[8-Bit Cover] The Famous Five (Theme)
Channel: LilyBit
Date: 2021-02-28

I don’t know about you, George, but I think we five make a pretty good team.

If you don’t like the imperfections mimicking the original vocals, you might prefer my other version: https://youtu.be/uhWfO8GppCE

⬇ Dᴏᴡɴʟᴏᴀᴅs
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I dedicate this cover to my mum who introduced me to both this TV series and the books. We loved them and she would always sing along with the title theme, so I wanted to cover it for her birthday. Thank you for giving me life and love, the greatest gifts of all. Happy birthday!

Of course, I also secondarilily dedicate it to Michele Gallagher, Marcus Harris, Gary Russell, Jennifer Thanisch, Toddy the dog, Michael Hinz, Friedrich Ernst Peter Paul Maria Graf von Thun und Hohenstein and Oliver Rohrbeck.

📒 Mʏ Tʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛs
I actually don’t remember much from The Famous Five. I just have a couple of scenes still in my head, some from the series and some from the books. I remember that I liked George for being George, Anne for being careful, anxious and compassionate and Dick for being an unimportant secondary character and I remember that I loved the architecture in the series. I read the books first and one thing that I had to get used to when I watched the series is that Richard was exclusively called Richard in the German books but exclusively Dick in the German dub of the series. And now, remembering this lead me to finally look up why Dick is the nickname for Richard. Apparently, changing letters in existing nicknames to make rhymes and crimes, as Fresh D would say, used to be something the cool kids would do, as Fresh D would say. This applies to many nicknames that are still in use today. Richard → Rick → Dick, Robert → Rob → Bob. Andrews. Which is coincidentally and interestingly also the name of this song’s composer, in addition to being the name of one of The Three Investigators, whose leader’s German voice actor is the same as Julian’s. But he voice acts many things. It feels like there are only like 10 German voice actors that do everything, so watching German dubs never gives you unique voices that you can associate to new characters and that convey new personalities in a new way. One of the best and most memorable things from the series is the music. This song is good and iconic but the melodies and songs that play during the episodes are really amazing. I have to cover those as well one day.
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(I received a community guideline strike for a link here earlier (except I didn’t because it was my first offense), so I’ll remove the following links. Visit this description on my website at https://phal.io/rezawrces/tmp/famousfive.html#programmes to view them.)
8-bit audio production: 0CC-FamiTracker
Pixel art: Aseprite
Fideo editing: DaVinvi Resolve
Screen recording, video conversion: FFmpeg
Note visualisation: NSFPlay Synthesia
Audio editing, playing back and timestamping original song to analyse: Audacity

🎵 Mᴜsɪᴄ ᴜsᴇᴅ
Original song: The Famous Five (Theme) https://youtu.be/oPXhS0o_nng

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