A fun thing to do is to take hymn (or psalm!) lyrics and put them to unexpected tunes. "Amazing Grace" (or any song set to Common Metre) goes with any number of fun tunes, including "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer", the theme to "The Flintstones", the theme to "Gilligan's Island", and my personal favorite, "The House of the Rising Sun". The Blind Boys of Alabama did a recording of the latter and it's pretty sweet. I read that "Guide Me Oh Thou Great Jehovah" fits the tune of Abba's "Super Trouper". I listened to this song several times in a row today and can now conclusively say that my source was mistaken. This would take quite a bit of streching, with notes left, sad to say. Too bad. A fun one to try would be "Jesus Calls Us O'er the Tumult" to "Mack the Knife".
Many suggestions of this ilk, as well as funny organist antics, are to be found here. Maybe I should try bribing an organist at my church..
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I've told Ray on a number of occasions that we should sing psalms in a capella jazz form. His response has ranged from laughing to the evil eye to flat out no.
Well come on. Some random hymn tunes are as good as german beer drinking tunes.
(All you hymn people must admit that there are some rollicking little numbers in there.) {the psalter tunes range from unsingable to flat, so don't think I'm biased.}
The plymoth Brethren sing some far out tunes as well.
Some random hymn tunes are German beer drinking tunes, espically those penned by Luther.
No way! You can't tap your foot to those, muchless swing your beer mug about.
What do you know about swinging beer mugs Miss Lemmon?
Isn't that a trademark of the germans?
They all swing beer mugs.
They swing beer mugs and invade Poland.
And spawn fat kids that eat chocolate, while naming them Augusuts Gloop.
Like, us plymouth brethren Ev?
He was German, James?
OOH! Try "Rock of Ages" to the Jeopardy theme. Good times, my friends...
Psalter one goes to that 50s/60s tune Red Rubber Ball!
My friend Shawn's church is exclusive Psalmody as well as acapella and they use contemporary Xn tunes.
(NICE, NICE!)
Augustus Gloop was from Dusseldorf, yes.
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