#1961486 - 06/22/08 06:18 PM
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Thanks for this vid. Great story regarding early christian spirituals. God will use the most simplest methods to affect great influence on future generations.
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#1961880 - 06/23/08 02:29 PM
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Wow, never knew Amazing Grace was the notes of the pentatonic scale. Cool. Thanks.
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#1961919 - 06/23/08 03:57 PM
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I've always been partial to this version.
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#1961936 - 06/23/08 04:29 PM
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I've always been partial to this version.
The gin and tonic scale?
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#1961942 - 06/23/08 04:42 PM
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Did you know that the lyrics to "Amazing Grace" and the theme from "Gilligan's Island" are perfectly interchangeable? Try it sometime.
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#1961945 - 06/23/08 04:52 PM
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Great video. Great message. Thanks vicsant.
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#1961949 - 06/23/08 04:58 PM
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Very nice. Thanks for sharing.
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#1961960 - 06/23/08 05:17 PM
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Excellent! 
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#1962008 - 06/23/08 07:10 PM
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Did you know that the lyrics to "Amazing Grace" and the theme from "Gilligan's Island" are perfectly interchangeable? Try it sometime. No, I didn't. But I do know that you can sing the lyrics to 'Amazing Grace' to the tune of 'House of the Rising Sun' (& vice-versa) - try it sometime!  Scott
I hadn't heard that one.
It's probably much more common than these examples. All three are, IIRC, examples of a very common meter in English poetry, imabic pentameter. (Somebody who majored in English help me out here.) The best ones, like these two examples, have the greatest incongruity of lyrics- a very silly or bawdy lyric sung against a tune associated with a very serious or sacred lyric (or vice versa).
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#1962016 - 06/23/08 08:01 PM
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You can also sing the words of Amazing Grace to the Eagles' tune (verse) of Peaceful Easy Feeling!!!
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#1962040 - 06/23/08 09:52 PM
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This reminds me....
What praise song do you sing after a near miss from the tear gas cannister?
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#1962060 - 06/23/08 11:03 PM
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Thanks for sharing. Never knew the history of that song (and some quick Google searches confirms the story told). The musical tie-in is also cool.
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#1962143 - 06/24/08 06:47 AM
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Taking the thread even further off topic, you can also sing the words to "Purple Haze" to the tune of "Ballad of the Green Berets".
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#1962164 - 06/24/08 07:56 AM
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Whintley Phipps is an amazing performance. I've had the privilege of doing some events with him through an organization I worked for a while back. He's a great guy and was great to talk to. He performed this song at one of the National Prayer Breakfast gatherings at the Washington Hilton a few years back. I don't think I've known or seen another performer who so embodied a song as Whintley does. He once shared with me that he was doing ministry in a prison once and told the story of Amazing Grace and then began to sing it for the inmates. He said when he began to sing, the inmates all stood up as if this song were their National Anthem. Ever since, I can't sing this song sitting down.
A little trivia, Whintley has co-written several songs (which he has recorded) with Sen. Orrin Hatch (Rep. Utah), who most folks would be surprised to learn is a prolific songwriter.
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#1962188 - 06/24/08 08:38 AM
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Did you know that the lyrics to "Amazing Grace" and the theme from "Gilligan's Island" are perfectly interchangeable? Try it sometime. No, I didn't. But I do know that you can sing the lyrics to 'Amazing Grace' to the tune of 'House of the Rising Sun' (& vice-versa) - try it sometime! Scott
Like THIS?
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#1962262 - 06/24/08 11:36 AM
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Its also been done to the tune of the old Coke commercial "I like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony." Remember that one?
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#1962327 - 06/24/08 02:17 PM
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Did you know that the lyrics to "Amazing Grace" and the theme from "Gilligan's Island" are perfectly interchangeable? Try it sometime.
No offense intended.
That is a curious paradox in music.
They are both pentatonic- in that sense they are the same
But the truth is, they are not the same at all.
Intellect might lead some to say they are the same.
Some ppl think men and women are too- they are and they are not.
We live in a world filled with so called intelligence, but not much wisdom.
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#1962420 - 06/24/08 07:09 PM
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We live in a world filled with so called intelligence, but not much wisdom.
I really like that.
I might have to change my signature line.
Edited by misterdregs (06/24/08 07:10 PM)
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#1962485 - 06/25/08 12:57 AM
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What is it, reliance on computers- you know 0 1 thing?
I am obviously not a college type, just some brains.
I recall the "computer model" being superimposed upon music.
If it doesn't fit in the 0 1 category, it does not count- type of thing.
Maybe a buoying up of the importance of data, information, like on the internet?
Ppl regularly say, "oh yes, for the answer to that, google or wiki it"
Really? i am more suspicious in nature- i do not buy the net is my close confidante at all. Just a utilitarian tool. But its omnipresence is seductive to young minds.
Anyway, Amazing Grace is wonderful
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#1962527 - 06/25/08 06:12 AM
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Not quite the same thing, but I remember seeing Chet Atkins on Hee-Haw, playing three songs at the same time:
Old Macdonald's Farm
Yankee Doodle
Dixie
It sounded surprisingly good, and the irony with a wink wasn't lost on me even as a youth.
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#1962690 - 06/25/08 11:52 AM
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Did you know that the lyrics to "Amazing Grace" and the theme from "Gilligan's Island" are perfectly interchangeable? Try it sometime.
There are a TON of songs that you can sing the lyrics of Amazing Grace too.
One of my personal favorites is the M*A*S*H them.
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#1962712 - 06/25/08 12:39 PM
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Pentatonic friendliness
very similar to the Blues friendliness- my teacher showed me that all 12 Dom 13th chords "worked" ( were friendly ) with a single blues scale- Blues raga, is a term I have been coining of late.
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