AM9: Easter Parade, Irving Berlin

Thanks for stopping to listen to my version of this song, "Easter Parade". I came up with an ALTERNATIVE MELODY. Please listen to my covers and ALTERNATIVE MELODIES to many other songs. Go to YouTube.com and search for jairosoft.
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New music for "Easter Parade", only the lyrics remain almost the same. Apologies to Irving Berlin, the many great artists who have covered/interpreted this song, and their fans.
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For the official melody and originally intended way of singing this classic American tune, go to YouTube.com and search for irving Berlin and his "Easter Parade" performed by Leo Reisman and his orchestra and you will come to appreciate an old style legacy LP recording of the song. Its link in YouTube is watch?v=6hspjArtIPU so just copy and paste that into the YouTube search. While you are in YouTube dot com, listen to my alternate melody at watch?v=ybpV5zdvr8E and there you can comment on it and rate it. Thanks. And now for some information on this song and its author. Musical and Lyrical giants of this era such as Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney may have written and recorded hundreds of songs, but these guys are no match to Irving Berlin, who composed over 3,000 songs, many of which (e.g. "God Bless America," "White Christmas," "Anything You Can Do," "There's No Business Like Show Business") left an indelible mark on American music and culture. The more you look into Irving Berlin and his music, the more you will be amazed and consider him the King of American music who crosses all genres. Willie Nelson's recording of Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" was a #1 country music hit in 1978. Here in YouTube, Watch and Listen to Dean Martin do Irving Berlin's "All Alone" and then jump over to see Fiona Apple in Rochester NY 08-16-2007 singing "All Alone" too, there must be millions of versions of his songs and you can spend day's viewing videos of them here in YouTube land.

"Easter Parade" was composed in 1933 for a musical "As Thousands Cheer".

The Lyrics go like so:
In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it,
You'll be the grandest lady in the Easter Parade.
I'll be all in clover and when they look you over,
I'll be the proudest fellow in the Easter Parade.
On the avenue, Fifth Avenue, the photographers will snap us,
And you'll find that you're in the rotogravure.
Oh, I could write a sonnet about your Easter bonnet,
And of the girl I'm taking to the Easter Parade.
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I thought I sang words that must have been the intro to the song and so are not sung in the early recorded versions. But it is supposed to be sung, however it is not sung in many interpreted versions, but has been sung by early interpreters such as Clifton Webb, of the original cast, in a 1933 recording, according to YouTube member pippl2 who writes in a comment to my video.

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• Easter Parade
• Irving Berlin
• cover
• 30s
• lyrics
• acoustic
• guitar
• folk style
• alternative melody

[Viracocha88]

Wow. Lou Reed does Irving Berlin.

[jairosoft]

Thanks. I can hardly wait to get a guitar again. My guitars were hijacked so that I would not be able to post anymore videos of me singing and playing alternate melodies like this. But "I'll be back" soon to disrupt the tranquility again.

[templiton]

never heard it befor but i liked it

[jairosoft]

Thanks Jim. I am singing an alternative melody for song written in the 1930s. You have probably heard Judy Garland and others sing it with the original melody. Check out watch?v=FniTeOrThlA , "Easter Parade finale - Judy Garland & Fred Astaire", search youtube video for that to see Judy and Fred Astaire singing that song.

[jairosoft]

What? New music for old songs? Yes that's right! Check out how I dare do this. Click the Video Response Thumbnail above, of me in the green shirt.

[pippl2]

No, the verse was in the original Broadway show. Clifton Webb, of the original cast, sings the verse in his 1933 recording. So does crooner Gene Austin who had a big hit with the song around the same time. But the verses from songs of that era are often dropped by later interpreters.

[jairosoft]

In reference to the ABOUT THIS VIDEO box, where I write that I thought I was singing the intro words but they actually make up the first verse, which was omitted by later more familiar interpreters. Thanks for letting me know that they are actually part of the complete lyrics. Goes to show us how the more popular versions of a song influence what we think of a song. I am learning so much by doing this exercise. Is there is an early version on YouTube (or somewhere else) like you talk about?

[HANKWILLIAMS1924]

happy easter  to all

[Greenhornet270]

is this guy on helium?

[jimbronxny]

Alvin?

[nedped]

This is a joke, right?

[LostGoldMusic]

Good version. If you would like to hear another version visit my channel.

[enhshammy]

ok, if anyone compliments this for anything but effort you are so incredibly stupid. A+ for effort. but your singing is horrible. i mean.... no i said it already, that's just horrible

[doglostflorida]

What a nice song, enjoyed it. Thank you.

[asrardfg]

What the hell is that?