in a follow up to Tonikins post - http://www.nzmusic.com/topic.cfm?i=1495&show=&start=561&1=2#post154414 i was wondering if Those Full-School Singing assemblys are still going??
back in the day our form 1 teacher graded us on our Singing ability at our weekly form singing instruction and reading my old form 1 end of year report it states "....committed to singing classes and enjoys singing with Gusto".
back then we had to sing stuff like MORE THAN WORDS, HEY MONA, LISTEN TO THE RYTHYM OF THE POURING RAIN, WHEN IM 64, and some Maori songs that i cant remember the names to (only the words).
of course the fun in it all was when we had to sing a song we never liked, wed alter the lyrics and make them into funny words ie. Heart became Fart....etc.
but seriously what did everybody think of it?
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school singing was cool... i remember ...
school singing was cool...
i remember J1: "the wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round.. the wheels on the bus go round and round... all day looooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggg"
and from form 1 camp... the lemon tree song, that song.. argh.. stumming my pain with his fingers...stealing (?) my life with his words.... killing em softly with his song, killing me softly...dadadum... and oasis... wonderwall...
you gotta hate high schools for only having the school songs and if youre lucky at the end of 3rd and fourth form some christmas carols...
shoulda never left the choir...
i used to change the lyrics and stuff, ...
i used to change the lyrics and stuff, he he he, e.g. dancing queennnn, young and sweet only 89.
I remember singing We Are The Champions ...
I remember singing We Are The Champions many moons ago at form one camp. Not the most pleasant of memories.
I hated assembly singing at primary ...
I hated assembly singing at primary school, didn't like the songs we had to sing, so I sang flat on purpose (couldn't really help it, because other kids beside me were out of tune anyway) with alternative lyrics
At Intermediatte (Naenae) we used to ...
At Intermediatte (Naenae) we used to sing some ok stuff ... I remember Under the Bridge ... and there was an attempt to do You Could Be Mine by Guns n Roses due to popular demand ... didn't really work.
Then at primary there was my teacher one year that must've been a big elvis fan coz we sung tons of his songs ...
under the bridge was as good as it got ...
under the bridge was as good as it got at maidstone intermediate.
Flower of Scotland was always big at ...
Flower of Scotland was always big at Naenae when I was there. Always the song to produce the most yelling rather than singing.
Hmmm ... never sung that when I was ...
Hmmm ... never sung that when I was there. One of us must be old ...
According to your profile information, ...
According to your profile information, that would be you.
Doh! But in that case I'm sure you ...
Doh! But in that case I'm sure you heard of the legendary James during your time there!
Or not ...
Umm... Not that I know of... You were 2 ...
Umm... Not that I know of... You were 2 or 3 years ahead of me.
Well I didn't really expect you to ... ...
Well I didn't really expect you to ... the most memorable thing I did at intermediate is so unmemorable I don't even remember it myself.
it still is, but mainly for prize ...
it still is, but mainly for prize givings etc, usually the national anthem.
well i'm still at school (all girls) ...
well i'm still at school (all girls) and our singing changes every timewe hv singing assembly our school has 1300 so we hv lots of power but we have sooo many foreign singing teachers that we end up singing a song with a irish or south african accent!!
One year my music teacher decided we'd ...
One year my music teacher decided we'd sing Imagine, but one of the christian students complained because of words like "imagine there's no heaven" etc...
So my teacher changed the words. Instead we sung "imagine there's a heaven"..etc. Problem is, not only was it kinda more offensive than originally, but it didn't even make any sense - "imagine there's (a) heaven, it's easy if you try, (a) hell below us, and above us only sky...?"
It's funny but should I happen to hear ...
It's funny but should I happen to hear We are the world, (Take me home) Country roads, Mull of Kintyre, The theme from M.A.S.H. and one or two other songs I find myself singing along as if I were right back in Form 1/ 2.
How does the theme from MASH work, ...
How does the theme from MASH work, it's instrumental
Nah, it was a song first - "Suicide is ...
Nah, it was a song first - "Suicide is Painless"
[ http://www.mash4077.co.uk/theme.html ]
Wow, that's so cool. I only ever knew ...
Wow, that's so cool. I only ever knew the instrumental version they used on the opening credits with all the brass.
somehow, SOMEHOW at hutt intermediate ...
somehow, SOMEHOW at hutt intermediate we sang Rednex`s Cotton Eye Joe. I can only hope that now there are laws against this sort of thing.
