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snow, Snow, SNOWWWW! (and Rosemary Clooney cannot sing!)

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snowdead

 

This song is played on the Mike O’meara show when they discuss the snowy forecast.

It’s Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, and Rosemary Clooney.  Rosemary has got to be one of the most talentless singers ever.  Between her and Keeley Smith,  I don’t know who is more boisterous and flat.  The opening attempt at harmony makes Hozpitality sound good.

Play this song as you throw out your back shoveling.  Be sure to be playing this as your car skids out of control on the highway ending your meaningless life in the…

snowwwwwwww…. Snowwwwwwwwwww…. SNOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW….

CHOB, Cool stuff, Hozpitality, Music Sound Noise Audio, WMOM

A Hozpitality Bit – Synchroid Inclusion

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So I was bored while everyone was watching the Winter Olympics in SoCheee and I started playing with the Synchroid Application (“App”) on my Android phone. Synchroid is a simple application where you scribble sound on the phone screen and you can reprocess it through a few synthesizer processors to make a nifty loop. I came up with a loop today in Synchroid that, probably because of Olympic level boredom, sounded TO ME like a nifty musical loop. I couldn’t get enough of it, so I decided to put it into a song.

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What is special about this is, it would be the first time I made music with:

1. The Korg Kaossilator Pro
2. Pre Built Acid Loops
3. The Bass Guitar
4. and MY TELEPHONE using Synchroid (this of course being the unused tool in my music making thus far).

It came out neat. I put in the loops from the Synchroid phone app first, then the Pre Built Acid Loop drums, and then a drum loop from the Kaossilator. At this point I thought, it had been a while since I broke out the bass guitar, dusted it, tuned it and (once again) TRIED to play it. This is why you hear the shoddy sloppy bass playing in the back of the whole thing.

BOTTOM LINE: I had fun doing it and it killed a few hours. It’s only 2:18 minutes so, tell me what you think of Synchroid Inclusion.

Chronicles of the Absurd, Cool stuff, Music Sound Noise Audio, silly

A Little Late But My Christmas Fave

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Every year on the David Letterman show, Paul Shaffer does the official singing of “Oh Holy Night” by Cher, impression. I remember this from the 1980’s and he’s still doing it which is totally awesome!

I live for this and I recently found where they are on the youtubes. Here’s an explanation:

This one is more in the flavor that I loved. I loved the reference to Donahue. Very 80’s. I loved his viewer mail and Dave was so much better in the 80’s on NBC. I sort of think he died when he moved to CBS. (…and still the reference to the “muff”)

and then we have 2008

Cool stuff, Music Sound Noise Audio, WMOM

Once Again, Trevor Horn Kicks Ass!!!

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Listen to his timid, meager voice at the beginning, then watch this man tickle a 5 string bass…

IT IS SO COOL TO SEE THIS PERFORMED LIVE!!! (and with the Mysterious Anne Dudley on keys).

Blew my mind! CRAAAAAAAAAAAAANK IT UP!

(“….I just need a bass…. THAT’S IT! START THE CAR, ANNE!)

And as always, I am musically obsessing. Here’s another video of Trevor playing AND SINGING. I have always loved his voice. He sounds so geeky, British and timid. This song is on constant rotation in my head lately. I THINK the lyrics are about dying or afterlife (everything sounds past tense’y). Probably the happiest song about dying or afterlife I’ve ever heard. It’s from the album The Producers, Made In Basing Street. This album contains some of the best music producers of my life time: Trevor Horn (of course)(bass/voc), Lol Creme(guitar), Steve Lipson(guitar), and Ash Soan(drums). I CAN NOT STOP LISTENING TO THIS ALBUM. IT’S INFECTING ME!!!