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Newly-recorded: three songs, one instrumental,
plus a cartoon, and black & orange Hallowe'en cats
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Start time
Song title (linked to lyrics)
Origin date
Album
00:27
Witnessing /
Tune to Marijuana
Head Shop Songs
pre-1976 / Summer 1974
09:14
Renegade
from the musical
The Mad Wizard
Short & Tall tales1970s
10:45
The Beast with Four Heads
Motion-ized comic
originally published as
Daily Doodles,
1997 Oct 19-26
Short & Tall Tales
14:24
The War Begins
a/k/a Pleas
(instrumental)
Short & Tall Tales
1973 Jun 16
19:13
Can't Dance
(Electric Display)
Love's Lost and Found
pre-1976
The Beast with Four Heads
Music:
"Where Am I?"
(instrumental)
from the musical
The Mad Wizard
Audio sources, gratefuly acknowledged:
Fire, Frogs, and Forest ambiance
Soundbible.com
Mouse squeaking sfx
All Sounds, YouTube
Snake hiss
Jojikiba, YouTube
Possum Noise
Scott Magee, YouTube
Pet Opossum Complaining
Kenneth Jones DVM, YouTube
Rat stuck in glue trap and squealing
15digitusername, YouTube
Sights and sounds highlight fair carnival experience
The Record (Stockton, CA), YouTube
Circus Theme music
Kristopher Lambert, YouTube
Betty Boop
"Halloween Party"
Fleisher Studios 1933
Old Wizard Bong
1972 Earthworks TM
Recorded 2016 Oct 24-25
at us75.com/, Bartlesville
"Beast" illustrated & motion-ized, &
all lyrics & tunes written, performed, &
© by Mindful Webworker
Support & inspiration: M.J. Clark II
"Raspberry": Majic Clark
Yes, it really was raspberry leaf.
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I started out with some short, simple cartoonish lyrics.
I had tunes in mind to go with the lyrics.
So I picked up instruments and learned to write crude musical notation, which didn't really convey the tunes.
So I started playing and recording the songs, so my intended tunes could be heard.
I started out as a lyricist, became a composer, then a performer, all the while still mainly thinking of myself as a cartoonish lyricist.
Over decades, some songs held up better than others. Lyrics about which I was so serious came to seem to me overly serious, subtle turns of phrase became what did I mean by thats.
Some tired old songs, I do my best to be serious and give them a good performance.
Other songs, I just can't bring myself to sing them.
This is one of those. It was intended as a kind of post-nuclear war lament and encouragement to rebuild. I was probably trying to do something like Jefferson Airplane's "Wooden Ships."
Crosby & Nash with Grace Slick - Wooden Ships
I may publish the lyrics, some day, at least to show how the chord notations are supposed to be paced, but for now, I'm just posting this page as a place-holder for the song.
Performed, instrumental, in Mindful Webworkshop #12, 2016 Oct 28.
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1.
C Bb F
By the time I was caught in the trap
C Am G
It was already too late
C Bb F
By the time I discovered my error
C Am G
Too much had been done
C Bb
By the time I got out
F C Am G
The damage was pretty well total
C Bb F
By the time I convince you in words
C
He could have everyone.
Am G
Listen to me!2.
C Bb F
If we all turn away pretty soon
C Am G
You will all know what I do
C Bb F
If we all just pretend we will have
C Am G
No more places to hide
C Bb F
If we all stop and think we can see
C Am G
What we were just isn't anymore
C Bb F
If we talk to each other we'll know
C
the Wizard has lied.
Am G
Why won't you listen to me?From the musical "The Mad Wizard."
Performed in Mindful Webworkshop #12, 2016 Oct 28.
Performed in Mindful Webworkshop #12, 2016 Oct 28.
