Monday 9 November 2020

Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts Youth Choir - “We All Stand Together”.


Isn't this just MAH-vellously uplifting? For me it's now going to be the 'earwig song' for today and maybe longer, but that's okay. [I actually even liked the original, though right from its release it's been considered 'infra dig' to say so]. 
Happy, happy, HAPPY!!! 

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  1. I'd never heard of it but I found the video with Paul McCartney singing it. You're right-- MAH-vellous!

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    1. Sadie, the song [written for a short, animated Rupert Bear film] was released at the end of 1983 and reached the near-stratospheric heights of #3 in the British charts - and which is the original version you've looked up - though I can't find it having registered in the American 'Billboard' charts at all, which is really not so surprising.
      All talk about it both then and since has been sniffy, dismissing it as a shallow children's song. Even Paul McC. himself has ridiculed it. However, for me there's always been a fondness. In fact I never tire of hearing that genial melody which, I'd go so far as to say, remains as one of his very best. It lasts without ever sounding dreary.

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  2. It's a fun song !. Her cheerful rhythm makes the heart happy too ..., let's party!.
    Cheers

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    1. So pleased you like it too, H.S. It has, and deserves, international appeal.

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  3. Thank you for sharing. Rather like the frogs. Have a lovely...

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    1. The original 'Frog Chorus' version [plus Sir Paul himself in the opening verse] is, of course, THE version. Nice to have a change though, and especially one as superb as this is.
      You too don't forget to have a luverly......

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  4. The world seems so much more hopeful in the past few days. The song is sweet.

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    1. It's a perfect song to cheer one up, Debby - and it succeeds BIG.

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  5. Well, that put a smile on my face this morning!
    Thanks for sharing that one!

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    1. Good, Bob. Glad to have brought it to the attention of anyone who wasn't otherwise aware of it.

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  6. WE ALL STAND TOGETHER against injustice, homophobia, greed, racism, bigotry!

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    1. It's an appropriate ditty for our present times, W.Q. If even frogs understand why can't we all? :-)

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  7. Never understood why this song gets so much stick.

    Used to have the Rupert the Bear movie on VHS.

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    1. I'm with you entirely, Isobel. It's a first-class melody which never seems to pall - and setting words of hope and inspiration.

      I've never seen any full Rupert Bear films but as a little nipper I was enthralled by comic-book depictions of him, he being one of the very first objects of what was to be my lifelong affection towards animals.

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  8. May the choir grow up to believe this and live this!

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    1. Yes indeedy, Mitch. Seeing young kids singing songs like this gives one a positive feeling for the future come what may.

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