I jusy LOVE it when Disney or Nick at Night gives new life to old tunes I've been playing for years and years. If you need a few "ice breakers" that transend the generation gap between 10 yr olds and their 50 yr old parents .... try these:
"Do you believe in Magic" - Ali & A.J (Disney)
"Our lips are sealed" - (Hilary & Haley Duff)
"Can't help falling in love with you" (A-Teens, from Lilo & Stitch)...done in a Island/hip hop style

Just goes to prove - evrything old is new again!

Hey Dave....does that include all of us old timers as well...do we all become new again..

At the risk of starting a "heaven bound" discussion .....
YES !

Whadyamean Heaven Bound--I ain't leavin'

Gary

Coincidence that you bring this up. I just stumbled on the new version of "Do you believe in magic" yesterday, and was planning on practicing it with my female vocalist and adding it to my repertoire this week.
http://acw.loudeye.com/buenavista/bvmg/hollywoodrecords/aly_aj/do_you_believe_in_magic.asx

Regards,

Jerry

That's right the music goes round and round. I'm sure some of us more 'mature' guys remember Little Richard singing 'Baby Face' and 'By The Light of the Silvery Moon,' Fats Domino's 'Margie', and others which were re-do's of tunes from an earlier era. In those days it was known as 'rockin-up' an oldie.

.. Fats also did "My Blue Heaven", and "Bluebery Hill" to name two more 'standards' .... I found this interesting tid-bit after doing a search on Blueberry Hill ... As recorded by Louis Armstrong ... Having never heard Louis Armstrong's version, I found the additional lyrics interesting....
Blueberry Hill
- words and music by Al Lewis, Larry Stock and Vincent Rose
- as recorded by Louis Armstrong with Gordon Jenkins' Orchestra and Choir
in New York City September 6, 1949

I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill
On Blueberry Hill when I found you
The moon stood still on Blueberry Hill
And lingered until my dreams came true

(The wind in the willow played
Love's sweet melody
But all of those vows we made
Were never to be)

Though we're apart, you're part of me still
For you were my thrill on Blueberry Hill

(I found my thrill)
Come climb the hill with me, baby
(on Blueberry Hill)
We'll see what we shall see
(on Blueberry Hill)
I'll bring my horn with me
(when I found you)
I'll be wit' you where berries are blue
(the moon stood still)
Each afternoon we'll go
(on Blueberry Hill)
Higher than the moon we'll go
(and lingered until)
Then, to a weddin' in June we'll go
(my dreams came true)
Ba-ba-da-de-buzz-buzz va-de-n-da-day

The wind in the willow played (do you really love me)
Love's sweet melody (as I love you?)
But all of those vows we made (will you still remember)
Were never to be (when the night is through?)

Though we're apart, you're part of me still
For you were my thrill on Blueberry Hill

t.

It's interesting how many top 40 hits from the 70's have been re-recorded and are now on the main playlist on easy listening jazz stations.

A few are:
Let's stay together
Walk on by
Watermellon Man
Many others.


I love it...instant "current" easy listening jazz hits...a change in rythem patten and you're "happenin".

How funny..one of the VERY FEW benefits of getting old!

Russ




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Quote from captain Russ:
" I love it...instant "current" easy listening jazz hits...a change in rythem patten and you're "happenin". "

Reminds me of back in 1989 - 1990 when the movie "When Harry Met Sally" came out and all the young people were asking for some of those "new" songs by Harry Connick Jr, such as "Love Is Here To Stay", "It Had To Be You", Don't Get Around Much anymore" ...
t.

Same thing seemed to happen two years ago when a lot of the 40s standards were re-recorded by Rod Stewart--all the youngsters asked "Hey can you play some of the new songs by Rod Stewart?" Amazing, many of us were doing those songs before he even knew of their existance.

Gary

Hey Gary, how about before he was even born...looking for Green Banannas.....

A lot of people were first exposed to standards when Willie Nelson recorded his "Stardust" album. BTW, it is one of my favorites. He maintains the integrity of the originals, but gives them his own special touch.
DonM

Three summers ago, a bussboy at the restaurant I work asked me if I ever learned "that guitar song from that Quinten Tarintino movie". I knew he was talking about a Dick Dale song from 1963 used in Pulp fiction.

I had played the tune many times in a surf band in California and had been on venues with Dick Dale, so I brushed the cobwebs away and played it (sounded really strange, but recognizable on a nylon string).

He was pretty impressed, until I told him that the last time I played it was 20 years before he was born. I think that was the same week another employee asked me where I got my antique Guild Starfire, and I had to tell him I bought it new.


Damn kids!

Russ

...ouch!