Hey gang! Here are my various videos from my YouTube account (homepage:
https://www.youtube.com/JerseyCaptain). When I create music videos, I always try to use songs where the lyrics have relevance to the video footage being shown. I also tend to use songs and tunes from the era when I was either a kid or teenager, or other unusual stuff not often heard today. So, if you're a teenager, then please bear with me! The selections I've made musically were chart-toppers in their day, and some resonate even today (especially the classic rock songs)!
New ones are occasionally posted, so please check back on that page, and maybe here too!
Enjoy!
BALTO VIDEOS1.
Balto - Here Comes My Girl - This was my first music video ever (and, in some ways, it shows. Heh). Still, I managed to get some lip-synching in, and usually time the video images with the music!
This video features the 1979 classic rock hit "Here Comes My Girl" by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. This excellent song features a melodic guitar line which includes half-steps up and down the musical scale (which is an AWESOME sound! And it's what really attracted me to the song back in the day! ). The video clips are from
Balto, and if you know the storyline of the cartoon (and you should), and then you listen to the lyrics, you'll see where I was going with this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLEmIzL-GAo2.
East Bound And Down - This music video has become one of my most popular videos so far, with more than 16,600 views, 26 ratings and over 80 favorites to date! It combines video images from
Balto 3: Wings of Change with the 1977 hit country/pop song "East Bound And Down", by actor/country singer Jerry Reed (which was the opening and closing song for the movie
Smokey & The Bandit, which starred Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, the late Jackie Gleason, Paul Williams, and Jerry Reed).
While this is intended to be a light-hearted video, the lyrics of the song DO meld with part of the storyline of
Balto 3 (the race)...except for the part in the song about beer. lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unvr3mC_QJU3.
Steele - The Lonesome Loser - This music video combines images from the movies
Balto and
Balto 2: Wolf Quest, with the 1979 hit pop rock song "Lonesome Loser", by the Australian group The Little River Band...a great song!
In this video, Balto is trying to talk some sense into Aleu...about looking introspectively at herself, and also about finding romance. And he uses an example from his own past to make the point - Steele...the "lonesome loser" of Nome. Heh heh. The parts from
Balto are shown as sepia-toned old film to give you the impression of Balto himself seeing the images in his mind as he's telling the stories of them to Aleu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vffare4xErw4.
The Northern Lights - Here is the other of my most popular YouTube videos, with over 5,500 views, 15 ratings, and over 80 favorites to date! This is also one of my personal favorites, which a LOT of heart went into (and I believe it shows in what resulted in the final product).
This music video combines images from
Balto with the 1979 song "The Northern Lights", by the British progressive rock band Renaissance. The song was simply a natural for the
Balto movie (or a music video about it). If you hear the lyrics, you'll understand why. Part of them relate: "The Northern Lights are in my mind, they guide me back to you". One friend on YouTube told me, in private message, that he felt that this song would have been excellent for the closing credits of the movie! This one music video has resounded more with Balto fans than any other I've yet created, for which I am immensely proud!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJvfkkdWVtc5.
Dedicated To A Father And Son - This music video combines clips from
Balto 3: Wings of Change with the song "Pater Noster", by the new age group Magna Canta. This group does electronica/new age music and beats set to the chants of various cultures. THIS song incorporates the chant of Roman Catholic monks...known as "Gregorian chant". The song is the Latin version of the Christian "Our Father" prayer. I didn't choose the song for that so much as I did the background, deep-voiced chant and the music itself, which I thought was extremely cool!
This video is dedicated to Balto and Kodi, and their close relationship...and is another of my personal faves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YesKWxov1hQ6.
Borderline - My most recent Balto music video features Aleu. This video combines clips from
Balto 2: Wolf Quest with the bluegrass song "Borderline", by Alison Krauss. Krauss has a BEAUTIFUL voice, which can also be heard on the
Oh! Brother Where Art Thou? soundtrack.
The lyrics of this song fit Aleu's quirky, temperamental personality perfectly!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbwgBB287mENON-BALTO VIDEOS1.
Rafiki - Here's a great music video combining clips from all the Lion King movies with the 1970s soul hit "Soul Makossa", by Manu Dibango. There's not a WORD of English in it. lol "Makossa" apparently was a dance craze in Cameroon, and other African countries, in the 1970s. I just thought the music and singing style fit the über-coolness of Rafiki perfectly! My only regrets, with this vid, were that first, I didn't time the sequences with the song very well, and second, that I somehow forgot to include the great kung-fu butt-kicking scene from
The Lion King in this! GAH!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLs5g2Gnc1M2.
