On this week's #StupidAccordionTricks, from 1974's #FreeToBeYouAndMe, here's the song #ItsAllRightToCry performed by the sensitive football-playing cross-stitch enthusiast, #RoseyGrier.
#roseygrier #itsallrighttocry #freetobeyouandme #StupidAccordionTricks
One of the best stupid tricks in my #StupidAccordionTricks bag was inherited from the @creakingplanks - we called it emotional inversion. To demonstrate, here's #Pharrell's monster 2013 hit #Happy... done sad!
#happy #pharrell #StupidAccordionTricks
Finally we're far enough into the year for me to make a 2023 #StupidAccordionTricks cover, and as with my recent take on "Here", it also engages the dubious pleasures of being a social introvert. Here's #CharlotteCardin's #Confetti:
#confetti #charlottecardin #StupidAccordionTricks
For #July4 your contrary host recorded a #StupidAccordionTricks cover of #GoingToATown by #RufusWainwright, the song for the moment! https://youtu.be/BeasRDIrNGc
#rufuswainwright #goingtoatown #StupidAccordionTricks #july4
I slowed down with the public #StupidAccordionTricks posts in June, so for Canada Day here's #RunAwayToMars by @iamtalk from Ottawa. I heard it on the radio and couldn't leave it be!
#runawaytomars #StupidAccordionTricks
My kids are having an oversized influence on my #StupidAccordionTricks selections these days, but I could never argue with a pizza. This one is for all the #CharlotteDiamond fans out there, #IAmAPizza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o20FJZZEMM4
#iamapizza #charlottediamond #StupidAccordionTricks
#StupidAccordionTricks don't get much more stupid than this: for #MayThe4th, I've covered Bad Lip Reading's rewritten speech and song-and-dance number between Luke and Yoda, "Seagulls! (Stop It Now)." It's a hot mess! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFjLRyCqgdM
#maythe4th #StupidAccordionTricks
Another surprise (if not necessarily all that unexpected -- hoaxes have been preparing us for a decade or so) memorial #StupidAccordionTricks tribute, this time to #GordonLightfoot with my take on his #IfYouCouldReadMyMind, his first charting hit -- via https://youtu.be/ccvCJpxlPB8
#ifyoucouldreadmymind #gordonlightfoot #StupidAccordionTricks
I'm keeping the #StupidAccordionTricks funny as we work our way through the Foolish month of April... here's my squeezy proof of concept taking on #Cake's 2001 #ShortSkirtLongJacket from the album #ComfortEagle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OHCg8XjAtM
#comforteagle #shortskirtlongjacket #cake #StupidAccordionTricks
My April Fool's spree of #StupidAccordionTricks lives up to its adjective with this latest cover video, for #BarnesAndBarnes' 1978 song #FishHeads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTTgT3S10Rk
#fishheads #barnesandbarnes #StupidAccordionTricks
The #StupidAccordionTricks march on, keeping up a quick pace to keep up with various self-imposed milestones. I'm celebrating #Easter with this one, a best fit so obvious I don't think it's occurred to anyone else yet: #TomWaits' 1999 #ChocolateJesus.
#chocolatejesus #tomwaits #easter #StupidAccordionTricks
April Fool's day has arrived, the perfect setting for #StupidAccordionTricks. Here's a funny song from the last century, the #AustinLoungeLizards' #LeonardCohensDayJob, via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_melFZ8I6_Y
#leonardcohensdayjob #austinloungelizards #StupidAccordionTricks
My final #StupidAccordionTricks video for IWD March, here's a #BritneySpears hit from 2008, #Womanizer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAZDlK8VONw
#womanizer #britneyspears #StupidAccordionTricks
I had a lot of catch-up to do, but I continue my #StupidAccordionTricks spree of celebrating powerful women songwriters this #IWD March with a somewhat lackadaisical (some might say "scrubby") cover of #TLC's 1999 #NoScrubs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4b-PZf1ZFM&feature=youtu.be
#noscrubs #tlc #iwd #StupidAccordionTricks
Didn’t get to squeeze it into my Valentine’s songs list this year but he forced his way to the front of the queue in the worst possible way. RIP to steel guitar god #DavidLindley, here’s his country song #ThisBarstoolsReservedForMyHeart.
#StupidAccordionTricks #thisbarstoolsreservedformyheart #davidlindley
As February comes to an end so too do I wind down my program of allegedly lustful, passionate and romantic songs for #StupidAccordionTricks. Here’s a wacky old specimen of that style of tune, #TomLehrer’s #MasochismTango from 1959’s “An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer”. If ever a song could serve as a compelling reminder to use protection in your libidinous dealings, it’s this one!
#masochismtango #tomlehrer #StupidAccordionTricks
A deep cut for this installment of my #StupidAccordionTricks series: an original musical arrangement I made in 2006 of a poem, "Ring-a-ding-ding", by Alexandra Oliver, that you simply wouldn't have ever had the chance to hear anywhere else: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHnf1laV9EM
For Valentine’s Day, I pulled myself together long enough to cough up a sincere love song for my #StupidAccordionTricks series - this time, #EwanMacColl’s #TheFirstTimeEverISawYourFace from 1957, written for Peggy Seeger & made famous by Roberta Flack. https://youtu.be/sjjkrx5a9ms
#thefirsttimeeverisawyourface #ewanmaccoll #StupidAccordionTricks
24 hours ago I had no inkling I'd be recording a #BurtBacharach song on the #accordion and sharing it today as a #StupidAccordionTricks memorial tribute, but life is full of surprises. Here's his #AlwaysSomethingThereToRemindMe, which I first learned of from Naked Eyes' cover:
#alwayssomethingtheretoremindme #StupidAccordionTricks #accordion #burtbacharach
I'm doing another February run of offbeat love songs for #StupidAccordionTricks, starting with #Anohni's iconic #IFellInLoveWithADeadBoy, that we performed in the earliest days of the Creaking Planks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGBW6sAekLM
#ifellinlovewithadeadboy #anohni #StupidAccordionTricks