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need help from someone with "big ears"...

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I'm having trouble both grabbing the changes and the lyrics off this cut...

...any of y'all who've taken ear-training classes: maybe pitch in...??


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Ab, Saints changes.
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Wait...did I just get trolled?
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When I saw "big ears" my first thought was the owner of a British brand of Chinese-made low brass
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I taught college ear training, so I am an egg-spert.

The changes are:

SCUBA to DUBA

and it occasionally changes from

SCUBA to DIVER


hope this helps!
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arpthark wrote: Thu Sep 21, 2023 6:36 am I taught college ear training, so I am an egg-spert.

The changes are:

SCUBA to DUBA

and it occasionally changes from

SCUBA to DIVER


hope this helps!
As that was recorded live, I tend to suspect that the song was generated as a result of chit-chat with the audience, whereby someone told Louie that he was a scuba diver or some lady told Louie that she or her husband is a scuba diver or something like that. There's little doubt in my mind that the whole thing was improvised on the spot. I mean seriously... and/but it's absolutely hilarious (to me).

Two or three years before he passed away, Mrs bloke and I drove down to a Mississippi casino and watched two free sets of Sam Butera and the Witnesses do a whole bunch of Louie Prima Tunes. It was amazing. Sam could play trumpet double high C's on his tenor sax, and they weren't "squeaks". He was playing them.
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Yes, I love that recording. I'd bet you're right.
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