Bagpipe cover of Swingin Safari

[TimK2003]

I liked the song!

Now can the Royal Ulster Constabulary Pipe Band follow that up with some more game show themes like:

The 2nd Password theme from the 60s,
$10,000 Pyramid
Break The Bank (the 70's version)
Treasure Hunt (likewise)
Jackpot (ditto)
Let's Make a Deal (70s as well)

Some would sound good in bagpipe renditions!

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'181174\' date=\'Mar 12 2008, 08:47 PM\']
Now can the Royal Ulster Constabulary Pipe Band follow that up with some more game show themes like:
...
$10,000 Pyramid
...
[/quote]
Well, we do have this.  
And between the two, the start of the greatest concept album ever.

Which reminds:  Long time ago, I compiled a collection I called "There Were Words to That?" which featured game show themes being sung.   Two of my favorites were Chuck Barris oddities: Summertime Guy, which was a pop single he wrote and then later adapted into the theme from The Newlywed Game, and Lovee's Come Back, which was used as theme music for The Gong Show.

[Game Show Man]

[quote name=\'DrBear\' post=\'181163\' date=\'Mar 12 2008, 05:10 PM\']
And an autographed picture of James Doohan!
[/quote]

For the record, James Doohan was Canadian.

[chris319]

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'181187\' date=\'Mar 12 2008, 07:00 PM\']
Well, we do have this.  
[/quote]
I can't imagine why Stan Blits would ever go to Kalehoff again when these guys are available.

Now can the Royal Ulster Constabulary Pipe Band follow that up with some more game show themes like:

The 2nd Password theme from the 60s,
$10,000 Pyramid
Break The Bank (the 70's version)
Treasure Hunt (likewise)
Jackpot (ditto)
Let's Make a Deal (70s as well)

Some would sound good in bagpipe renditions!

General MIDI has a bagpipe instrument, knock yourself out.

[opimus]

Departing contestants will get a case of spotted dick.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'opimus\' post=\'181216\' date=\'Mar 13 2008, 07:25 AM\']
Departing contestants will get a case of spotted dick.
[/quote]
Little shampoo'll clear that right up.

[DrBear]

[quote name=\'opimus\' post=\'181216\' date=\'Mar 13 2008, 09:25 AM\'] Departing contestants will get a case of spotted dick. [/quote]
Strangely enough, so do departing clients at the Emperor's Club.

[joshg]

No Emperor's Club joke here, but on iTunes we can find the second track of our game show concept album:

Oslo Strykekvartett covers "Chump Change" by Quincy Jones.

Josh

[chad1m]

Wow, I just purchased that track. Very nice.

[MikeK]

[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'181527\' date=\'Mar 15 2008, 04:27 PM\']Wow, I just purchased that track. Very nice.[/quote]
Make it two who have sacrified 99 cents to download this.  It's actually pretty good.

[clemon79]

Sadly, not available on AmazonMP3.

[CarbonCpy]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'181542\' date=\'Mar 15 2008, 05:36 PM\']
Sadly, not available on AmazonMP3.
[/quote]

Best I managed to find so far for us non-iPod users was this Norwegian site, but it at least has samples.  I can't say I'm thrilled by the exchange rate at the moment (1 Krone = 19 cents, according to google).

This page also has sound samples for Chump Change, once you scroll halfway down.  But this one's the tail-end of the song.  

I'll keep looking.

/Listening to those samples, all I could think was "This is Jonathan Olsen speaking for Presently You Can Visualize the Answers, with your host Sir James Purceful Blythe Narsington III.  This program has been a Marcus Fineprogeny--William Todfellow, Esq. production.  Quite."

[lobster]

there is The Cadets drum & bugle corps of Allentown PA that had Chump Change in its 1979 repertoire at the DCI -- I spent an entire afternoon trying to track down a copy.. I'm sure someone has it.. a D&BC cover would be awesome to hear -- it's almost as if the song was meant for that..

[lobster]

...for 45 bucks you can have the marching band sheet music arrangement for Chump Change

http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/a/product.ht...ic&id=57620

"By Quincy Jones, Bill Cosby. Arranged by John Tatgenhorst. Band Music Press Marching Band. Published by Band Music Press. (190168)

From the pen of the two greatest writers and entertainers in the world, we're proud to present a great rocker for the field or in the stands. A real crowd pleaser."

I wonder what role Bill Cosby actually had in writing that song..

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'CarbonCpy\' post=\'181602\' date=\'Mar 15 2008, 08:52 PM\']
Best I managed to find so far for us non-iPod users[/quote]
Oh, I'm an iPod user, I simply refuse to give the iTunes Store money for music they want to control and restrict my usage of. AmazonMP3's stuff is completely DRM-free, the same price as the iTunes Store (most of the time) and no less convenient, considering there is a plug-in that will even handle importing the download into your iTunes library.