2005 Getaway Reflections Here...

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: jimmyt
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 09:14 PM

Here's my Story...sad but True........

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Big Mick
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 09:14 PM

I'm in. Can't wait.

As we stroll along together, holding hands, walking all alone.

So in love, just we two, no one else but me and you,

So in love, so much in love........

I got the lead on this one. And I live just outside of Philly, so I am going to do some research. Got to be a few old timers still hanging out.

Mick

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Amos
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 09:08 PM

Well I'm a Wanderer,
Yeah, a Wanderer,
I wander roun'an'aroun'an'aroun'anaroun...

Sorry, Jimmy, I was typing faster than I was thinking.


A

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: jimmyt
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 09:07 PM

I will gladly be a lowly Belmont!

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 08:59 PM

Do The Wanderer or Run Around Sue and I'll take the lead, Pal! Love that Dion stuff.

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: jimmyt
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 08:51 PM

Amos, I think it is "Who put the Bomp" rather than "WHo put the Ding", and being from California, I would have thought you would have known they did not move Santa Catalina 48 miles off-shore but only Twenty six.

I still think you are recovering from the remnants of the Front Porch Dining Hall Blues. Hell, there is a song title right there!   jimmyt

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Amos
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 08:44 PM

SOme candidates:

Dream
Teenager in Love
Forty-eight Miles (Santa Catalina)
Who Wrote the Book of Love
Oh, Donna
A Girl Named JoAnne
...And We Belong Together, For Etermiteee
Unchained Melody
Ferry Cross the Mersey
The Bristol Stomp
Sherry, Sherry Darlin'
Where or When
Sh-Boom, Sh-Boom
Who Put the Ding in the Dingy-dang-ding-dong
Blue Moon
Moon RIver
Deep in the Dark of the Night
Love Letters in the Sand
You Butterfly
Lollipop, Lollipop
The Green Door
The Purple People Eater
The Witch Doctor

Then if you really feel adventurous we can branch out into:

Good Vibrations
Fun Fun Fun
Little Surfer
I Get Around
California Dreamin'
Little Deuce Coup´

...and I dunno where all from there!!

That's worth an hour or two right there...


A

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: jimmyt
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 08:13 PM

I have been performing Do-wop for about 10 years now and it is delightfully mindless entertainment! It is not exactly thought-provoking but if you dig harmony it is about as much fun as you can have with your clothes on! I look forward to laying down the bassline next year at Getaway. We need a south Philly guy with a leather jacket and a rat tail comp who can pop off the falsetto part and we will be all set!

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 07:56 PM

A few months back PBS had a doo wop special. Reminded me of how much I enjoy it. I don't require the choreographed moves though!

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: JennyDeckner
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 07:29 PM

If you do a doo-wop workshop next year, I am DEFINITELY coming to Getaway!

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Allan C.
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 07:14 PM

Doo-wop is among the few American original folk music styles. I'm thrilled to know there are so many people who are enthusiastic about this musical style. Every time I hear doo-wop I picture a Philadelphia alley with four or five guys warming their hands around a flaming 55 gallon trash barrel and raising their voices in improvised song and harmony. I heard a great song just a couple of days ago describing one such bunch. It recounted how at house parties there were times when nobody could get into the bathroom because the group had fallen in love with the echo and were singing their hearts out in there.

I can hardly wait to sing some doo-wop with some of you folks!

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Noreen
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 06:38 PM

Yes please, Nancy! Any session with Ken in would be wonderful, whatever he was singing :0)

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: GUEST,Nancy King at work
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 05:57 PM

Do-wop singing is an old tradition at the Getaway. I managed to miss this year's session, but I'm not surprised it happened. Many years ago, when the Getaway was at Prince William Forest Park, we always had an unofficial session we called "The B-Lodge Boogie," after the building in which it was held. Jonathan Eberhart and Tom McHenry both knew a LOT of do-wop songs, and Dwayne Thorpe (and where was HE this year??) made a lot of contributions. I wouldn't have missed it for the world. Nowadays my son Ken Schatz is the best do-wop singer I know. Learned it from my old 45s...

