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What Songs Make You Loony?
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Subject: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Mbo Date: 06 Apr 00 - 08:24 AM Ok, I'm not sure that anyone else has experienced this, but...have you ever played a song that you liked SO MUCH it gives you this heart-pounding adrenaline rush, where you get totally giddy...almost "High" on singing it? There are lots of songs I get this way about...Has anyone else experienced this, and what are the songs that drive you over the edge? --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Hyperabid Date: 06 Apr 00 - 08:28 AM Still got ther Blues over you - Gary Moore Rhinosceros - Smashing Pumkins Pretty much the enitre first Enigma album - Sadeness parts 1, 2 and 3 and so one Anything off Goo - Sonic Youth The first few things that came into my head - there are a zillion others. Hyp
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Willie-O Date: 06 Apr 00 - 09:09 AM Lots of 'em--it wears off sooner or later, for 99% of them. My current fave cover being "Kelly's Mountain" by J.P. Cormier. (Sort of a Cape Breton bluegrass variant of El Paso: boy meets girl, boy takes bullet.) It's the cross-picked guitar parts combined with the singing that really get me going. J.P. plays such an incredible break on it that I don't even play one at all--it's a great song without it and that's just his personal signature on his song. For a couple of years, the song that did this for me was "Peter's Dream" by Lennie Gallant, which has a lyric that builds to a shattering climax, which you don't quite see coming. It's about a beached fisherman who, after a night of drinkin and complainin with the byes, makes a decisive move towards a career change by blowing his inherited boat full of shotgun shell holes. I'm a peaceful type in real life, really I am. Never owned a gun in my life. It's that divil Willie-O that likes these songs! Bill
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: GUEST,aldus Date: 06 Apr 00 - 09:26 AM I song I sing a lot is "When First I Came To Caledonia". I love it so much that it sends me into another world , I wish there were a hundred more verses, although I am not sure the people listening feel that way. |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Sorcha Date: 06 Apr 00 - 09:37 AM When I listen to Doc Watson's "Black Moountain Rag" |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Dulci46 Date: 06 Apr 00 - 09:40 AM "Stately Mansions" by Bryan Bowers. I am trying to learn to play it by ear. Like it so much I made a cassette of nothing but this song so I can play it over and over when I am in my car. |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Kim C Date: 06 Apr 00 - 11:17 AM Several! The ones I like to do: Annie Laurie, Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy, Night Rider's Lament, Angel Band, Kathleen Mavourneen, and a few shanties for good measure. There are others but these are my favorites. The ones I like to hear: the entire Ian Tyson "Lost Herd" album, The Cocks Were Crowing by the Voice Squad, Long Black Veil by the Chieftains with Mick Jagger, The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (doesn't matter who's singing), To the Weaver's Gin Ye Go, Andy M. Stewart & Manus Lunny. And last but not least, I really love Johnny Horton's recording of The Battle of New Orleans. There are too many to choose from. I can't be here all day! |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Chocolate Pi Date: 06 Apr 00 - 11:53 AM flute: Hindemith Sonata for Flute and Orchestra. Bach Brandenburg Concerto #5, Bach Suite in a minor for Flute and strings, Debussy Syrinx pour flute seule. singing: Nearly anything out of the Sacred Harp, especially when I get to lead from the center: I was floating for days after the Lincoln's Birthday Sing. Especially: Africa, China, Rainbow, Coronation, Idumea, Wondrous Love,Boylston, Morning, Soar Away. fife: Russian songs about trees in minor keys: the Oak, the Rowan, the Pear tree. Bouncy jig-type things: Murillo's Lesson, Mason's Apron, Whisky, You're the Devil. Elizabethan tunes: Oh Mistress Mine, It Was a Lover and His Lass, Though Philomela Lost Her Love, Fortune My Foe. Chocolate Pi |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Lady McMoo Date: 06 Apr 00 - 12:15 PM Oh yes lots... just a few from the top of my head...
