Thanks for all the nice comments!
The song took about 4 hours to write, another two to arrange. Sometimes I have to drive a lot and do most of my composing with digital recorder while I am on the road.
The video itself took about 12 hours over the course of several months.
Then You Tube challenged my right to the pictures I used and I spent another 3 hours or so "splaining" to them about public domain and merger doctrine and the like, until I got an OK from them.
Fortunately I already knew how to use imovie (except for the stuff I forgot) doing another similar video based on an old pirate joke.
By the way, in case you didn't notice, the fellow playing the banjo and doing the part of Watson is actually a picture of Sidney Paget, best known for his artwork that accompanied the SH stories, but who has also done other art, including some very nice land and seascapes.
rob k
Fun fact:
A complete set of Strand issues featuring the illustrated Sherlock Holmes tales is one of the rarest and most expensive collector's items in publishing history. Paget's original 10.5 x 6.75 inch drawing of "Holmes and Moriarty in Mortal Combat at the Edge of the Reichenbach Falls" was sold by Sotheby's in New York on 16 November 2004 for $220,800.
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