2005 Getaway Reflections Here...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: SINSULL
Date: 30 Oct 05 - 05:03 PM

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

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: CarolC
Date: 30 Oct 05 - 06:50 PM

Thanks for taking that squeezer jam picture, Bill.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 08:51 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: 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 - 09:07 PM

I will gladly be a lowly Belmont!

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: 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: 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 - 09:18 PM

All Doo Wop

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 09:19 PM

sounds like a GREAT workshop.......................to put opposite Appalachian ballads.


We purists need a place to escape   *grin*

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: jimmyt
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 09:26 PM

Do-woppers also are purists Bill, but only about saddle oxfords and cardigan sweaters,

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: jimmyt
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 09:38 PM

MIck, I just dredged up the artists of So much in Love. THe Thymes, 1963 Nice walk down nostalgia street!

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Amos
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 09:53 PM

Geeze....

I left out:

Dream Lover
Poor Jenny
Little Nash Rambler
Cathy's Clown
Maybe Tomorrow

and just about everything by the Crickets and Buddy Holly:

Love Like Yours
Wake Up Lil Suzie
Rave On
Oh, Boy
That'll Be the Day
It's So Easy

A-we-he-he-hell, little things you say and do, make me want to-oo be with yo-hu-hu.
Rave on, it's a crazy feeling and ah I know it's got me reelin',
when you say : I love you ! Rave on.

The way you dance and ah hold me tight,
the way you kiss and say goodni-hi-hight,
rave on, it's a crazy feeling and I know it's got me reelin',
when you say : I love you ! Rave on.

Well, rave on it's a crazy feeling,
and I know, it's got me reelin',
I'm so glad that you're revealing your love for me.
Rave on, rave on and tell me, tell me not to be lonely,
tell me, you love me only, rave on to me.


Yeah, mebbe we're talking twelve hours here....

A

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Amos
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 10:02 PM

Geeze....

I left out:

Dream Lover
Poor Jenny
Little Nash Rambler
Cathy's Clown
Maybe Tomorrow

and just about everything by the Crickets and Buddy Holly:

Love Like Yours
Wake Up Lil Suzie
Rave On
Oh, Boy
That'll Be the Day
It's So Easy

A-we-he-he-hell, little things you say and do, make me want to-oo be with yo-hu-hu.
Rave on, it's a crazy feeling and ah I know it's got me reelin',
when you say : I love you ! Rave on.

The way you dance and ah hold me tight,
the way you kiss and say goodni-hi-hight,
rave on, it's a crazy feeling and I know it's got me reelin',
when you say : I love you ! Rave on.

Well, rave on it's a crazy feeling,
and I know, it's got me reelin',
I'm so glad that you're revealing your love for me.
Rave on, rave on and tell me, tell me not to be lonely,
tell me, you love me only, rave on to me.


Yeah, mebbe we're talking twelve hours here....

A

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Amos
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 11:16 PM

And "A White Sports Coat and a Pink Carnation" (Rose and a Baby Ruth)

and...and...hell, I'm exhausted just thinking about all that fine doowoppery!!


Leader of the Pack
Soldier Boy
Wait a Minute Mister Postman

and...and...zzzzzzzzzz....


;>)

A

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: GutBucketeer
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 11:31 PM

jimmy, can you teach me how to sing the bass doo wop parts?

Can't wait.

If you like doowop

Be sure to check out the vocal harmony website for some great pre doo wop songs from the 5 red caps, the Spirits of Rhythm, The Ink Spots, The 3 peppers, The 5 keys, Bill Johnson, The Mills Brothers, and many other greats.

http://www.group-harmony.com/

Gutbucketeer
Bass to the world!

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: KT
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 11:33 PM

okay do these qualify?      "Though we gotta say goodbye.....for the summer....darling, I promise you this ~I'll send you all my love, every day in a letter, sealed with a kiss."

"SOLdier boy, oh my little soldier boy......."

and how 'bout.....


"I hear the cottonwoods whisp'rin' above
Tammy! Tammy! Tammy's in love"

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Ron Davies
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 11:41 PM

Doo-wop is just THE GREATEST! I bet we could have the whole dining hall belting out a few hours of it any night.

On Sunday night I volunteered to lead "Goodnight, Sweetheart" (the Spaniels) but I was told it was too suggestive---







People would just leave and go to bed, and that would be the end of the singing.

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Ron Davies
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 11:43 PM

KT--

Do you really think we're going to turn you down on any song you want to sing?

(Only Bobert would do that).

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Amos
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 11:45 PM

Not me, boy. If KT wants to do lead on "Soldier Boy", I'll enlist for the duration. :D


A

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 11:46 PM

Poor Bobert!

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: KT
Date: 01 Nov 05 - 12:09 AM

Poor Bobert indeed! He's not the one whose budding blues career went down the tube in 2 minutes flat!

How 'bout, "Goin' to the Chapel and we're gonna get ma-a-a-ried."

Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
From: KT
Date: 01 Nov 05 - 12:14 AM

Amos, you're a riot! I wish we could all get together so sing before next Getaway! It's too far away!!