Phone Post: Danny Boy, by Frederic Edward Weatherly, ca. 1913.

[dragonlady7]

Found myself at home alone and singing in the kitchen. "Hey wait," I thought. "I said I'd do a PhonePost with a song for St. Pat's day but I had that awful cough. Is my voice better? I should do it."
The voice isn't as it was, as I haven't taken a lesson in five years and haven't practiced either, but it's still good enough to do:

A cheesy rendition of a cheesy Tin Pan Alley pseudo-Irish folk song!!!


Yes indeedy folks: I present to you, in .ogg file format, via a terrible reception, my cheesiest-possible overblown rendition of "Danny Boy".



Err on the side of too low with your volume. i was cooking, so i was kind of... well, cooking. :D

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[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

What do you use to (word... word won't come to me... ok, it's very early here... that's it, convert!) convert it to an mp3? (I don't know why I bother asking; chances are it won't work on my computer.)

If it were karaoke you'd think I'd have better rhythm. :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/ganga_/]

This was a very pleasant surprise! Thanks!

May 17 is the Norwegian national holiday. It's the celebration of the Norwegian constitution of 1814 when the country was released from under Danish rule. Yay! (Of course - shortly after and until 1905 Norway was under Swedish rule...) This year is also the country's hundredth anniversary. Double yay!

May 16 is a big day for all the kids who 'graduate' from 'high school'. May 17 marks the end of their celebration of their adultery (*snicker* adulthood?). So they stay up most of the night and get very very drunk. And today they participate in the big parades in all the cities, looking and feeling their very best...
A very basic introduction to the Norwegian national holiday. I'll give you more in-depth-description some time. There's a lot more to it, really...
But happy May 17 to everybody! :]

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Well then! Thanks for the info.
I actually have my calendar program subscribed to not only US holidays and Christian holidays, but also Norwegian holidays, so I was already informed that today was "Grunnlovsdag", although I wasn't sure what that meant.

I'm going to repost this in a post to my friendslist. :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/ganga_/]

Wee! "Grunnlov" means constitution (and "dag" is just day...)