Frightfully sorry, but.....

[kakareen.livejournal.com]

...I've been traipsing around in the archives and have noticed posts regarding certain songs: Anytime is Slash Time, I Want a Valet, and there may have been another, I'm not sure. I was very much inclined to acquire these little gems, or at least hear what they sounded like, but all the links are as lifeless as poor old Lazarus. I was rather hoping, that, much like the aforementioned Lazzie, these songs might be resurrected?

Many thanks. Glad to be here.

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[potatofiend.livejournal.com]

Hello!

Sadly, I don't have either of Lucy's marvellous songs on this computer, so I'd be very glad if somebody else can upload them! What I do have is this (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=F88G91FX) one of mine, from about three years ago.

I warn you that I was nervous, and therefore pronounced 'valet' incorrectly the whole way through, just in case my lack of final 't' makes you cringe. :) Not to mention all the other things that are cringeworthy about it, but there it is anyway. (It's 'Jeeves and the Cracking Yarn'.)

[furius.livejournal.com]

http://www.mediafire.com/?ym2uijocmzm (http://www.mediafire.com/?ym2uijocmzm) Anytime Is Slash Time

http://www.mediafire.com/?emmomyjtmwj (http://www.mediafire.com/?emmomyjtmwj) I Want a Valet

I hope these links work. All credit to the original artist of course.

[kakareen.livejournal.com]

Thank you both so very much!

[kakareen.livejournal.com]

And ukulele! How about that.

[serpenatrix.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow! Thank you very much indeed! I hadn't heard those gems! I can't believe how creative, generous and wonderful you guys are!

[sunquistadora.livejournal.com]

You're awesome! I was sad about the dead links as well, so thanks for uploading! ^_^

[random-nexus.livejournal.com]

I must be incredibly dim, but when I went to the link there I had no idea how to make the music linked happen. Pageful of colorful confusion. Would you mind telling me what I'm to do there?
Please and lots of thanks!

Oh - and until VERY recently, I thought Valet was pronounced "Val Ay" not "Val ett" - So, it's not just you.

[random-nexus.livejournal.com]

These are sweet! Thanks for the linky goodness!

[ceruleanshipper.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that reminds me - didn't someone once put up a song called "Big Manly Valet" to the tune of "Raspberry Beret" here?

[siilikeiju.livejournal.com]

I simply luuuurve them! J&W fanbase is absolutely multi-talented. Thank you so much.

[mxdp.livejournal.com]

<3

[mxdp.livejournal.com]

i've always wondered about that-so I finally looked it up--

Etymology

In English, valet "personal man-servant" is recorded since 1567, though use of the term in the French-speaking English medieval court is much older, and the variant form varlet is cited from 1456 (OED). Both are French importations of valet (the t being silent) or varlet, Old French variants of vaslet "man's servant," originally "squire, young man," assumed to be from Gallo-Romance *vassellittus "young nobleman, squire, page," diminutive of Medieval Latin vassallus, from vassus "servant", possibly cognate to an Old Celtic root wasso- "young man, squire" (source of Welsh gwas "youth, servant," Breton goaz "servant, vassal, man," Irish foss "servant"). See yeoman, possibly derived from yonge man.

The modern use is usually short for the valet de chambre (French for 'bedroom valet'), described in the following section. Since the 16th century the word has traditionally been pronounced as rhyming with pallet, though an alternative pronunciation, rhyming with chalet, is now common, especially in American English.[1]
The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary lists both pronunciations.

Guh. Just sharing, but I didn't know all that. I learn every day. Thanks ^^

[mxdp.livejournal.com]

BTW, love to the song. Much. Now I shall shut up. ^^

[potatofiend.livejournal.com]

*grins* Sorry - enter the displayed letters into the box as requested, and press 'download' - all should become clear!

[angieveep.livejournal.com]

Would someone mind terribly posting the lyrics for us not-so-good-English-speakers?

[derien.livejournal.com]

Hee! I posted that, yes - it was composed by my sweetheart, eor, who can't help himself when a filk opportunity opens up like that. No-one has ever recorded it, however. And he, also, used the American pronunciation of 'valet' to ryme with 'beret,' because we'd never heard it pronounced differently before watching the Jeeves and Wooster shows, and assumed Bertie was being Bertiesque and mispronouncing things.

Of course, at this moment I can't find the post. I thought I would have memory linked it, but I did not! Grrr. I'll have to see if I can find it, so his hard work doesn't go unremembered.

[derien.livejournal.com]

I made another actual post for you. :)