At some point, the kids lost interest in the shopping, and wanted to look at some of the pets in the store. They checked out the fish and the mice and the snakes and the gerbils and the . . . "what are these, Dad?"<br />
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"Ferrets."<br />
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The kids got a kick out of the ferrets. I find them pretty funny myself.<br />
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And as I was sitting there smiling, I wondered this:<br />
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"I wonder if anyone on the internet has made a 'Ferrets Bueller' video, set to 'Twist And Shout'?"<br />
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Then I realized that if you ask the question "I wonder if anyone on the internet has . . ." that no matter how you complete that sentence, the answer is probably yes.<br />
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So please, enjoy Ferrets Bueller in a video set to "Twist And Shout."<br />
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God bless the internet!<br />
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Hear the song on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhfHU2JCXaA" target="_blank">Youtube</a>.PJ Finnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15823291676704281042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-320666293983011056.post-34934426702892715732014-04-25T07:00:00.000-04:002014-04-25T07:00:08.622-04:00Amy Adams "Happy Little Working Song"<i>This week, I'm on vacation with the family at Disneyworld. So I thought I'd write some posts about Disney songs.</i><br />
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If you're like a younger me, maybe you feel like you're too old for Disney tunes and Disney movies.<br /><br />So maybe you saw the previews for "Enchanted" and thought that there was no chance that you'd go so it.<br /><br />If that's you, then reconsider.<br /><br />Because while "Enchanted" is great for fans of Disney, it's also great for folks who can't stand the tropes and schmatlz of some of their films. It doesn't an incredible job of lovingly skewering the whole genre.<br /><br />Watch the scene for "Happy Little Working Song," and tell me it doesn't make you laugh.<br />
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Hear the song on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P27-86lweX4" target="_blank">Youtube</a>.<br />
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