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SONG FU! Second songs are up.

September 13th, 2008 by Bill Corbett · 19 Comments

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(What in the name of Sam Peckinpah am I talking about? See HERE.)

We had a week to throw together a song. Here was our assignment:

    ROUND 2 CHALLENGE

    Your challenge is to choose a famous inventor and craft a song proposing a “dance craze” based on either the inventor or one of his/her most well known inventions.

Here’s what we came up with:

DO THE BALLPOINT!

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You can go HERE to vote and register your approval, or lack thereof.

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19 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Yanni on Sep 13, 2008 at 7:38 am

    Awesome song! It really makes you want to do The Ballpoint!

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    Reply from OmegaRowsdower on September 13, 2008:

    And write a letter

  • 2 Neb on Sep 13, 2008 at 8:12 am

    “Whip out your ballpoint!”?

    Ahem.

    Excellent song, btw. I voted for it. Paul & Storm’s is nice, but unless they give instructions later in the lyrics (didn’t listen to the whole thing), it’s not something you can “do” as a dance, like, say, the “Zombie Stomp”.

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  • 3 Charlie W on Sep 13, 2008 at 9:13 am

    bill your voice was heavenly. like listening to the bacon gods themselves!

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  • 4 Casey on Sep 13, 2008 at 9:38 am

    EXCELLENT! it took everything in me not to get up and dance.

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  • 5 MST3Kelly on Sep 13, 2008 at 12:36 pm

    Bravo, Rifftones! you have cooked up, like a delicious pound of bacon, a wondrous new sort of sub-genre: ‘punk rock barbershop quartet.’ [not a quartet, but- oh, you know.] your song wasn’t just that, of course, but I could distinctly hear Bill’s spiky-haired youth happily shining through in his splendid vocal.
    I loved it! I loved the Moody Blues-oid break in the middle, the audio inserts, and the fearless mingling of musical styles that you brought together to form one happy, pogoing mass. oh, I mean ‘Ballpointing’ mass.

    and I didn’t leak while I was doing the Ballpoint! uh, I mean my PEN didn’t leak! [sorry]
    listen: one can hear the happy sound of pocket protectors across this great land dying a welcome death as they fling themselves from the pockets of the Ballpointing masses.

    thanks for a great song, Rifftones. I’m gonna listen to it again!

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  • 6 MST3Kelly on Sep 13, 2008 at 12:36 pm

    Bravo, Rifftones! you have cooked up, like a delicious pound of bacon, a wondrous new sort of sub-genre: ‘punk rock barbershop quartet.’ [not a quartet, but- oh, you know.] your song wasn’t just that, of course, but I could distinctly hear Bill’s spiky-haired youth happily shining through in his splendid vocal.
    I loved it! I loved the Moody Blues-oid break in the middle, the audio inserts, and the fearless mingling of musical styles that you brought together to form one happy, pogoing mass. oh, I mean ‘Ballpointing’ mass.

    and I didn’t leak while I was doing the Ballpoint! uh, I mean my PEN didn’t leak! [sorry]
    listen: one can hear the happy sound of pocket protectors across this great land dying a welcome death as they fling themselves from the pockets of the Ballpointing masses.

    thanks for a great song, Rifftones. I’m gonna listen to it again!

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    Reply from MST3Kelly on September 13, 2008:

    -the hell? must’ve been one of the cats

  • 7 karen on Sep 13, 2008 at 12:44 pm

    wooo! I voted for ya’ll. i liked the previous week’s one too! you’re up 2!!!

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  • 8 Smuttynose on Sep 13, 2008 at 1:50 pm

    I’m doing the ballpoint right now, but I’m afraid my Mom will open the bathroom door and catch me.

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  • 9 Glyn on Sep 13, 2008 at 10:33 pm

    You guys are saving these for an album right?
    And was that Elinor Donahue at the end?

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    Reply from Bill Corbett on September 14, 2008:

    Vivian Vance, a.k.a. “Ethel Mertz.”

  • 10 Yanni on Sep 14, 2008 at 5:45 am

    You guys should make some music videos for these songs

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    Reply from Kyrie on September 17, 2008:

    I second the music videos, and third the album… we also need lyrics! How else can I hope to drive my sister crazy if I can’t sing along 24/7? Moon Shine was easy to figure out, but this one’s a little more complicated…

  • 11 Spookette on Sep 14, 2008 at 4:06 pm

    I second the motion for an album!

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  • 12 AWD! on Sep 15, 2008 at 9:01 am

    Should’ve been a rap song the way you blinged out that pen there.

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  • 13 Mary Arline on Sep 15, 2008 at 3:54 pm

    Great song! I found the use of auxiliary percussion particularly effective.

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  • 14 Krud on Sep 16, 2008 at 6:29 am

    When I got to work this morning, I discovered to my horror that my ballpoint — the one I use, without fail, every morning (unless I call off, or forget) — was MISSING. With no sign as to its current whereabouts (though probably on my boss’s desk.) So, this song brings back rather painful memories for me write now. Oops, I mean right. (I miss it enough to pen unintentional homonyms. PEN! Argh… *sniff* I gotta go.)

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  • 15 mrbasehart on Sep 19, 2008 at 6:49 am

    I really enjoyed doing the Ballpoint, but I think I had to give my vote to the O’Sullivan Stomp this round. They were both pretty awesome though!

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