Just like John Barleycorn - Pete Morton Sure I'll think of more when I get home! mcmoo
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: kendall Date: 06 Apr 00 - 01:27 PM Love almost anything by Utah Phillips, Tom Paxton , Bob Coltman or Gordon Bok. what drives me over the edge? rock & roll in any form. If it has drums and electric guitars pounding and screeming, it makes me want to break things or hurt someone. |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Amos Date: 06 Apr 00 - 01:44 PM I used to fly out of my head everytime I heard Crosby, Stills and Nash sing Treat Your Children Well, if that's the right name for it. "You Who are on the road, Must have a code, That you can live by..." To this day I can't quite say why. A |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: annamill Date: 06 Apr 00 - 03:16 PM There is one song that gives me bumps whenever I sing it, hear it, think about it (like now). "One night I had the strangest dream, I've never dreamed before. I dreamed the world had all agreed to put an end to war. and the people in the streets below were dancing round and round. and the swords and guns and uniforms were scattered on the ground" Right now I have tears in my eyes. Love, annap |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Clinton Hammond2 Date: 06 Apr 00 - 03:47 PM Mary Ellen Carter By Stan!! Hillcrest Mine by James Keelaghan!! Come In And Know Me Better Man by ME!! Dram To Wam The Piper by Danny Carnahan(sp?)!! Country Faire by James!! Kitty Friel!! by Tamarack Too Close To The Wind by Fairport Convention!! So Many Miles Away by Stephen Fearing!! Just to name a few off the top of my head... {~` |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Amos Date: 06 Apr 00 - 04:05 PM Annap: I'm with you on that Strangest Dream vote. I think that may be my single favorite song of all time, odd tho' it may seem. |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Caitrin Date: 06 Apr 00 - 04:30 PM It's "Teach Your Children", Amos. I love CSNY! Which reminds me that one of their songs always gets to me..."Find the Cost of Freedom." |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: SeanM Date: 06 Apr 00 - 05:04 PM For me, different songs do different things. "Rolling Home" always gives me a deep calm... a feeling of absolute peace. But then, on the modern side, "Kiss Off" by the Violent Femmes perfectly encapsulates and recreates a huge amount of adolescent rage and anger. "Strike the Bell" and "Blow ye winds" get me in a happier, jollier, drinking place. There's just something about them that demands an audience singing along, good beer in hand... Guess that in my case, just about any good song makes me loony in some way or another. M |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: paddyc Date: 06 Apr 00 - 06:05 PM Well.......... My favourites to play and put all my energy in our: Botany Bay by Makem & Clancy 200 Year Old Alcoholic by Liam Clancy Long Black Veil by Cash Nancy Whiskey by Clancys Wasn't that a Party by the Rovers McPherson's lament and every other Clancy song except for Waltzing with Bears- i GO FRIEKING INSANE when I hear that song. But my favourite song to play is..... Brennan on the Moor! |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Mbo Date: 06 Apr 00 - 06:08 PM Ok, here are the songs I go BONKERS when I play: Roll Over Beethover--ELO (you knew it was coming!) Dedicated Follower of Fashion--The Kinks Our Love Was Meant To Be--Boy Howdy When Cowboys Didn't Dance--Lonestar Planet Telex/Creep--Radiohead Nancy Whisky The Irish Rover MacGregor's Gathering--by ME I Got A Name--Jim Croce Johnny Cope--The Tannahill Weavers The Queen of Argyll--Andy M.Stewart --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: GUEST,Rich(stupidbodhranplayerwhodoesn't.....) Date: 06 Apr 00 - 06:22 PM When accompaning a couple good melody players on The Bucks of Oranmore, Craigs Pipes, The Jackie Dally Polkas, and a number of other favorites,*especially for dancers*! Rich |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Barky Date: 06 Apr 00 - 06:40 PM Oh Gosh... lots! To name a few: Night on Bald Mountain - Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov The Flight of the Bumble-Bee - Rimsky-Korsakov Anything by Laurie Anderson (that's not the name of a song) Tim Finnegan's Wake Anything by Louis Armstrong/Dizzy Gilespie (Ok, this'll sound stupid..>) Havah Nagilah (sorry, don't know how to spell it) Anything I write. (Stuck up, I know..>) Dave Matthew's Band stuff Manhattan - Richard Rodgers (I think...) Summertime - Gershwin Anything by Gershwin Anything from the Phantom of the Opera Anything from Ragtime (the musical) King Herod's Song (from Jesus Christ, Superstar) Most anything from Rigoletto.
