Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Can't Rush Fall Leaves v3


Another version of "Can't Rush Fall Leaves"? Yes! The first version had a spoken intro, real-time and speeded-up clips, in some ways, conveying a hurry-up message. The second version excluded snow days and intro. This third version includes all seven days with various excises and accommodating speedups, but none at 4x.

  1. V1 has speeded up clips for 1/10, 1/11, and 1/24.
  2. V2 omits the intro, 1/10, and 1 /11 (snow days) clips.
  3. Snow daze has only 1/10 and 1/11 real-time speed, no audio.
  4. V3 omits the intro, real-time speed for 12/29, and 2x speed for the other 6 days. (Had further trimmed down 1/10, 1/11, and 1/24.)

Had I chosen to include all 7 days clips with real-time speed, the video would have been around 6 minutes, maybe not so good with a ~3 minute song. Repeating the song also hardly seemed sensible. Even with extra trimming and speedup for v3, I wound up with excess video. Briefly considered adding refrain, but decided against it.

I decided the snowdaze video could stand alone to acknowledge the unusual snow conditions in Central Texas on 1/10 and 1/11. While walking on the day of leftover snow, I spotted about 8 snowmen of various sizes and shapes. Natch, they weren't in first-day freshness condition. I bet lots of kids enjoyed building them, and parents enjoyed recording the moments.

The following table summarizes the similarities and differences, particularly clip durations for the dates.

 Original song info:

Song: You Can't Hurry Love
Artist: The Supremes (redo by Phil Collins)
Writers: Edward Holland, Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland
Music: "You Can't Hurry Love - The Supremes | Karaoke Version | KaraFun", Feb 7, 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnqE7FRxV-s


Related, parody of Neil Sedaka's "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do":
"Raking Leaves Ain't Hard to Do (with scrolling lyrics)" (video, article)
"Raking Leaves Ain't Hard to Do (widescreen)" (video, article)

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