Notes_Norton Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bapu Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Made me laugh to beat the band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 My friends would play it, but called it Brown Eyed Ho... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhonoBrainer Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Why ban a crowd pleaser? Give the boomers what they want!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notes_Norton Posted July 20, 2022 Author Share Posted July 20, 2022 (edited) We play it, and enjoy it. We're musicians and entertainers. We charge more than our competition, and here in the summer, when most duos are lucky to work 5 days this month, we're working 15. August is one of the 2 slowest months, and we've got 17 gigs. September is the absolute slowest, and we've got 15. 'nuff said. Insights and incites by Notes ♫ Edited July 20, 2022 by Notes_Norton Typoman - Writing all wrongs. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitflipper Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 Somebody must have had their heart broken by a brown-eyed girl. Can't imagine any other reason anyone would hate that song. Except, I suppose, that it's often badly butchered. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notes_Norton Posted July 21, 2022 Author Share Posted July 21, 2022 Sometimes people think a song is overplayed and they are tired of it. I wish I could write a song that gets overplayed!!! I play the songs some other musicians feel are beneath them, Brown Eyed Girl, Mustang Sally, Yakety Sax and a slew of others, and I enjoy them. It sure beats any day-job I can think of. Insights and incites by Notes ♫ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitflipper Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 Well, I understand Yakety Sax is now a hit again, being the new unofficial theme song of the British Parliament. First debuted by Mr. Johnson, it then became the soundtrack of every sidewalk announcement by whatever politician was resigning that week. P.S. Before anybody starts whining that this is a political post, it's not. Watch this clip at 1.5x speed and see if it doesn't bring back fond memories of Benny Hill. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notes_Norton Posted July 22, 2022 Author Share Posted July 22, 2022 Yakety Sax is the song many sax players hate to play. Recorded in 1963 by Boots Randolph, it's the one song that people who don't know any other tune featuring a sax request. It's repetitive, and the fingering is tricky, but like most tricky fingerings, practice it enough, and it becomes easy. Mrs. Notes and I do a little shtick while playing it if the night and the audience is right. We start off a bit slower than the Boots recording and go through the AABA sections. Then a few bars of speed up and play the A section again with the look of confidence on my face. A few more bars of speed up, and I get a look of determination and play the A again. A few more bars of speed up, and I get a look of fear in my face and play the A again. Then, when it ends, I apologize about my partner drinking too much coffee or make some other wisecrack. It's a song I only play when requested, because if I played it too often, it would wear it out with our audience. There isn't a song in our songlist http://www.nortonmusic.com/cats/songlist.html that I don't like to play. There are some that I like to play more than others, but I play whatever I think will work best with the audience at the particular moment in time. Playing any song is a hell of a lot more fun than any day-job I can think of. Insights and incites by Notes ♫ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User 905133 Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 43 minutes ago, Notes_Norton said: Yakety Sax is the song many sax players hate to play. Recorded in 1963 by Boots Randolph, it's the one song that people who don't know any other tune featuring a sax request. It's repetitive, and the fingering is tricky, but like most tricky fingerings, practice it enough, and it becomes easy. Maybe the next time you can play this and see if they notice. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notes_Norton Posted July 23, 2022 Author Share Posted July 23, 2022 23 hours ago, User 905133 said: Maybe the next time you can play this and see if they notice. Will I have to wear white socks with black pants and shoes? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User 905133 Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 4 minutes ago, Notes_Norton said: Will I have to wear white socks with black pants and shoes? Yes, and the pant legs need to be 3-5" too short to show off the socks. 😄 So, after over a half-a century, I finally understand why they were called sock hops--to show off the socks!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulo Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 On 7/21/2022 at 2:25 AM, bitflipper said: Can't imagine any other reason anyone would hate that song I can think of somewhere around 200 reasons...... Every single freakin' second of it and that it's Van Morrison.😀 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InstrEd Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 5 hours ago, User 905133 said: Yes, and the pant legs need to be 3-5" too short to show off the socks. 😄 So, after over a half-a century, I finally understand why they were called sock hops--to show off the socks!!! So I was born to late to be in fashion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InstrEd Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 34 minutes ago, paulo said: I can think of somewhere around 200 reasons...... Well at least it isn't 10,000 reasons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 2 hours ago, InstrEd said: Well at least it isn't 10,000 reasons That's #201 for Paulo... 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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