Maybe we oughta put do-wop on the program for next year...?

Nancy

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 12:04 PM

With your coaching, Amos, I'm sure you'll see to it that KT doesn't get fired from this venue too. *G*

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Col K
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 12:04 PM

Finally home after another great trip over the pond.
Memories, the music, the friendship, the weather !!!!, the food?. All of these combine together to create a wonderful moment in a year of music.
The strength of the Getaway is in the people, from all over the world who come together to make music and to share that music with us all.
Thanks from me must go to several people who made my trip so special. Tinker for putting me up twice, Max for a night at Mudcat Central, Sinsull for a week in Maine, Ranger1 for her showing me around, Jerry Rasmussen and Ruth for a nught with them.Also thanks to Terry (Leadfingers) for some transport around.
My final thanks must go to the wonderful people of the FSGW for organizing the Getaway. How would we all get together and meet so many wonderful people without the FSGW.
I hope that I will be able to get there again sometime in the future poss next year who knows.
Many thanks to you all
Col

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Amos
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 09:46 AM

Mebbe that's what doo-wop really is --- blues for white chicks. Ya think?? I am sure we can keep a doowop session going for a few hours. I recall Camp Runamuck at JenEllen's -- we had one ran that long and ended up with "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" done DooWop-cum-Motown style.

A

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 06:33 AM

I've already started saving so Micca and I can make it next year too! We had so much fun this year and met many wonderful people!

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: CarolC
Date: 30 Oct 05 - 06:50 PM

Thanks for taking that squeezer jam picture, Bill.

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Oct 05 - 05:17 PM

I'm still living my dream and bumming around the US. Won't be home for another couple of weeks so y'all will have to wait for my pix. I hope they're worth it!!
Giok

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Oct 05 - 05:03 PM

I missed Pene Azul. Next year, Jeff...promise?
SINS

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: KT
Date: 30 Oct 05 - 04:31 PM

Do-wop!! You're on, Jimmyt!!! Heck,we'll have the whole camp do-wopping next year! There's an abundance of fabulous singers at the Getaway. Let's bring 'em all in!! Even Mr. Blues, himself!! Hope you had a great vacation. Welcome home!
KT

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: jimmyt
Date: 30 Oct 05 - 03:12 PM

Hello all, I just got back from vacation which I left on 3 days after getaway. It was great go read this entire thread about what was a terrific event. I thought it was just a hoot. I guess there might have been some food issues, but heck, who went for the food or sleeping accomodations? I went for music and fellowship and got my share of both! Congrats to all who planned this. I miss all my new found friends and can't wait to come again.

Just wait til you all hear Allan C, Jimmyt, and Ron Davies do some Do-wop in the near future! Maybe we can get Jerry Rasmussen to fill in the harmonies, but I am SURE that KT can make the cut here! We will not be as hard on you as Bobert was in his audition for the Pedestrians KT! And judging from the people mentioned above, we can sure use a cute leadman, er girl!

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: SussexCarole
Date: 30 Oct 05 - 12:07 PM

Hi Pauline - it was me with the flute at the white house and Andrew McKay (Crane Driver) who is my partner with the concertina. We both really enjoyed that session playing with you and Sorcha - thank you both so much. PM will follow with contact details Many thanks x

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Pauline L
Date: 30 Oct 05 - 01:59 AM

Please identify yourself. I don't remember your name and I lost my directory. I promised to send you something. Sunday afternoon we went to the porch of the White House (Not GW Bush's White House) to jam. We were Andrew Mackay (?), Sorcha, and the Mystery Woman, who played a wooden flute. MW was from England, and her name might have been Carol. I promised to send MW a copy of one of my CDs of Chris Norman playing his wooden flute beautifully. PM me with your mailing address, and I'll get it to you ASAP. Violin/fiddle and flute sound so good together, and I've wanted to play my fiddle with a flute player for a long time. Thank you for making it happen.

