“Horace, we all love ‘Bringing In the Sheaves,’ I mean, who doesn’t, but we were wondering if you could play another spiritual classic like, say, ‘In-A-Gadda-Da-Vidda.’”
Maurice is the talk of the town/ the “cats” love to watch him “get down”/and tonight he’ll be “hot”/ since (believe it or not !)/ He’s really cut loose – he wore brown !
DR FREUD: During the course of this aversion therapy, each ov you men will sit at the piano for 30 seconds. Ve vill increase the time each session until your fear of the piano disappears!"
PATIENT: But my fear is peeing in public, Dr Freud. FREUD: What? Oh… Well. During hypnosis, I traced it to a piano phobia.
“Monsieurs, the bidding stands thus: 500 francs to hear La Marseillaise, 500 francs to hear “Piano Man,” 1,000 francs to see me close up the keyboard and go home. Are there any other bids?"
all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 5 works by him have been used here.
has the prior (my comment there included the same artist info URLs, the second of which may be unresponsive).
Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2530 (September 7, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.
The gentleman on the far right and his twin brother (second from the left) are wondering when that half-sawed leg on the pianists chair will finally give way.
But sir! That will just lead the rats here! We need them out of the country! May I recommend a musical instrument that you can walk with, so that they may follow you?
Dernier cri pour aujourd’hui: "Here’s a tune called ‘Le Roi S’Amuse’./ It’s a ditty I sometimes use/ when some piece of news/ really gives me the blues/ and I recherche those “temps perdus”..
BE THIS GUY about 4 years ago
Jacques was hoping his music skills would attract women.
rmremail about 4 years ago
Creepiest music class ever.
Strob Premium Member about 4 years ago
“99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer..”
rmremail about 4 years ago
America’s got talent, 1885 Edition
Say What Now‽ Premium Member about 4 years ago
" ‘A Parisian in America’; It just doesn’t seem quite right."
Papared25 about 4 years ago
“Horace, we all love ‘Bringing In the Sheaves,’ I mean, who doesn’t, but we were wondering if you could play another spiritual classic like, say, ‘In-A-Gadda-Da-Vidda.’”
Egrayjames about 4 years ago
Liberace’s not so flamboyant and, should I have to say it, “straight” brother.
gopher gofer about 4 years ago
‘jacques, where are the women? i distinctly heard you say that there would be babes at the party…’
Helen Ferrieux about 4 years ago
“Play it again Samuel”
Kind&Kinder about 4 years ago
“Well, Monsieur, we’ve caught you red-handed with your hands on the ivories. What were you planning to do with them, hmm? Time for you to sing!”
Helen Ferrieux about 4 years ago
“Je t’aime; moi non plus”
HydrAtion about 4 years ago
Reminds me of the Armstrong and Miller piano sketch
jbrobo Premium Member about 4 years ago
Joe had to stand and hold up part of the piano with his head. The conductor forgot his baton and he needed the stick.
johnbrown1859 about 4 years ago
“Now a little tune tune called, ‘Me and Bobby McGee.’ It kinda goes like this here; ‘Lester Flatt in Baton Rouge…’”
MS72 about 4 years ago
Play something … Fun!
Buzzworld about 4 years ago
“Please don’t shoot me, I’m only the piano player”
J Short about 4 years ago
Somebody asking Billy Joel, “Man, what are you doing here?”
Call me Ishmael about 4 years ago
“Tutti frutti, O Rudolph, tutti frutti, O Rudolph…”
lagoulou about 4 years ago
One of the guys has a Napoleon complex..
Call me Ishmael about 4 years ago
Maurice is the talk of the town/ the “cats” love to watch him “get down”/and tonight he’ll be “hot”/ since (believe it or not !)/ He’s really cut loose – he wore brown !
jel354 about 4 years ago
Jenkins made the other patrons contemplate getting a player piano.
P51Strega about 4 years ago
His music was brilliant; his composition, divine. The performance was stunning. But all anyone could talk about was his brown suite.
Reader about 4 years ago
Me and the boys feel it’s time to have a little chat with you. We’ll need to take a walk to the river if can’t do better than chopsticks.
Another Take about 4 years ago
DR FREUD: During the course of this aversion therapy, each ov you men will sit at the piano for 30 seconds. Ve vill increase the time each session until your fear of the piano disappears!"
PATIENT: But my fear is peeing in public, Dr Freud. FREUD: What? Oh… Well. During hypnosis, I traced it to a piano phobia.
wincoach Premium Member about 4 years ago
They all knew who the musician of the group was from his crazy outlandish brown clothes he wore.
Bookworm about 4 years ago
“Monsieurs, the bidding stands thus: 500 francs to hear La Marseillaise, 500 francs to hear “Piano Man,” 1,000 francs to see me close up the keyboard and go home. Are there any other bids?"
Call me Ishmael about 4 years ago
The cats were simply numb/ every one of them struck dumb/ it’s “adieu,Chopin “/ “Bienvenu, Piano Man”/ When he played “piano Homme”
Blaidd Drwg Premium Member about 4 years ago
Where have all the young girls gone? Long time passin’
stamps about 4 years ago
Mendelssohn’s Octet for piano and 7 angry men.
Linguist about 4 years ago
“They Laughed When I Sat Down To Play!”
mabrndt Premium Member about 4 years ago
Around the Piano:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fantin-Latour_Autour_du_piano.jpg
(best viewed by Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/fantin-latour_henri.html
https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=360
http://www.sai.msu.su/cjackson/fantin/fantin_bio.htm
https://www.wikiart.org/en/henri-fantin-latour
http://www.all-art.org/symbolism/4-france08-01.htm
https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/f/fantin/biograph.html
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7321/henri-fantin_latour
https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/154
http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/3823/henri-fantin-latour-french-1836-1904/
http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-artists/fantin-latour.htm
http://www.avictorian.com/Fantin-Latour_Henri.html
all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 5 works by him have been used here.
https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2019/05/16?comments=visible
has the prior (my comment there included the same artist info URLs, the second of which may be unresponsive).
Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2530 (September 7, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.
KEA about 4 years ago
I’m missing something
anomaly about 4 years ago
“Until I heard you play, I did not know a piano could be a wind instrument.”
MissScarlet Premium Member about 4 years ago
The gentleman on the far right and his twin brother (second from the left) are wondering when that half-sawed leg on the pianists chair will finally give way.
rstove428 Premium Member about 4 years ago
Please someone: what IS the song with the misunderstood lyric referenced?
Call me Ishmael about 4 years ago
He isn’t a Yu Ja Wang/nor even a French LangLang/ no one dares to say/ that he simply can’t play/because he brings the booze for the gang.
Radish the wordsmith about 4 years ago
What is this lyric, ‘cheese burger in paradise’?
Radish the wordsmith about 4 years ago
Quick gentlemen, the play opens tonight and our best song broke a leg!
d1234dick Premium Member about 4 years ago
the gay bar pianist hoping to get a “trick” plays his heart out, BUT to no avail.
Running Buffalo Premium Member about 4 years ago
But sir! That will just lead the rats here! We need them out of the country! May I recommend a musical instrument that you can walk with, so that they may follow you?
Call me Ishmael about 4 years ago
Dernier cri pour aujourd’hui: "Here’s a tune called ‘Le Roi S’Amuse’./ It’s a ditty I sometimes use/ when some piece of news/ really gives me the blues/ and I recherche those “temps perdus”..