I have a project for a musical tribute to Seinfeld. It's been in my signature, but it's my first post about it.
Everyone can paticipate. If you're a musician and love Seinfeld, then do a little something and I'll put it on the page, coupled with an episode of the series. Check the "HOW TO PARTICIPATE" section of the page. It doesn't have to be a creation just for this project. It could be something you've already done before too.
There's already three songs on the page. One recently posted here is KD and his song "These Pretzels Are Makin Me Thirsty", and the well-known "Seintology" which is on Mike's homepage too.
It's not a contest, it's just for fun. So go ahead and join me in this strange harmonic journey from Milan to Minsk!
This project is now promoted on the Internet Underground Music Archive: http://christianadaindustries.iuma.com/
On 4 Oct 2002 00:39:48 -0700, [email] (The Maestro) wrote:
Neat Idea!! At first I thought you would be just taking music from the episode itself but I see these are your original compositions. Can you tell us a bit about your compositions and why they relate to the episode you chose. For example why is "Seintology" linkrd to The Parking garage?
I will add a link to your page from my site too.
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This is the music played in various shows. Perhaps this will help too.
Real Music (original artist) or (composer's name): ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Train (Nine To Five) (Sheena Easton) [The Voice][The Bizarro Jerry] California Girls (The Beach Boys) [The Keys] Desperado (The Eagles)[The Checks] Witchy Woman (The Eagles)[The Checks] Downtown (Petula Clark)[The Bottle Deposit] In a gadda da vida (Iron Butterfly)[The Slicer] Mexican Radio (Wall of Voodoo)[The Reverse Peephole] Slow Ride(take it easy) (Foghat) [The Slicer] Time of your life (Green Day) [Final Clip Show] Wouldn't It Be Nice? (The Beach Boys)[The Hamptons] Hello (Lionel Ritchie) [The Voice] Shining Star (Earth, Wind & Fire) [The Bookstore][The Little Kicks] Adagio for Strings (Op.11 by Samuel Barber) [The Fatigues] Don't Stop Till You Get Enough (Michael Jackson) [Finale clip show] Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor Op.23 (Tchaikovsky) [The Doll] Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, K492 (Mozart) [The Doll] Aria from Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) [The Opera] Aria from Barber of Seville (Rossini) [The Barber] Oya Come Va (Carlos Santana) [???????]
Performed by a Cast Member: ------------------------------------- A Most Unusual Day (Miss Rhode Island)[The Chaperone] Crazy (Elaine)[The Summer of George] Desperado (Jerry and Elaine)[The Checks] Everybody's Talkin' (George) [The Mom and Pop Store] How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? (George) [The Phone Message] How Much Is That Doggie in The Window? (Newman) [The Engagement] Heartbreaker/Brubaker (George Steinbrenner)[The Nap] Side By Side (Elaine & Joe Davolla) [The Watch] If I Were a Rich Man (George) [The Limo] Lemon Tree (George and Jerry) [The Phone Message] Master of the House (George and Alton Benes) [The Jacket] Opus 13 in c minor 'Pathetique' (Noel) [The Pez Dispenser] Overture, Curtains, Lights (Jerry) [The Opera] The Wheels of the Bus (Jerry) [The Contest] The Whole World Smiles with You (Mel Torme and Kramer) [The Jimmy] Three Times a Lady (Newman)[The Pothole] Wind Beneath my Wings (Kramer) [The Understudy] The Most Beautiful Girl (George) [The Pick?] WAR! What is it good for? (Elaine) [The Marine Biologist] Pistol Packin' Mama (Kramer) [The Pilot 2] She'll Be Comin' 'Round The Mountain (Jerry) [The Opposite] Oh My Papaya (to the tune "Oh My Papa" - Kramer) [The Glasses]
I couldn't help noticing, and correct me if I've overlooked it, but I can't seem to find the song called "Joe DiMaggio" or something on this list. It was on the end-credits of The Note!
I don't know if it should even be on this list, and if this is just...kooky talk! :o)
I just checked my *.avi file of The Note and the only thing I hear when the end credits are showing, is Jerry's Monologue about men having low sales resistence to homosexual salespeople.
