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Sunday, May 31, 2020

Cheer's Open Mic Crew Songs in Isolation May 2020

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Continued from this post of Quarantunes done in April 2020.

Continues on in June here.

July songs here.

Playlist of all my Quarantunes. For May, start with #31 - "My Commercial Song".

I've replaced the thumbnails with links, as there might be too many to load depending on your device or connection.

May 1: Richard Pepper: My Commercial Song

May 2: Seventies Day: Take a Chance on the Super Dancing Money Queen

May 3: Childhood Song: The Pirates Chorus from The Pirates of Penzance (G & S)*

* This was supposed to be a song from the first album I owned, but I got my Sundays mixed up.


May the 4th: Movie Monday. Guess which one.

May 5: Song With a Number: Three Little Birds By the Rivers of Babylon

May 6: One Hit Wonder Wednesday: Tubthumping (Chumbawumba)

May 7: Song You Hate (That Everyone Loves): Lollipop (Beverly Ross/Julius Dixon)

May 8: Original Song: My Sound Check Song

May 9: Eighties Day: All I Want Is 40 Things I Still Haven't Found (U2)

May 10: Song From the 1st Album I Owned: Common Ground (as sung by B.J. Thomas)

May 11: Movie Monday: A Berlin Song

May 12: A City Song: Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

May 13: One Hit Wonder: One Tin Soldier

May 14: Song by a Dead Dude: When First My Old, Old Love I Knew (G. & S.)

May 15: Richard Pepper: Cowboy Lament

May 16: Nineties: Tie Me at the Crossroads (Bruce Cockburn)

May 17: Song For One's Own Funeral: There Is a Redeemer (Melody Green)

May 18: Movie Monday: Somewhere Over the Rainbow

May 19: Song With Love in the Title: Love Life (The Rutles)

May 20: One Hit Wonder: FWIW (Buffalo Springfield)

May 21: Grammy Winning Song: Michelle

May 22: Richard Pepper: The Pillow-Fighting Champ

May 23: 2000s: Complicated (Avril Lavigne)

May 24: From Fave Album: I'm So Tired (LENNON/McCartney)

May 25: Movie Monday: All-Star (Smashmouth)

May 26: Day or Night Day: Good Golden Night My Someone

May 27: One Hit Wonder: Tell Laura I Love Her (as sung by Ricky Valance)

May 28: Top of Your Lungs Song: Rocking in the Free World (Neil Young)

May 29: Musician's Choice: Hippopotamus (Flanders & Swann)

May 30: 2010s: Count on Me (Bruno Mars)

May 31: Request By Mum: O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go

April Quarantunes here.

June Quarantunes here.

July songs here.

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Walk For Memories: May 31/20

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I usually am one of the buskers along the route of the actual walk, but this year I was asked to submit a couple of videos, for the Virtual Walk on Facebook. I repurposed a couple of my Quarantune Open Mic vids. The photos are taken from the Thunder Bay A.S. page, each followed by the embedded video.

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Sunday, May 24, 2020

Saturday, May 23, 2020

Peter Pan: May 23/20

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The crocodile before gaining its eyes:

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Saturday, May 16, 2020

More Than Peter Pan: May 16/20

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J.M. Barrie wrote plays other than Peter Pan. This evening "Come Play With Me Thunder Bay" performed two of his one-act plays. I played the Butler who entered near the beginning, spoke four lines, and disappeared.

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Thursday, May 14, 2020

Almost Lost in "Lost Together": May 14/20

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I'm easy to miss, but I appear c. 3:35 into this video of 100s of people.

Here is a page of info about the project:

The Great Canadian Singalong of Blue Rodeo's "Lost Together"

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Monday, May 11, 2020

Saturday, May 02, 2020

Pygmalion: May 2/20

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I played Alfred Doolittle, Eliza's father, channeling Stanley Holloway as best I could.

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