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12 Sep 00 - 02:25 PM (#295814) Subject: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: WyoWoman In the thread on the San Francisco festival, Radriano mentioned that he liked a particular shanty because he didn't get to yell enough in real life. I completely identify -- particularly since I'm not a boss anymore. ;-+ BUT, fear not. WE have songs to help us. For instance, "Alabama John Cherokee," with that satisfying grunt ...unhh ... after the "way-he-yah". What other songs do you know that provide a good grunting or yelling outlet? WW whoisoccasionallybutnotdependablywell-behaved |
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12 Sep 00 - 02:36 PM (#295826) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: Irish Rover my all time fav is The Old Dun Cow you bang on the table and yell MacIntyre. |
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12 Sep 00 - 02:41 PM (#295828) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: MMario yes, when we do "MacIntyre" we aim for volume (verse one) volume(verse two) and length (on the third verse) McIntyre's..... The Barbarian Birthday Song is another good grunting song... |
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12 Sep 00 - 02:52 PM (#295839) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: radriano Hi, WyoWoman. You ever going to visit us in the Bay area again? This one's for you - Yeeahhhhhhhhh!! Regards, Radriano |
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12 Sep 00 - 03:19 PM (#295861) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: Irish Rover Never heard the birthday song. give me a clue |
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12 Sep 00 - 03:40 PM (#295872) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: Mbo Just about everything by Oasis, especially "Cigarettes And Alcohol," "Shakermaker," "Headshrinker," and "Round Are Way." Also "When The Levee Breaks" by Led Zeppelin, "Free Fallin'" by Tom Petty, "Let Me Take You Home Tonight" by Boston, and lots of stuff by The Old 97's and The Pogues, especially "Sally McLennane". FAR AWAY! |
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12 Sep 00 - 03:46 PM (#295874) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: Little Hawk "I'm in love...UNNNH!...I'm all shook up! Woh-oh-oh...oh...Hey...eyhey! (the one and only Elvis) Who-o-o-o-o-o-oh...Jokerman! (Dylan) Way-hey-a-hiya-ho-way-ya-hey-hiya! (Little Hawk chant) Great Balls Of Fire! (Jerry Lee Lewis) |
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12 Sep 00 - 03:47 PM (#295875) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: MMario rover.....a few verses (grunts left out after the first couple) While you eat your birthday stew We will loot the town for you, Happy Birthday. [Hunh!] Happy Birthday. [Hunh!] Indigestion's what you get From the enemies you 'et, Happy Birthday. [Hunh!] Happy Birthday. [Hunh!] We brought linen, white as cloud, Now we'll sit and sew your shroud, Just be glad the friends you've got Haven't found out you-know-what! This one lesson you must learn, _First_ you plunder, _then_ you burn! Hear the Women Wail and Weep Kill them all, But Spare the Sheep |
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12 Sep 00 - 04:05 PM (#295883) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: Jeri Note - the Barbarian Birthday Song is to the tune of The Volga Boatmen. |
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12 Sep 00 - 04:05 PM (#295885) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: Wesley S ANYTHING by James Brown |
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12 Sep 00 - 04:34 PM (#295912) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: mousethief John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt? |
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12 Sep 00 - 04:37 PM (#295915) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: MMario "Three Jolly fishermen" the one that ends with DAM DAM DAM! |
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12 Sep 00 - 04:43 PM (#295920) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: Mbo Or if anyone knows Burach, "The Funky Fat Challenge". |
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12 Sep 00 - 05:00 PM (#295932) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: WyoWoman Yes, Radriano, I'm coming to the Bay Area again -- I hope this fall. Waiting to hear about various job-related insanities to know whether I'll be moving again or staying put and if b.) then whether I'll actually be getting paid with some hint of regularity. But I definitely am looking forward to a return engagement. I've even learned a couple more songs! Whoo-hoo. MMario. Thank you so much for the words to the birthday song. I've been doing that for friends, but only remembered a verse or two. I'll print them out and keep them ever. Mbo -- do you know the Pogues' Christmas song? It's one of my seasonal favorites. Not one I do at the retirmement home, of course -- unless it's the House of the Setting Sun ... Good ones, everybody, keep 'em coming! ww |
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12 Sep 00 - 07:15 PM (#296050) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: Mbo You mean "Fairytale of New York"? |
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12 Sep 00 - 07:19 PM (#296054) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: GutBucketeer Paddy Doyle's boots also has a Unhh. You already mentioned John Cherokee which is one of my favorites. JAB |
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12 Sep 00 - 07:52 PM (#296074) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: Quincy What about 'Fine Girl you are' shouted in 'The Holy Ground' or 'The Boys from the County Armagh' where you shout 'where' after 'it's my own Irish home'.
