Living next door to MLT

[Rudolf Wagner]

Hi Darryl!

As far as we know only one of our current neighbours knows who we are and we asked them to help us maintain a low profile. God knows what the others must be thinking about our strange sleeping hours and noises coming from the studio!

So far we haven’t had any real issues, touch wood!

The noise complaint came in during the first few months of living in the UK during a hot summer. We hadn’t had an air conditioner installed yet and had to rehearse in a hot conservatory for an upcoming show …. with the windows open. ????

Since then it has been a peaceful coexistence with our neighbours!

[Greg Dent]

I wrote a song last year about how cool it is to live (virtually) next door to you guys and you have us over for songs and stories just as we’re doing right this minute. How funny to have all us thousands of virtual neighbors and only one real neighbor in on the game.

[Thomas Randall]

Living next to you 2 would be a dream! I would love it. When I was young we had many musicians in my village. So many garage bands! The early to mid 70’s were real good times! Then disco came along and ruined it….

[Bill Isenberg]

All I know that if we lived next to the Mona Lisa Twins……Maddie would never come home! LOL…But what a great concept , living next door to such great ladies and great music! Sounds like heaven to me everyone!!!

[Michael Thompson]

Bill, I would be with Maddie! I’d never go home! (well maybe to sleep)

[Darryl Boyd]

Just for some fun, I’ve rewritten a popular 70s song.
I’ve used some poetic licence of course, and some parts could be improved with more time, but what the hey.
MoLis is short for Mona and Lisa 🙂

Sung to the tune of Living Next Door To Alice

Rudi called when he got the word
And he said “I suppose you’ve heard….about MoLis?”
Well I rushed to the window and I looked outside
And I could hardly believe my eyes
As a big Fiat van rolled up into next door’s drive

Oh I was disbelieving
It seems so long ago
I guess they got their reasons
But I justa got to know
Cos’ for 84 months I’ve been living next door to MoLis

84 months just waiting for a chance
To tell them how I feel maybe have a little dance
And now I tap a my toes a lot, living next door to MoLis

They grew up together, two kids now grown up
They carved their initials, deep in the Club
Mona and Lisa
Now they walk through the door with their helds held high
Just for a moment I caught their eye
As a big Fiat van pulls slowly into MoLis’s drive

Oh I was disbelieving
It seems so long ago
I guess they got their reasons
But I justa got to know
Cos’ for 84 months I’ve been living next door to MoLis

84 months just waiting for a chance
To tell them how I feel maybe have a little dance
And now I tap a my toes a lot, living next door to MoLis

And Rudi called back and asked how I felt
And he said “I know how to help, get to know MoLis”
He said now Molis are fun, that’s what I hear
And I’ve known them for 27 years
And then I hear Mona and Lisa cheer

Oh I was disbelieving
It seems so long ago
I guess they got their reasons
But I justa got to know
Cos’ for 84 months I’ve been living next door to MoLis

84 months just waiting for a chance
To tell them how I feel maybe have a little dance
And now I tap a my toes a lot, living next door to MoLis

And now I tap a my toes a lot, living next door to MoLis

[Andrew Butt]

Darrell, that was brilliant!!! Love it.

[Jacki Hopper]

Loved that Darryl, I was singing it as I read it…lol… I actually sang a duet of that song on a online social global Karaoke App awhile ago with someone…I’ve always liked that song, but your version, million times over better, Thanks for writing that up !! ????

[David Herrick]

Brilliant, Darryl! Nice to see that I’m not the only parodist in the club.

[Greg Dent]

Cool! Have you really been there the whole time? I just got in last year.

Anyway, thanks for breaking the song lyrics ice. Now I can post mine.

[Greg Dent]

The Twins are so generous with their time and attention sharing their
lives with us fans, but after a while, it’s like I selfishly want to know more,
even if it has to wait till later. It prompted me to write …

Save the Outtakes

Love your pictures, the happy faces

Looks like good times

You’ve done fine things, you’ve graced great places

Love the good times

Still, I hope that in some drawer

You’re stashing back a whole lot more

Than the good times

I hope you …

.

CHORUS

Save the Outtakes

Save the sad days

Save tear stains

That got you there

Love the bad breaks

Wrong turns and heartaches

That tell the story of what got you there

.

You make me feel like I live next door

Like regular neighbors

You have me over for songs and stories

My virtual neighbors

I hope someday there’ll be a book

Behind the scenes, an inside look

.

BRIDGE

At all the work and sacrifice

Victories and love and loss

Deadline fog and dragging butts

Making do with not enough, oh

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REPEAT CHORUS

[Jacki Hopper]

Ahem Um, David…. Do I not qualify as a Parodist-singer/writer with my poetical license to create…lol…. Geewhiz, now I’m deflated…lol…. ( just joking )

[David Herrick]

Sorry, Jacki! I was using a rather narrow definition of parody. Everything you create starts from scratch, which is quite beyond what I can do.

[David Herrick]

Very nice, Greg! Is this a parody of an existing song, or an original?

[Greg Dent]

Thanks, David

It’s original. I thought I deleted it because the formatting is so garbled, but there it is. Hopefully I can fix this a little later. (It’s fixed now. This page doesn’t seem to like pasted content.) It’s none of my business, of course, but I feel there must be some great stories between let’s do this and we did this.

I feel like we’re in the midst of a pretty incredible story here, and I sure would like to hear/read about it at the appropriate time.

[Darryl Boyd]

Cheers Greg.

I’ve been in the club since it started, however MLT moved to Liverpool a while before that.

I did a bit of research for the lyrics. They moved to Liverpool in 2014, so 7 x 12 = 84!

And they arrived in a red FIAT van (if my van ID skills are any good!) after the blue Merc broke down.

[David Herrick]

Okay, my turn. To the tune of Neil Sedaka’s “Next Door to an Angel”:

I’m livin’ right next door to a concert, and I hear it every day.

I’m livin’ right next door to a concert, and my troubles start to fade away.

This used to be such a crummy neighborhood, but all of a sudden it’s pretty darn good.

I’m livin’ right next door to a concert, and the sound of it is just divine.

Kinda quiet this morning. They sleep till twelve o’clock.

But I waited till evening, and the house began to rock.

First Summer Rain, then Janitor Joe, and then that groovy politician song stole the show.

I’m livin’ right next door to a concert, and the sound of it is just divine.

I can’t believe the sixties have earned an encore. That classic Beatle sound is the sound I adore.

Lisa and Mona, rock on! Ain’t it great it’s my fate, hearin’ such a lovely concert?

Heard that Gretsch guitar groovin’, and I couldn’t believe my ears.

I used to think about movin’, but now I’ll stay for years.

I feel so lucky. I’m havin’ a ball. Got the very best seat within the concert hall.

I’m livin’ right next door to a concert, and the sound of it is just divine.

[Jung Roe]

Wow guys! Some great lyric writing talent among us! I think living next door to MLT would be pretty cool. Think of all the great music you would get to hear before anyone else, but come to think of it, that is exactly what we get to do here at the MLT Club! 🙂 Awesome.