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Oct 05 - 11:07 PM

*smile*....I still have 30 or so more to do.

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Janie
Date: 29 Oct 05 - 11:03 PM

Thanks Bill, for getting them up. And thanks again to all of you who took pictures and then took the time put them up.

Janie

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Pauline L
Date: 29 Oct 05 - 12:16 AM

Skarpi, everyone else's photos are on the Mudcat pool on Flickr.com along with some non-Getaway photos by McG of H.

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Ferrara
Date: 28 Oct 05 - 08:49 PM

Skarpi, Bill D's photos are at http://my.opera.com/extree/albums/

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Oct 05 - 08:12 PM

oh, my! That tenosynovitis can be serious stuff, lady! (No -Opera doesn't seem to have a slide show trick...but I never do that anyway)

(I've been adding names to some of the pics, and still may do some more when my brain cell is not so tired..it's had a busy month)

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: treaties1
Date: 28 Oct 05 - 07:38 PM

Darn it Bill D , Some great pictures there, but I nearly got tenosynovitis with all that clicking.
Thanks to all the otherhappy snappers as well as Ebbie says "Its great fun

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Oct 05 - 07:28 PM

Skarpi, go on the Mudcat Photopage thread. About the third post down, you'll see that someone has posted a blue clicky. There, - on Flickr- you will see that several people have posted a lot of pictures. Lorcan Otway (InOBU) was the first one. Penny Black, Tinker, el Greko and Bill D have also posted photos we can look at. It's great fun.

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: skarpi
Date: 28 Oct 05 - 07:16 PM

how can I see those pict, ?
I don´t know this &%&%&"%"%&& there´s a Monday today ,
I seem to do everything wrong now ?
All the best Skarpi Iceland

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Charley Noble
Date: 28 Oct 05 - 06:09 PM

Bill D-

So in order to make comments I have to sign in with a password again. I'm always getting confused with how to navigate once a link transports me somewhere.

You really took some wonderful/wanderful pictures.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Oct 05 - 04:54 PM

ok...just posted about 30 more pics...up to about 100, which takes us part way thru the Sat night concert. We'll try to get captions written for those before doing the rest. (If you go look in the next couple of hours after my post at 4:50 PM Mudcat time, they might not be labeled yet.)

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Dani
Date: 28 Oct 05 - 04:44 PM

YES! Maryrrf's got it just right! And we can have buckets at hand if needed. All will be forgiven. Here's the place to miss the note, crack the voice, forget the words, turn red, shake, etc.

Oh, wait. I do that EVERYtime it's my turn!

Dani

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Ferrara
Date: 28 Oct 05 - 03:09 PM

Oh, I like it, maryrrf! Noted.

At Augusta Vocal Week I saw a concert given by students in a class about building confidence. They sang their "solo" parts two by two, which I thought was neat (they were singing for about 400 people.) I figure each partner gave the other something to lean on, added strength to the sound, took a little of the heat, and besides that, you wouldn't want to let your partner down by collapsing and being unable to sing.

Thread creep, I guess, Nuff said until next summer when we start to plan.

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: GUEST,maryrrf at work
Date: 28 Oct 05 - 02:30 PM

I'm thinking of a great workshop theme for next year. What about a "Singers Workshop for Newbies". Several people mentioned that they were just bursting to sing a song, but they were too shy or got too nervous. What about a workshop designed to help those people "find their singing voices" and overcome their shyness. It might be easier to sing in front of a bunch of people you KNOW are shaking in their shoes waiting for their turn to sing. I got over that kind of stage fright a long time ago and I think with the Getaway being such a nurturing, friendly place, that perhaps it would enable some people to break through that barrier that keeps them from participating actively in song circles.

