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Sleepy Lagoon (Read 5961 times)

basilh Big Kahuna I Try to Play Hawaiian Steel Guitar Posts: 801	Re: Sleepy Lagoon Reply #30 - 01/31/08 at 8:08pm Ken, it's now "SIR Jimmy Savile" Click Here This one REALLY DOES work .
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Kufton Big Kahuna I Love Hawaiian Steel Guitar Posts: 412	Re: Sleepy Lagoon Reply #31 - 01/31/08 at 10:18pm YEA, I know, you wound it up the right way this time, you're a goldmine of info and, Jimmy had to be from the north, that's a bit close though, born '31 and drafted during WW11, does that click, KU PS. Sorry about that, mistook the date, read it as born in 1931, am not really a dummy, it's the glasses. KU
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vangary Big Kahuna Aloha Baby Posts: 113	Re: Sleepy Lagoon Reply #32 - 02/28/08 at 11:39am Basil, I played your version wt. the bridge for the guys I jam with and they insisted that we do it. So I finally learned to play it and I must say it was well worth the effort. I really like the way you layed it out
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basilh Big Kahuna I Try to Play Hawaiian Steel Guitar Posts: 801	Re: Sleepy Lagoon Reply #33 - 03/10/08 at 7:54am Thanks Vangary, I COULDN'T play it without the middle 8. Now, for some bizarre reason the link to the Alfred Apaka version has stopped working and as one can't edit posts older than 7 days I'll have to post here the correction, actually it's NOT a correction it's exactly the same code ?:- Alfred without the middle
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Re: Sleepy Lagoon
Reply #34 - 03/11/08 at 7:52am

Just to place everything where it can be found easily I've included ALL the versions I can find of this song, but I can't find ONE version that has the middle section SUNG !!

There's more to the story, originally entitled "Midnight in Wolverhampton" dedicated to his wife, Eric wrote it after an evening out together.
Here are many versions including Eric conducting the London Symphony orchestra himself.
It was adopted by the BBC as the signature tune to their hugely successful and long running "Desert Island disks"..

Eric Coates and the London Symphony Orchestra

Alfred's FIRST Version

Alfred Apaka's Last Version

Bert Kaemphert

Cynthia Read/Felix Mendelssohn

Doris Day Slow Foxtrot!

Eddi Calvert

Tommy Dorsey

Ken Ufton

Myself, but what guitar ?

ALL played in the original key, except for Tommy Dorsey (Bb) and Cynthia Read (F)

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Kufton Big Kahuna I Love Hawaiian Steel Guitar Posts: 412	Re: Sleepy Lagoon Reply #35 - 03/17/08 at 12:30pm Bas, Just been playing about with the Sleepy stuff to see if there is any improvement, no, but, am surprised the Dorsey one is also in 4/4, had to have my head in the Speaker Cab. to hear it, KU
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vangary Big Kahuna Aloha Baby Posts: 113	Re: Sleepy Lagoon Reply #36 - 03/29/08 at 4:51am The Dorsey version is also great because it includes the bridge. Doris' is still my favorite though
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Kufton Big Kahuna I Love Hawaiian Steel Guitar Posts: 412	Re: Sleepy Lagoon Reply #37 - 04/01/08 at 4:01pm Bas, Since my last statement about your performance on the 'Sleepy' thing, seems like everything has come right now and, you are now playing all the way through, KU.
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