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Apple Apple

from Apple Apple by Harmonica Pocket

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    "...Fluid, sweet, and marinated in love. - Cheery Blossoms Blog

    “Adult ears will enjoy the happy-go-lucky vibe….” - Seattle Weekly

    "Who would have thought that a song called "Diaperman" would be so, erm, sweet?" - Zooglobble

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about

This song was written on a ukulele on N's birthday on the beach. We were walking with a gaggle of friends and our party stumbled onto another party. For a while we made one big, confused party.

Our new friends were using a coconut to knock down some homemade bowling pins. One thing led to another and pretty soon we were singing this song. At the time and for a while, the words to the first verse were "Come a coconut." And we sang a bunch of other tropical fruit names like "Papaya" and "Banana."

After thinking about it I realized the song needed a "rule" for other people to be able to sing it -- that each note in the melody should get one syllable. At that point I discovered that the way the melody is concocted, you can sing two, three, four, and six syllabled words neatly within the melody. To sing a five syllable word you need to add an extra beat into the melody, and that's how the song ends on the album -- by counting to 5!

We have fun with this song at shows, pulling words out of dictionaries and seeing if we can sing them.

lyrics

Apple
Banana
Mommy
123
1234
12345

credits

from Apple Apple, released August 14, 2012
Keeth Monta Apgar - guitars, vocals, toy piano
Nala Walla - vocal harmony
Steve Grandinetti - drums, vibraslap, guiro, tambourine
PK - stand up bass
Jon Ryser - alto and bari saxophones
Sasha (age 3) - vocals

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Harmonica Pocket Port Townsend, Washington

Acoustic & chill, The Harmonica Pocket will win you over with laid-back originals and playful re-workings of songs you love.

Recorded on a tiny island in the Pacific Northwest using solar electricity, their albums feature ukuleles and guitars strummed over tight vocal harmonies and delicate fingerplucked melodies. Horn sections swell and tiny musical secrets are woven into the corners of the mix. ... more

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