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John Hollingum
Добавлен 16 янв 2010
I use animation techniques to tell stories with music.
There are also a bunch of straight performance recordings of jazz, samba, bossa nova from the time when I could still play guitar
There are also a bunch of straight performance recordings of jazz, samba, bossa nova from the time when I could still play guitar
Sweet Thames Flow Softly
I video I created for The Kimberleys . It features their wonderful performance of the Ewan McColl classic.
The Kimberleys RUclips Channel: www.youtube.com/@thekimberleys5284
Website: www.thekimberleys.org/
The Kimberleys RUclips Channel: www.youtube.com/@thekimberleys5284
Website: www.thekimberleys.org/
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Al Bowlly: The life that never was
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How might the British crooner's life have gone if it hadn't been extinguished in April 1941? This is a slightly extended version of my previous video with a explanatory introduction for people not familiar with his real life.
If you never change your ways
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A study in Bossa Nova and 'mid century style'. Song Composed by John Hollingum. I also played the 'violão' (guitar) and piano. Also featuring the talents of Joe Drzewiecki on Tenor Sax and the voice of Steph Casey. Joe also did the mix. All three of us were aiming for a Stan Getz, João Gilberto, Tom Jobim kind of sound. The video is derived from/inspired by the clip art of the Volk Corporation ...
January
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My setting of 'January' by John Updike January The days are short, The sun a spark, Hung thin between The dark and dark. Fat snowy footsteps Track the floor. Milk bottles burst Outside the door. The river is A frozen place Held still beneath The trees of lace. The sky is low. The wind is gray. The radiator Purrs all day. John Updike
Crotal Bells (Remastered directors cut for 2023 - more grating than ever)
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You know the drill, bells, children's choirs, massed pipe bands. You'll hate it.
Inutil Paisagem
Просмотров 897 лет назад
Tom Jobim composition with some of my own English lyrics, based on original Portuguese
Roses don't Talk (As Rosas Não Falam -Cartola)
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The Cartola classic with my English lyric
Wave (Tom Jobim)
Просмотров 878 лет назад
The English version. Without the weird bit that Frank did in the wrong octave. Note I am sporting a Tom style panama.
Se Eu Quiser Falar Com Deus (In English)
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The fine Gilberto Gil song, manhandled into English by my good self.
Until the Road Runs Out
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A new song. Some hesitations because I have to read some of the lyrics. Recorded in the bathroom. Sorry about the extractor fan, it comes on with the light.
Shake Rattle and Roll at the British Oak
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Shake Rattle and Roll at the British Oak
My heart holds such a space for Al. I’m a 19 year old girl, and fell in love with him at 14. His voice, his music, it was so beautiful.
Thanks so much. That was really beautiful.
Glad you enjoyed it!
The part of him retiring to the Greek island, Hydra, gave me a warm feeling, like in an alternate universe he actually did do that, and I feel like a Greek island would even be his choice! That part fit as perfectly as a puzzle piece. Brilliant!
This was a very fine video, but I think you're missing one of Al's final hits from 1977, 'Dancing Through The Night', written by the Gibb brothers. Nobody expected him to hop on the Disco bandwagon, but it got to number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 2 on the UK charts just ahead of 'God Save the Queen'.
You know I'd completely forgotten that one. Obviously he sang it an octave lower than Barry sang it in the demo.
Why was Bacharach writing songs for a man long since dead?
You're not paying attention
At 0:39 I remember this railway shot, it came from "Brief Encounter" (1945). And at 0:41 I'm afraid that photo of this steam engine was taken around the 1950s.
Sharp eyes. You'd also find I stole Celia Johnson's back for the 'looking at the poster' scene. TBH, this was aimed more at the music fans than the rail fans ;-)
@@hollingum also I like this video, :)
I built my RUclips algorithm brick by brick
The first super-star! He was a Greek singer.
Yes, that's (partly) why I had him retire to Hydra
Great work, a beautiful bit of "What if..." history that touched me deeply. Al really would have deserved to experience all of this. But I am sure he sits on his cloud now and smiles down at us, approving of your work which is visibly a labour of love. I always also liked the tunes he did with Jimmy Mesene very much. They are so stunningly modern... One detail crossed my mind while watching your video: wasn´t "When That Man Is Dead And Gone" in fact his very last recording? I think so, if I remember correctly. Isn´t that somehow ironic?