Yeah, Hutt Intermediate really did some ...
Yeah, Hutt Intermediate really did some shockers. They tried to be cool by making us sing all the up to date pop songs that I hated with a vengeance, Spice Girls anyone? *shudder*
Apparently when my sister was there they did under the bridge for a while, but stopped when somebody realised it was about suicide.
hutt intermediate was real random. i ...
hutt intermediate was real random. i remember mr walker and mr grace leading us in mulitple renditions of another brick in the wall. how ironic.
//under the bridge I always thought it ...
//under the bridge
I always thought it was about Kiedis slammin dope under a certain bridge in L.A., I know a couple gutter punks that swear they saw him there back in the day.
yes you are right, thats what Anthony ...
yes you are right, thats what Anthony wrote it about
True. Now i think about it I've always ...
True. Now i think about it I've always associated the lyrics with drugs, but the banning of it being sung in assembly with suicide. Not quite sure how that works. I guess I was five to six when my sister was in intermediate.
Hey Teacher. Does seem weird. I ...
Hey Teacher. Does seem weird. I remember Mr Walker. Wahoo.
thats stupid, the song has got nothing ...
thats stupid, the song has got nothing to with suicide, its about one of Anthony's lowest points of his life when he went down to a drug HQ that was underneath a bridge in LA which sold hard drug & that he'll never go there again. He wasn't trying to kill himself
The bridge in the video is the real ...
The bridge in the video is the real spot.
//Yeah, Hutt Intermediate really did ...
//Yeah, Hutt Intermediate really did some shockers. They tried to be cool by making us sing all the up to date pop songs that I hated with a vengeance, Spice Girls anyone? *shudder*
holy shit, i wish i got to sing spice girls' songs for school singing.
//the song has got nothing to with ...
//the song has got nothing to with suicide
Yes I know. I am just confronted with two different bits of knowledge/memory that are floating around in my head. On the one hand I know the song is about Anthony shooting up, but on the other hand I have a series of memories, from different years, in which my sister tells me about how the song was sung in assemblies until the teachers stopped it because it was about suicide. Don't know if my sister's wrong or if the teachers were, I'm pretty sure the memories right though, it's one of those anecdotes that have been repeated through time and I have a pretty decent memory.
i used to love school singing. did it ...
i used to love school singing. did it in intermediate and primary. songs i remember are - the greatest love of all, all the small things (this sounded really funny with everyone trying to do the accent), to fill the world with love, i only wanna be with you and lots of fun maori songs.
puff the magic dragon... was always my ...
puff the magic dragon... was always my fav
The two main songs I remember from ...
The two main songs I remember from Intermediate singing are The Rose and One Moment in Time sure there was more though
Primary school was the best singing years especially new entrance Tutira Mai Nga Iwi was one of my faves along with the bear hunt song, puff and Theres a hole in the bottom of the sea
I loved Tu Teramai too - in fact, we ...
I loved Tu Teramai too - in fact, we still sing it on road trips if i'm ever with likeminded people, except I don't know all the words so we make them up generally. I also liked the song about the whale.
tu teramai nga iwi is an all time ...
tu teramai nga iwi is an all time favourite of mine.
heh, we were talking about this at ...
heh, we were talking about this at school last week actually.
from primary school the songs i remember were: 'blue suede shoes', 'my mums a taxi', 'tuatara blues', 'i've got the greens', 'nature', 'six months in a leaky boat', 'puff the magic dragon' and my personal favourite 'school is number one'
my little brother [he's yr 6] is currently learning: 'where is the love' - BEP
my college songs would have to be: 'loyal' - dave dobbyn and 'wake me up before you go-go' - by wham...plus many many choir songs....one of my most annoying/cliche memories is singing pokarekare ana at LAX just before we boarded the plane home from a two and half week choir trip to canada....*sigh*
Awesome topic by far. Well selected as ...
Awesome topic by far. Well selected as a comeback.
I've heard these days they're singing rather modern songs..at this moment I cant think what I've been told but I know that they are quite recent & its pretty funny to think that they do this.
I miss those school assemblys but I can still say that Im glad that Im not in one anymore.
Or have to be for that matter..
can't believe it hasn't come up yet! ...
can't believe it hasn't come up yet! I loved singing fish and chips. I still do actually.
I like green bananas and pink icecream, wobbly jelly makes me scream (ahh!)