The Langley School

spizzle trunk · **Posted:** Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:11 pm

my college roommate introduced me to this. i haven't heard the whole thing, but he has pointed out on occasion the creepier songs, which do, in fact, sound quite creepy. it's quite bizarre, but not without its merits. i don't have any songs to post and the clips on the website don't seem to work, but i'm sure it can be found somewhere if he did.

from http://www.keyofz.com/keyofz/langley/

Quote:

The Langley Schools Music Project is a 60-voice chorus of rural school children from western Canada, untrained but captivated by melodic magic, singing tunes by the Beach Boys, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, The Bay City Rollers, and others. The students accompany themselves with the shimmering gamelan chimes of Orff percussion, and elemental rock trimmings arranged by their itinerant music teacher, Hans.Fenger.

These 1976-77 recordings, captured on a 2-track tape deck in a school gymnasium, weren't staged to achieve money or fame, to sell albums or land a record contract. These kids played music because they loved it. Innocent, flawed and bittersweet, guided by Fenger's unsuspecting genius, these recordings deserve to be heard and preserved. They brim with charm and youthful élan, sparked by flashes of lo-fi Spectorian majesty and Pet Sounds subtlety. Call it folk art, outsider, or campfire rock -- the labels don't matter. These are gorgeous, heavenly artifacts. Period.

tracklisting: 1) Venus and Mars/Rock Show
---- (Paul McCartney &.Wings)
02) Good Vibrations (The Beach Boys)
03) God Only Knows (The Beach Boys)
04) Space Oddity (David Bowie)
05) The Long and Winding Road
---- (The Beatles)
06) Band On The Run
---- (Paul McCartney & Wings)
07) I'm Into Something Good
---- (Earl-Jean/Herman's Hermits)
08) In My Room (The Beach Boys)
09) 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) You're Sixteen *
---- (Johnny Burnette/Ringo Starr)
19) Little Deuce Coupe *
---- (The Beach Boys)
20) Wildfire (Michael Martin Murphy)
21) Calling Occupants of
---- Interplanetary Craft
---- (The Recognized Anthem
---- of World Contact.Day)
---- (Klaatu/The Carpenters)

UPDATE: the album can be found at emusic and a clip of "space oddity" can be found here.

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:17 pm

Sounds interesting, but none of the mp3 links on that page work.

Evil Dr. K · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:51 am **Posts:** 6327

I think this is quite an old album, maybe three years old or so.

I'm pretty sure I had tracks turn up on a compilation album in 2002 or 2003.

Dusty Chalk · **Posted:** Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:35 pm

KonstantinL Wrote:

I think this is quite an old album, maybe three years old or so.

I'm pretty sure I had tracks turn up on a compilation album in 2002 or 2003.

1976-1977, as a matter of fact. The album just got issued a couple years ago, though.

Billzebub · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm **Posts:** 6459

It's the same fiery wreck that is "Hey Jude, Hey Bing!" but with kids among the dead and disfigured.

tehobner · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:48 pm **Posts:** 4479

I've heard the Desparado one. I don't remember what I thought, but I'm downloading Space Oddity

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