It was indeed his last recording. So truck loads of irony there.
My dad loved al bowly and it has rubbed off and amazingly I hear him often in movies I love him too
Wow, this is amazing. Thank you for the effort. He is still not forgotten. May he rest in peace
Glad you liked it
He was nothing to do with my generation but his recordings are a musical time machine . Wonderful indeed !
crazy how he died...yikes. Love the music though
Such an astonishing art style and beautiful usage of music, this is a masterpiece!
Wow, thank you!
never heard of the guy before but i might have if he had lived.
He was huge during the 1930s, rivaling huge singers such as people like Bing Crosby. I highly recommend you check out some of his songs, he was a world-famous crooner with a singing style no other singer from the day had! :D
I would love to own a copy of his book - he recorded more songs in 13 years -than many artists do in 43 years - there may be lost recordings waiting to be found - Stardust - When Day is Done - I do not think I am overstating to suggest he has become an almost mythical figure - I work in Drama - often with young people - I played them a few of his songs - while they did say it was not their kind of music (Remember these are teenagers) they all agreed that he had great talent -somewhere very impressed - 'Just let me look at you' gaining several approving nods - from 13 to 18-year-olds
Not the same as owning it, but the entire book is on line here archive.org/details/modern-style-singing-crooning-al-bowlly-1934_202106/Modern%20Style%20Singing%20%28Crooning%29%20-%20%20Al%20Bowlly%20%281934%29%20V2_Page_001.jpg
@@hollingum Thank you very much
Good someone finally knows al bowlly
There’s a very good documentary on RUclips as well. Originally broadcasted by the bbc in 2007. ruclips.net/video/tXnvFRN9MXo/видео.htmlsi=Zm_hTRx99NrFScES
Probably the only one under 60 in Kansas City who knows he exists
@@sarahwayne5102 I wonder how many people up here in Maine besides me know who he was. It's safe to say that I have NEVER heard someone mention AL's name or music in person. A shame.
Love this - great stuff John
If wishing could make it true. Singing with the angels.
That was a very unusual video.
I was just using any technique I could lay my hands on to tell the story
@@hollingum What software did you use to age his appearance? Fantastic job!
@@Poisson4147 It was just one of those phone apps, can't remember which one. I fed it a lot of images and only a few really worked. The 'abbey road' sequence was the most laborious as I had to take a snippet of video (probably from 'the very thought of you) and run each frame through the app. I then had to trace him out of each frame so I could place him in front of the orchestra
@@hollingum Wow! The result's an absolute triumph of all that hard work.
This man deserves a Oscar for this video
Yeah, but what category?
@@hollingum Best Indie Short Film of 2023
If only! This made me cry. All the same thank you for doing this. RIP AL. You are still loved.
Love everything about this. ❤
Glad you liked it
Thank you, so much for such a creative video-tribute to a great artist. My only request is that the images go by more slowly so that I can take it all in.
It's intentional. Obviously all the images are fake; they are there to give an impression of a busy celebrity life. If the images were slower you'd start to notice the flaky way they were constructed. They're telling a story.
I figure he should've moved to France and played with Arthur Briggs or Django Reinhardt, or back the USA with Ray Noble.
That could work. Certainly there was a mutual admiration with Noble. I felt that he and Nat Gonella would have found themselves in a very similar position, rather bewildered through the 50's by bebop on one side and the rough teenage enthusiasms of skiffle, rock and roll and trad on the other.
I have just heard via RUclips All Be It - low quality - an short unissued version of Al singing - When You Wish Upon a Star
Perhaps someone can use AI to make new music video's with Al Bowllys voice
What a wonderful creation this is- an alternate universe, where Al perhaps didn't make it back into town, that night of the 16th. A bomb on the lines into Marylebone was all that would be required to change musical history. Your snapshots of a life which might have been, are so well imagined.
It's fantastic, you can also use AI to do these kinds of videos as well. This is really , really good, it would have been marvellous if Al had continued. Well done !
This made me tear up in a way. A great man with a great voice.