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12 Sep 00 - 08:16 PM (#296082) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: sophocleese God Rest ye Merry Gentleman sounds sort of Russian if you sing it kind of fast and punctuate each line with a deep 'Hey!'
God rest ye merry gentlemen let nothing you dismay, HEY! |
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12 Sep 00 - 08:43 PM (#296092) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: Bugsy Barbara Allen, and Scarlet Ribbons, Spring to mind. Cheers Bugsy |
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12 Sep 00 - 08:53 PM (#296096) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: Lox Anything with a "whack-fol-the-do-fol-the-diddly-idle-day" |
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12 Sep 00 - 09:39 PM (#296115) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: Mrrzy You get to thump on Home Boys Home, and clap at The Wild Rover, but my personal favorite Uunhh is Man Piaba - the one that Harry belafonte did on what was the first record my parents bought as a couple. It's about trying to figure out the birds and bees. The chorus I hear in his very West Indian voice is: Hey! Woman piaba and the man piaba And the tam tam call but the lemon grass The lily root, golly root, belly root UUUNH! And the famous randy scratch scratch. No points for guessing my favorite line... and as a child, I just LOOOOVED singing about that famous randy scratch scratch! |
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12 Sep 00 - 10:36 PM (#296139) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: The Lighthouse "Drunken Sailor" is a good song for thumpin away. "Home Boys Home" obviously and "Wild Rover". Anyone know "John Kanaka"?? John Kanaka-naka too ri ay. Too ri ay WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH too ri ay! John Kanaka-naka too ri ay! |
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12 Sep 00 - 11:06 PM (#296161) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: Marion I like the grunt in the chorus of "White Collar Holler" (I can't remember who wrote it; Stan Rogers sang it).
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13 Sep 00 - 12:03 AM (#296207) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: Peter Kasin There's the chantey, "Dan, Dan." the chorus is nothing more than "Ar!" "Blood Red Roses" and "Bring "Em Down" are other great shout at the top of your lung chanteys. Real voice killing, hernia inducing ones! |
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13 Sep 00 - 01:53 AM (#296259) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: jacko@nz John Kanakanaka and Blood Red Roses have had a mention, and i can manage a whoop or yelp into many shanties but my unrestrained shriek in Chinesee Bumboatman apparently blew Mbo clean off HearMe |
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13 Sep 00 - 02:01 AM (#296262) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: Dave (the ancient mariner) General Taylor is a goodun.... |
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13 Sep 00 - 02:29 AM (#296268) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: Peter Kasin I thought he died long ago. |
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13 Sep 00 - 09:12 AM (#296355) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: guinnesschik A friend of ours encourages the audience to yell "bulls***" during the chorus of "Charlie On The MTA." |
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13 Sep 00 - 09:13 AM (#296356) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: Callie At a local session the evening used to end with "Jean". And after the chorus that goes "And I love 'er. I love 'er" etc everyone would grunt loudly, suggestively and in a vulgar fashion right on the first beat of the following bar - very funny and very satisfying. A few South African songs are good for singing your brains out: Senzenina and Nkosi Sikele Afrika. And for some reason the chorus of "Factory Lad" (with hand actions which can get a little irreverant - especially at "chuck") has always been satisfying:
Turning steel how do you feel Callie |
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13 Sep 00 - 09:26 AM (#296366) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: sledge A song from the Napoleonic eara, The route has just come for the Blues, loud Huzzahs all round. |
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13 Sep 00 - 09:35 AM (#296372) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: Snuffy Lighthouse, There are more bits in John Kanaka for really opening your lungs -
I thought I heard the old man say UNNNHHH!! And then you've still got the chorus! Wassail! V |
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13 Sep 00 - 09:47 AM (#296379) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: GUEST I reserve the right to differentiate between a holler and a pelvic thrust: Elvis was a long way from hollering, as was Burton Cummings in the lamentable "American Woman". But never mind that. Sophcleese has uncovered further evidence of the sinister "Yellow Rose of Texas/Gilligan's Island/" conspiracy: "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" can be sung to the same melodies.HAH! |
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13 Sep 00 - 11:13 AM (#296414) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: GUEST,dan evergreen To make my little girl crack up, I used to throw in a few exclamations in this song: "When John Henry was a little baby, (WHOOOOOOOO!) Sitting on his mammy's knee, (GET DOWWWWN!) etc., etc.,..." Of course, "UNHHH!" would work good, too. |
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13 Sep 00 - 11:15 AM (#296416) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: Mary in Kentucky try singing Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer with ho-ho-hos...
