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Subject: BS: Tree Chanty group needs name From: Bill D Date: 08 Sep 13 - 12:47 PM Above the line? Well.... maybe later this well-organized group of singers could be the next stars! They are loud, but enthusiastic. So far, they have no formal group name... whadda ya' all think? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tree Chanty group needs name From: pdq Date: 08 Sep 13 - 02:42 PM Knot Hole Gang |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tree Shanty group needs name From: ChanteyLass Date: 08 Sep 13 - 08:43 PM Eek! I'm not usually into fashion, but I love their color scheme. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tree Shanty group needs name From: Rapparee Date: 08 Sep 13 - 09:51 PM The Stinky Holler Boys. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tree Shanty group needs name From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 09 Sep 13 - 09:50 AM Why not the Monkeys? Thanks for the interesting picture, Bill. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tree Shanty group needs name From: Bill D Date: 09 Sep 13 - 11:09 AM My mind is now trying to imagine what they are singing... ♫Up aloft, amid the rigging,♫ ...or maybe, ♫Abba Dabba Dabba.....♫ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tree Shanty group needs name From: TheSnail Date: 09 Sep 13 - 11:35 AM Don't be silly, that's The Wilsons. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tree Shanty group needs name From: Leadfingers Date: 09 Sep 13 - 11:42 AM Slightly more nautical , leeneia - The Powder Monkeys |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tree Shanty group needs name From: Bill D Date: 09 Sep 13 - 02:50 PM By golly! The Wilsons are close! I wonder if they got their start doing tree shanties! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tree Shanty group needs name From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 10 Sep 13 - 11:18 AM The Wilsons make a good sound, but I can hardly understand a word. That shanty is either about walking on shore or somebody named Walkinshaw. ==== A month ago, I sang in choir, doing Schubert's Mass in G. The director reminded me of two rules of good singing - relax your jaw, letting it drop down, so your mouth can open up. The monkeys are doing just that. It's wonderful! All those round, open mouths, even on the juveniles. Enough to make any choir director's heart go pitty-pat. In this video of the Vienna Boy's Choir: round mouths you can see the boys doing that on the long notes. Since they are singing a human language, they close their mouths when consonants require it, but on long vowels their mouths resemble the monkeys' mouths. Are those howler monkeys? I heard howler monkeys in Costa Rica, and they don't howl. They produce a beautiful, deep sound kind of like thunder and kind of like drumming. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tree Shanty group needs name From: Bill D Date: 10 Sep 13 - 11:56 AM Yep.. those are howlers. here is one refusing to pose but audtioning for the Boy's Choir. Even more interesting are gibbons. I used to live right near the National Zoo in Wash D.C., and wake up to this chorus of (short version... it could last for several minutes) "whoop...whooooop....whoooooop.woopwoopwoopwoopwoopwoopwoop" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tree Shanty group needs name From: GUEST,Les from Hull Date: 11 Sep 13 - 07:33 AM Walker Shore (and Byker Hill) are place names near Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It's not a shanty it's a song about coal mining. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tree Shanty group needs name From: Charley Noble Date: 11 Sep 13 - 08:54 AM Bill- "Tree Shanty Singers"? Now that's got me stumped. How about "Bark is Worse than Bite" or "Make like a Tree & Leave" or simply "Timber!" Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tree Shanty group needs name From: Tattie Bogle Date: 12 Sep 13 - 04:35 AM Sing No Evil? ( After see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tree Shanty group needs name From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 12 Sep 13 - 12:20 PM Thanks for the explanation about the song, Les. The sound of the howler monkey in the video that Bill linked is quite ugly. I think that monkey has spotted the tourist and is angry and afraid, growling a warning. (The man's an amateur; his white shirt alone tells us that. He should give the animal some space.) The sound I admired in Costa Rica was the sound of one group calling to another, so they could keep track of each other. It didn't have that 'growl' in it. |
