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Sing Us A Song, Bald Piano Guy

7/15/2017

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   In these turbulent, Trumpulent, troubled times,  it's easy enough to find oneself down in the dumps and singing the blues.
    Seems we all need a bit of cheering up, a good laugh to get us through the dismal news being pumped out daily - make that hourly - regarding the shenanigans of those we've elected to lead our country,

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...not to mention the family members and shady associates who've more recently gotten into this bad act.
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    But take heart, I've got just the antidote for your blues, guaranteed to cheer you up and give your brain a good tickle.
    If you haven't already met him, meet the Bald Piano Guy.
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   The Bald Piano guy is the alter ego of Alan Schwartz, a veteran middle school music teacher and virtuosic pianist from Long Island who sings, dances, and composes hilarious parodies satirizing the follies of our politicians.
     Mr. Schwartz began his career as the Bald Piano Guy  in 2015 when, taking on the persona of his fellow New Yorker Billy Joel,  he composed a protest to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo against the state-required school testing,

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...a parody of Joel's "Moving Out" called "Opting Out" that you can - and should - watch at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D066lb9fbQA
   A year later Schwartz produced another protest against the newly revised, supposedly improved -  though just as bad - state  tests.  This delightful video, still paying homage to Billy Joel, is called "It's Still Opting Out For Me,"
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waqo8u_OtsM

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    This video is all the more fun thanks to the Piano Guy's wife and children who he recruited to star in the video.
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     With the dawn of the Trump era the windfall of material provided by the new President and his  administration has been a gift to comics everywhere, including The Bald Piano Guy, who now writes and composes so prolifically that one can find a treasure trove of his brilliantly clever musical comedy jewels on Youtube, among which are,
"The American Health Care Act, A Musical Parody" of "76 Trombones" from "The Music Man":
           https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpqzb_9bV80
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     There's a really great "Hamilton" take-off called "The Ten Tweet commandments":
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RklNnAq81kQ
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...and his most recent opus, just published today, a George Gershwin salute called "Let's Say That Conway's Off":
                           https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN_eP4ZA0ns
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    And then there's my favorite so far, a Cole Porter knock-off called "It's Devossy":
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNVtJFK5xdc
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    The above are just a few of the Bald Piano Guy's dozens of awesome videos.  You can see them all at
     https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC-RVWfof_Q7s7YGDWT-xXg/feed
     and also on his Bald Piano Guy Facebook page.
      Check out the Bald Piano Guy.  He's good for what's ailing us.

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References:
http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/239472/bald-piano-guy-opts-out-draws-thousands-of-fans/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/teacher-responds-to-betsy-devos-hearing-with-scathing-song_us_5880e3ace4b070d8cad0e8de

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"Equal And Opposite Reactions"
         by Patti Liszkay
is available at

http://www.blackrosewriting.com/romance/equalandoppositereactions,
amazon.com, 
barnesandnoble.com,
Kindle Edition, and
Gramercy Books in Bexley, Ohio

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