Castaways (Backyardigans) Bossa Nova / Jazz Cover

Because all of the songs from The Backyardigans slap so hard, my friend Rob Shaffer and I decided to do a little jazz cover. Hope you enjoy it! Please feel free to share and subscribe for more in the future.
Rob Shaffer @rbshaffer on Instagram - guitar, bass, shaker
Jason Atheney @jatheney on Instagram - tenor sax
#backyardigans #castaways #jazz #bossanova #selmermarkvi #10mfan

[@Ben.E-um2md]

This brings me back to the good old days

[@enigmo20]

You guys hit it out of the park! I love this version!

[@SaxBeard]

Thanks!

[@davidserlin8097]

Amazing cover. Like, truly amazing. You captured what is so beautiful about the original and made it your own. Congratulations and thank you ❤

[@Jeremy-yi8my]

This is masterpiece 👏🔥

[@SaxBeard]

Thank you 🙏🙏

[@juandaniel3923]

I love it, everything sounds really good... OMG EL SAXOFONE

[@SaxBeard]

Thank you 🙏

[@Anx-cn9sv]

I love these! It makes me feal like im in somekind of club :) Good job!

[@aidanlyons25]

This was soothing to my ears

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

A marching Band version would sound cool w/ Roger Emerson's Choral arrangement. We need a Marching Band adaptation of the Choral arrangement.

[@DelphinusOrcastra]

Well played 🐬

[@slgr7]

Excellent...and Go Giants!

[@SaxBeard]

Yes indeed go Giants!

[@camiaalexandre7169]

Estou arrumando a casa e a dançar ao som desta música

[@hansramirez6564]

this is so underrated

[@SaxBeard]

Thanks for listening! Please share and subscribe, there’s more coming 🙂

[@hansramirez6564]

@@SaxBeard i will!

[@nehabandi5615]

Very soothing!!

[@billquigley6556]

Castaways, Backyardigans. Awesome tune from a show for pre- schoolers.

[@isaiahgonzalez8358]

This is dope as hell keep it up 👍

[@SaxBeard]

Thank you!

[@eliasegure554]

Los amo

[@Lucy-in1pc]

perfection:

[@SaxBeard]

Thank you! Please consider subscribing and sharing

[@SoloLlamameDiego]

Love it, just chill - w -

[@SaxBeard]

Thank you!

[@Grantmoneyx]

I love me some smooth bossa

[@PastelMelodii]

Underrated

[@SaxBeard]

Thank you!

[@brilliandolintang543]

I want more of thiss!!!

[@SaxBeard]

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[@brilliandolintang543]

@@SaxBeard done!

[@woowbruhh]

both the solos are so good 🤩 props to both you guys

[@antoine3753]

This is amazing man

[@SaxBeard]

Thank you :) hope you will consider subscribing

[@rebekahfunches6876]

Nice! Good stuff!! I love the sax!! 💛

[@calilafollett]

Smooth!! I just want to know where you are hiding the Maracas guy at?!? Seriously though. That was fun!

[@sandeegrey5977]

Nice work!

[@SaxBeard]

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[@yonatankarya]

Oh my God, I didn't expect this at all. Would really love to have this song on spotify.

[@SaxBeard]

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[@Azymss]

Amazing work

[@SaxBeard]

Thank you!

[@SassynSaxy]

wow this is a legit new jazz standard. thats frickin cool

[@tissuepaper9962]

Evan Lurie, the composer for all four seasons of Backyardigans, was an active jazz musician for decades before working at Nickelodeon. It's really too bad that Nickelodeon hasn't made anything half as creative or educational as that show in the 15 years since, they have a powerful position from which to instill creativity, culture, and sensitivity into children but instead they peddle cheap gags and contrived, cliched Hallmark-movie-esque "life lessons".

[@yassnuuu]

amazing you deserve more subs

[@SaxBeard]

Thanks! Feel free to share 🙂

[@jjvnesparza]

omg this is so epic!!! is it ok if i use this as an instrumental for a cover?? i’ll give y’all credit!!

[@SaxBeard]

Go for it :)

[@in_sinc.j]

PART 2!!!!!🙏😭😭

[@AlexZ-lc6nl]

Using this at my lil’ bros wedding venue 😂. I wanna see how many people pick up on the song

[@SaxBeard]

Do it! 😂

[@dagomusic3533]

Es perfecto ya me suscribí, cuáles son los acordes?

[@SaxBeard]

Try this:
tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/misc-cartoons/the-backyardigans-castaways-chords-3701513

[@imgonnabeastar8576]

The song (the chorus especially) still somewhat sounds kinda sad even with a saxophone replacing the vocals TT. This was written in major key, was it not? Since checking out the song just yesterday on the hooktheory website, it’s given me a melancholic vibe like you’ve begun to live without something/someone important to you, basically something like grief. And mind you, The Backyardigans show wasn’t part my childhood, yet this song feels like sad reminiscing. Is there like a music theory explanation to this? Is it because the vocal melody in the chorus uses the D minor note in the “-ways” syllable (and pretty much all over the chorus), almost as if Dm was the tonic here? Anyways, this was a cool cover. It was nice to hear the melody with a sax.

[@SaxBeard]

Adam Neely made a great video about the theory behind this tune, search for it here he does a great job breaking it all down. Thanks for listening to our cover :)

[@imgonnabeastar8576]

@@SaxBeardHi again! I just watched it again just now, and it was interesting. Didn’t get too much of a direct answer on why the chorus feels lowkey melancholic, but my personal guess is maybe because it has Maj7 chords, which I personally find to be dreamy, and how the “castaways” line is melodically descending. Maybe it’s also because little kids were singing the original song, which gave the feel of innocence. It didn’t feel as sad sounding when the singer of Adam’s video sang the song. Adam Neely also pointed out how the “stuck where we are” melody part kinda goes up a minor 7th then gies down a minor 3rd. I’m not too sure yet what that means exactly, but maybe the minor intervals contribute to the melancholic feeling? Maybe? Thanks

[@SaxBeard]

@@imgonnabeastar8576 I’m seeing a LOT of minor chords in the whole tune…

[@imgonnabeastar8576]

@@SaxBeard I mean that is true yeah

[@herzysessionslive2074]

Great passion and talent throughout! Would you be interested to perform live in our platform?

[@JeanSilvaTKD10m]

i'm from BR and i love your song. It's be like a Vinicius de Moraes. Let's be friends?