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Song Parodies -> "Tambourine"
Original Song Title:
"Tangerine"
Original Performer:
Salsoul Orchestra
Parody Song Title:
"Tambourine"
Parody Written by:
Melanie Lee
The Lyrics
Familiarity with the pre-disco 1941/42 song would help; the lyrics in paretheses are lyric lines done in the 1976 disco version by an instrument (violin, trumpet) rather than by the singers. OS (Salsoul Orchestra): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc3rGEBZmy8
(Clash!)
(Tambourine! It’s so fun to shake.
As they strum some rock,
Percussive knocks you make.)
Tambourine!
(Tiny cymbals clash
On a wooden band.
You slap your hand, and—crash!)
Tambourine! Tracy Partridge played,
Betty Cooper owned,
And Davy Jones displayed.
(So, when you lack good musical skill,
With your grasp of do-re-mi nil,
Well, you can bang the tambourine!)
(Clash!)
(Tambourine! Your piano sits
In a silent state:
Can’t play the latest hits.)
Tambourine!
(Where’s your old guitar?
In a leather case
Behind the basement bar.)
Tambourine! Trumpet on the shelf,
And your brand new flute
Is sitting mute itself.
(Well, you don’t train; you can’t play a tune.
So your voice you’ll just have to croon)
Unless you bang the tambourine!
(instrumental break)
Bling-a, bling-a! Tambourine!
Klink-a, klink-a!
Ding-a, ding-a! Tambourine!
Plink-a, plink-a!
(instrumental break)
Tambourine, ping-ping! Ping-ping!
Tambourine, ping-ping! Ping-ping!
Tambourine, ping-ping! Ping-ping!
Tambourine, ping-ping! Ping-ping!
Shake that thing!
(instrumental break)
Bling-a, bling-a! Tambourine!
Ding-a, ding-a!
(instrumental to fade)
(Tambourine! It’s so fun to shake.
As they strum some rock,
Percussive knocks you make.)
Tambourine!
(Tiny cymbals clash
On a wooden band.
You slap your hand, and—crash!)
Tambourine! Tracy Partridge played,
Betty Cooper owned,
And Davy Jones displayed.
(So, when you lack good musical skill,
With your grasp of do-re-mi nil,
Well, you can bang the tambourine!)
(Clash!)
(Tambourine! Your piano sits
In a silent state:
Can’t play the latest hits.)
Tambourine!
(Where’s your old guitar?
In a leather case
Behind the basement bar.)
Tambourine! Trumpet on the shelf,
And your brand new flute
Is sitting mute itself.
(Well, you don’t train; you can’t play a tune.
So your voice you’ll just have to croon)
Unless you bang the tambourine!
(instrumental break)
Bling-a, bling-a! Tambourine!
Klink-a, klink-a!
Ding-a, ding-a! Tambourine!
Plink-a, plink-a!
(instrumental break)
Tambourine, ping-ping! Ping-ping!
Tambourine, ping-ping! Ping-ping!
Tambourine, ping-ping! Ping-ping!
Tambourine, ping-ping! Ping-ping!
Shake that thing!
(instrumental break)
Bling-a, bling-a! Tambourine!
Ding-a, ding-a!
(instrumental to fade)
OS (Frank Sinatra, 1962): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS3Q1_D_1dg OS (Killingly High School Jazz Vocal Ensemble): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26FtoaPSALY
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I keep hearing " My Green Tambourine " . . . .
Excellent job on this difficult tune, expecially admire your work with the inner rhyming..I've done this old tune a time or two, myself, so I know how tricky it can be.
(Amiright Idol) You brought something quite unusual to the table, Melanie. This is quite a bit of fun...not necessarily funny all around, but clever just the same. I worry though about the recording aspects of this, because of the Disco cover you have worked with. Dave's music sources are more likely to have a traditional performance, not the Salsoul Orch. arrangement. All told though, you put this together really nicely. 555
I screwed up (again). Look for the proper AI commentary elsewhere.
(ABC) Melanie, I still like this for its originality.
Hey, It's the Tambourine Band! Play a song for me... (oops-- forgot myself in the moment...) :)
(ABC05T)
This is not tamboring, no sir not tamboring at all. But why did CCR say in their song 'lookin' out my back door":
Tambourines and elephants all playin' in the band?
Clever bit of word smithing, Melanie
This is not tamboring, no sir not tamboring at all. But why did CCR say in their song 'lookin' out my back door":
Tambourines and elephants all playin' in the band?
Clever bit of word smithing, Melanie
(ABC) fun to follow as it moves in and out of lyrics and instrumental - gotta say I've never even heard that song before let alone try to parody it. I love the sentiments though Melanie - "So, when you lack good musical skill, With your grasp of do-re-mi nil" sums it up, and the best thing about the tambourine is the word itself - beautiful - 555
ABC5(T) Interesting concept, writing words to the instrumental parts...555!!!
Intresting topic choice. Points for that alone if the rest wasn't so points-worthy
Very unusual choice of topic. Good show. 555
(ABC5) I do declare that this is the most original parody I have read, unless my memory has pushed an even more original out to make way for more useless Transformers trivia...ahem. 555!
Still a pretty fun parody Mel, good job on this one. . .I know I've commented before as I was an Idol judge--but it must have been in the message board, so props again on the actual parody.
I think the only other writer here to put words to instrumental parts of a song with lyrics was Paul Robinson. Never heard this OS until now... it was admittedly a bit hard to follow the lyrics, but I definitely dug the idea and execution.
I see I commented on this back in 09.....I like yours better than mine...Had I remembered, or checked Search, I would have given you first use credit...
AFW: no big whoop. After all, it was five years ago, and yours give a fresh point-of-view!
RIP Suzanne Crough, aka Tracy Partridge, player of the tambourine, mentioned in this parody. RIP also to Davy Jones.
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