A place for Mr. G's P.S./I.S.78Q students to get materials.
All of you wonderful kids in chorus made me very proud tonight at the CDEC conference. You should be very proud of yourselves.
Even though there was less room for us to stand than I thought there would be, you made the best of it and you did great!
You sang ‘Man In The Mirror’ very well and it always makes me smile to hear your voices all together, thank you all for your effort, energy and voices.
Encore!!
– Mr. G.
They All Laughed is a song that is considered a ‘Jazz Standard’, that means that it’s a song that everyone who likes Jazz knows about and most people like. It was written by two brothers named George and Ira Gershwin. Ira wrote the lyrics, he was a lyricist, and George wrote the music.
It’s one of those songs you have to know if you’re going to call yourself a jazz musician. Kind of like all the things you have to learn in 1st grade in order to call yourself a 2nd grader. In fact, what I just did, relating something you know about to something you might not know about to help you understand it is called using simile. That’s something that Ira Gershwin did in the lyrics of this song.
When Ira relates how the couple in the song are still together even though nobody thought they would be, he is using simile to connect it to the stories of the inventors he talks about earlier in the song.
Here’s some more info on those inventors and pioneers:
Milton Hershey and his Hershey Bar
Henry Ford and The Model T (The ‘Tin Lizzie’)
OH! I almost forgot! Here’s a recording of Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald singing ‘They All Laughed’ and the lyrics.
I recorded myself playing the guitar for you so you can practice the way we do in rehearsal. I added some drums to spice it up.
It’s getting exciting!!
A great song from a great musical: GREASE!
Take your time and make sure you pronounce all the “yadda yadda boom bang” parts clearly and accurately!
Have fun!
I recorded myself playing the guitar for you so you can practice the way we do in rehearsal. I added some drums to spice it up.
It’s getting exciting!!
Here are the lyrics to a song we’re doing in chorus.
It is a good song with a good message.
I’ve also included a recording. Don’t forget that we do it a little different than Michael did.
Have fun!!
UPDATE:
I changed the recording of Michael singing the song to the same key we sing it in. It will sound a little funny to you, but if you’re going to sing along with the King of Pop, you’re gonna have to do it in a comfortable key for you!