So much more, too! Lot's of opera. ~Barky |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 06 Apr 00 - 06:51 PM 'Always something there to remind me' by Dusty Springfield, I just love the song and the sentiment is spot on for a certain person who is not my SO...... Gets me going every time, and when I go, I go loud!! Consequently, I cannot play that tape on the walkman when I'm doing the filing..... LTS |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Mbo Date: 06 Apr 00 - 06:55 PM Barky--Laurie Anderson, but no Leroy Anderson? --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Barky Date: 06 Apr 00 - 06:56 PM Who's Leroy Anderson, Mbo? Oh, I think I forgot to mention the Haydn Trumpet Concerto by, Who else? Haydn! ~Barky |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Mbo Date: 06 Apr 00 - 07:06 PM BARKY you don't know Leroy! You must hear this man! His music is the stuff my WHOLE family goes loony over! They're such fun tunes...you know, like "Fiddle Faddle," "Belle of the Ball," "The Syncopated Clock," "The Typewrite," "Sleigh Ride," "Carriage Ride," "The Irish Suite,"...oh I could go on forever! Great stuff ESPECIALLY for trumpets and brass! Check it out, you WON'T regret it, and GET LOONY! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 06 Apr 00 - 07:06 PM Then there is the Queen of the Night aria from Magic Flute, mind you, that may just be oxygen deprivation - it used to be my warm up piece...... that always makes me giddy. So does 'The Heavens are telling' from Haydn's Creation, Mozart's Coronation Mass and Holst's 'Let all mortal flesh keep silence'. Aaaaaahhhhh! And I was supposed to be getting lots of rest......!! LTS |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Mbo Date: 06 Apr 00 - 07:14 PM Oops! It's called "Horse & Buggy," not "Carriage Ride." --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 06 Apr 00 - 07:17 PM So that is proof positive then Mbo?! Loonies of the world unite!! LTS |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Mbo Date: 06 Apr 00 - 07:26 PM Oooh, thought of another one! "Le Bouef Sur Le Toi" (The Cow on the Roof) by Darius Milhaud is an RIOT! It's a 20 minute piece of lots of Brazilian folk tunes and dances (rhumba, samba, maxixe) mashed together into one. When we heard it the first time, my mother, sisters, and I were in tears from laughing so much! We were singing along with the little tunes, doing bizarre dances...ahh, what can I say? LOONY! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: kendall Date: 06 Apr 00 - 07:32 PM La Gaza Ladra by Rossini Fer Alise Beethoven Violin Concerto in D same guy. Scotish Fantasy as played by Heifitz |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Mbo Date: 06 Apr 00 - 07:37 PM Kendall, I jusr got this image of you doing a little hornpipe to La Gazza Ladra! Rage on, man! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Pixie Date: 06 Apr 00 - 07:49 PM Dire Straits "I Want My MTV".....something about the opening bars just makes me wanna play a mean air guitar and lip synch with Mark! And I'm an acoustic guitar lover! Eric Clapton's Unplugged version of "Layla".... And I'm a big fan of JP Cormier (have had the privilege of seeing him in a variety of venues over the past few years and he never fails to knock my socks off) so just about anything by him.... Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlins' "455 Rocket" recorded by Kathy Mattea...that's a blast! Lyle Lovett....gotta love some of the tunes on "Joshua Judges Ruth" but what REALLY gets me revved is the opening bars to Blue Rodeo's cd "5 Days In May"; love every song on the cd! |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Barky Date: 06 Apr 00 - 08:59 PM Oooh... I forgot Sublime's Santaria. God I love that song. Oh and Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden. Sheesh.. ~Barky |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Mbo Date: 06 Apr 00 - 09:16 PM Uh-oh, Barkster, your getting into my territory now! **BG** And I was JUST singing Black Hole Sun today too! Not "Santeria" (though I was BLOWN away when I first heard it) but there is another Sublime song "Badfish"...pure joy! Wonderful lyrics..they make you feel good to sing them...and it's possibly Sublime's ONLY obscenity-free song, maybe that's why I love it. Another one I get wacky over is "A' Ghrian", the final from Shaun Davey's "The Pilgrim". MAN...Rita Connelly, huge chorus, big orchestra, Highland pipe band, drum set...HEAVEN! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: MarkS Date: 06 Apr 00 - 10:48 PM Harris and the Mare - Stan Rogers Largo al Factotum - Rossini The fourth movement from Beethovens ninth. Rogers puts it all right into perspective, Rossisni makes me smile just thinking about it, and Beethoven, after countless times listening to countless different versions, I still just get swept away. MarkS |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: GUEST Date: 07 Apr 00 - 09:17 AM Looney? Whispers of the North and Ring-Neck Loon both by gordon Lightfoot. Hee Hee |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Eluned Date: 07 Apr 00 - 11:23 AM Listening to really good acapello, multi-voice, certain songs, just sets me up on a pure, clear, mountain-top .... send chills all through me and rings my mind like a tuning-fork, focuses me like a magnet, freezes my limbs. My first was this lovely acapello version of Silver Seeds of the Sun on a early 70's rock-station. Suggestions of anything of this type will be greeted with glad joy. |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: GUEST,Kaleb Date: 07 Apr 00 - 11:42 AM The medley set from Field Marshall Montgomery Pipe Band from the 1994 World Pipe Band Championship. I never knew bagpipes could do things like that. |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: GUEST,Julie Date: 07 Apr 00 - 11:49 AM Sibelius's Violin Concerto A Chance as Good as any / Dear Green Place - Battlefield band ( and many other songs and tunes) Dust - Runrig ( just lots and lots memories with that one) Just a few favourites just of the top of my head The song I really remember going looney about when I was young was Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep by Middle of the Road ( you wouldn't Understand it was a family thing) and of course there the point in Queen's Bohemian Rapsody where the heavy guitar kicks in and our entire household goes wild Julie |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: SDShad Date: 07 Apr 00 - 11:58 AM Barrett's Privateers Ghost Riders in the Sky So Lonesome I Could Cry The Parting Glass The Twentieth Century is Almost Over Farewell to Nova Scotia The Cobbler Dark as a Dungeon Canadian Railroad Trilogy These days, White Snow of the Springtime to name a few... |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: SDShad Date: 07 Apr 00 - 12:05 PM Imagine the above with proper line breaks in't.... Chris |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: annamill Date: 07 Apr 00 - 02:08 PM Amos, we seem to have a lot in common. I think we will become good friends when Honey and I move out there. Love, annap |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: kendall Date: 07 Apr 00 - 03:07 PM These drive me nuts.. Poor Ellen Smith It's a small world after all Cabin in the friggin' pines Foggy Minded breakdown ( over done.) Achy breaky heart AAAAGGG |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Bat Goddess Date: 07 Apr 00 - 03:26 PM Tingles down the spine and tears in the eyes: Bonny Hoose o' Airlie Dancing at Whitsun All My Loving (Beatles) (As a matter of fact, took me years to learn Dancing At Whitsun, cuz I'd tear up before the end of the second verse.) Bat Goddess |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: zenduck Date: 07 Apr 00 - 06:57 PM Until I Die - The Beach Boys Try a Little Tenderness - Otis Redding Clapton's guitar breaks on "Badge" and "Crossroads" Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground - Blind Willie Johnson Elvis' falsetto on "Blue Moon" The opening chorale from Bach's St Matthew Passion Stabat Mater from Penderecki's Passion Acc. to St. Luke the transposition near the end of the Adagio in Schubert's B-Flat Piano Sonata I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams Anyway You Want It - Dave Clark 5 Let Her Dance - Bobby Fuller 4 God Save the Queen - Sex Pistols man, I could go on and on... |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: GUEST Date: 08 Apr 00 - 12:00 AM tops in driving me nuts...much much worse than its a small world after all... First and foremost: barrett's privateers Bright morning stars are riiiiiiiiissssiiiiiiiinnggg How can I keep from singing (I feel like grabbing them by the nape of the neck and telling them..) anything that includes silly hand gestures Almost all parodies... but I like the rest of the songs... mg |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Mbo Date: 08 Apr 00 - 12:08 AM Gee whiz! When I said song that make ye loony, I didn't mean songs that make you mad! I mean songs that you get so wacked out over, you'd scream them at the top of your lungs, not caring how you sound! --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Eluned Date: 08 Apr 00 - 12:26 AM Ah, that kind! Usually, funny songs! There's some good drinking-songs that take me that way, too, and some sea chanteys. I can't think of a specific one just now, except maybe "Rolling Down to old Mauwee", and "Zombee Jamboree". Mostly because they're old favorites I seldom get to sing. I'm afraid to say which ones, but some sentimental songs would too if they didn't require my control to not choke up and lose the ability to keep a note.... most of these are old chestnuts. |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Kelida Date: 08 Apr 00 - 12:40 AM "SPAM" by Weird Al "Too Old to Rock and Roll. . ." by Jethro Tull "The Scotsman" "Yellow Submarine" by the Beatles "I Love the Dead" and "Billion Dollar Babies" by Alice Cooper "Sweet Violets" "Maids When You're Young. . ." . . . and the list goes on. . . I love so much music, this list is practically endless. |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Metchosin Date: 08 Apr 00 - 03:09 AM Pixi, I'm with you on the Dire Straits and Clapton choice, also:
Dirty Blackleg Miner
Also I went over the top many years ago, with a parody of the Trogg's" Wild Thing" which we called "Canada, I Think I Love You"
And as far as listening
Carmina Burana by Orf (embarrassed my daughter by doing my own conducting at a live symphonic performance) |
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Subject: RE: What Songs Make You Loony? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 08 Apr 00 - 08:56 AM Yeah, 'It's a small world' really gets me going too, but in totally the opposite direction!!! LTS |
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