Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Feathered Friends

As soon as I saw this week's picture over at Magpie Tales, my attention was caught by that dejected looking black bird of indiscriminate species.  It made me think immediately of one of my favourite songs - no, not the twenty four in Sing A Song Of Sixpence, but the single insomniac one made famous by the Beatles. It had to have been an insomniac, else why was it singing in the dead of night? Anyhow, I'm glad it did, as this was the result.

This version is rather long winded, but if you move the tracker along manually, you can still arrive at the bird singing its heart out at the end, without feeling like the needle must have got stuck in a record groove along the way...

(I rather liked the choir singing the nursery rhyme, so I added a link for that, too.)
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19 comments:

  1. jabblog27 September 2011 at 12:17

    Why does no-one ever sing the third verse of Sing a song of sixpence?

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  2. Pearl27 September 2011 at 13:30

    The Beatles' Blackbird. One of my very favorite songs...

    Pearl

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  3. Pearl27 September 2011 at 13:31

    p.s. Please let Catfish Tales know that he/she's spelled "favorite" wrong.

    :-D

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  4. Jinksy27 September 2011 at 13:37

    Oh, no! Favourite is fine for Brits like Napple and Jinksy, Pearl!

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  5. Slamdunk27 September 2011 at 14:11

    Good song Jinksy--and as a yank I can just say fav and get away with it.

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  6. Reflections27 September 2011 at 14:49

    Always a wonderful song... gotta love that blackbird.

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  7. Ann Grenier27 September 2011 at 15:07

    Love it, Love it, Love it ...course I do. Is it dedicated to me? LOL as you would say ;-)

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  8. Ann Grenier27 September 2011 at 15:10

    AND Sing a Song of Sixpence was glorious! Thanks Pen.

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  9. Jinksy27 September 2011 at 15:12

    Which bit do you want dedicated to you, Ann? Consider it done, anyway - LOL included!!

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  10. The Weaver of Grass27 September 2011 at 15:24

    Pen, you are getting SO clever with all the things you can do on the computer - you put me to shame.

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  11. Friko27 September 2011 at 16:24

    In spring, the insomniac blackbird sings late in the evening and very early in the morning; is that your fault?

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  12. Helen27 September 2011 at 16:31

    Oh Penny! Miles Davis and his rendition of 'Bye Bye Blackbird' ... my all time favorite black bird song!

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  13. Jinksy27 September 2011 at 17:14

    Helen- it the Beatles music I love, more than any blackbird!

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  14. martine27 September 2011 at 19:50

    thanks for that, this is one of my favourite Beatles tracks
    martine

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  15. Merisi28 September 2011 at 08:58

    Thank you for this gem! I love blackbirds, I even made a lame attempt at a poem mentioning an Amsel. ;-)

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  16. Chronicles of Illusions28 September 2011 at 10:08

    cool how you tied up with the beatles

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  17. Dave29 September 2011 at 09:01

    Very nice blog Pen. I enjoyed both of those musical numbers. Have never heard the Beatles sing that song before. Blackbirds are great the way they sing - Dave

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  18. ds1 October 2011 at 01:18

    I so love that song...
    Thank you.

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  19. Anonymous1 October 2011 at 14:27

    I love Beatles and this song ♥

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