When Geoff does the line ‘carve his heart out’ he’s holding a wooden spoon. This is a nod to one of Alan Rickman’s lines in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. People have said the same thing about losing members, but after Earl and then J left, VoicePlay is still intact. Geoff and Layne have both said that they arrange for the people they have, not who they would like to have. So the loss of a member - while they would be missed - would not mean the end of the group. In November when VoicePlay is performing with Chicago in Atlantic City, there’s a chance Eli may not be there. (He’s expecting the birth of his son about then). But they will have a backup, and will be amazing! There’s even a video out there of a Christmas performance at Disney World. It’s their set and arrangements and the name VoicePlay on the set, but every single performer there was one of their backups! (Not as amazing, but pretty good!)

@rhov-anion

11 ай бұрын

I shouted at the scene, "I'm going to carve your heart out WITH A SPOOOOOON!" What a great actor.

They're known as "the theater kids of a cappella " for good reason.

The pronunciation “er lye” is from the original lyrics.

@karenponchak5304

11 ай бұрын

Not to be nitpicking too much either, but only a certain basketball team pronounces it "sell-tic". Any other pronunciation is "kel-tic", which is the proper Irish pronunciation.

@edbardof7941

11 ай бұрын

Ancient greeks called the celts "keltoi", so I assume that "kel-tic" is much more accurate than "sell-tic".@@karenponchak5304

@TranShar

Ай бұрын

Actually both pronunciations are correct. Sell-tic is the older way and Kel-tic is the more modern way.

"Early" is always pronounced that way in every version I've ever heard, since I first hear the original & sang the original back in the 70's lol

@Badger77722

11 ай бұрын

I sang it back in the 60s in elementary school music class, and we also pronounced it "er-lie" as well (although we used PG versions of the verses!). It probably has something to do with either pronunciation from several hundred years ago when it originated, or something to do with accenting the second syllable for whatever job it was used for as a sea shanty.

@elvwood

11 ай бұрын

Same, it's been ur-lye as long as I can remember (so back to the 60s) in the UK too!

Geoff does have some readings on his individual channel. A couple of books. Some poems etc

@draygontaygen677

11 ай бұрын

The Raven is my favorite one. My auntie read it to me when I was 6. Always loved it from then.

@rhov-anion

11 ай бұрын

Nevermore!

It has been sung at a lot of camps where they substitute some of the more questionable lyrics with a little more family-friendly ones. It’s a call and response piece and lends itself well to a lot of humor. They list some of the things they could do to either punish or sober up their Drunken Sailor. Geoff wrote the bridge that comes in right after the sailor tosses the doll away. VoicePlay has, of course, pushed that limit as far as they could. The cast is the same as it was Hoist the Colours with the addition of a friend of Geoff and Layne from back when they performed under another group name. Bucky also was in the mini of the Candy Crush song as the deranged mall shopper that decided to pop in. You can see him in the background bopping along. He is so funny! He was also in their mini of 500 Miles where once again he jumped into the group. In that one, Geoff can barely keep a straight face while he’s singing because he knows that Bucky is just a little bit crazy. In that piece Bucky acknowledges their history when he turns around and waves at Geoff and Layne. He also did the choreography for the cover that Geoff did of Monster Mash a few years back. I hope we see more of him. He has his own brand of silliness to their special kind of dumb. By the way, on Geoff’s solo channel he does narrations. Edgar Allan Poe just gives me the creeps. Most of them are scary stuff so I don’t listen to those. But he did a beautiful job of the Night before Christmas. It is incredibly soothing. I also really enjoyed his narration of the Cremation of Sam McGee.

The pirates are back together again. The drunken sailor is a past member from when they were known as 4:2:Five. They call him Bucky for short. The BTS video was so fun they are just a bunch of silly boys. Geoff has narrations on his channel.

Geoff does a reading of The Raven by Edger Allan Poe. You should have a listen.👍 Great reaction again.

@DravenGal

11 ай бұрын

Geoff's Poe is SOO awesome and chilling!

@rhov-anion

11 ай бұрын

I listen to Geoff's "The Raven" every Halloween. It's quickly become a tradition. His other audiobooks are soooooo good. I mean, I LOVE his music, but I wouldn't mind if he took a small break and narrated the entire Edgar Allan Poe catalogue.

VoicePlay as a group is just amazing at taking ANY featured guest and makw the whole sound as it always has been them all together.

