The remnants of the Enclave?

subbys Mom?

Remember kids -- on New Year's Day, if it's not Scottish, it's CRAP!

A lemming like desire to suffer together.

Mugato: Tell me so I know whose mother to send my terminator back in time to kill.

The only problem with that is you don't know who the time line would replace them with.

Mugato: Tell me so I know whose mother to send my terminator back in time to kill.

You can't kill folk music.

It seeps out of the cracks of the landscape and regrows, like green algae on rocks under the winder fog.

God, dont remind me of this song.

Not so CSB: been playing it since 5 on the piano. Hate it, hate it, HATE IT

//end not so CSB

Well I, heard the crowd singin' out of tune,
As they, sat and sang Auld Lang Syne by the light of the moon...


/got nothing,but we should blame ELO for something!

Nightmaretony: God, dont remind me of this song.

Not so CSB: been playing it since 5 on the piano. Hate it, hate it, HATE IT

//end not so CSB

Well, then stop playing it.

middle-aged women who have had a bit to drink and who enjoy making people cringe

SwiftFox: Nightmaretony: God, dont remind me of this song.

Not so CSB: been playing it since 5 on the piano. Hate it, hate it, HATE IT

//end not so CSB

Well, then stop playing it.

7 years later I finally said enough :D

Well, Dan Fogelberg's dead, so trying to get a rebuttal won't be fun.

Look for versions by Dougie Maclean and Chris Bathgate to find versions that properly capture the correct style and mood of the song, and also include more than the first verse.

what started all the hub-bub about ALS? too many illegal downloads, you kids and your eight track players?

Anyone who has been alive for about 45-50 yrs immediately will blame Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians for perpetuating Old Lang Syne (whatever)

I remember as a kid, when Dick Clark started his NYE show, we could never watch it because the parents had to watch Guy Lombardo.

"But, you guys have all year with Lawrence Welk...isn't that enough?" I'd reply

Fortunately Lombardo passed away like 1979 and saved a generation of youth.

Easy for me to forgive Canada for Bryan Adams...I survived Guy Lombardo

I prefer this version (new window).

The full story of the most-performed song in the world after "Happy Birthday" may never be known, but one thing is certain: If Burns were alive, the profits from "Auld Lang Syne" would have made him a billionaire many times over. guaranteed fewer people would play it on New Year's Eve.

Even if Burns were alive the copyright would have long since expired before personal recordings caught on as a business, long before chain restaurants existed and long before it would have been feasible to track down individual private performances. He'd have pulled in some more money from performance rights and the odd mechanical rights sold to other performers. But as with most writers/songwriters of his era, it likely would have been insufficient for existing upon.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: But then again, I love Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime," so I really have no room to speak here.



I managed to never hear that tune until this year.

....


I long for my days of ignorant bliss.

turnonyrlovelite: I prefer this version (new window).

I tried, again, to stomach that shiat, thinking, it's only three mins, thirty seconds in I had to kill it

FTA: If Burns were alive, the profits from "Auld Lang Syne" would have made him a billionaire many times over.

1) No, he wouldn't, as any copyright he might have had would long since have expired, and
2) He'd be trapped in a coffin and unable to collect any monies he was entitled to.

/also, fark "Happy Birthday". How the fark is it still under copyright?

The farking Scots of course. And don't get me started on that other appalling dirge "Amazing Grace".

UCFRoadWarrior: Anyone who has been alive for about 45-50 yrs immediately will blame Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians for perpetuating Old Lang Syne (whatever)

I remember as a kid, when Dick Clark started his NYE show, we could never watch it because the parents had to watch Guy Lombardo.

"But, you guys have all year with Lawrence Welk...isn't that enough?" I'd reply

Fortunately Lombardo passed away like 1979 and saved a generation of youth.

Easy for me to forgive Canada for Bryan Adams...I survived Guy Lombardo

I was born the same year Lombardo died, 1977, so I only now Dick Clark. But it's time for him to pack it in. I know Seacrest hosts most of it, but Clark really doesn't need to come out and do the count down where he's 5 seconds off. He had his time, bow out gracefully.

And I wish there were still big acts performing. FOX used to do a great show in the late 80s early 90s. Sam Kinison and Penn and Teller hosted, and they'd have Guns n Roses as the headliner. Now it's a bunch of Disney's "next big forced thing".

This is why friends and I replaced it 11 years ago with something more palatable, though juat as sappy. At 12:03, I begin to receive phone calls from across the country of people singing Tiny Dancer.

Instead of Auld Lang Syne, I'd like to see a Blues Brothers-esque rendition of Minnie the Moocher in Times Square at midnight.

I understand "The Star-Spangled Banner" tune was originally an English drinking song.

turnonyrlovelite: I prefer this version (new window).

Eh, I'm a Boingo girl myself...

Open Eyes (new window)

I remember as a kid, when Dick Clark started his NYE show, we could never watch it because the parents had to watch Guy Lombardo.

Watched DC last night...Lord, that poor man really needs to retire. At several points last night he was pretty much unintelligible.

/Old enough to remember watching Guy Lombardo at the Waldorf-Astoria, with Ben Grauer down in Times Square
//Damned sight better than Lady Gaga and Seacrest