[LUTE] Re: Acker Bilk's Canon

2006-05-23 Thread Arthur Ness
This is a good one, too: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/48461 - Original Message - From: Stewart McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lute Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 1:08 PM Subject: [LUTE] Acker Bilk's Canon This afternoon I was sent this little bit of

[LUTE] Re: Acker Bilk's Canon

2006-05-23 Thread Eric Crouch
I remembered a joke about the customer who asked for the 'Kodaly Buttocks Pressing Song' from my father years ago, so I googled for this and found (among others) this site that has several other examples and classifies the genre as 'Mondegreens' http://

[LUTE] Re: Acker Bilk's Canon

2006-05-23 Thread Craig Allen
Eric Crouch wrote: I remembered a joke about the customer who asked for the 'Kodaly Buttocks Pressing Song' from my father years ago, so I googled for this and found (among others) this site that has several other examples and classifies the genre as 'Mondegreens' http://

[LUTE] Re: Acker Bilk's Canon

2006-05-23 Thread Eric Crouch
PROTECTED] Date: 23 May 2006 13:10:23 BDT To: Lute Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [LUTE] Re: Acker Bilk's Canon I remembered a joke about the customer who asked for the 'Kodaly Buttocks Pressing Song' from my father years ago, so I googled for this and found (among others) this site that has

[LUTE] Re: Acker Bilk's Canon

2006-05-23 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
I think Al Bowly is pretty well known, is he not? Thus the funnierness of the typo. Of course, in context, this is a misinterpretation of Tomaso Albinoni. Eugene At 05:51 PM 5/22/2006, bill kilpatrick wrote: is there anyone alive - other than ... - who even knows who al bowlly was?

[LUTE] Re: Acker Bilk's Canon

2006-05-23 Thread bill kilpatrick
i got the joke but didn't think he was well known. i lead a sheltered life ... i bought some tapes of his a zillion years ago. he had a wonderful voice - killed in the blitz, i believe. - bill --- Eugene C. Braig IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Al Bowly is pretty well known, is he not?

[LUTE] Re: Acker Bilk's Canon

2006-05-23 Thread chriswilke
All, My wife and I have a duo and we often play weddings. Not too long ago we got a request to play a piece called the Canadian Wedding Song as the bride walked in. Neither one of us had heard of it and research turned up nothing, so we asked the bride's mother to provide us with the

[LUTE] Re: Acker Bilk's Canon

2006-05-22 Thread bill kilpatrick
is there anyone alive - other than ... - who even knows who al bowlly was? blowblowthouwinterwind - bill --- Stewart McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This afternoon I was sent this little bit of nonsense, which I pass on, with the hope that some might find it amusing. Stewart McCoy.