Get Singing

September 2 2014

Hello again! It seems that school is practically here, and I still have to do my last post! This one is called the "Get singing" and it is assignment number 3 on the list. Here I will talk about my opinions on my favourite, and my not so favourite songs. So get out your record player! Let get this show on the road!

This summer I put the "Happy Days" CD in the cd player and listed to it all summer! Me and my cousin couldn't get the songs out of our heads. One that was annoyingly catchy and was stuck in my head a lot, was the chorus of "snap" (although that wasn't my favourite song). A lot of the music in this play is upbeat and fun, it really screams FIFTIES! I love upbeat music that makes you want to get up and dance! 

For my favourite songs, I have a few. 

My first favourite is Aaay'mless sung by the car hops and Fonzie. 

This is the song where Fonzie is on the road after his bike breaks down.  He is feeling ashamed because he ran away and is thinking that he has lost his cool. My favourite parts of this song are the fast contrasting parts when the car hops sing the small verses. As for putting it onstage, I think that Fonzie should be centre stage singing his part, slowly walking towards a dark bench on far stage right; then he sits on the bench when the car hops' start singing. I think that the car hop's should already be on stage, but they pop out of their hiding spots when they have to start singing (behind cars or even one behind the bench maybe). Another possibility is if there are not enough hiding spots, they can pop out of the curtains instead, anything that is sudden and unexpected, because the song is slow and gloomy until then. Then, Fonzie gets up and sulks over to the other side of the stage while the car hops walk with him in a semi circle and start poking fun at Fonzie. Then, when Pinky comes on the stage for the small part at the end, she would come and sit at the bench that Fonzie just sat at (or she could stand behind it). They would both sing to the audience, giving the effect that they are so close, but yet so far. 

My second favourite is "What I dreamed Last night Reprise" because it showcases all the dreams that Marion, Pinky and Joanie have. Mostly I like it because of the harmonies and the cannon. It's really powerful at the end when they sing in unison "I want what I want and I want it now!" That is my favourite part in the whole song.

My third favourite is the finale, but most of that is because it is the closing theme from "Happy Days". I think that that is the perfect way to end the musical. It feels finished, like you just finished watching an episode of "Happy Days"! It's all fun and everyone will be having a good time.  

My favourite lyric is "disappear like drumsticks do at dinner on sunday night" (from run) I just find it funny.

Now for my least favourites…

I am sorry to say that dial tones are my least favourite (sorry dial tones). If one of their songs come on I feel an urge to skip it, and I often do. They are not terrible, they just aren't meaningful. The songs they sing are bland and lack something. So with that in mind here are my least favourite songs:

My number one least favourite is the practice version of "Hot love". They have nice harmonies, but too much of them. I think that it would be 100 times better if they had some overlapping parts, or maybe a cannon; but it stays pretty much the same from start to finnish. I wish that they had some sort of accompaniment and sped it up a little. Although it's funny that I say that, because they do just that at the performance of it at the picnic, which I find is much better, and I don't feel the need to walk over and turn it off.  It isn't all that bad. So it's not that I hate it completely, just the first version ^-^. Another reason that this song urks me a little, is the fact that it is sort of offensive. They are talking about how they only want people that are beautiful, which pushes the image that girls have to care about how they look more often than how thoughtful and smart they are. 

My second least favourite is Romeo midnight, 

I only slightly dislike this one, it isn't that bad but is still sort of ordinary and bland. I think that the reason I don't like it as much is because it sounds too high. The person who is doing "do do weee eeeeew weee eeeeeew oooo (not sure if you know who I'm talking about…) but none the less they are singing too high for it to be pleasant. The song is just lacking in calibre compared to all the other songs in the musical! It's just not a get up and dance sort of song. Although, what might make it better is if you had some people doing a slower type of dance in the background, to keep you kind of entertained while they sing.

Now that I am done my assignment I bid you farewell, I hope you enjoyed my posts (if you read all of them I'd be surprised) but I will see you all tomorrow at the meeting! 

I hope you all have a "Happy Day"!