"My Favourite Busker" - dedication to Sam

This is a special song and video put together by Joe (CastleofThoughts) as a dedication to Sam.

His song idea was launched following a busking video Sam posted recently which touched the heart of Joe - and showed him another side of Sam he hadn't seen.

So Joe wrote the song and posted it - black screen and lyrics.

We loved it, and asked him to add some pic's - and this grew and grew and grew into a project that ended up involving many wonderful and generous musicians from all around the world !

Joe spent hours and hours of his time pulling together the material (good and bad) and extracting and dissecting it and he should be very proud of what he's achieved. We are all very excited with the result.

A very big thank you to all those involved, the very talented and generous Joe (CastleofThoughts), to another generous musician Rick (Rickbell7), the gorgeous Hollie (Hollistergirl0731), the lovely Madison and her cute brother, to Sara & Marissa - and to Nik, Hannah & Luke (from NZ) ... for all their special parts.

YOU ARE ALL SO AWESOME !!

Enjoy Enjoy Enjoy

www.samverlinden.com

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A message from the song's composer:
I'd like to thank the following talented people for their participation in this video.
First our New Zealand singers, Sam Verlinden, Luke Elley, Niklas Hancock and Hannah Elley. Thanks to Hannah for directing Sam & Luke in the closing skit.

Thanks to our talented singer from the US, Hollie, and to our guest bass player for the "intro" & "outro", also from The US, Rick Bell. Thanks to our other USA participants, my music students, Madison, Sara & Marissa. Thanks to Sara for filming Madison's scenes and to Chris for being in the closing outside U.S. scene. Thanks to Rose for filming Sara & Marissa's scene yo.

I'd like to thank Bronwyn Verlinden for her wonderful support and for coordinating the talented young NZ singers, as well as filming their parts. Thanks for all of your time and good work guys!

A lot more work has gone into this video by its participants than can ever be seen or told. To everyone who participated: Thanks for being good sports. Thanks for trusting me to edit you all into the song in a way that would make for a positive union of all of the talent represented. And like the song says, thanks for not being afraid to have a little fun. This song and video was not meant to be "Bridge Over Troubled Water". It's just a fun song about busking which I was inspired to write after a few quick messages back and forth with Sam when he was planning to go out busking. The song is what it is, it says what I wanted to say, and we hope people will apreciate our efforts of making a fun video. - jv

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"My Favorite Busker" JV © 2009
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• castleofthoughts
• joe
• kidz
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• my
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• busker

[CastleOfThoughts]

Get ready for view 2000 ... coming soon!!

[bverlin]

@CastleOfThoughts WOW !!!!!!

[CastleOfThoughts]

Hey Everybody, As the composer of this song and creator of this video, I would once again like to thank *everyone* who contributed vocal, musical and acting parts to it and thanks Bronwyn for filming the contributions from NZ and sending them to me. Now that our collab video has passed 1000 views I'd like to thank Sam V for inspiring the song, just by being who he is, a kid wth super talent who truly loves music and enjoys performing. U rock Sam. - joe v

[bverlin]

Hey Joe - yay it's hit the 1000 mark .... !!

Big big ups to you - for making this awesome project possible - for all these kids to collaborate together. Fantastic !!

Bronwyn xx

[CastleOfThoughts]

A BIG CONGRATS to three of the New Zealand Buskers who appeared in this video, Sam, Niklas and we just got the news Hannah too.... who all won the online COPY CATS competition and therefore landed an appearance on NZ TV... singing on The Erin Simpson Show! Woo Hoo! You all rock!! - joe v

[bverlin]

Thanks Joe ... Nik, Hannah and Sam have all done really well on this show.

We're planning to enter Luke too - we're just working out a song for him !! Hopefully he'll do well too.

[littlecherubs]

Wow!!! This is absolutely FANTASTIC!!! What alot of work you guys and all put in here to get such a great end product. Well done to Joe for the awesome editing skills here, a great idea which turned out the BEST it could!!

All the Stars *****

[niklashancockfan]

Hi Joe, thank you so much for your wonderful thoughts towards Sam and his mates. You are amazing and you do so much wonderful work on all your videos, Niklas just thinks you rock and do awesome work, he very proudly showed everyone in his class at college, even the music teacher commented on your work. thank you again

[RideForeverxo]

i know these twooo there amazing , hannah and sam x

[endwarnow321]

DeconPossessed gives you 2 thumbs up!

[DebsFavouriteThings]

What a fabulous collaboration!! Really great work 5***** and going into my favourite things!

Deb

[rickbell7]

@CastleOfThoughts

ZRX1100 = 1999 Kawasaki ZRX1100 Motorbike. Yeah, just a "littlt" bike, LOLOL.

Posting the video later this afternoon!:):)

Rick

[CastleOfThoughts]

¿¿¿ ZRX1100 ¿¿¿ Don't understand what that means. lol

[rickbell7]

@CastleOfThoughts

ROFL!! Gosh, sometimes I can be soooo dense, LOL.

Oh well, out to do a "cold-start" of the ZRX1100 this afternoon.:) Video to follow...

Rick

[CastleOfThoughts]

oops! GMTA = great minds think alike .........lol

[rickbell7]

@CastleOfThoughts

¿¿¿ GMTA ¿¿¿  Don't understand what that means, but just showing my ignorance I suppose, LOL.

Funny how we both seem to have landed here at the same time, LOL.

Indeed, some really great talent in this one...and did I mention that it ws FUN!!!

Cheers!

rick