Working New Year's Eve

[Dr Dave]

Anybody got a funky rendition of "Auld Lang Syne"? We're gonna have to play it, and we're a blues/funk/r&b band.

[Mike Schwartz]

Originally Posted by Dr Dave

Anybody got a funky rendition of "Auld Lang Syne"? We're gonna have to play it, and we're a blues/funk/r&b band.

Doc,
This is some sort of trick question, right?;-)
That tune is funked-up to begin with!

[kedoane]

Originally Posted by Mike Schwartz

Doc,
This is some sort of trick question, right?;-)
That tune is funked-up to begin with!

Well Mike, here's a KSJS memory for you: when KSJS was switching its frequency from 90.7 to 90.5, we spent a couple of weeks playing all kinds of different versions of "Auld Lang Syne." I got pretty sick and tired by the time that I did the last shift of that.

I also had the honor of turning off the 90.7 frequency that was being ran from the backup transmitter back in 1995.

[Dr Dave]

Originally Posted by kedoane

Well Mike, here's a KSJS memory for you: when KSJS was switching its frequency from 90.7 to 90.5, we spent a couple of weeks playing all kinds of different versions of "Auld Lang Syne." I got pretty sick and tired by the time that I did the last shift of that.

I also had the honor of turning off the 90.7 frequency that was being ran from the backup transmitter back in 1995.

I'm sorry if I'm bringing up painful memories, but were any of those versions even remotely worthwhile?

[groover]

Be creative and come up with your own. Force-feed the funk into it!

[Mike Schwartz]

Originally Posted by kedoane

Well Mike, here's a KSJS memory for you: when KSJS was switching its frequency from 90.7 to 90.5, we spent a couple of weeks playing all kinds of different versions of "Auld Lang Syne." I got pretty sick and tired by the time that I did the last shift of that.

I also had the honor of turning off the 90.7 frequency that was being ran from the backup transmitter back in 1995.

That's funny....anything fucky out of all those for the Dr.?

[kedoane]

Originally Posted by Mike Schwartz

That's funny....anything fucky out of all those for the Dr.?

I really don't remember. The only thing I know is that I got sick and tired of hearing that tune. That tune ran for 2 weeks before the frequency change. I don't think that there was any funky versions of that tune that we played over and over again. We may have played some jazzed up versions and rock versions only, if my memory serves me correctly.

The only that I know is that, when things and morale improved at KSJS, we grew. In fact there is competition for the on air shifts. Today one of my trainees showed up for a teach in on the propositions that are coming up in the special election that is coming up next Tuesday. He was supposed to just be a gofer, but I used the time to train him as a board engineer. Not bad for his third week of training. Mind you, he gets to train again with me on Wednesday, doing the music programming clock.

[Dr Dave]

Originally Posted by groover

Be creative and come up with your own. Force-feed the funk into it!

Well, you get the prize for most constructive comment, anyway. I'll figure out some little vamp, and we'll deal with it.

[Gary Sisco]

You could use just the opening phrase of Auld Lang Syne and slide from there into "Killing Floor," easily.

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

A little respect for the elderly, please! This is the oldest item in my repertoire, and I do a lot of old material, so it's for damn sure it's the oldest item Dr. Dave does. The tune's over 300 years old. Burns wrote the lyrics, and "In a note to George Thomson (1793) he describes it as 'the old song of the olden times, and which has never been in print, nor even in manuscript, until I took it down from an old man's singing.' To what extent Burns reworked this traditional ballad has been the subject of speculations for many years. The tune itself has been known in print since 1700."

There's also a CD/mp3 of nothing but Auld Lang Syne CD :

1. Anthem to the New Year 2:49 (vocal)
2. A Swingin' Country New Year 3:33
3. The Tex-Mex New Year's Polka 3:28
4. Auld Lang Syne (the traditional version) 2:11
5. New Year's Freestyle Disco 4:40
6. New Year's Freestyle Disco (extended mix) 6:17
Start Tracks 7-11 at 11:59:00 for the perfect
countdown to the New Year!
7. Funky Disco Countdown / (mixed with)
* * Anthem to the New Year 3:48
8. Party Time Countdown/ (mixed with)
* * A Swingin' Country New Year 4:30
9. Party Time Countdown/ (mixed with)
* * The Tex-Mex New Year's Polka 4:21
10. Prelude Countdown/ (mixed with)
* * * Auld Lang Syne (traditional version) 3:09
11. Space Age Countdown/ (mixed with)
* * * New Year's Freestyle Disco 5:13
Solo Countdowns
12. Funky Disco Countdown 1:17
13. Party Time Countdown 1:04
14. Prelude to the New Year Countdown 1:00
15. Space Age Countdown 1:15
16. New Age Stop Watch (no vocal countdown) 1:02
17. Dramatic Synthesizer (no vocal countdown) 1:04

[Dr Dave]

Steve! You rock! Thanks!

Actually the oldest tune in our book (1260) is:

"Sumer is icumen in,
Lhude sing, cuccu!
Groweth sed and bloweth med
And springth the wude nu.
Sing, cuccu!"

done a cappella,as a lead in to

"Oh, the cuckoo, she's a pretty bird,
Lord, she warbles as she flies;
She'll never say cuckoo Till the fourth day of July."