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An Expat's Lament |
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and other lamentable stuff |
Recycling is good for the
environment, everyone knows that, so here is my contribution towards
saving the planet; recycled music. Well most of it, but there is
some entirely new stuff by Alan*
who taught maths in Dubai - with whom I have lost touch - and even a
piece by myself. All arrangements and sequencing are mine, as are
the words to some of the pieces, and of
course I'm the accompanist and vocalist. Vocalist - Ha! Mail me Mark@Panoradiant.Co.Uk All rights reserved. Human rights that is! Mark Schuster (c) 1998-2010 where applicable * Alan if you are listening in please contact me - or if anybody knows where to contact him, his second name began with F, that's all I remember, please let me know. |
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Photos of me showing off | ||
An Expat's Lament This is an old George Formby number to which I've attached new words. There is a bit of Gilbert and Sullivan at the end. Sentiment seemed to fit! |
![]() Corner of our sitting room in Dubai 1999. Hot with the noisy airconditioning turned off during recording |
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Personal
Finance Man And this is yet another of George's songs to which I had to write new lyrics. The original "How Do Who Do You Do Hindoo Man" might have been thought Ok in the 1930's when he sang it, but would be terribly offensive now |
![]() Dubai 1974. Not a finance man but resident engineer. Original office at our villa and if you don't believe it's the seventies just look at the curtains, dial telephone and manual Royal typewriter |
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My
Little Motor Car My daughter in her teens had a 1972 VW Beetle which she adored and this is a little song about it. Sgain I've pinched the tune from George Formby |
Tootsy, my daughter's Beetle |
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With
My Little Ukulele George Formby yet again, but this time with it's original word - almost. Sorry I can't do Lancashire so you'll have to make do with Cockney. |
![]() Yes, I know it's not a uke but a banjo tuned to "My Dog's got Fleas", in other words a uke |
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When All Night Long My only operatic principle part with the Dubai Singers, and that as an understudy. Private Willis on guard duty at the Houses of Parliament in Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe. Though written in the 1890's nothing seems to have changed much through more than a century. |
![]() Wrong uniform for Private Willis, instead me doing my bit for Queen and Country in far off Lincolnshire c 1960 |
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Graffiti This and the next three numbers were a collaboration with Alan, a maths teacher in Dubai. Original words and music by him, but I've taken the liberty to change the words a little when arranging this stuff. Alan if you ever come across this page please contact me so that I can ask your permission in retrospect. |
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Hotel Anaesthesia | |||
A Woman's Place | |||
Girls Ain't What They Used To Be | |||
I'm Scotch and I'm Married I came across the words of a Will Fyffe number on the internet but couldn't find the tune, so I've borrowed George Formby's Aunt Maggie's Remedy |
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Transport of Delight Flanders and Swanne. This and the next number. Interlectual humour from the 1940's and 50's |
![]() London Transport Route Master c 1961 |
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Have some Madeira M'Dear | |||
Leaning on a Lamppost Here we go, George Formby again but this time with the original words |
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With My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock | |||
Swimmin' with the Women | |||
When I'm Cleaning Windows | |||
Naughts and Crosses | |||
Fanlight Fanny | |||
Yorkshire Toreador | |||
Mother What Will I Do Now | |||
Sitting on the Ice | |||
Chinese Laundry Blues | Photos apropos about nothing | ||
Underneath the Arches Flanagan and Alan, about a homeless wanderer during the 1940s or 50s |
![]() My first company car in Dubai |
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Side by Side Don't know who wrote this pretty little number |
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A Little Love Duet My own composition. Well you try writing music on a PC with a mouse! |
![]() Me pretending to drive an Image Orthicon t.v. camera in 1958. It was enormous and needed a two man crew and it was only black and white. Daft thing is my little iPhone does a much better job! |
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