Then one foggy Christmas Eve, Rise and Shine in the DT. On the third line of the chorus stand up and sing, Rise and shine and...(insert big umph or clap or stomp here)...give God the glory, glory...
So rise and shine and give God the glory glory This one is on the missing tunes list. I may try to do a midi from memory. Somehow, the ole memory always plays a few subtle tricks when trying to get the melody just right. Mary |
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13 Sep 00 - 11:15 AM (#296417) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: GUEST,dan evergreen To make my little girl crack up, I used to throw in a few exclamations in this song: "When John Henry was a little baby, (WHOOOOOOOO!) Sitting on his mammy's knee, (GET DOWWWWN!) etc., etc.,..." Of course, "UNHHH!" would work good, too. |
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13 Sep 00 - 11:49 AM (#296440) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: WyoWoman Bugsy, honey, not to be impolite, but are you buggin' again? I don't recall any exclamations or grunts in either of the songs you suggested. Barbara Allen and Scarlet Ribbons? 'they called her Barbry Allen [UNNH]...') ('Scarlet ribbons for her hair ... AIIYYAAAAEEEEEEE!...)
But, heck. Maybe my memory is just ... huh? ... oh, .... faulty .... Mbo -- I'm not sure the name of it because someone gave it to me on a tape and didn't include the names of the songs. I just knew that it was a Pogues tape and their "Christmas" lyrics sort of suited my pissy and profoundly cynical mood at that particular time of my life. ww |
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13 Sep 00 - 12:29 PM (#296472) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: Mbo Was it this? Fairytale of New York. |
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13 Sep 00 - 12:52 PM (#296488) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: Clinton Hammond2 The White Collar Holler was written by Nigel Russell... And it's near the top of my list with the way Song Of The Lakes used to do "Rolling Down to old Maui", (Made Stan Rogers sound like a little girls blouse) and of late, James Keelaghans's "Number 37"... for it's "way-hey-ya-hey-yahey hey-ya hey-ya-hey!" {~` |
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13 Sep 00 - 01:02 PM (#296497) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: Barbara The variant of the Volga Boatmen/Birthday song I know goes : Happy Birthday HUUUHH! Oh, Happy Birthday HUUUHH! Smoke and smog fill the air People dying everywhere Happy Birthday HUUUHH! Oh, Happy Birthday HUUUHH!
And I've heard a number of other verses on that theme. I think they may be in the Forum someplace, if someone wants to search.
And if you want to count less-serious, doesn't-shove-your-guts-out-your-mouth type "HUHs", there's always,
I don't see it in the database, but it's in Rise Up Singing.
There is also a singer I sing with regularly at the pub who has raised the art of 'but-saying' to a high level; Whenever the word 'but' appears in his song, BUT especially at the beginning of a line, he belts it out with enough force to remove paint from the walls and cause his adjacent companions to spill or spew their beer. Do you suppose it's relevant to say he's English? |
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13 Sep 00 - 01:38 PM (#296525) Subject: RE: Songs that let you holler or go 'unhh!' From: Marymac90 Since my favorite chanteys for yelling have already been mentioned by chanteyranger or others, I'll go to the rock genre that I so often disparage. WAR!!! What is it good for? Absolutely NOTHING!!! and We will, we will ROCK 'EM!!! I think these will do to sing your guts out with, if that's what you've gotta have. Not my usual taste, but I think they fill the bill. Marymac |