P.D.Q. Bach (Peter Schickele) - "The art of the ground round"

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  • Опубліковано 4 гру 2024

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  • @MsSoundguy
    @MsSoundguy 14 років тому +18

    That's just so flipping brilliant. I haven't heard this in a long, long time, and it's such a blast to hear now. Now on to "Iphigenia in Brooklyn."

    • @mrsenstitz
      @mrsenstitz 4 роки тому +2

      The greatest work ever in the history of music.

  • @jsl1211
    @jsl1211 13 років тому +9

    Both of my parents are band directors..I grew up listening to this stuff. I didn't understand why my 5th grade band director wouldn't let us play it!

  • @douglaslippertindy
    @douglaslippertindy 6 років тому +10

    Absolutely the best. I was an only child and would listen to this album repeatedly to amuse myself. Years later, I still laugh in anticipation of the upcoming lyrics.

  • @mohmoony3918
    @mohmoony3918 3 роки тому +2

    Sunday nights, my brother & I would stay up late listening to Dr. Demento on the AM radio and loved it when he played PDQ. Until mom would get mad and yell us to go to sleep or dad was coming up stairs with the belt. Which he never did, but it always worked anyways. Good times.

  • @ceb2633
    @ceb2633 14 років тому +7

    When I saw him, he had his "undercounter tenor" and also did the Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice. And the history of PDQ Bach. The audience was filled with music majors who were rolling in the aisles. And to think of the beautiful music he wrote for Silent Running and arrangements for Joan Baez.. I so admire his genius. Thank you for this treat.

  • @adamsbja
    @adamsbja 5 років тому +8

    I love the bit at 9:30 where they respond to the hammed-up "arrivé" with "oy vey". An easy pun to miss.

  • @Jazzbeu55
    @Jazzbeu55 14 років тому +3

    Fun stuff. He was the only guest artist performing with the local symphony who ever arrived on stage by swinging in on a rope from the balcony. The performance was funny on so many different levels. The sophisticated symphony patrons loved the musical tricks and everyone else laughed at the sight gags.

  • @PieInTheSky9
    @PieInTheSky9 3 роки тому +6

    My favorite part is when the guy says "Geez Louise" in Golly, Golly, Oh. I always crack up there.

    • @drtmuir
      @drtmuir 10 місяців тому +1

      Hot! Dog! 😂

  • @courtneythomas4000
    @courtneythomas4000 11 років тому +5

    I performed "Please Kind Sir" and "Jane my Jane" in choir in high school. I've been looking for them ever since. I can't believe it took me this long to find.

  • @bethbaxter4194
    @bethbaxter4194 8 років тому +4

    My sister introduced me to PDQ Back in the 70s/early 80s. I will always love the Art of the Ground Round for the pleasure it gave her to hear beautiful music combined with naughty thoughts.

    • @klop4228
      @klop4228 3 роки тому

      What's fun is that this actually follows in a tradition of these naughty little rounds. Look up Purcell's Young John the Gardener, or Battishill's Here on his Back doth Lay. Mozart wrote a few too (although apparently he only wrote the lyrics to some of the ones historically attributed to him).

  • @ruthnix
    @ruthnix 14 років тому +2

    I have been missing the encore for years thanks so much

  • @annea1b
    @annea1b 8 років тому +6

    This makesme laugh after all these years!

  • @tidaking816
    @tidaking816 14 років тому +2

    I heard this in music class in elementary school... I'm 20 years old, nearly through college, and I STILL remember this shit. Hahaha

  • @makneveu
    @makneveu 11 років тому +8

    "Your breath is like downwind of a compost heap on fire ..."

  • @snarkus63
    @snarkus63 12 років тому +2

    I love how at 08:39 you can hear Schickele (I'm assuming) suggesting the speeded-up encore to his co-singers.

  • @seaweed2007
    @seaweed2007 15 років тому

    Haven't heard this in forever! Thanks so much! ;))

  • @ArtemyMusha
    @ArtemyMusha 11 років тому +5

    The term, "A wild La Marseillaise appeared" comes to mind.

  • @annea1b
    @annea1b 15 років тому +7

    I made my fiance play this for me every night. It's a wonder we got married. Ever tried singing any of these? They are wicked hard, especially when you're trying to keep a straight face.

  • @skidude7253
    @skidude7253 14 років тому

    singing this in my college men's glee club. Gonna be the best song of the night

  • @cellogal1994
    @cellogal1994 16 років тому

    wow. this is really neat. i love things like this.

  • @mjmacmtenor
    @mjmacmtenor 16 років тому +1

    Please Kind Sir has always been one of my favorites as well as PDQ's operas - The Stoned Guest and Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice (an opera in one unnatural act).

  • @trinasp
    @trinasp 15 років тому

    Boy, does that take me back. The guys in choir did this at my high school in 1981. Couldn't stop laughing!

  • @whailman
    @whailman 14 років тому

    My town's young men choir performed these songs earlier this week!

  • @yohannbiimu
    @yohannbiimu 15 років тому +7

    The best one is "Jane."
    "With your eyes black as nuns...
    ...like nuns they cross themselves each day..."

    • @inesdeerausquin5658
      @inesdeerausquin5658 7 років тому

      John Beam that line is the absolute crown of this brilliant piece.

