Over the past year or so I wrote a cd about dinosaurs. One of the things I really enjoyed about the process of writing these songs was that each one had a very different writing process. I’d like to explore these different writing processes in a series of blog posts. One element that seemed to [...]
Category Archives: Song Origins
TV be Gone!!
Posted by Mike Whitla on January 7, 2011
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0 I don’t know if it bugs you but TV in public places really annoys me. You are talking with someone and their eyes are constantly being distracted by the warm glow of the ever present TVs. If you have kids you will really know what I mean as they can’t pry their eyes away [...]
Bird, Dizz and Kids
Posted by Mike Whitla on January 6, 2011
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Generic Viagra online I’ve been listening to Charlie Parker’s recordings with Dizzy Gillespe over the weekend. Have not done so for a while and it is always great. What was interesting was the effect they had on the kids around our house that were hearing this music for the first time. The music made the [...]
Origin of “Four White Horses”
Posted by Mike Whitla on May 10, 2008
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This is a wonderfully catchy song from the Caribbean. There is a really great 4 person clapping game that goes with it too. Anyway, the words I learned was from a workshop run by Doug Goodkin. The words of this song never made any sense to me. But I did love the song as well [...]
Origin of “The Moose Song”
Posted by Mike Whitla on November 18, 2007
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Ok. I have heard a few versions of this great “repeat after me” song. One sung by Joel Exner (a former Rainbow Songs teacher) one sung by Alana Kurtis (another former Rainbow Songs teacher) and most recently this one sung by the staff of the Bayview Wildwood resort. Anyway if you know where this song [...]