The Main Man - This is not a music video so much as it is a tongue-in-cheek documentary of the DC Comics anti-hero character "Lobo", who calls himself "The Main Man". Lobo is basically DC's answer to the Marvel Comics characters Wolverine and The Punisher. And he's FREAKIN' AWESOME!! Though, in the comics version, he's quite a bloody, violent and sadistic character, the version of him seen here is from the Warner Brothers cartoons
Superman: The Animated Series and
Justice League (the series). I got a bit "music heavy" on this one, which makes the thing sound a bit "busy" and disjointed. But the intent was to choose a cool 80s heavy metal song (which I did with Black Sabbath's "Voodoo", featuring Ronnie James Dio, and not Ozzy Osbourne, on lead vocals) as the music track...AND to make sure the viewers could hear Lobo's COOL voice! Of course, what resulted was the music tracks from the video clips dominating over my music selection. Oh well. The video is still a lot of fun, and has generated some great feedback! And you'll see I had plenty of fun making this one, too!
I like how the animated version of Lobo reminds me of a sort of cross between a classic American pro-wrestler from the 1980s, a Hell's Angels biker, and Dog, the Bounty Hunter. ROFL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOwAaDey0Ow3.
Irresistible Igor - A music video combining clips from the 1974 hit movie
Young Frankenstein (a Mel Brooks classic) with the song "Irresistible Igor", by the 1950s/early 1960s novelty band Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt Kickers (the same band that did the original "Monster Mash"). This fun video focuses on the character Igor, played by the late, great British comedic character actor Marty Feldman.
(NOTE: The link for this one has been killed by YouTube. I am going to upload it to Putfile this week so you all can enjoy it! Bear with me!)4.
Gollum Goodness, Part 1 - The very first appearance of Gollum, from J.R.R. Tolkien's books, on screen. Here from the Rankin Bass production of The Hobbit from 1977 (the character is voiced here by the famous cartoon voice actor Theodore Gottlieb). Part 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5sFN6EXGyc5.
Gollum Goodness, Part 2 - The very first appearance of Gollum, from J.R.R. Tolkien's books, on screen. Here from the Rankin Bass production of The Hobbit from 1977 (the character is voiced here by the famous cartoon voice actor Theodore Gottlieb). Part 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj8r5ojAh9kAnd...
The two videos linked below are from the movie
The Final Countdown (© 1980 Polyc International B.V.). This movie is about the real U.S. Navy aircraft carrier U.S.S. Nimitz. In this movie (which is a science fiction/action-adventure), the Nimitz gets pulled into a strange storm while on maneuvers in the Pacific Ocean (near Hawaii). The storm hurls them back in time to December 6th, 1941 (the day before the infamous attack on the naval installations at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii...which brought the U.S. into World War II). While the crew struggles to come to terms with the fact that they really have been thrust back in time, they encounter a few civilians from the time, and have a few encounters with the Japanese. It's a very cool movie, and was really filmed on the Nimitz! But what you are about to read and see are, indeed, "spoilers"...so if you intend to see the movie based on what I've said so far, then don't watch these unless seeing the information and the footage doesn't concern you.
These videos show a running sequence almost midway through the movie, where the crew of the U.S.S. Nimitz is STILL trying to figure out where and when they are, after the strange time storm "fell" over them. They're confused...no contact with any modern military or civilian channels...no high-frequency communications, only low-band communication and broadcasting, and Morse code. The Nimitz initially makes one contact at first, and sends out it's "alert" planes...two F-14 Tomcat fighter-interceptors (the Navy's best for a long time, and still considered one of the best U.S. fighter-interceptors ever). They quickly identify the contact as a civilian yacht, which presents no danger, but which they decide to keep an eye on.
Soon, the ship's radar identifies two more contacts...planes, approaching the ship from a distance low on the water. They order the alert planes to investigate. After refueling from an airborne tanker plane, they swing off to investigate, and report in that they've seen two mint-condition Japanese Zeros...fighter planes from World War II! As shocked as the captain of the Nimitz is (and the fighter pilots), they get MORE shocked when the Japanese planes attack the civilian yacht...killing it's captain and one passenger, and then leaving the rest stranded in the water after destroying it. The F-14 pilots radio into the Nimitz asking permission to attack the Zeros, but are denied. The Zeros then swing back around to kill the survivors from the yacht, and the F-14 pilots once again radio in asking permission to fire on them. The captain orders them to arm but not fire, and to "play" with them, in order to draw them off (while the Nimitz continues to try to figure out what's going on...not yet convinced that what they're experiencing is real).
What happens next is a great game of "cat and mouse", as the F-14s surprise the dickens out of the Japanese pilots, and force them to break off their attack. After they attempt to fire on the F-14s, and the Nimitz radar men determine that the planes are closing on the Nimitz (which has planes sitting out on its flight deck...a risky situation for the carrier), the captain gives the F-14 pilots permission to destroy ("splash") the Zeros...which they do, quite well!
Here's the videos (Part 1 is the footage of the F-14s identifying the different contacts, and some essential and related story material, and Part 2 is the Zeros destroying the civilian yacht and then the actual dogfight)...ENJOY!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GI_Q-HX3f0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gChU-mGeBaM
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