Awards 2019 - The results are in!

Thank you all.

This is an astonishing project. We have cataloged hundreds of thousands of recorded performances, readily available for reference, research and listening enjoyment. We've done this voluntarily, by a group of people who for the most part have never met each other and have little other interaction -- and whose different musical, musicological, and informational interests somehow mesh harmoniously, almost always without significant friction. I am so pleased and proud (and happy) to be a part of this. Thank you again.

Congratulations to the winners

Congratulations to all the winners and cheers to everyone for the hard work. Here's to another great year!

Still a bad idea, but the winner's speeches are good!

At SHS Everybody Is a Star

Congratulations!

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the winner's speeches are good!

True

Congrats

I would like to thank my parents for always having supported me. My father used to say: if you cannot write a FirstHandSong, you might as well join the SecondHandOne.

Furthermore I would like to thank the members of the SHS Acadamy for their votes, my manager for keeping an eye on my addictive behaviour and last but not least the De Zutter Brothers for being the world's best directors, when it comes to second hand material.

I am looking forward to the afterparties, the limo rides, the interviews and most of all the beautiful females who always flock to a Real Winner. I am so proud. Thanks.

Thom

Last edit: 2020-01-14 11:13:39 UTC by CarlDennis

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I would like to thank...

I am looking forward to the afterparties...

No Oscar winner could have said it better... Did you ever think about a second career as a ghostwriter?

But you forgot about some after party 'goodies': Champagne and Reefer and Cocaine (but those are the ones nobody mentions publically, anyway)...

Seriously: Thom, if anybody, you deserved that category award...

Except for that, I tend to agree to Wayne, at least for the time being.

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Seriously: Thom, if anybody, you deserved that category award...

Erik, I play the 1981 Dutch top ten hit: "Het is moeilijk bescheiden te blijven" all the time these days. For the ones whose knowledge of the beautiful Dutch language is limited. the refrain goes as follows:

It's hard to stay modest when you are as good as me

It's hard to stay modest for a guy with so much talent

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I play the 1981 Dutch top ten hit: "Het is moeilijk bescheiden te blijven" all the time these days.

Thom, (believe it or not) last night, I watched a TV documentary about Christian Bruhn. One thing I had to smile about was an uncommented big sticker on his 64-channel mixing desk saying "It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am" - originally a Mohammed Ali quote, but taken from It's Hard to Be Humble - and today, you came up with the Dutch adoption... But you surely already noticed or knew about those connections, anyway...

Erik. I'm afraid I did not know about the English original! Turns out that many huge Dutch hits in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s were in fact covers....................

Thom, somewhat humbler now

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Erik. I'm afraid I did not know about the English original! Turns out that many huge Dutch hits in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s were in fact covers....

Thom, somewhat humbler now

Many German, Swedish, Spanish and so on hits, too...

Hadn't it been a work I dealt with only two months ago, I might not have remembered (that well)... Now you reminded me on already then aiming to add some more Swedish versions...

And I'm pretty sure there are Finnish ones, too...

No Finnish covers could be found!

What a pity! It seemed like very a typical case...

Btw., there is a song titled "It's Hard to be Humble When You're a Finn", but I don't know by whom or if it's related at all...

Congrats.

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This is an astonishing project. We have cataloged hundreds of thousands of recorded performances, readily available for reference, research and listening enjoyment. We've done this voluntarily, by a group of people who for the most part have never met each other and have little other interaction -- and whose different musical, musicological, and informational interests somehow mesh harmoniously, almost always without significant friction. I am so pleased and proud (and happy) to be a part of this. Thank you again.

What a speech! A real motivation booster!

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I would like to thank my parents for always having supported me. My father used to say: if you cannot write a FirstHandSong, you might as well join the SecondHandOne.

Furthermore I would like to thank the members of the SHS Acadamy for their votes, my manager for keeping an eye on my addictive behaviour and last but not least the De Zutter Brothers for being the world's best directors, when it comes to second hand material.

I am looking forward to the afterparties, the limo rides, the interviews and most of all the beautiful females who always flock to a Real Winner. I am so proud. Thanks.

A speech like only Thom can write one! Here's dedicated to you, old friend: