Title Competition - Kendall's DVD

Subject: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: jacqui.c
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 10:06 AM

A free copy to whoever comes up with the best title for this new DVD.

This is a performance by Kendall back in 1987, a mixture of songs and tall tales in his own inimitable style. I've got the picture for the DVD label but we're a bit stuck on a title so we thought we'd throw it out to Mudcat and see what comes back.

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: dwditty
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 10:23 AM

-.- . -. -.. .- .-.. .-..

-- --- .-. ... .

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Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: bfdk
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 10:29 AM

Standing up
- Looking back

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 10:42 AM

What's on the CD, Jacqui? Specifics, I mean. That would help.

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: ClaireBear
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 10:51 AM

The Code of the Coast

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 10:51 AM

Mainely Musical
MonoMaineia
For Better or for Morse
From the Kitchen to the Cellar
I Don't Look Good Clothed any More
Did you hear the one about........?
Tales and Wails

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 11:01 AM

Tall Tales and A Long Drink of Water

The Tallest of All

Da' Maine Man

Iconic Maine

It would help to know more about what is on there.

Cute, dw...translation, please?*bg*

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: ClaireBear
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 12:48 PM

A School for Scoundrels

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 12:50 PM

Ken Doll Does Folk?**BG** (I've never been to the cellar before!)

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: gnu
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 12:54 PM

Ahyup. Ahm Still Heeyah.

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: dwditty
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 12:56 PM

The code in my post above:

Kendall
Morse
Live

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: kendall
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 01:17 PM

It's a mixture of Maine humor and a few songs. Plus the poem Loch Arcray.
Songs include Lady Di (Ian Robb)
Rolling Home
The burglar
Paddy West

Its main idea was storytelling. I tried to tell stories in a number of different ways.Song, poem, humor etc.
It runs about 45 minutes.

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 01:20 PM

mmmm Jacqui and Kendall

As this is a 1987 performance, should have something in title that indicates uhm errr..... vintage?

BTW I love a number of the above offerings and dwditty's is clever beyond compare, but not sure if it is very practical from the marketing perspective.

Sorry not much help from me.

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: GUEST,Don Meixner
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 02:31 PM

My suggestions

Capt. Kendall Morse : Stuffin' The Ditty Bag
Capt. Kendall Morse : Still Above Water
Capt. Kendall Morse : I Learned These Songs When They Were New
Capt. Kendall Morse : Gurry Soup
Capt. Kendall Morse : A Rumor in His Own Time
Capt. Kendall Morse : Songs, Poems, and other such Windbaggery
Capt. Kendall Morse : Same Tale, Different Day

Don

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: ClaireBear
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 03:16 PM

Old Salt

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: Dan Schatz
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 03:18 PM

How about:

Kendall Morse
Rolling Home to Old New England
- stories and songs -


That's the serious suggestion. The un-serious one is that if you follow the Loch Arcray with "Every Finger a Fid" (oo, there's a title) you could call it "Don't Ask Me Where I've Damn Well Been"

Dan

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: ClaireBear
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 04:15 PM

Dan, that's brilliant -- and I don't mean your "serious" suggestion, either!

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: Art Thieme
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 04:21 PM

Pigs Ate My Roses

(This was the name of a book Lenny Bruce was reading in the photo on the cover of an old Fantasy Records LP he made. It was the best thing on the album, and I've used it as a value judgement in all sorts of situations -- for the last 50 years or so.)

Captain, I'm being serious! It's a less obvious way of saying, "The Older I get, The Better I was." Several different levels and lines to read between are inherent in the phrase. ---- Be well!!

All the best to you both,

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 04:53 PM

That's a great one, Art!:-)

How about "Morse Code - Any Tall Tale Will Do?" Or, any other tag that would go with the "Morse Code," i.e. True Maine Humour, Morse Code for Dummies **BG**, Morse Code for Maineiacs (kidding, just kidding!), Morse Code Talker, etc., etc. you get my drift..OH! That's another one:

You Get My Drift!!!

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: Melissa
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 05:28 PM

Morse Coda

with a thingy somewhere on the cover saying something like:
"...often created by "working an idea through to its structural conclusions" and that after all this momentum is created a coda is required to "look back" on the main body, allow listeners to "take it all in", and "create a sense of balance."
(snagged from wiki)

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: Dan Schatz
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 05:43 PM

DW Ditty. I just got your post. Now there's a pun both Elaborate and Obvious. (Hey, another title!)

Dan

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: Micca
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 05:53 PM

How about
" Kendall Morse- a Maine Son of a beach"
or "Kendall Morse- Spliced and knotted"
" The yarns that I spin"
" a Weave of Yarns (and a few songs)"

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 10:34 PM

Spliced and knotted...I didn't know he and Jacqui were so saucy!

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: ranger1
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 11:07 PM

Hmm...I kinda like Giok's suggestion of From the Kitchen to the Cellar...

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: Amergin
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 12:18 AM

Oh and here I thought Lobsteroids was finally being released on dvd....

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 01:05 PM

ranger1, that brings up "Cellar Ceilidh" in my mind, combining the two.*bg*

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: Dan Schatz
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 01:23 PM

Lobsteroids? You might want stop by a pharmacy and see if they have something for those. (Preparation L?)

I know. Cellar.

Dan

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 03:48 PM

Dan, my first thought was "isn't that why Spaw's in hospital?!":-)

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 04:39 PM

Splice the Maine Brace

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: Art Thieme
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 04:46 PM

One more from me:

LOBSTER HELPER!!!

This should have an appropriate graphic of the Lobster Helper box.

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: frogprince
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 04:54 PM

"When I was Young and My Mast was Straight".

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: frogprince
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 05:08 PM

"Lyrics and Lore from the Maine Master"

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: kendall
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 05:39 PM

Keep 'em coming.

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: ClaireBear
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 05:42 PM

Looking Astern: Tales and Songs from the Cellar

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: Art Thieme
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 05:48 PM

(2 little owl dungs)
With The Frost On Them

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: kendall
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 07:59 PM

Ok folks, you know me, I hate to complain (snort) but let's have som serious ones, ok? Remember, I have to live with the choice.

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: Dan Schatz
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 08:57 PM

Hey, mine was serious! One of them, anyway.

Dan

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: ClaireBear
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 09:40 PM

Oops, I thought mine were serious too. Okay. Working with Paddy West, how about:

Three Times Round the Horn with Kendall Morse

or, for that matter:

Crossing the Line with Kendall Morse

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: frogprince
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 09:44 PM

"Ballads and Balderdash"
"Captain Cantankerous"

"A Tangle of Lines": Lyrics and Lore from the Sea and the Coast.

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 10:35 PM

Those are all really GOOD, frogprince!

(I thought some of mine were serious, too.:-)

Its main idea was storytelling. I tried to tell stories in a number of different ways.Song, poem, humor etc.

Mixed Bag: stories in song, poem, and humour with Kendall Morse

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: ClaireBear
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 11:15 PM

Perhaps:

The Yarn of a Sailor?

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: Ebbie
Date: 11 Sep 09 - 11:37 PM

I like 'A Tangle of Lines'.

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 01:57 AM

Vintage Morsels from Cap'n Kendall

FWIW, my faves are:
I Don't Look Good Clothed any More
Capt. Kendall Morse : I Learned These Songs When They Were New
"Don't Ask Me Where I've Damn Well Been"
Morse Coda
Ballads and Balderdash

Thinking about it, I think I like my own suggestion best as a subtitle for any of the 'fave' titles above (although in that case you would need to lose the "Capt. Kendall Morse:" from in front of "I Learned These Songs When They Were New")...

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 04:09 AM

I love A Tangle of Lines

Wow! Powerful that one.

Kendall and Jacqui, How are you ever gonna decide on the winner?

So many good ones here.

Maybe you could start another thread with shortlisted titles and ask for PM votes to be sent to either yourselves (or another Catter) to tally.

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: Fortunato
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 08:34 AM

Kendall Morse: "Come, let me tell you a story..."

Kendall Morse: "Maine Stories and Songs (some of which are absolutely true)"

best of luck with it, pal.

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: kendall
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 09:16 AM

I'd like to get Maine into the title. It's been my experience that anything with MAINE on it sells.

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 09:28 AM

To borrow a line from one of my favorite Utah Phillips songs:

"Lookin' back along the road I've traveled"

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: Micca
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 10:08 AM

" Maine-ly Morse, lies ,truths and songs"

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 11:30 AM

Maine Liner, Morse!

Subject: RE: Title Competition - Kendall's DVD
From: Tinker
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 12:04 PM

Lies, Lobster and Lore: Tall Tales and Tunes from the Coast of Maine
With a photo of the Captain mesmerizing a Lobster.   

I really wish I had taken a picture of Kendall hypnotizing that lobster and having it stand on it's head....