XperDunn plays Piano
May 21st, 2013
Improv – Rascality
[with a 'Sweet Baby James' piano-cover 'chewy center' - courtesy of the great James Taylor]
Category Archives: song covers
“Who Needs To Dream” by Barry Manilow (2010Oct13)
I was rummaging around in my old Youtube Channel ‘xperdunn’ uploads and I came across this interesting span of days’ works:
“Who Needs To Dream” by Barry Manilow (2010Oct13)
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Oct 13th, 2010
Selections from “The Joan Baez Songbook” – Part 1
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November 1st, 2010
Selections from “The Joan Baez Songbook” – Part 2
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November 1st, 2010
Selections from “The Joan Baez Songbook” – Part 3
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November 1st, 2010
“Two Improvs -Ocean Waves & Pageant Procession”
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October 16th, 2010
The History Of Popular Songs – Episode Five (2013May07)
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May 7th, 2013
The History Of Popular Songs – Episode Five
Three New Videos on YouTube
Improv – She Enters The Saloon (2013May05)
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May 5th, 2013
Improv – She Enters The Saloon
[from The FitzWilliam Virginal] – (2013May05)
“Woods So Wilde” & “O Mistris Myne” by Wyllyam Byrde
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May 5th, 2013
from The FitzWilliam Virginal:
Two Works by William Byrd–
“Woods So Wilde”
&
“O Mistris Myne”
“Whiter Shade Of Pale” (cover) & tribute/Improv (2013May04)
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May 4th, 2013
“Whiter Shade Of Pale” (cover) & tribute/Improv
The History Of Popular Songs – Episode Four (2013May03)
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May 3rd, 2013
The History Of Popular Songs – Episode Four
(covers of “Sweet Baby James”, “White Room”, and “A Whiter Shade Of Pale”)
The History Of Popular Songs – Episode Three (2013Apr30)
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April 30th, 2013
The History Of Popular Songs – Episode Three
For Your Love, Love Is All Around, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, He Ain’t Heavy, and more!
The History Of Popular Songs – Episode Two (2013Apr23)
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April 23rd, 2013
The History Of Popular Songs – Episode Two
The History of Popular Songs – Episode One
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April 22, 2013 (Earth Day)
The History of Popular Songs – Episode One
“Marching Along Together”
American Lyric by Mort Dixon
Words and Music by Ed Pola & Franz Steininger
(c) 1932 The Peter Maurice Music Co. Ltd.
“Masquerade”
Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
Music by John Jacob Loeb
(c) 1932 Leo Feist Inc.
“Maybe”
By Alan Flynn
& Frank Madden
(c) 1935 Robbins Music Corp.
“More Than You Know”
Lyrics by William Rose & Edward Eliscu
Music by Vincent Youmans
(c) 1929 by Miller Music Corp.
“My Reverie”
(Melody based on Claude Debussy’s ‘Reverie’
French Lyrics by Yvette Baruch)
by Larry Clinton (c) 1938 Robbins Music Corp.
“No! No! A Thousand Times No!”
by Al Sherman, Al Lewis and Abner Silver
(c) 1934 LEO Feist Inc.
“Lara’s Theme” from
MGM Presents David Lean’s ‘Doctor Zhivago’
Lyrics by Maurice Jarre
(c) 1965 MGM, Inc.
“Just You, Just Me”
Lyrics by Raymond Klages
Music by Jesse Greer (c) 1929 MGM, Inc.
“The Last Waltz”
Words and Music by
Les Reed and Barry Mason
(c) 1967 Donna Music Ltd.
“My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua, Hawaii”
Words and Music by
Bill Cogswell, Tommy Harrison,
and Johnny Noble
(c) 1933 Miller Music Corp.
“Like Young”
Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
Music by Andre Previn
(c) 1958 Robbins Music Corp.
Songs by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart (2013Apr04)
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April 4th, 2013
Songs by:
Richard Rodgers
&
Lorenz Hart
4 New Videos!
Improv – The Drowning Man
Published on Mar 19, 2013
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March 17th, 2013
Improv – The Drowning Man
J. S. Bach – English Suite No. 4 In d minor
Published on Mar 19, 2013
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March 16th, 2013
J. S. Bach – English Suite No. 4 In d minor
Three (3) ‘American Songbook’-type Standards (2013Mar16)
Published on Mar 19, 2013
XperDunn plays Piano
March 16th, 2013
3 Song Standards (Piano-Instrumental Covers)
01. Crazy Rhythm
02. Body And Soul
03. Blues In The Night (‘My Mama Done Tol’ Me’)
Improv – C Minor Gigue (2013Mar19)
Published on Mar 19, 2013
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March 19th, 2013
Improv – C Minor Gigue
Playing The Blues
Yes, folks–even Xper Dunn has his down days. Take, for instance, March 15th, 2013, when I played the blues…
A Fine Mess Made Of More Ancient Irish Songs (2013Mar12)
Published on Mar 13, 2013
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March 12th, 2013
In which I create A Fine Mess, Made Of More Ancient Irish Songs
3 Rodgers & Hart songs
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March 7th, 2013
Seven Songs From The Movies
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March 7th, 2013
Seven (7) Famous Movie Tunes:
Nobody Does It Better (from THE SPY WHO LOVED ME)
Lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager
Music by Marvin Hamlisch
(C) 1977 Danjaq S.A.
