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| 1. Venus and Mars/Rock Show (Paul McCartney & Wings) |
| 2. Good Vibrations (The Beach Boys) |
| 3. God Only Knows (The Beach Boys) |
| 4. Space Oddity (David Bowie) |
| 5. The Long and Winding Road (The Beatles) |
| 6. Band On The Run (Paul McCartney & Wings) |
| 7. In My Room (The Beach Boys) |
| 8. I'm Into Something Good (Earl-Jean/Herman's Hermits) |
| 9. Saturday Night (Bay City Rollers) |
| 10. I Get Around (The Beach Boys) |
| 11. Mandy (Barry Manilow) |
| 12. Help Me, Rhonda (The Beach Boys) |
| 13. Desperado (The Eagles) |
| 14. You're So Good To Me (The Beach Boys) |
| 15. Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond) |
| 16. To Know Him Is To Love Him (Teddy Bears) |
| 17. Rhiannon (Fleetwood Mac) |
| 18. Wildfire (Michael Martin Murphy) |
| 19. Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognized Anthem of World Contact Day) (Klaatu/The Carpenters) |
Hans Ferger was not only gave his students the opportunity to have as least (count 'em) nineteen musical experiences, he was smart enough to capture them on two-track.
The story of Hans Ferger, the music director of the Langley Schools, reads like the familiar story of a real-life Mr. Holland. Playing gigs by night and teaching guitar by day can pay the bills if you're thrifty, but when a child comes the story changes. When presented with this situation, Ferger got teaching certification and began teaching elementary music. However, it was in the format of the classroom that he finally found his "band". Instead of a bass player, or a drummer, his format consisted of sixty-plus kids, various drums, cymbals, Orff instruments, and "modern" electric instruments. He played guitar and piano. The result of this collaboration yielded some of the most energetic, honest, and musical performances that I can think of.
... Read more ›It is indeed the weirdness of it all that draws you in. Sixty kids singing in a gymnasium, with minimalist musical accompaniment consisting of their music teacher on guitar and piano and students themselves playing one-string bass, a drum kit, a big bass drum, cymbals, steel guitar, and xylophones. Some of the arangements are hysterical, with overeager drummers going too fast and almost confusing the singing kids, or cymbal crashes that come in half a beat too late. But it also has its weird, surreal moments, like the arrangement of David Bowie's 'Space Oddity', which is so creepy, so otherworldly, that it comes off as a masterstroke of demented genius.
Weird & funny, it sure is, but once you keep listening, Innocence & Despair gradually becomes oddly moving, thanks to the pure, naive earnestness of the children's singing. Their renditions of songs like 'God Only Knows' and 'In My Room' achieve such a sublime beauty that Brian Wilson himself couldn't have dreamed of. 'Saturday Night' and 'Band On The Run', on the other hand, explode with youthful energy. And of course, there's the incomparable 'Space Oddity' and a truly freaky cover of 'Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft'.
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