The avi's probably cut off right after the monologue then, meaning the song comes right after. I think it's Marilyn Monroe or somebody who sings it, sure sounds like her, but wouldn't be too difficult to find out. I saw this episode last night, and just checked the script and made sure "DiMaggio" was mentioned, so I'm positive it was this exact episode that I meant! :o)
The song definitely plays on the version shown in the UK ( where we hardly know who Joe DiMaggio is ! ) It's about "Jumpin' Joe DiMaggio, we want you on our side." It's kind of an old 1940s style song, someone like the Andrews Sisters.
<<<Mentioned but not sung: ----------------------- MacArthur Park (George)[The Statue] Oye, Como Va (Elaine)[The Checks] The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Elaine, Jerry) [The Andrea Doria] Ninety-nine Bottles of Beer on the Wall (Kramer) [The Stall] Hakuna Matata (Elaine) [The Merv Griffin Show]>>>
An addition: In "The Abstinence," Jerry's agent mentions Rick James (who was to have appeared at the school assembly), to which Jerry replies "Super Freak?"
^^^^^^ "Art is often hailed as the grandest expression of human spirit, but we know now ... that the grandest expression of human spirit is whatever it takes for a man or woman to rush back into a burning building to save more people."
[email] (TheNewsGuy(Mike)) wrote in message news:...
It all began when I started to do "serious" music two years ago. I hate to try and find little desciptive titles for my music like "The Tempest, The Path�tique, etc." But I wanted a system to remember in what order I composed them. I knew it was important to have this, cause for ten years I composed pop music and now I'm lost trying to remember in what order I made every songs.
So I started obviously with the "opus" system. But I find it kind of pompous and old-fashioned. Next, I changed it to only the date I finished the piece. But I felt a little ridiculous telling someone: "Here is '14th april 2002', it's my latest!". Then it hit me: I already have 180 funny titles in chronological order at my disposal with Seinfeld.
The idea to invite other people in this came when I joined this newsgroup.
Seinfeld is not just humor for me (or: humor is more for me than what it is commonly considered to be). His humor is encrusted so deep in my personality that it became a way for me to look at the world. Oftentimes, Seinfeld's humor is based on these little daily humiliations and frustrations we all have to go through. To be able to relate to a specific Seinfeld joke when it happens to me is a way to couterbalance and stay in peace with myself. Seinfeld's humor is litteraly for me a "survival guide to all the little frustrations of the modern world". With his sitcom, Jerry Seinfeld made the world (almost all the world) believe that he is the most superficial guy that there is, while it is exactly the opposite. This guy deals with the "ego" like nobody ever did before. And people around me don't understand why I admire him as much as Bach. But I'm sure people in this NG know what I'm talking about.
Because of this, I think that every Seinfeld fan in its own way and to a certain degree like Seinfeld because of what I explain in the previous paragraph. If this Seinfeld fan is a musician, then it cannot not be expressed in some concrete or abstarcted way in his music. That's why I think it would be intertesting to have all these musics joined together. Because and only because they were made by people who love Seinfeld. No regards to what else they could have in common.
There could be many reasons why an episode would be chosen to represent a composition. It's up to the person who will submit his/her music. It can just be his/her favorite episode. It also doesn't have to be explained. KD didn't choose any episode for his song so I placed it in The Alternate Side because of the title "These Pretzels Are Makin Me Thirsty" and "Seintology" is in The Parking Garage because of the reference to Scientology in this episode.
Thanks a lot.
In reply to Derek Tagliarino, in The Maestro, there was:
Beethoven's 7th finale; and Verdi's aria "La donna e mobile" from Rigoletto.
I found a little blues demo called "Watching Seinfeld". It was written by Dave Brewster, a guitarist, while he was watching "The Doodle" a few years ago (the original broadcast?). As soon as the episode was over, he went into his home studio and cut a demo of the tune.
Dave told me that he and his sister are huge Seinfeld fans and that he's really missing the show and watch re-runs all the time. Her sister even has a large framed picture of Kramer above the mantel of her fireplace.
Check it out, it really grooves! And there's more to listen to on his homepage. So "The Doodle" (season 6) is now the host of this music inspired by Seinfeld. Welcome Dave to "the strange harmonic journey from Milan to Minsk".