Ever been in a love-hate relationship?

Lango-Django

"When banana skins are falling, I'll come sliding back to you"



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We used to have a fan who brought us the sheet music for this song and kept asking us to play it for him.

So I finally made up a chord chart for it, but the guy never came back to hear us play the stupid thing!

So we keep it in our book, just in case he ever comes back.

As you can hear on the YouTube video, it's pretty lame, and not typical of the kind of stuff we usually play.

Bones

What, I didn't see the Spinach Song on that list???

JK.

Will, do you have all those committed to memory???

Lango-Django

Good Lord, no, Mike, I couldn't possibly remember all those tunes.

We use "bingo box" aka "grille" charts; see attachment.

AndrewUlle

Wow - that's a LOT of songs. Reminds me of our set list of 1960s, 2:20 songs in my old band.

BillDaCostaWilliams

Thanks Will. Very evocative list.

I'm sure I'd really enjoy catching your band if I make it across the Atlantic.

Lango-Django

Please let me know if you are ever in the Niagara Falls neck of the woods, Bill.

Attached is a more typical example of the kind of stuff we like to play, a 1929 Rodgers-Hart obscurity called "Yours Sincerely".

With these kind of medium-fast numbers, I'm not a good enough player to play single notes like Django, so I play chord-melody style.

To me, if the rhythm suddenly drips out in these vintage numbers, it just sounds weird.

There are probably guys out there who could play single note style at that tempo and still keep the rhythmic feel happening, like Django does on "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal, You", but alas, I'm not one of them...

Will