You people must search Bowl Lee, you can see al's voice singing random songs he never did before
I love these videos 🌠
Interesting concept. What might have been. Perhaps Glenn Miller would have given his old pal Al a break to perform with his AFF band in 1944. (His great rival Sam Browne did the odd performance with them). However, Sam had his last big hit 'Heartbreaker' in 1948 and also the likes of Denny Denis ran out of steam by the late 40's. I suspect Al's career would have been over by the early 50's with changing popular music tastes by then. Perhaps Al would have retired back to South Africa then
That's a VERY interesting idea! About 20 years ago I got involved in an alt-timeline group where a bunch of us contributed chapters to Miller's life, had his pilot not flown into the Channel*. However all of us missed the idea that Al Bowlly might also have survived in that universe. (*) OK, to pre-answer the next questions ... we had him following many of the plans he had for his post-war career, including movies and TV shows as well as founding a chain of music stores. We split the timeline in the 1950s: one led to his continuing as a composer and conductor in a world where swing and jazz continued to evolve; in the other he re-connected with Eugene Ormandy and, like Ormandy, switched from popular music to the classical world where he eventually took over the NBC Symphony in 1959. But like Al Bowlly, we'll never know 😩😫😢
Certainly in 1941, things didn't look great for him. I ran with the idea of building on the guitar sound and latterly re-connecting with Nat Gonella. I tried thinking about what songs of the 50's would have actually suited him and the one that stood out for me was 'on the street where you live'. As regards retirement, I sent him to Greece because he likely spoke some greek, which he could have got from his father. I also wanted to slyly engineer a meeting with Leonard Cohen
Incidentally I've done an extended version of this vid that has an introduction to who he was and what his real fate was ruclips.net/video/emSA-fuWq0E/видео.html
Beautiful & so poignantly assembled tribute to one of my favourite vocalists. Oh what might have been indeed! TY John ☺
I wish he would have grown old..❤❤🌹🌹
what a charming animation!
As a fairly young fan of Al’s music (and the british dance bands in general), this made me really happy! I do wish that this biopic about him would’ve been made, but this short, alternate timeline is pretty sweet, too! I send you congrats from Yankee-land (if you are British). If not, congrats still!
Excelente trabajo!!!
these are super fun and interesting. keep up the good work hollingum.
This is rather touching and nicely done!
I really wish this is the way it was.
well done - if only!
❤ want to say goodbye but instead will be hello from the year now 2023 of Sept 10th beautiful autumn in the ☀️ state your music have riched my ears and is wonderful to have the pleasure tyvm
Amazing video. Thank you for the hard work and bringing this to life.
Thanks. It was fun trying to make the most of the fairly sparse set of images and video.
Just love it. Thanks, made my day!
Thanks for watching
God, that is a lot of editing work....and strange juxta-positions. And it all makes a great film!
Thanks, it was interesting putting it together. I found an image of a heinkel crew where they looked like nerdy kids, the pilot even has glasses. Putting them on a collision course with Al seemed appropriate.
It's so annoying that AL looks like AI. Speaking of which, the only teensy bit I used was to age his face, and all the face-swapping was a manual process.
I’m happy that you made this. It’s always sad when I read about Al Bowlly’s death and how his life was cut so short. Its nice to see an alternate reality where he survived and lived on until he was old. Please don’t ever delete this. ❤
It was a real challenge trying to think of a plausible extended life for him. Glad you liked it
@@hollingum I'd imagine he'd end up a veteran singer similar to how Bing Crosby was in his later years of the 70s, or Sinatra by the 80s and 90s.
Somehow his death and how he died helps his iconic image - do not misunderstand me -I wish he lived to be 100 @@thegamingboyrblx8631
@@thegamingboyrblx8631 The real singer in the 'Michael Parkinson' sequence was Fred Astaire, with Al''s head rather implausibly superimposed. Fred was of a similar vintage
Al Bowlly actually met Louis Armstrong in the 1930s.
Indeed, so I thought he had to meet him again in the 50s
Al deserves a lasting memorial -- to the loss of life and genuine talent. Glenn Miller has a headstone in his honor at Arlington Cemetery, I've been told. So, why not a tribute marker of some sort for Bowlly and Leslie Howard in London as well?
... and snakehips Johnson
Well there's a plaque outside one of the addresses Al lived in, and his name is in the cemetery.
Yes, there's a headstone in Arlington. [IIRC it has a historical error, identfying Maj. Miller as a member of the Army Air Corps rather than the Army Air Forces.]
Sad Hitler got him in 1941, his song "woman" was used has the march in STAR WARS.