This video is so much fun, and lively, and gorgeous...but that doll is truly terrifying!

it’s a traditional sea shanty will numerous verses and versions Bucky the drunken sailor is a past associate of the original voiceplay line up ❤ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Awesome reaction as always. Matt "Bucky" Buckner is the drunken sailor. He is a former member from a awww away back when they were 4:2:Five. Bucky is an online Gamer, voice actor and works at Disney World. He stops in every now and then to say hi to the guys. Bucky can also be seen in 2 of Voiceplay minis... Candy Crush and I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) as a mall shopper. In this one Geoff told him the basic script and let him ad lib his part. That's another thing Voiceplay is awesome at. Not rehearsing until right before filming. This one is definitely alot of fun. Geoff released his new video last Saturday.... Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash. It is amazing. He rented a whole prison for it.

@MuriKakari

11 ай бұрын

Bucky is also in their 500 miles short if you want to hear him sing.

@ronsbrat525

11 ай бұрын

@@MuriKakari I put that one in my comment. Shorts and minis are the same thing.

@MuriKakari

11 ай бұрын

@@ronsbrat525 Fair, I only clarify because nothing's being uploaded to the VoicePlay Minis channel anymore, but it still exists

@ronsbrat525

11 ай бұрын

@@MuriKakari All the new ones are in their main channel under Shorts. They decided several months ago that they were getting more exposure in their main channel than in a channel all their own. They were talking about moving them back to the main channel and discontinuing the minis channel. They moved some but I guess they got too busy to move the rest. So for now they're on one channel or the other. Newer on main.

@candilunsford2878

11 ай бұрын

He's also the one who did the choreography for Monster Mash.

Update.... Voiceplay and Geoff released their Halloween videos Saturday on their patreons. Both are amazingly beautiful and awesome. J None came back for Voiceplay. Geoff is solo except some background harmonies like he did in Sound of Silence. They should be on KZread in about a week or two.

The song could be from the 1830s. The version I learned as a kid in the sixties (i.e. 1960s) also had the sailor tied to the yardarm as well as keelhauled. And early was also pronounced -eye then.

The song's been around forever. I think it originated as a sea shanty. ETA: Darth Vader was voiced by James Earl Jones.

On your comment about great voices - another great speaking voice was given an actual nod in this video. Geoff’s “cut his heart out” is motioned with that wooden spoon. A clear reference to Alan Rickman’s line as the Sheriff of Nottingham, regarding using a spoon to do so because it will hurt more. Rickman’s voice was velvety lusciousness. For those who don’t recognize the name, he was probably best known to most people as Professor Snape in the Potter movies.

@shirleykarr560

11 ай бұрын

For those a wee bit older, we adored Alan in Robin Hood and as Hans Gruber in Die Hard. A sweetheart of a person, with that voice he was awesome at playing the villain.

@hwyla4416

11 ай бұрын

Yes - one of my all time favorite actors!@@shirleykarr560

Geoff does do narrations and has several audiobooks on his channel. All of them are so amazingly good.

If you go to Geoff's channel, he does read poetry and stories aloud -- "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe is one that comes to mind off the top of my head. Love listening to him!

This is so them, and even though it's a comedy the harmonies are insane. Layne just killed the percussion on this.

This one is my happy song the way VoicePlay does this. Just joyful and silly and I love it. If you haven't seen the mini Wellerton, another shanty, you'll not be disappointed. It's a couple of seconds short of 2 minutes. Fun. They also did another mini with Bucky, 500 miles.

@Badger77722

11 ай бұрын

"Wellerman"

@bjspeck4337

11 ай бұрын

@@Badger77722 Thanks. I had a brain fart obviously.

@Badger77722

11 ай бұрын

@@bjspeck4337 I suffer from those all the time!

You’re thinking of the great James Earl Jones. I totally agree-this group is made up of individuals who are each individually terrific, but somehow the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, if that makes sense. Great reaction!

Geoff narrates books on his channel

I love this so much!! They are so silly and this is just sooo much fun!! Bucky is from back in the old days of 4:2:five. Geoff arraigned this one. This is just as they call it, their special kind of dumb, and I love it!!! lmao Great reaction!! Clara the doll is creepy and needs to be thrown overboard! lol I laughed so damn hard with this one.

