Not a harp video, but I still crack myself up (dangerous for the eggs) with this 2004 video tribute to Henny Youngman. It’s a standup chicken who only tells chicken jokes. I made and performed the chicken, with costumes by Karen Veaner and Technical Assistance by Ben Veaner.

#chickenjokes #funny #funnyvideos #funnyharp

When my kids were small we made puppet videos together, often to songs I wrote and performed. At the time my son was entranced with stop motion animation, and since a few friends had decided I needed more than 20 rubber cow-shaped stress-balls we had a herd for the intro and outro of this song. This is a remake of our 2008 cow video, featuring my original nonsense song, adding harp and bass to the mix, and showing the band accompanying the singing Carlita B. Cow and The Singing Cacti. My favorite verse: “Don't rub against cactus It causes reactus But you can force The cowboy's horse It just takes some practice”

“Mooin’ In June” music and lyrics Copyright © 2006 by Dan Veaner

Celtic Harp‚ Piano‚ Banjo‚ Guitar‚ Bass

#mooininjune #harp #funny #humor #cow #singingcow #funnyharp #funnyvideos

I wrote this song in high school. This is the first time I've played it with harp. It's a twist on the classic love story, 'The Princess and the Frog'. But in my version the frog can't kiss the frog he loves, because it will turn her into a princess. And he's in love with her froggy self. Note: DanHarp.rocks has been replaced by http://funnyharp.com

"Amphibian Blues" is on my Album, "The Fun Stuff" at https://funnyharp.com/albums.html

#FunnyHarp #FunnyVideos #DanHarpMusic

The Town and Village of Lansing municipal boards had some unexpected visitors in 2019! As reported by Carlita B. Cow in the Moos Roomvv

When Conan O'Brian hosted the Tonight Show on NBC he ran a contest to find the worst car in America. The winning car would be filled with dynamite and gasoline and blown up live on the Tonight Show. With the help of my daughter Ally and her friend Caroline we made this video and entered it. It wasn't the winner, but he did show a clip of it on the Tonight Show! Here is a clip showing when he did it.

When Conan O'Brian hosted the Tonight Show on NBC he ran a contest to find the worst car in America. The winning car would be filled with dynamite and gasoline and blown up live on the Tonight Show. With the help of my daughter Ally and her friend Caroline we made this video and entered it. It wasn't the winner, but he did show a clip of it on the Tonight Show!

In 2009 Carlita B. Cow reported the weather. Sort of. Recorded live from the Moos Room.

My daughter Ally got in on the act with Freddie and the Frogs, playing an instrumental version or "Flies".

A frog's gotta eat. And Flies is a gourmet treat!

I wrote a song called "The Dentist" but I didn't really like it. So Freddie and the Frogs recorded this video of the melody without the words.

By 2008 the 1999 "The Blair Witch Project" was still a horror movie sensation. So, of course, the Veaner family made this parody.

This was the last video I made for AOL's Member Movies feature, this time for the New Year. The Resolution-O-Meter Never Lies!

My daughter Ally and I made this Christmas video in 2004 for AOL's "Member Movies" feature.

In the early 2000s my family made puppet music videos. I built the puppets and soundtrack and was a puppeteer and video editor. My wife Karen took various roles from director to costumer to stop-action flamingo posing, and our kids were puppeteers and other tasks, including helping with recording and a stop-action sequence for our "Mooin' in June" video of a herd of cows.

This was our first musical major production.

Remember Jack Webb's Dragnet? My son and I made this Father's Day video for America Online’s "Member Movies" feature when I was working there. 

OK, I got a little slap happy with this one.

This was way back when Donald Trump's "The Apprentice" was popular on TV. My family made this one for AOL's "Member Movies" feature when I worked there, a goof on the show, but much nicer in tone. It was the second video I made for that feature, this time for Mother's Day. My son played Trump, My daughter played his assistant Carolyn, my wife played - you guessed it - the mom, and Mr. Bunny played the lawyer George, because we ran out of people as I was the camera man. And you can bet nobody was fired on our version!

This was the first video I ever made.

While working at AOL I got an early morning call from my boss. She told me that Susie was working on a new feature to be called "Member Movies" that would go live on Valentine's day (YouTube came along exactly one year later, in 2005, so we were pioneers.) They knew of my theater background, and that I had been experimenting with uploading videos in my area of AOL. She asked if I could make a home made video, engaging, but not so professional that AOL members would be intimidated about uploading their own videos.

That wasn't a problem. I had never made a video before. So of course I said, "Sure, I'd love to. When do you need it?" "Close of business (COB) today," she said.

I had meetings scheduled all day except the 2:00pm hour, but they were all either phone meetings or in AOL chat rooms. So I went to the meetings (with my phone muted) but worked on the video all day. The first issue was who would act in it. There was no time to recruit actors, so I decided to do a "Roses are red..." poem recited by a flamingo hand puppet my wife and kids had given me. The next problem was that I only had the software that came with my web cam, and I spent most of the morning getting the sound to work on it. I finally had a finished video soon after lunch, and I uploaded it to a private AOL library (and tested it on AOL's system) by 2pm. I spent the rest of the afternoon testing it (and attending meetings), and just before COB I emailed my boss with the details on where she could find it.

The next day she called to say Susie loved it, and soon after I could see it in the Member Movies feature. There were only two videos, my flamingo video and an animated "how to" video. When the animated AOL member showed him uploading his video, it was my video that appeared on the cartoon screen!

Valentines Day came, and I got an email from one of the folks in my group. She said she wasn't supposed to share this, but she thought I should see the "Top ten Videos on AOL of the Week" for the Valentines Day week. The top video was my flamingo! It had more views than Ellen DeGeneres (they were uploading her talk show monologues to AOL at the time), and the Beatles, among others. I was astounded.

Then I started hearing rumors they were showing it at corporate meetings. That summer I was at a meeting led by our group's new vide president. It was a huge room, and he stood on a raised platform with a large screen behind him. it was sweltering hot, and we had been meeting for hours. I started to zone out when I heard him say "This employee has his thumb on the pulse of the AOL member." I looked up. He was talking about me! And behind him was my hand in the flamingo puppet, ten feet high!!!

My boss said it was so successful they wanted me to use actors from then on. I said OK, but I'll need more lead time. My family and I made four more, for Fathers Day, Mother's Day, Christmas, and New Years. But I was bitten by the puppet bug, and we made a bunch of puppet videos, most of them music videos, just for the fun of it.