Crazy Organist

[Uncle Al]

Crazy Organist on YouTube.

Enjoy



Uncle Al

[Sarongman]

If I was as crazy as that, I'd be a very happy man. By the way AL, You'd better post again quickly. Your tally at present is 1080---Also , though not so well known, having the official name of Sodium flouroacetate---a colourless, odourless deadly poison used to control rabbits, foxes, politicians and other vermin

[BobM]

If a guy who plays an organ is an organist, is a guy driving a race car a racist?

[Kirbstone]

Love it. The guy is to organ playing what Victor Borge was to piano playing. I saw a brief glimpse of Prince Harry in the audience laughing his head off. Lots of other interesting clips also available and talking of the church organist going crazy, I've been drafted in to play in our local Godbox again on Christmas Day, so I am working on mingling some popular Christmas tunes into bits of Bach & Handel for deployment before the start and after the finish of the service.

Just now 'Santa Claus is comin'--to Town' slots nicely into the middle of 'Sheep may safely graze', by J.S.Bach.

T.

[Jack Williams]

Yes, I also enjoyed the crazy organist and put a linkto it on a thread I inhabit on "The Art Of Sound" website. Then I had a look at other organists and got carried away and put up a heap of links to clips of other music I like. Here is a link to that page, which I will also put up on "Jack Track" because that will get more visits I think.
http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthre ... 99&page=21

[Stevie D]

This chap is Bill Bailey, well-known in the UK as a comedian and also appearing in comedy shows such as 'Black Books' and 'QI'

As well as being a comedian, he is a very talented musician, much more so than this Youtube clip (good though it is) would suggest.

[straightfairy]

Bill Bailey is brilliant.
There's loads of stuff on youtube of him in various concerts.

[Tor]

Great fun. At least this clip is humour of a quality often hard to find. Too much is a bit to nasty for my tastes. Seems folks on that side of the pond are more likely to produce good humour, though. First Flanders and Swann, and now (it seems) Bill.

Tor

[mugman]

The single note crematorium music is just a bit too realistic!
I've also become a recent fan of Flanders & Swann material. Some of the then more topical verses might not mean much to anyone today, but light comedy songs like 'Madiera M'dear' (Have some madiera m'dear...I have a small cask of it here...) I find entertaining in its very British way. So much so that myself and a vocalist friend are starting to do our own versions. I do Swann's lines with keyboard piano, and friend does Flanders. 'Transport of Delight', 'The Gas Man Cometh', 'Misalliance', and so on.

Oh it's hard to say
'Hoolima Kittiluca Cheecheechee'
But in Tonga that means:
No.
If I ever have the money
Is to Tonga I shall go.
For each lovely Tongan maiden there
Will gladly make a date
And by the time she's said
'Hoolima Kittiluca Cheecheechee'

It is usually too late!


Pete

[Kirbstone]

Great news, Pete.

I'm a real sucker for Flanders & Swan and in addition to those numbers you mention I'd add the hippopotamus & the Gnu, also 'A transport of delight', 'We're ever so House & Garden' and 'The gas man cometh'. Another one I find very impressive is where Ml. Flanders sings the passage from Mozart's 4th horn concerto to the words 'I've lost my (French) horn', but that'd take some practice & vocal gymnastics.

T.

[Tor]

Ah, yes. Ill Wind. Wonderful piece. "...Oh, where is the devil who pinched my ho -- rn". "A song of Reproduction" is also wonderful, though perhaps not so accessible to modern audiences. I'm not so old as to directly remember any of it but for some antiques I've handled a trifle.

I always rather liked "P** P* B**** B** D******" too. Also consider the Elephant:

An elephant's life is tedious, laborious, and slow.
I've been an elephant all me life, so I blooming well ought to know.

And later:

And I'll stick in the [redacted spoiler].

How about also the Sloth?

Tor

[skirtingtheissue]

Nice organ playing...
I'm a big fan of Ethel Smith. If you don't know her organ music, check it out!

[Uncle Al]

Nice organ playing...
I'm a big fan of Ethel Smith. If you don't know her organ music, check it out!

She really made "TICO-TICO" famous playing it on the Hammond B3
Here is an excerpt from the 1944 film Bathing Beauty.
This short clip is of her 91st birthday celebration in 2009

Enjoy!

Uncle Al