Songs for Saturday: I Had A Shuggoth

[mdlbear]

I was pondering what to post this morning. It's not that I was in an unusually weird mood, but this video of Tom Smith singing "I Had A Shoggoth" popped into my head. Ok, now my mood is unusually weird. The best thing about this one is the amazing Judi Miller signing it. Never having heard it before!

Warning: not keyboard-safe. Put your drink down in a safe place.

Comments

[lemmozine.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that. My plan now is to work out the chords on ukulele and do this for the uke groups Halloween theme meeting.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Ungh. I am not going to listen/watch now, but I will toss out the first thing I thought when seeing the subject line... in hopes that someone else will pick it up and take it away from me.

"If I Had A Shoggoth" ttto The Hammer Song
or...
ttto "If I Were a Rich Man"

There. I feel much better now.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

What. ?! . WAit
a
    min
   ute
  .

Terping a TOM SMITH song
         about
the               Lovecraft
          Mythos
  
  

    COLD???!!!

This I will have to see.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

I don't BELIEVE she did that.

Very, VERY good. And you see at the end the release of control. OOOH yeah!

Oh: And I had also thought of that tune*, but it seemed less likely there. Like I could predict Tom Sith, yeah.

*Which I seem to recall as starting with a bird, but it hardly matters. ... May have been off a Burl Ives record from before Tom was born.

[mdlbear]

Cat, if I remember correctly. Cat went "fiddle dee dee".

OK, close: http://bussongs.com/songs/i_had_a_cat.php

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

Yes, I totally broke at the end of that song. There were tears!

I'd used octopus tentacles for "shoggoth", figuring it to be Cthulian in origin. So when Cthulu appeared later, I had a momentary freeze, until I made it GIANT octopus tentacles under the chin!

The little asides, like "Children of the night -- shut up!" about slayed me.

[mdlbear]

I wish I could have been there to see it in person, but the video is still astounding. I'm glad you survived.

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

It was an Inspired piece of signing work. The fact that you did it cold is even more awesome.
Yes, I know, Let's Stump Judi is a favorite project, but I love the way your manage to do something.
Currently laughing almost loud enough to scare the hubby. But he is used to mad giggles from the office. :D

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I can't see the youtube video at the moment, but I *did* get to hear Tom sing it live about four hours after you posted, so I can't complain.