  • @Belgarion9989
    @Belgarion9989 14 років тому +1

    Peter schickele is actually a serious classical composer. He created two alternate personas: Peter Schickele, who is a professor at the university of northern south dakota who happens to be the man who "discovered" PDQ Bach.

    • @michaelsommers2356
      @michaelsommers2356 5 років тому +2

      The University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople.

  • @5PercentPresent
    @5PercentPresent 9 років тому +2

    0:59 - Please, Kind Sir

  • @PeriodinstrumentfaN
    @PeriodinstrumentfaN 15 років тому

    i adore the "jeux de mots !!!" :-D

  • @radiootoo
    @radiootoo 14 років тому +2

    Heilige Dankesang!

  • @petermead1
    @petermead1 12 років тому +1

    This is genius.

  • @happyman
    @happyman 16 років тому +2

    Loving is as easy as falling off a log
    A cat'll love a cat and a dog'll love a dog
    When you're hot you know you're hot
    and when you're not you're not... hot.
    Cold, cold loving is hard but hot... hot.

  • @muulka
    @muulka 13 років тому +2

    It's really funny but amazingly good music as music! I can imagine that it's really hard to sing lol.

  • @whereismywatch157
    @whereismywatch157 11 років тому +2

    The guy behind him is Ludwig II of Bavaria

  • @Jamalshookup1
    @Jamalshookup1 11 років тому +1

    Not too sure about the two gents in the picture. I think the one seated is Wagner; the one standing behind him is ...Tausig? Debussy? Saint-Saens? Don't know.

  • @Jamalshookup1
    @Jamalshookup1 11 років тому +1

    Thanks for letting me know who that is behind Wagner.

  • @5PercentPresent
    @5PercentPresent 9 років тому

    6:50

  • @affectivity
    @affectivity 13 років тому

    I mean Schickele, not the guy sitting next to us! ;)

  • @jvertol1
    @jvertol1 16 років тому

    Gotta love PDQ Bach - Swarthmore Grad! Admissions denied Obama's application, but they sure got it right for Peter Schickele!

  • @TheTwinWhoLovesMusic
    @TheTwinWhoLovesMusic 13 років тому

    @tidaking816 wowwwww, elementary school? Haha, my teacher had us sing this unknowingly a little while ago. We're the seniors of our high school. Well, we caught on, then we just couldn't stop laughing.

  • @SirBrass
    @SirBrass 15 років тому

    That one is pretty funny, but my favorite has to be "Please kind sir"

  • @Qermaq
    @Qermaq 10 років тому +15

    I love this classic. But every time the tenor botches the melody in "Please kind sir" I wince.

  • @martyheresniak5203
    @martyheresniak5203 2 роки тому

    It's Schickele on basso-blotto and Vern Sutton on tenor. Who's the third voice?

    • @Oldmauserman
      @Oldmauserman 11 місяців тому +2

      John Ferrante, I think.

    • @stephenrichmond917
      @stephenrichmond917 9 місяців тому

      The other two singists are John Ferrante (RIP) and John Nelson.

  • @rgjraccoon
    @rgjraccoon 12 років тому

    PDQ Bach: record producer? Search "Rotton Candy"
    A little known recording was uncovered recently, a trans-continental collaboration between two giants of 60's pop instrumentals: Al Hirt and Bert Kaempfert. Busy schedules prevented them from recording together in person. So, they each mailed in their parts, a revolutionary concept made possible by the advent of multi-track recording. They nailed it nearly note for note, but sadly they couldn't find the keys to success

  • @deanrantz1112
    @deanrantz1112 6 років тому +2

    What's the Deal with the Pict of Wagner and Crazy King Ludwig?

  • @affectivity
    @affectivity 13 років тому +1

    I remember his Christmastime concerts at Carnegie Hall. Once, during a performance of Iphigenia in Brooklyn, my sister and I thought the man next to us was going to have a coronary, he was laughing so hard. I believe he entered that concert by running up the aisle accompanied by what looked like a hooker.

  • @noammor
    @noammor 16 років тому

    Is there any way to find sheet music to the third song over the internet?

  • @kizzzay
    @kizzzay 11 років тому +3

    Nelly is a nice girl / but Hannah is a (w)hoooooooooooooo... rrible prude... :D

  • @andrewpfeiffer6218
    @andrewpfeiffer6218 4 роки тому +3

    Is it wrong to enjoy these more than actual madrigals from the 1500s?

    • @inesdeerausquin5658
      @inesdeerausquin5658 3 роки тому +2

      Nope.... they may be a bit more modern, but no less cleverly composed and hilarious!

  • @yahelfelipe
    @yahelfelipe 4 роки тому

    1974 dubi dubi du!

  • @francomug
    @francomug 11 років тому

    The gentleman behind Wagner looks like the Bavarian king Ludwig II.

  • @flopertone
    @flopertone 15 років тому

    0:58

  • @LemonJellyJ
    @LemonJellyJ 12 років тому

    hahahahha

  • @christianlibrul
    @christianlibrul 10 років тому

    Spike Jones. Nothing to do with Anna Russell.

    • @stephenrichmond917
      @stephenrichmond917 9 місяців тому

      Maybe not, but all three were successful musical comedians.