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The Mermaid and The Bouy
Some of you may have heard that our own Jonbouy is getting married, this May, to his longtime life partner aka The Mermaid. This prompted us to put aside our monkey themes and produce a serious original composition to honor the occasion. This is a collaboration between Jan (Old55), Daryl (Daryl1968) and Ed (Bapu). We'd like to give a special thanks to The Current Mrs. Daryl1968 for her guest vocals on this tune. We're still not sure how we got her to appear. We hope you enjoy it. The Mermaid and The Bouy.
post edited by The Forum Monkeys - 2014/04/23 12:48:51
 Hey Hey, We're The Forum Monkeys!!!The Forum Monkeys core members are Daryl1968, Mesh, Old55 (R.I.P. Feb 2015) and bapu. Our SoundCloud Page
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Old55
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/23 12:39:07
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Just to clarify for the pedantic among us. They're getting married in May--not that she's a mermaid for that month.
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/23 13:10:04
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Nice! Sounds exactly like the theme song for a 70's sitcom too (not a bad thing!). 
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/23 14:04:12
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Nice song. Nice backing Vox from The Current Mrs. Daryl1968. Nice Mix and playing gents.
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/23 15:32:42
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Congrats to The Forum Monkeys and to Jonbouy and The Mermaid! Nicely done. Best wishes for a long life filled with love.
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/23 17:34:44
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Well I loved it. Just a simple ,well done piece of music that I wasn't wanting to click away from,enjoyed every minute of it. Good job. Thanks for sharing it!
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/23 18:02:24
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craigb
Nice!
Sounds exactly like the theme song for a 70's sitcom too (not a bad thing!).
Thanks, Craig. Some 70's sitcom themes are just cheesy. There are a lot of good ones, though.
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/23 18:03:33
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Wookiee
Nice song. Nice backing Vox from The Current Mrs. Daryl1968. Nice Mix and playing gents.
Thanks, Wookiee. The current Mrs. D is always a delight.
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/23 18:06:49
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Rimshot
Congrats to The Forum Monkeys and to Jonbouy and The Mermaid! Nicely done. Best wishes for a long life filled with love.
Thanks, Jimmy--at least for our portion of the event.
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Old55
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/23 18:09:52
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teego
Well I loved it. Just a simple ,well done piece of music that I wasn't wanting to click away from,enjoyed every minute of it. Good job. Thanks for sharing it!
Thanks for listening and your kind comments, Teego. Ed and Daryl did the heavy lifting. I'm happy to add a bit where I can and enjoy the ride.
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/23 18:56:15
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It reminds me of this pic. 
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/23 19:01:31
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Love it JB can we use it for the pic on Soundcloud?
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/23 21:40:42
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That's a pretty sexy looking .wav
People ask me if I'm married? And I reply, "no I'm happy..."
I like the production, top notch. I really like the vocals.
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/23 22:58:27
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daryl1968
Love it JB can we use it for the pic on Soundcloud?
It's our local artist Richard Adams "The Hermit and the Mermaid". I'm sure he won't mind. I'll buy some more of his art cards if he does...  http://www.ryesocietyofar....uk/RICHARD_ADAMS.html
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/23 23:59:50
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Jonbouy
daryl1968
Love it JB can we use it for the pic on Soundcloud?
It's our local artist Richard Adams "The Hermit and the Mermaid". I'm sure he won't mind. I'll buy some more of his art cards if he does...
http://www.ryesocietyofar....uk/RICHARD_ADAMS.html
Very cool. I'll get my people onto it :) All the best
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/24 00:11:24
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The Band19
That's a pretty sexy looking .wav
People ask me if I'm married? And I reply, "no I'm happy..."
I like the production, top notch. I really like the vocals.
Thanks for listening, Band19. We appreciate the kind words.
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/24 01:04:05
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There's more talent on this forum than you can shake a stick at... I'm not sure what that means exactly? I shake my stick daily? There's no real talent involved? Wait, what were we talking about again?
I'm sorry for that right there Lord.
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/24 02:37:57
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Say , You Forum Monkeys are putting out some real nice sounding Music I certainly enjoyed this tune as a song ..it was well played, sung and produced ... I dug the sound effects , they were a nice touch and they added to the songs story ….. Kenny
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/24 05:52:15
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☼ Best Answerby The Forum Monkeys 2014/04/24 10:48:47
Thankyou soooo much Jan (Old55), Daryl (Daryl1968) and Ed (Bapu) and Mrs Daryl
I absoloutly Love love Our Tune. such a kind and sweet Gift. I so appreciate all the work. time and effort you have all put into doing this for us, I will Treasure it always and will burn a copy and put into our Wedding memory Box.
Such a Happy Tune it will make me smile every time I hear it I was so blown away when Jon sent to Me
Not long now till our big day I just hope my Flipper behaves under my dress it would be preaty bad if it breaks free and knocks half the wedding guests out! :)
Love and a big Kiss to you all
Kerry (aka The Mermaid)
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/24 12:43:00
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oceon8
Thankyou soooo much Jan (Old55), Daryl (Daryl1968) and Ed (Bapu) and Mrs Daryl
I absoloutly Love love Our Tune. such a kind and sweet Gift. I so appreciate all the work. time and effort you have all put into doing this for us, I will Treasure it always and will burn a copy and put into our Wedding memory Box.
Such a Happy Tune it will make me smile every time I hear it I was so blown away when Jon sent to Me
Not long now till our big day I just hope my Flipper behaves under my dress it would be preaty bad if it breaks free and knocks half the wedding guests out! :)
Love and a big Kiss to you all
Kerry (aka The Mermaid)
XXX
You're very welcome, Kerry. It was fun--at least my small part of it was fun. Ed and Daryl did the real work and the current Mrs Daryl always sounds great. I think they had fun with it too. Best wishes to you and Jonbouy.
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/24 12:45:19
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kennywtelejazz
Say , You Forum Monkeys are putting out some real nice sounding Music
I certainly enjoyed this tune as a song ..it was well played, sung and produced ...
I dug the sound effects , they were a nice touch and they added to the songs story …..
Kenny
Thank you, Kenny.
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/24 15:06:23
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+1 Well written, well played, and well produced. And as was mentioned above, it's a fittingly happy tune!
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/24 16:18:50
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Very nice! And great tribute to your lady!
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/25 00:40:39
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Jonbouy
It reminds me of this pic.
Cool photo, Jonbouy.
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/25 00:41:56
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stevec
+1 Well written, well played, and well produced. And as was mentioned above, it's a fittingly happy tune!
Thanks, Steve.
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/25 00:43:00
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Beagle
Very nice! And great tribute to your lady!
Much appreciated, Beagle.
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/25 16:29:28
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The Band19
That's a pretty sexy looking .wav
People ask me if I'm married? And I reply, "no I'm happy..."
I like the production, top notch. I really like the vocals.
Thanks Robby - that means a lot coming from you
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/25 22:54:23
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very neat tune! very much enjoyed the ride....
good work!!
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/26 00:14:12
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thepogue
very neat tune! very much enjoyed the ride....
good work!!
Thanks for the kind words.
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Re: The Mermaid and The Bouy
2014/04/26 01:33:37
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I needed to pick a topic to bump so that a spammer's topic title gets removed from the Home page and I think this fine example is the best one to choose!
Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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