Comments on: Tour Theme Song

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:04:13 +0000

Joe Byrne isn’t part of it, it’s just Harold and Dave. As far as I can tell they don’t have a Web site or I would have included a link to it. Say hello to Dave for me.

The version they did is a bit different than the one listed there, and there are plenty of other versions I found lying about as well.

Also on the Pirates sound track is “Bonnie Ship the Diamond”, so if you decide “All for me Grog” is not appropriate, I can slide you that one. (If parents object to references to alcohol in “All for me Grog”, point out that the song is about the destructive influence of grog on the man’s life, and don’t mention that he’s not at all sorry about it.)

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:37:02 +0000

Heck, if it's the Joe Bryne Band, I should just wander down the hall and ask Dave Bernat for permission. Problem solved.I didn't realize until I visited here that "All for Me Grog" was a traditional shanty and not an original. (He has it listed as a "Forecastle Songs and Ballads," not as a line hauling or capstan shanty, interestingly enough.)I have to check if the lyrics on the song match the lyrics on the web page, because I think singing of whoring goes a little beyond the pale for fifth grade graduation.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:51:47 +0000

All for me Grog was originally sung at a much slower pace, and was associated with a certain station on the ship. (Capstan?) The song itself is public domain, the performance here is by the guys left behind when Joe Byrne (Callahan’s musical regular) moved to Nashville.

I am pushing things, I suspect, to have them on my blog, despite the legal agreement they agreed to let me forge their signatures upon. But they’re good guys and the resulting fame can only help them.

Fame. Heh.

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:39:32 +0000

I am in charge of the photo slide show for 5th grade promotion showing the various 5th grade classes on their overnight field trips on board the Star of India. It’s elementary school’s best field trip, an historical emersion with a captain, first and second mates, and a cook, with the kids playing the part of a the crew on board an 1875 trip to New Zealand (just as the real Star of India, nee’ Euterpe, did).

Anyway, they haven’t provided me with the sea shanties yet, so I’ve made “All for me grog” the soundtrack. Doug’s fifth grade teacher liked it; said it was different (from the sea shanties he’s heard for 10 years).

Any copyright problems here?

For those of you of the nautical bent, my pictures for our voyage are on shutterfly under Mr. Bueker’s class.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 22:09:59 +0000

OK, first, I did blame iTunes. Second, m4a is an industry standard, and there is no room in the standard for selecting a preferred application. Second-and-a-half, firefox never evan read the file, so any time bomb in it wouldn’t have worked anyway – it simply got messed up trying to figure out what to do with _any_ m4a file. Third, I did not rip the song at all, I got it from a Windows user and posted it unaltered. Finally, impugning macs because the windows version of an application sucks makes no sense whatsoever.

Other than that, pL’s insane rant was completely valid.

By: pL

pL — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 18:02:10 +0000

Where as Jerry keeps blaming Windows, I blame Mac (specifically ITunes) for these problems. ITunes has tricked Firefox into thinking that only ITunes can play the song, probably since the song was originally ripped by ITunes. I bet when it was ripped, ITunes put some sort of “This is an ITunes thang, so the rest of you can go rip yourselves!” code into the file. If there is one program worse than Windows as far as being a fascist regime of 1′s and 0′s, it is ITunes.

By: Mr C5K3

Mr C5K3 — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:42:19 +0000

The MP3 file worked for me (Windows XP and Windows Media Player).

Would you care to elaborate on the line “for across the western ocean I’m a father”?

By: F-G-F

F-G-F — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:29:37 +0000

I’m scratching and sniffin that little icon to beat the band and I ain’t gettin nothin. What gives?

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 07:28:12 +0000

Bleah. What’s weird is that each of you has at least two different mp3 players installed on your computers. The iTunes installer must be hosing some setting buried deep within windows.

I really, really hope that Windows Vista (due out, I hear, in the year 2525) does away with the ridiculous hack that is the registry.

Meanwhile, I’ll go back to putting a button that opens a new window to play the tune, so at the very least you can right-click and download the file.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 02:39:45 +0000

What everyone else said – Firefox, Quicktime, iTunes, and no way I can find to bypass the whole mess and just save the file to my computer.