music To Cheer You Up

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

This should cheer you up: if you have a bit of the Irish in you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-JAP7Kf1cI&NR=1

[JesusA (imported)]

All it's missing is a line of step dancers! Great music and impossible to sit still to.

[StefanIsMe (imported)]

I suddenly crave a bowl of Lucky Charms...

... Neat stuff, Mac, thanks!

[Arab Nights (imported)]

And if you have a redneck in the woodpile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddgyg_5FF_0

[JesusA (imported)]

Here’s one from my favorite group from Romania, the Night Losers. It always gets me up and moving (though I look far too much like one of the audience members who’s dancing to the music).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESCfVO-N79U

“Shame, Shame, Shame” is my current favorite of their performances. They claim that the music video cost less than U.S.$500. Do you think maybe they were overcharged???

[FianceeUvBigGuy (imported)]

Finally found it! More Irish, and lots of history too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htmyaOYu8wA

This is BigGuy's (the original FUBG's hubby.) favorite song. It's "Garryowen", NOT Gary Owen, named after a tough part of Limerick Ireland.

Sousa didn't write it, he just did the arrangement.

It has been the marching song of the 7th Cavalry since Custer first heard it and the regiment is still known as the "Garryowens".

One squadron of the 7th was "The tip of the spear" that led the charge into Baghdad, BTW. They've done better since Custer died. As BG puts it; "I TOLD him not to wear that ARROW shirt!"

BG is a Cavalry Lt.Col., US Army (See: Tanks) and must be a reincarnation of a horse soldier, I swear. When he wears his Dress Blues, saber, and spurs you can easily picture that.

First you get "Garryowen" with fifes and drums, then band. Then you get "St. Patrick's Day' which is always played with "Garryowen" by the Army bands, then back to "Garryowen".

Here are the words to "Garryowen" should you wish to sing along:

Let Bacchus' sons be not dismayed.

Come join with us, each jovial blade.

Come booze and sing and lend your aid,

and join us in the chorus.

Refrain: Instead of spa (water) we'll drink brown ale

and pay the reckonin' on the nail.

No man for debt shall go to jail

from Garryowen in glory.

BG has your Yoli, Ash(leigh), and WOBG (formerly FUBG) sing this when Ash(leigh) and I visit them at the post where they are stationed, always for an appreciative audience at the Officer's Club or at a *squadron dance or banquet.

The enameled device worn on the shoulder straps:

http://www.cavhooah.com/images/new_pa12.jpg

The Coat of Arms:

http://www.cavhooah.com/images/new_pa13.jpg

Chaaaaarrrrrge!

Yoli

* There were Cavalry squadrons long before there were airplanes, so there!

[Arab Nights (imported)]

They claim that the music video cost less than U.S.$500. Do you think maybe they were overcharged???

Naw. If that included the Rent-a-Duck invoice, they did OK.

I am envious. I'm going to have to look for work in Romania to enjoy some real down-home pickin' an' grinnin'.

[calmeilles (imported)]

If we're being musical - and rhythmical - one of my current favourites is Lo Cor de la Plana (http://www.myspace.com/locordelaplana) - a Marseillaise (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marseille) group of six who sing in Occitan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occitan_language), either a capella or to the accompaniment of tabors. The compositions mostly their own but the style traditional.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jEhMGUa52bw