Just for Fun!

SUBHEAD: Growing up near NYC I was a fan of 50's doowop music. People actually did this music on the street then.

By Juan Wilson on 4 July 2017 for Island Breath -
(http://islandbreath.blogspot.com/2017/07/just-for-fun.html)


Image above: Still frame from video below of group singing MMMbop.

Have a great holiday where ever you are. I'm not talking about patriotic fervor of loyalty to American militarism. I mean just have some fun than lightens your step and makes you smile. I stumbled on video below plowing through YouTube last night, and it has made me smile and laugh several times.

These guys are having real fun. My daughter Laura saw it and emailed me:

"I love to see how happy people are sometimes when they sing or play, love that feeling when you can't help dancing and laughing as you perform, then you know it's some good healing medicine!"

MMMbop Doo Wop version is a cover of the song written and performed by Hanson.  The artists are Kenton Chen, Luke Edgemon, Matt Bloyd, and mario Jose (vocals), Conrad Bauer (guitar), Adam Kubota (bass), Andy Sanesi (drums) and Scott Bradlee (piano).


Image above: MMMbop Doo Wop version.\ YouTube logo for full screen.  From (https://youtu.be/iEejfq1KhkU). See also Scott Bradlee's (www.postmodernjukebox.com) for more period music recreated today.

Lyrics to MMbop
Written and performed by Hanson

Oh oh oh oh oh
Yeah
You have so many relationships in this life
Only one or two will last
You go through all the pain and strife
Then you turn your back and they're gone so fast
Oh yeah
And they're gone so fast, yeah
Oh
So hold on the ones who really care
In the end they'll be the only ones there
And when you get old and start losing your hair
Can you tell me who will still care
Can you tell me who will still care?
Oh care
Mmmbop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du, yeah
Mmmbop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba du dop
Ba du bop, ba du dop
Ba du, yeah
Said oh yeah
In an mmmbop they're gone
Yeah yeah
Plant a seed, plant a flower, plant a rose
You can plant any one of those
Keep planting to find out which one grows
It's a secret no one knows
It's a secret no one knows
Oh, no one knows
Mmmbop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du, yeah
Mmmbop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba du dop
Ba du bop, ba du dop
Ba du, yeah
In an mmmbop they're gone
In an mmmbop they're not there
In an mmmbop they're gone
In an mmmbop they're not there
Until you lose your hair
Oh
But you don't care, yeah
Mmmbop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du, yeah
Mmmbop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba du dop
Ba du bop, ba du dop
Ba du, yeah
Can you tell me? oh
No you can't 'cause you don't know
Can you tell me? oh yeah
You say you can but you don't know
Can you tell me? oh (Which flower's going to grow?)
No you can't 'cause you don't know
Can you tell me? (If it's going to be a daisy or a rose?)
You say you can but you don't know
Can you tell me? oh (Which flower's going to grow?)
No you can't 'cause you don't know
Can you tell me?
You say you can but you don't know
You say you can but you don't know
You don't know
You don't know, oh
Mmmbop, duba
Du bop, du
Yeah, yeah
Mmmbop, duba
Du bop, du
Oh yeah
Mmmbop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du, yeah
Mmmbop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba du dop
Ba du bop, ba du dop
Ba du, yeah
Mmmbop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du, yeah
Mmmbop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba du dop
Ba du bop, ba du dop
Ba du, yeah
Can u tell me? oh
No you can't 'cause you don't know
Can you tell me?
You say you can but you don't know
Say you can but you don't know

Another video I watched last night was the kind of music heard acapella from young on the tenement streets of the Lower east Side on New York in the 1960s. In the 50's the singers were teenagers. Now they are older. The video below was recorded 8 August 2014 on a New York sidewalk.


Image above: Unidentified doowop artists sing "Wonderful World". See more at source http://www.tinuonline.com).From (https://youtu.be/qW025ccPx5M).

(What a) Wonderful World

Written and performed by Sam Cooke

Don't know much about history
Don't know much biology
Don't know much about a science book,
Don't know much about the french I took

But I do know that I love you,
And I know that if you love me, too,
What a wonderful world this would be

Don't know much about geography,
Don't know much trigonometry
Don't know much about algebra,
Don't know what a slide rule is for

But I do know that one and one is two,
And if this one could be with you,
What a wonderful world this would be

Now, I don't claim to be an "A" student,
But I'm tryin' to be
For maybe by being an "A" student, baby,
I can win your love for me

Don't know much about history,
Don't know much biology
Don't know…(fade away)

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