Ol’ Man River (from SHOW BOAT)
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Music by Jerome Kern
(c) 1927 Universal/Polygram Intl. Pub., Inc.
On The Good Ship Lolly-Pop (from BRIGHT EYES)
Words and Music by
Sidney Clare and Richard A. Whiting
(c) 1934 Bourne Co. and Whiting Publishing
Over The Rainbow (from THE WIZARD OF OZ)
Lyrics by E. Y. Harburg
Music by Harold Arlen
(c) 1938, 1966 MGM, Inc.
The Rainbow Connection (from THE MUPPET MOVIE)
Words and Music by
Paul Williams and Kenneth L. Ascher
(c) 1979 Jim Henson Productions, Inc.
Seems Like Old Times (from ANNIE HALL)
Lyrics and Music by
John Jacob Loeb and Carmen Lombardo
(c) 1946 Flojan Music Pub. Co.
The Shadow Of Your Smile (from THE SANDPIPER)
Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
Music by Johnny Mandel
(c) 1965 MGM Inc.
Some Day My Prince Will Come (from Walt Disney’s SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS)
Words by Larry Morey
Music by Frank Churchill
(c) 1937 Bourne Co.
Small Classical Pieces
Compositions by Kabalevsky, et.al.
Three (3) Songs from the Movies (2013Mar02)
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March 2nd, 2013
Three (3) Movie Songs:
{ “Let The River Run” from ‘Working Girl’, “Moon River” from ‘Breakfast At Tiffanys’, & “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” from ‘Shall We Dance’ (1937)}
Category Entertainment
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3 Jazz Standards
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February 28th, 2013
Three (3) Jazz Standards
(Covers of: Bernie’s Tune, – Early Autumn, & Here’s That Rainy Day)
Twelve (12) excerpted from “The Ancient Music of Ireland” by Edward Bunting
“The Ancient Music of Ireland”,
arranged for the piano forte
-to which is preffixed
“A Dissertation on The Irish Harp and Harpers,
Including an Account of the Old Melodies Of Ireland”
by Edward Bunting
[published in Dublin by Hodges and Smith in 1840]
first unabridged republication (2000) by
Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, NY
12 Pieces from “The Ancient Music of Ireland” by Edward Bunting:
No. VI “Ossianic Air”,
[sung in the Highlands of Scotland.
Presented by the late Sir John Sinclair, Bart.]
No. IV “It’s Pretty To Be In Ballinderry”
No. III “Irish Cry”
[sung by a single voice in praise of the deceased]
The Goll.
No. V “The Battle of Argan More”
[in the time of Ossian.]
No. I “Feaghan Geleash — or Try If It Is In Tune”
[An ancient prelude for the Harp]
No. II “Lamentation of Diedre for the Sons of Usneach”
[Very Ancient.]
(The Air is Repeated in each Stanza of the Poem.)
“Sit Down Under My Protection. [1.]“
[Very Ancient; Author and date unknown.]
“Lady Iveach [2.]“
[Thos. Connallon, 1660.]
“The Blackbird and the Thrush [3.]“
[Very Ancient; Author and date unknown.]
“Huish the Cat [4.]“
[Author and date unknown.]
“The Merchant’s Daughter [5.]“
[Very Ancient; Author and date unknown.]
“Did You See the Black Rogue [6.]“
[Very Ancient; Author and date unknown.]
Have you seen my Youtube channel?
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There are various genres of music represented–including my improvisations, which I think of as daily meditations more than musical works.
Please note that I have several Playlists that include some of my generation’s most evocative pop hits, some of my favorite classical pieces (including “Sad Class”, which is my demonstration of the theory that ‘having the blues’ can also be treated with classical music).
an irish Impromptu
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Feb 19th, 2013
Impromptu on an Ancient Irish Folksong
Russian Valentine (Played Yesterday)
An amalgam of Russian Folk Songs
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February 14th, 2013
“A Russian Valentine”
Russian Folk Songs on Piano
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January 6th, 2013
Russian Folk Songs
“As Time Goes By”
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January 31st, 2013
“As Time Goes By” [from CASABLANCA]
Words and Music by Herman Hupfeld
(c) 1931 Warner Bros. Inc. (Renewed)