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Eb B Eb Db Why can't I dance as I used to do Eb Db Eb Db Can't get away at all Eb B Eb Db Each time I rise on occasion Eb Db Eb Db The music will stumble and falter
Eb B Eb Db
If only I touched the electric display
Eb Db Eb Db
That powered me years ago
Eb B Bb Ebm
I could enjoy my naivete
D Am
And forget what I've come to knowAmb5 G Salad days of innocence Amb5 G Blessed ignorance was bliss Amb5 G The depth of my perception Fm Dbmaj7/G Enhancing what I miss Cm - G Amb5 - G Fm7 - G
Performed in Mindful Webworkshop #12, 2016 Oct 28.
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One new and two previously-recorded
but unreleased songs.
Whatever was found in the discard barrel.
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Start time
Song title (linked to lyrics)
Origin date
Album
01:47
Given Half a Chance
Recorded 2016 Oct 18
for Webworkshop #11.
ca. 1978-1979
Best of Spirits
07:19
It's Your Decision
Original recorded for Webworkshop #8.
Actually two takes spliced together.
See if you can spot the splice.
pre-1976
Best of Spirits
10:08
The Great American Song
Originally recorded and released
as a "single" music video 2012 Mar 27.
From two partial takes strung together.
Watch for the change of attire.
Re-rolled here for HD wide screen
with slight modifications of video,
and an added vocals track
recorded 2016 Oct 19.
ca. 1975 August
Short & Tall Tales
Recorded at us75.com/, Bartlesville,
except for "Great American Song,"
recorded at Margaret B's B&B, Tulsa.
All lyrics & tunes
created, performed, &
© Mindful Webworker
except for the 5-note theme
from "Close Encounters."
Media sources, gratefully acknowledged:
Laurel & Hardy
The Music Box
1932
The Great American Song:
Allen Sherman http://hamidrostami.net/2010/01/you-need-an-analyst-by-late-allan-sherman
Amber Waves http://patriot.net/~bmcgin/americathebeautiful.html
Arlo Guthrie http://www.nndb.com/people/559/000022493/
Baby http://www.bbhonline.org/
Beatles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iim6s8Ea_bE
Beethoven http://nepr.net/blog/roll-not-over-beethoven
Cannonball Adderley http://songbook1.wordpress.com/tag/cannonball-adderley/
Coins http://www.icis.com/blogs/east-european-chemicals/2011/03/
Donovan http://www.american-buddha.com/abol-donovan.htm
Francis Scott Key
http://www.theonion.com/articles/francis-scott-key-to-sing-national-anth...
Herman's Hermits http://mp3.rhapsody.com/hermans-hermits
Janis Joplin http://www.popcrunch.com/amy-adams-janis-joplin-biopic/
Jorma Kaukonen http://www.worldguitarists.com/Biographies-in-J/jorma-kaukonen
Klaus Voorman http://www.worldguitarists.com/Biographies-in-J/jorma-kaukonen
Mary Hopkin http://efemeridesdelamusica.blogspot.com/2011/05/mary-hopkin.html
Money Pile http://bit.ly/GXJTuf
Moneybags http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-play-monopoly/
Muses http://www.scanopia.com/john-singer-sargent/apollo-and-the-muses-2.html
Napoleon Coronation
http://lavozbiblica.com/ventana_al_mundo/hamsters.php?q=napoleon-bonapar...
closeup http://www.parismuse.com/artnews/napoleons-crown.shtml
Richard Nixon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4yaZ01tWEU
Pharoah http://www.ancientx.com/nm/anmviewer.asp?a=113
Randy Newman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4aSyca8Qmg
Scott Joplin http://chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com/joplin.html
Spotlight http://www.jacketflap.com/megablog/index.asp?blogid=2299
Superman http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/554/king-superman3.html
Tom Lehrer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tom_Lehrer_-_Southern_Campus_1960.jpg
US Flag http://us-flag.net/
War Kittens http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kJs9-7zfGs
Woody Guthrie http://www.nndb.com/people/559/000022493/
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