It's usually a sea shanty / Irish song - Er-lie is how it's always pronounced by Irish singers, but they also wrote the bridge

James Earl Jones, and your in luck, Geoff has a few things he narrates on his channel. Great reaction!! Can't wait to see Jose and Bucky again!

The camera actually sways to give the effect of the waves. As for early vs. ear-lie ... that's the traditional pronunciation for this song. I learned it that way when I was a kid!

The way they pronounce early in the morning is how it was originally sung

You should check out some of Geoff's early stuff where he narates some stories and poetry. He did some of Edgar Allen Poe's work. The'drunken sailor' is one of the original members b4 they became VoicePlay

Terrific reaction. That has to be one of the creepiest dolls I have ever seen. Really fun video.

Geoff does narrations. He has alot of audio books on his channel under Narrations. They're all amazing. His voice is perfect in all of them.

This is a very old song. I sang it in my junior high school choir in the 1960s and it was old then! The pronunciation is how it was originally written. This version of it is light years better than the original!

If you'd like to gain a more comprehensible understanding of why performers use different mouth shapes or tones, check out The Charismatic Voice or Jennifer Glatzhoffner. They are both into the technical breakdown of the vocal breakdown. You'll learn a lot! They're great. Loved your reaction. Keep up the good work.

Geoff has done Edgar Allen Poe both short stories and poetry. He also has some others worthy of attention. They might be right up your alley.

That creepyass doll is an entire Jonathon Colton song. (Which they now need to cover because it would be so much more disturbing than the original) I love this. ...........also Celtic is pronounced with a hard C like 'color' or 'crunch'. (Yes, the Boston Celtics are doing it wrong)

This video is just pure silly with incredible vocals. I laughed through this whole video!

Thank you for another great reaction to Voice Play. You are the only person who brought attention to the table leaning. Good eye. Would you please do a reaction video of Geoff's new solo cover Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash. Geoff's voice is deeper than Johnny's & his cover is better than Johnny's too. Also Geoff's short solo cover called Paul Bunyan. It is totally awesome.

The first time I ever heard this song, was on a family trip to Baltimore and Anapolis in the mid eighties. I don't remember for sure whether it was one of the songs sung by a group of teenagers who were performing at a lighthouse we visited in Baltimore, or whether the enlisted men at the Naval Academy were singing it (they were having a "parent's weekend" so were doing some performances for visitors). Probably the latter, but I'm not 100% on that. What I do remember for sure, is the odd pronunciation of "early", which was similar to what VoicePlay is doing here, especially on the second syllable. So, I guess it's a traditional feature of the song?

Loved your reaction! This one had me literally LMFAO! Oh, and I WANT your t-shirt, dude!

I would love to see what you think of an old one of theirs. The oogy boogy song from nightmare before Christmas. Geoff is fantastic as the oogy boogy man and it's so fun

This a total blast!

This one is such a hoot, I love it!!

Being into pirate fests, I've heard hundreds of renditions of this song. 99% of the time it's sang "earl-eye." Not sure when that started, maybe a leftover of mosty-Irish sailors from the Age of Piracy. I have seen a whole audience dressed in pirate garb suddenly pull out cutlasses and blunderbusses and go into a mutiny when a music group at a pirate festival sang "earl-ee in the morning" instead of "earl-eye." No one hurt, but a lot of "ARRRRGH WHAT YE BE DOIN' MATEY!" from the folks trying too hard to "talk like a pirate."

@rhov-anion

11 ай бұрын

BTW, 100% recommend listening to Geoff's reading of "The Raven." The PERFECT voice for that poem.

@cindyowens3965

11 ай бұрын

Loved this snippet of a story. Made me laugh so hard!

He does have some stories he has read

Geoff does read books on his channel

this is my first video of yours 🥰 can you react to some hardstyle? uptempo? dnb? not everyones cup of tea but they are 🔥

Love how VP did this, it is so friggan funny, dunno if you caught Ceasar twerking in the background during the dancing part lol. Also...PTX released on the same day as this one, their new original song 'I Rise' kzread.info/dash/bejne/ioeot66xkseTcrw.html

One more: Can't help with the story behind pronunciation of the word 'early' This is an Irish sea shanty from mid 19th century, so it's impossible to know how it was pronounced back then, but apparently people just started singing it that way after WW2 for who knows what reason.

Geoff does story reading (narrations) go to his page

Are you super excited??