#childrens choir

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Young members of a Black Jewish congregation in Harlem, ca. 1955 .

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[underthecitysky]

I finally watched the Rupert and the Frog song (We all Stand Together). I still see people (mostly older, mostly on Facebook) dunking on “the frog chorus” and it’s just so clearly an outdated notion for it to be lame for a musician to make content explicitly for children. It’s so common now for artists who’ve become parents to make something their kids will enjoy. Jack White sang a song with the muppets on Sesame Street because he loves his fucking kids. It’s so normal now.

I get where Mary Had a Little Lamb released as single by a rock band went down wrong .. but this is creative, whimsical content explicitly *for* kids. The SONG, in particular, is beautifully composed, imaginative. Lovely! I keep listening to it.

He was 20 years into his career. The Beatles were never Led Zeppelin. It’s hard for me to wrap my head around people still being so weird about this. He such a well rounded musician; it’s all like an exploration in another part of his creativity. There are elements of the classical composing that would come later… and the playful, experimenter who made Robber’s Ball (my beloved), McCartney II, the Fireman records.

But anyway, watching this today reminded me of this moment from Behind the Scenes of BBC Radio where someone presented Paul and Mike with their childhood Rupert book. The title page filled in by their parents reads “This book belongs to Paul McCartney and Michael McCartney”.

It was either Paul or Mike who said they didn’t get many gifts as kids and for Christmas they’d usually get one toy addressed to Paul and Michael from Father Christmas. It makes me really consider why this Rupert project was so important for him that he held onto it for 15 years, always sort of considering ideas for it. There were those RAM era songs that were specifically for the “Rupert project”. It comes up so much in the McCartney legacy book.

Then there’s the element of the frogs and his history with frogs, from growing the tadpoles in his own hand made frog pond in the backyard and checking on them every day until one day they were frogs that hopped away. Then there was the dark, frog killing episode that shocked his brother and he probably felt some shame about.

But here, in this story, there are guard frogs on duty protecting their mostly undisturbed world. Happy and content, it’s the frogs that create this magical chorus.

There’s even a father and son frog pair who’ve come to see this event that only happens every couple of hundred years.

The father is rather Jim McCartney-esque with his pipe and 1940s style hat and manner. There’s a moment where the son inadvertently annoys his father and instantly recoils like he’s about to get hit and momentarily it looks like the father is considering it but gets a hold of himself.

But later, wrapped up in the music together, the father hugs his son.

I don’t know what I’m saying exactly but I think there’s some exploration of his childhood here and something about Rupert and the frog chorus that’s particularly meaningful to him.

Maybe he’s reconciling the dark, frog killing episode of childhood with the vegetarian, animal lover he’d become by giving the frogs their own hero’s story. Rupert, Jim, the threat of violence, the presence of love, the frogs he loved but also was violent toward.. and music at the center of everything. Unifying, healing. We all stand together.

For anyone interested, the full BBC clip is here

The full Rupert short is here

[sexhaver]

i knew Do You Realize?? was the official rock song of Oklahoma for a few years but didn't realize why it took so long to get approved after the online vote + didn't get renewed in 2013 lol

[antigoneikk]

Band of Brothers- Ep. 7 The Breaking Point

[strawberrystepmom]

happy Halloween my beloved friends 👻 let’s all have a spooktacular day and do our boo-est

[cactus-cactus-cactus]

Lizzie is kind of the blueprint for insane historical fanfic musicals. Like they’re not even PRETENDING to be based in reality they quote Macbeth almost as many times as they quote the court documents. The Lizzie/Alice relationship has NO historical basis (there’s more evidence for Lizzie and Bridget afaik??) there’s so much crazy speculation the murder victims aren’t even IN the show (and when they are they’re watermelons) they wear sluttified inaccurate 1892 fits where to even begin with the score….. it’s cunty it’s glamorous it’s bloody and sexy and tragic and it makes no sense and it makes perfect sense. this is what true crime should be.

[noctude]

fucked up being tricked into enjoying a traditional childrens song bc theres no good recordings of them that arent clearly for babies. im a freaking Adult can i not enjoy a good melody in canon once in a while....

[joshlymeme]

In Excelsis Deo really is that bitch

[thatscarletflycatcher]

"why would you want me to read adult books when adult books are about sadness and divorce and angst where I could be reading middle school books about giant apples and cozy adventures" post but it's about Christmas carols. Why should I be listening to the suckiest pop Christmas music when I could be listening to traditional Christmas carols that go 800 times harder.

[itstimeforstarwars]

Xanatos is so funny for treating Obi-Wan as a full-grown adult and hardened criminal on Telos IV and all of Telos was funny for going along with it. Xanatos says "Arrest these men!" and everyone assumes he means the pipsqueak thirteen-year-old and not. idk. The literal adult thief and hacker behind him.

[buttfrovski]

i thought craig and tweek were confirmed to be together in canon. Sure they were just pretending in Tweek x Craig, but the next time their relationship was explored was in Put It Down where they always talked like they 100% were together. Just because they officiated things off screen doesnt mean they arent a serious couple

literally. people just love to poke holes in this shit. they're threatened by the unwavering power of yaoi and blind to its fortitude. but boy love will always prevail.

[rillabrooke]

And there's the upcoming Dracula: A Love Tale, which will be about Dracula's love for Mina

oh 😔 why do we continue to romanticize that horrible man? he was a horrible person in life, let alone in death, and i find nothing romantic about it.

[septembersung]

The four day (book)work week was the best decision ever. Four days of lessons, one day for out of the house learning.

[after-nine-at-the-oasis]

Forgot to post but Afternoon Session, let's go!!!

[hanakihan]

me, hitting a floor with my first: I’m suffering from image of ruler salieri lifting a side of his coat to see tiny avenger salieri and a bunch of ruler’s minions (who take form of even smaller bunch of children similar to children choir) hiding here

i see Salieri’s minions and my brain goes ‘that symbolizes his teacher and mentor nature to many bright people in his life and the fact he’s kinda good with children’ so why not to make them actual murdering choir of children who follow ruler and avenger salieri like a bunch of little chicks

[tokusongs]

"We Are the One - Bokura wa Hitotsu", ED of Bakuryu Sentai Abaranger (2003). Performed by Kushida Akira and the Morinoki Children's Choir.