Re: Messing Around With Ringtones
- From: mg <mgkelson@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:59:00 -0700 (PDT)
On Jul 16, 11:00 am, Rita <R...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:35:11 -0700, Rita <R...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:14:07 -0700 (PDT), mg <mgkel...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I'm having a lot of fun right now messing around with ringtones. There
are basically two types, the ones you buy or download free, i.e, the
commercial ones and the type you make yourself, like from your MP3s,
for example.
In making your own ringtones, one thing I've discovered is that pretty
and soft music is out. Cell phones sound awful with their small
speaker. So, what you have to go for is sometime that has an unusual
sound or interesting lyrics and/or has some nostalgia connected with
it. Two ringtones that I like, for example are:
Mario Lanza - Gaudeamus Igitur
Mario Lanza - Drink, Drink, Drink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfGXYkfLJ4s&feature=related
snip
I remember Gaudeamus Igitur from high school Latin class.
It is a student song -- rejoice today for the earth will soon
have us, etc. I think though that it should be sung in a more
playful spirit than Lanza brings to it.
I don't have any software on this computer to edit music,
although I did on a former computer and played around with
doing that. I created some web pages and used snippets of
music.
The Audacity software is free, but you have to already have the MP3's.
If I am ever bored enough I may decide to get the software
and play around with ring tones. I think the French
national anthem, La Marseillaise, would be a good one. Or
Hail Brittanica. My hearing is not good and I need a rousing
ring tone:)
Speaking of the French national anthem, catch this video from
my all time favorite movie, Casablanca, where there is a musical
duel between a German Nazi anthem and La Marseillaise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iYbEPZVVIA
"Particularly notable is the "duel of the songs". At Rick's cafe
Strasser and a small group of his officers start singing "Die Wacht am
Rhein" ("The Watch on the Rhine") around Sam's piano. At the behest of
Laszlo, the band at Rick's cafe start playing "La Marseillaise", this
rouses the whole cafe to stand and sing defiantly against the Germans
drowning them out. "
In listening to the British National Anthem, I'm reminded of a Willie
Nielson and Waylon Jennings number that has the lyrics, "let's just
settle down and steal each other's songs".
I'll have to see if I can download some of the songs you mention on
Napster and listen to them.
Gaudeamus Igitur has both very sober and very jovial elements to it, I
think. This combination makes it worthy of remembering your college
days. Remembering your college days calls for having a beer or two.
Having a beer or two is serious business and calls for the serious
treatment Mario Lanza gives it :-)
I'll have to do a search in Napster and see which ones of those songs
you mentioned I can find and download.
.
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