Howard Johnson w/ James Taylor on Sesame Street

Biggs · Post by **Biggs** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:45 pm

Were this not marred by the presence of screaming children, I'd say this was the coolest thing ever.

Tubaryan12 · Post by **Tubaryan12** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:46 pm

That was awesome!

Thomas Maurice Booth · Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:49 pm

I work at a museum that had Seasame Street as one of the traveling exhibits. That video is sweet. At first I ddn't like the kids either but after the 100th time you see it, you disregard the kids and enjoy the groove the HW lays down.

TMB

ASTuba · Post by **ASTuba** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:04 pm

Yet another video for my MySpace page...

pulseczar · Post by **pulseczar** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:43 pm

Any idea on the tuba/bell? That's a very huge taper on the bell.

imperialbari · Post by **imperialbari** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 11:08 pm

pulseczar wrote:Any idea on the tuba/bell? That's a very huge taper on the bell.

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MikeMason · Post by **MikeMason** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 12:10 am

makin me smile

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 12:58 pm

Great! Got those kids goin' for a high one-makin' 'em work.
Tuba, vocal, and guitar, who woulda thought of that?
Any comments, Ben?
Dennis Gray
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MartyNeilan · Post by **MartyNeilan** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:11 pm

Scooby Tuba wrote:Yes, the high art of "Jellyman Kelly" was ruined by children singing.

HoJo was great.

JT was his signature self.

If you think those kids detracted from a "kid's song" in any way and didn't do a pretty good job, then you need to spend about 5 seconds in any general music class in the country to appreciate the job they did.

I agree.
Further, I would rather have genuine racous out-of-tune singing than the "canned," dubbed, professional, pitch corrected, over processed singing that is used on the more modern shows like Barney. I would cringe every time I heard it - it sounded so unnatural.

Marty "who actually had his elementary kids standing with good posture and singing , not shouting or whispering, in his shortlived GM classes."

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:06 pm

Question: Did J.T. play that song in E because he is a big star or did he want to make the kids stretch out vocally?
He would probably record that tune in that key, I reckon.
Mr. Johnson probably was fine with that key-nor was he surprised.
My old Eb King has surprisingly good intonation in E.