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Season's Greetings!While I was subbing today, my first grade class spent an eternity in the auditorium, practicing for the Chrsitmas Program. Their song? the Old "Christmas Don't Be Late," by Alvin and the Chipmunks. After about the third time through, I began to hear this: Christmas, Christmas time is here This lift's good, whoa! what just passed? Want a vario from Steve Kroop, We just want a good lapse rate Forums > BS (Banter Section) Flight > Fun / Notable Sites > SoCal News > Local Flying Thanks Janyce...That Brings Back Memories.Very clever lyrics, sung to the tune of The Chipmunk song, which brings back old memories. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dnrosVyamY Before you were born we had Record Players which played a kind of vinyl disc where sound was recreated by a needle tracking in grooves, and if you bumped the arm you could hear the scratch you had just made in the record with a cruel ferocity. These Phonographs,as we sometimes called them, had 4 speeds: 16, 33, 45 and 78 RPM. (78 was before even I was born!) 33 was a great breakthrough called Long Playing or LP for short, and it allowed the placement of several songs on a single disc. This was made possible when the motors that drove the turn table became more stable and could spin at a speed steady enough to avoid what was called Wow and Flutter which occurred when motors failed to keep a consistent RPM. The needle, called the Stylus by audiophiles, was improved also and could react to the more minute variations that made up the grooves. But I digress. We used to take The Chipmunk song from an LP Album meant to play at 33 RPM, and play it at 16 RPM which cut the speed in half and revealed how the song was originally recorded. It was actually a human voice, Dave Savile himself, speeded up, not talented chipmunks as is popularly believed but is only a myth. Here’s the slowed down version, which I’m sure you’re anxious to hear. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rcl1obPIbU I could go on. There was also a time before cars had power steering… Mike Z PS. If you bothered to look real close at a good turntable, 33 was really 33 1/3. Eh?Listen you synthetic polymer rotating young whippersnapper. I grew up listening to music on hand-cranked wax cylinders amplified through a large funnel shaped thingamabob. Mostly they were comedy songs that'd make us laugh so hard that our teeth would strike our the insides of our mouths. This was especially noticeable when the cranks would stick and become difficult to rotate. One particular wax cylinder was as notoriously funny as it was difficult to crank. The first time anyone gave it a turn, they would up with a dozen and one third little sores in their mouth an an aching wrist. And so the 16 Giggle-Bite Hard Drive came to be. 78When I was a kid we had a "Victrola" we used to play the 78 rpm records. It had a coil spring motor you had to wind up and a flyball governor to keep the turntable speed fairly constant as the spring unwound. The spring was more than enough to play through the record (a few minutes) without rewinding. There were no electronics at all. The sound came from a steel needle attached to a diaphram on the tone arm, which was hollow and carried the sound to a flaring sound horn. It wouldn't exactly rattle the windows and didn't have thumping bass. One of the records I played a lot had the title, "Shine Little Glow-Worm". Some years later I would be amazed by how far a 78 rpm record would fly. Hey, I found the lyrics and they are funnier than I remember! Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer (lengthy instrumental interlude) Glow little glow-worm, fly of fire Glow little glow-worm, glow and glimmer Glow little glow-worm, turn the key on Just for you MikeHappy Holidays from: Spike Jones (1946): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk1NmHp8d4w he original 1902 version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbJfvnjSvC4 Enjoy! JD The Sixth ChordThose distinctive lyrics come from none other than the great Johnny Mercer. I like the chorus that comes in at 0:52 in the Dorothy Collins version Jonathan has linked. They loved to use the Sixth Chord back then. Strike F, A, C, D on a keyboard and you’ll hear the joyous sixth chord. Do a first inversion A, C, D, F and toss in a lower F and the F below that with your left hand and it really glows! There’s a curious story about the Beatles’ song She Loves You. It ends with The Fab Four singing the incredible line ”She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeaaaaaaah!” (I’m not making that up, it really happened. What would Johnny Mercer say?) That last “yeaaaaah” they sing as a Sixth Chord. Their producer George Martin tried to talk them out of it, saying it sounded too jazzy, like an Andrew Sisters song. But the Beatles said “That’s a Sixth Chord, man, that’s a great chord,” and they kept it. You can hear it at the end about 2:15, and earlier in the intro at about 0:10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_3TK0TARZ0 Some day I'd like to get four brave pilots together in the LZ who can hit that chord. Mike Z |
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all I want for Christmas...
SPRING!!!!!PLEASE!!!!
