{"id":1016,"date":"2010-12-21T19:54:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T18:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jutze.com\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2010-12-25T17:13:48","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T16:13:48","slug":"52-second-cover-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/?p=1016","title":{"rendered":"52-Second Cover Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will post a new 52-second cover version every day until Sunday. I wrote and recorded an original 52-second song every week throughout this year. So now I&#8217;ve ended up with 52 52-second songs. The last one will be put online on Sunday. The cover songs are just a feeble attempt at generating some sort of hype. If you have any suggestions or requests, let me know. (Just bear in mind that it should be Creative Commons music.) I&#8217;m also working on a separate page for the collection of 52-second songs for those who are new to this project. (Check out the <a title=\"Music!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/?page_id=13\">music section<\/a> for the time being!)<\/p>\n<p>The fifth and final cover song (for Saturday) is called &#8220;Grandma&#8217;s Christmas Dinner&#8221;. <a title=\"Paul and Storm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.paulandstorm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul and Storm<\/a> wrote the song. <a title=\"Grandma's Christmas Dinner by Paul and Storm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.paulandstorm.com\/lyrics\/grandmas-christmas-dinner\/\" target=\"_blank\">Their version<\/a> is a bit longer. But mine has drums! And <a title=\"Grandma's Christmas Dinner (performed by Jutze) over at YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qS-6GIpUmuE\">this video clip<\/a>.<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qS-6GIpUmuE?hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qS-6GIpUmuE?hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The fourth cover song (for Friday) is a song by Song Fu veteran Russ Rogers. It&#8217;s called &#8220;The Homo sapiens Song&#8221;. I made <a title=\"The Homo sapiens Song over at YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=psMt8dO7hUs\">a quick lip-sync video<\/a> with the Christmas tree in the background. The music recording contains drums, piano, vocals, guitar and my keyboard&#8217;s bass.<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/psMt8dO7hUs?hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/psMt8dO7hUs?hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The third cover song (for Thursday) is a traditional German Christmas carol called &#8220;<a title=\"Was soll das bedeuten? over at YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xJaPnvciA28\" target=\"_blank\">Was soll das bedeuten?<\/a>&#8221; (What does this mean?). I just play the piano because it&#8217;s one of the pieces I remember from my first piano lessons. (Plus, I don&#8217;t know the lyrics by heart.)<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xJaPnvciA28?hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xJaPnvciA28?hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The second cover song (for Wednesday) is &#8220;Hey Molly&#8221;, originally by <a title=\"Mike Lombardo at Bandcamp\" href=\"http:\/\/mikelombardo.bandcamp.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Lombardo<\/a>. I turned into <a title=\"My version of Hey Molly over at YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6LZx5m5rcKI\" target=\"_blank\">a sad instrumental waltz<\/a>.<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6LZx5m5rcKI?hl=de&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6LZx5m5rcKI?hl=de&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The first cover song (for Tuesday) is a somewhat spontaneous piano version of <a title=\"Jonathan Coulton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathancoulton.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Coulton<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Drinking With You&#8221;. I messed up the lyrics and the sound quality leaves to be desired. But it&#8217;s going to get better. And the song itself is cool, I think. <a title=\"Jutze's version of Drinking With You over at YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yZ1ONQ7OhkE\">Check it out!<\/a><br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yZ1ONQ7OhkE?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yZ1ONQ7OhkE?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will post a new 52-second cover version every day until Sunday. I wrote and recorded an original 52-second song every week throughout this year. So now I&#8217;ve ended up with 52 52-second songs. The last one will be put online on Sunday. The cover songs are just a feeble attempt at generating some sort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[169,421,427,428,424,66,422,423,426,425,57],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jutze-52","tag-christmas","tag-cover","tag-dinner","tag-dog","tag-drinking","tag-jonathan-coulton","tag-mike-lombardo","tag-molly","tag-paul-and-storm","tag-russ-rogers","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}