I was sad to hear yesterday that Barry Letts, erstwhile producer of 70s Doctor Who, has died at the age of 84. I met him once, at a convention in 1994, when he appeared on stage with Terence Dicks, the other half of their regular double act. He seemed a lovely man and was a great ambassador for the show. R.I.P., Barry – this song’s for you. I’m sorry it’s out of focus but I recorded it as live.
You can also watch it on YouTube and read the lyrics online here. You’ll notice I forgot to mention Sarah Jane Smith. Barry Letts was producer when she became the Doctor’s companion – without him, there would be no Sarah Jane Adventures.
This week my satirical eye noticed lots of people on the twitter asking for Google Wave invites, so here’s a song about it – also known as “How many words can Will think of that rhyme with Wave and how many of those can he shoehorn into a song?”
I sang along a bit too much in a club last night so I’m afraid I’m a bit hoarse. I think you get the point anyway.
Many of you will have seen Microsoft’s achingly cringeworthy video encouraging people to hold Windows 7 launch parties. It really is jaw-droppingly awful. But wait! Don’t go and watch that. I haz written a Windows 7 launch party song especially for you. And here it is.
In the unlikely event that you want to play it yourself – or the more likely event that you can’t make out the lyrics – you can read the chords and lyrics here.
I couldn’t let it lie. Having recorded my Large Hadron Collider Song the other day, I wondered if I could take advantage of my lovely Zoom H2recorder to up the production values a bit. Separating singing and playing the ukulele also meant I could do the latter marginally better – my inability to multitask different rhythms is why I could never be a pianist.
So, with nothing better to do this morning, I re-recorded the song with a more syncopated ukulele track. I added in some vocals – 12 rather than 40 voices – and then decided to fill the music out a bit with a guitar line (actually two tracks in the end). The guitar and the uke tuning weren’t quite together so I ended up lowering the pitch of the ukulele track by a semitone. What a cheat.
recorder to up the production values a bit. Separating singing and playing the ukulele also meant I could do the latter marginally better – my inability to multitask different rhythms is why I could never be a pianist.
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