{"id":7480,"date":"2021-03-31T11:18:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T17:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=7480"},"modified":"2021-04-25T15:41:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T21:41:44","slug":"the-i-like-chocolate-song-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/the-i-like-chocolate-song-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;I Like Chocolate&#8221; Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cADOFFXAqIU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Words and Music by Conrad Askland (ASCAP). &#8220;I Like Chocolate&#8221; \u00a9 2007 Conrad Askland.<\/p>\n<p>I ascribe by the motto of &#8220;What was funny in third grade will always be funny.&#8221; This is MAYBE the silliest song I&#8217;ve ever written, and I&#8217;ve written a LOT of very silly songs.<\/p>\n<p>I almost never write a song &#8220;just to write a song.&#8221; There&#8217;s always a reason for a song when I write it. I&#8217;m very utilitarian, or practical, in that way. &#8220;I Like Chocolate&#8221; was written for a very specific reason: to make third-graders laugh. And here&#8217;s the story all about that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2007, a youth theater group had licensed the play version of &#8220;Charlie and the Chocolate Factory&#8221; but they really wanted to do the musical. So they asked me to write music to turn the straight play into a musical. I did that and almost fully scored the entire show by writing music to the words of Roald Dahl&#8217;s original text and also adding underscore music for all the different rooms in the Chocolate Factory. I was a little naive at the time and didn&#8217;t realize that all of this is technically illegal. So unfortunately I have all these wonderful songs that I wrote and recorded to Roald Dahl&#8217;s text, but I can&#8217;t release any of it. (I&#8217;m very sad about that because I think the music themes I wrote for each of those wretched characters in the story is really fun and entertaining).<\/p>\n<p>BUT, I also wrote a pre-show song for that performance of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and that song is, you guessed it, &#8220;I Love Chocolate&#8221;. There were school shows with primarily grade school children (grades 3-5 in the United States). This song was meant to get the kids settled into the theater before the show and give them a good giggle together before the show began.<\/p>\n<p>To my absolute delight, by the time the second verse came in, all the kids were singing along and then yelled the obvious missing rhyme of &#8220;underwear&#8221; and the theater house broke out into an uproar of laughter. That was a great memory for me and one of the reasons I actually love this song so much. Yes, it&#8217;s silly. But I will never forget the beauty of hearing 400 school children all laughing together in the theater.<\/p>\n<p>They say that the human voice is the most beautiful sound of all. The sound of children laughing may be the most beautiful and uplifting of all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>LYRICS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I like chocolate<br \/>\nYes I do<br \/>\nEven though it kind of<br \/>\nLooks like poo<br \/>\nI like chocolate<br \/>\neverywhere<br \/>\nBut I do not like it in my<br \/>\nOoh-whee-ee-hee<br \/>\nhoo-hoo-hoo<br \/>\nOoh-whee-ee-hee<br \/>\nhoo-hoo-hoo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words and Music by Conrad Askland (ASCAP). &#8220;I Like Chocolate&#8221; \u00a9 2007 Conrad Askland. I ascribe by the motto of &#8220;What was funny in third grade will always be funny.&#8221; This is MAYBE the silliest song I&#8217;ve ever written, and I&#8217;ve written a LOT of very silly songs. I almost never write a song &#8220;just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,48,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-1WE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7534,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480\/revisions\/7534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}