<benlizro@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Nov 24, 1:12 pm, "John Dean" <john-d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > keti_torota...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> > > Hi. I am a teacher of the English Language from Tbilisi, Georgia. I
> > > have often heard my students say that they find it difficult to
> > > distinguish words in songs performed by native English or American
> > > singers. To be honest, the task is rather problematic to me too. I
> > > have got some very good songs by Mitch Woods but I'd like to have
the
> > > lyrics too so that we can hear not only the music and melody but the
> > > words as well. The songs are "Blue Boogie", "Easy Street", "Palm
Tree
> > > Tie","Please Don't Leave Me", "Swinging At The Savoy", "Jive,
> > > Mr.Boogie", "Jump For Joy", "10th and Parker Blues". I would be very
> > > grateful to anybody who sends me the lyrics of even just one of
these
> > > songs to my e-mail address: keti_torota...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you.
> >
> > You need to do some creative searching [1] via Yahoo, Google or
whoever
> > takes your fancy. It wasn't hard to come up with this:
> >
> >
http://music.yahoo.com/Mitch-Woods--His-Rocket-88s/House-Of-Blue-Ligh...
> >
> > The lyrics there are for "House of Blue Lights"
> > Seek and ye shall find the rest
> >
> > [1] The best way to see if there are lyrics out there for a given song
is to
> > find a distinctive phrase or two in the song that you are sure of
(other
> > than the title) and plug it into an engine. Frinstance, having found
the
> > example above, if I'd heard it and was sure he was singing "lose your
lead"
> > and "detroit barbecue ribs" I'd try those two and they would lead me
to
the
> > Chuck Berry original in several places.
> > --
> > John Dean
> > Oxford
>
> Sound advice, but Chuck Berry was not the original in this case.
> "House of Blue Lights" was written by Freddie Slack and Don Raye, and
> recorded by Ella Mae Morse in 1946. By the time Chuck recorded it, it
> was already an oldie.
>
> Ross Clark
The term is "a standard" everybody has done it right up to todays
Commander
Cody.
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