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: ranger1
Date: 28 Oct 05 - 01:53 PM

It's taken two weeks, but I'm finally coming off my Getaway Buzz and have had time to actually reflect. Where to begin?
First, the non-musical memories:
Meeting Micca and Khatt
Seeing Dani again (freed any lobsters lately?) and meeting her daughters
Hugs from Big Mick and Col K
Spending Saturday afternoon just talking with Wakana on a bench in the sun
Seeing the look on Kendall's face when Jacqui gave him those roses Hanging out with MMario
The good natured crew in our cabin (come visit us in Maine, Maria!)
Seeing Maddy go from NOT having a good time to having a great time
Helping Tinker and Dani's girls decorate Mick and Koko's boudoir
Being plied with chocolate and reading Bearded Bruce's sonnets

And for the music:
KT's mini concert
Theresa's mighty voice
The Saturday night session that morphed from Irish rebel songs to blues to gospel and then some
Larry Otway's song Richard Murray
The foreign language workshop
El Greko's beautiful songs
Geoff the Duck's Duelling Banjos
Roger from Baltimore's Armadillo song
And that's just what is immediately in the front of my brain

The most important part of the Getaway for me was the shared feeling of camaraderie that I felt, and the encouragement that gave me the courage to sing in public for the first time. I will be back next year.

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Oct 05 - 01:38 PM

Kind of sad to think we probably won't see that camp again. (Ya can't win, huh, FSGWers? ha) But it is a pretty spot and the rolling green slopes are very evocative to me of my youthful days in Virginia.

Thank you, thank you to those of you who spend so much time and energy in finding an appropriate spot for us all!

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 28 Oct 05 - 01:25 PM

The one waaaaaay up that hill, right?? I had enough to get to "the barn".                Tw

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: MMario
Date: 28 Oct 05 - 11:24 AM

Ebbie - in 4 (?) trips I've been in the white house exactly once.

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Oct 05 - 01:50 AM

Great shots, Bill. But man, does it make me realize how very much I missed. I'm not unhappy with anything I did go to at the Getaway- how could I be- they were meaty and satisfying - but I didn't so much as get to the white house - last year there was a great workshop on the back porch - and all those sunny outdoors pictures make me want to go right back and do it right this time. And the pub sing. And those pictures with the Beaubear and Amos singing and playing- where was I? I guess next time I'll just follow someone around and do what they do!

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 11:23 PM

not everyone has a label...small print at the bottom of some.

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Pauline L
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 11:13 PM

I don't see any of the labels yet. Where are they?

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 11:06 PM

oh...I put these up 'full strength'....once you click the thumbnail, you can click the larger pic again for larger view....kind of a nice trick...

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 11:03 PM

I have been uploading pictures, and Rita has been labeling them....we are only up to about 68? out of 130-140 so far, but it is a start.

go here and see thru Sat.afternoon sometime

More tomorrow, when I get some more sorting done and my aching back, which I strained in my shop, permits.

I like this Opera pic posting....I have 300 MEGS of space, I can do 10 at a time, and it is a simple interface and goes quickly.

You can post comments about individual pics 'if' you register, and you can join and have your own albums...(see bottom of page)

If you see errors or want something added and you don't wish to join/register, PM me or post here and I'll fix it.

Have fun!

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Ferrara
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 10:14 PM

Charley, this isn't excessive for a Getaway thread! It's just a little longer than usual :-) ... but not by much (so far).

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Amos
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 10:03 PM

Wow! Look what Ebbie started! I yam IMpressed!! :D


A

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Charley Noble
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 08:20 PM

At the risk of prolonging an already excessive thread, I love the Getaway song contributions, especially Scarpi's. But I'll also treasure the contributions from the other wanderful people.

I come to share them salt sea shanties,
From the ships laid up or lost,
I come to sing them old forebitters,
Which were sung while tempest tossed;
I'm gonna sing and peel the paint
From the ceiling overhead,
I'm gonna sing and raise a chorus
From them deep sea sailors so long dead!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: treaties1
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 07:34 PM

Great anthem I'll find a harmony somewhere and the pictures are great too, I'm still on cloud nine in rainy Manchester just reading the threads.
Thanks everyone