My daughter is talking to me about stage fright, during the drive home....She has no problem singing in a choral group in front of many people, and her study repertoire has been primarily classical/opera. She does suffer from some major stage fright, however, when it comes to more contemporary music, performing in front of small groups of people, or soloing. I've been hoping that time and confidence will help her overcome that a bit. She really does have an amazing voice. I never had that....a fear of performing. As an instrumentalist, and "somewhat" of a singer (nothing like her abilities, granted), I've never been bothered by actually caring much what folks thought...I just enjoyed what I was doing, and hoped others did, too. I do respect where she's coming from, though. Everyone is different, and I know that being 12 is a hard age, acceptance means a lot, and criticism isn't easy for a young teen.
So, anyway, we're driving along, and she starts singing this song. Kristin Chenoweth did a CD of mostly tunes from Broadway shows, called "Let yourself go", back in 2001. I knew that Sarah had taken my copy of the CD....she's had it in her iPod for a long time. So she starts singing "The girl in 14G", a cappella. That's a difficult song to sing, and she nailed it....with no accompaniment. I was impressed. Surprised, is more like it. So she tells me that she's going to be performing it in an upcoming show. She found an accompanist, and the sheet music for vocal and piano. Wow. Pretty cool, I'm thinking she is going to do pretty well. I guess she's taking that step to overcome the fear of performing solo. That's a nice enough holiday gift for me. :)
Here's a video of Kristin performing it: (definitely not a easy song to sing...but very fun....)
Friday, November 26, 2010
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
A little list all about food and Thanksgiving dinner..........Mmmmmm :)
Just another little fun list..............it's dinner time!!
Bunny Berigan-Chicken and waffles
Mary Lou Williams-Goose Grease
Joe Morris-Beans and cornbread
Hal Singer-Cornbread
Doris Day-Tacos, enchiladas and beans
Hank Marr-The greasy spoon
Buddy Johnson and his Orch.-Hey, sweet potato
Sherman Johnson-Hot fish
Jimmy Smith-Pork chop
James Brown-Soul food pt. 1 and 2
June Christy-Shoo fly pie and apple pan dowdy
Big Daddy-Bacon fat
Andre Williams with the Gino Parks Quartet-Pass the biscuits, please
Jack McVea and his All Stars-Tatoe pie
The Marylanders-Fried Chicken
Tennessee Ernie Ford-Catfish boogie
Carl Kress/Dick McDonough-Chicken a la swing
The Robins-The turkey hop pt 1
Cecil Payne-Ham hocks
Fats Waller-All that meat and no potatoes
The four Clefs-I like pie, I like cake
Lionel Hampton-Greasy Greens
Benny Carter-Fish fry
The Ink Spots-Pork chops and gravy
Nat King Cole trio w/ Johnny Mercer-Save the bones for Henry Jones ('cuz Henry don't eat no meat)
The Foursome-Sweet potato swing
http://www.mediafire.com/?dscc9o2z95u3588
Via...Shorpy.....laughing, here....
(click to enlarge) **wink wink, nudge, nudge**
Cracking up at the comments on www.shorpy.com , regarding this pic of the June 1913 Yale Crew's "Freshman 8"....... lots of jokes about the size of Yale's endowment.....jokes about Madeline Kahn, in "History of the World. Pt. 1": "Yes, no, no,no, YESSSSssss, no, no no"
Lovely...my daughter came up with an alternate name for the blog.
She refers to it as "The Bipolar Express"..............I almost find that catchy ;)
A fun little rockin' late November list......
Just a little fun one........go do yer pre-Thanksgiving cleaning with it playing LOUD!! :)
The Who-Out in the street
R. Dean Taylor-There's a ghost in my house
The Kinks-'Til the end of the day
Gerry and the Pacemakers-I'm the one
Brian Poole and the Tremeloes-Candy man
The Hollies-We're through
Moody Blues-Go now
Dick Dale and the Del-tones-Del-tone rock
Bob Taylor-Thunder
Beatles-Little child
Tommy Quickly and the Remo Four-The wild side of life
Small Faces-Whatcha gonna do 'bout it
Rolling Stones-2120 South Michigan Avenue
Dave Clark Five-I cried over you
Sandy Nelson-Scratchy
Stay tuned for the soul version..................!!
http://www.mediafire.com/?9mxzv37sl0usdoa
My hometown............Welcome to hell (only further north).....lovely.
FLINT, Michigan — Flint ranks the nation's fourth most violent city in America, according to the latest rankings by CQ Press.
Flint ranks behind only St. Louis, Mo., Camden, N.J., and Detroit. Flint was ranked fifth last year.
The rankings are based off of FBI crime statistics.
I mean, damn.....what? we have less than 400,000 in whole city, or whatever........ That's f*cked up, seriously. Just sayin'. Nice, pound per pound, we're much worse that NYC and Chicago.....I mean, it's no surprise to me....I grew up there, nice to know we're in the top 4 for SOMETHING....... In all seriousness, though, it's just wrong for a city to be that small, and that bad.
I was home for a week, last year, and what I saw was incredibly sad.....whatever....I just had to post that.
Then I read this article from Associated Content:
Talk about depressing.......
Flint, Michigan, Earns its Reputation as a Dangerous City
Rushelle O'Shea
"Maybe it's a bomb," one of us jested, though I'll never remember if the words came from my roommate or my own lips. It was the middle of the night in downtown Flint, Mich., and we'd just completed the umpteenth check throughout the two-story house that we rented. The water heater was fine. The furnace was fine. The pipes all seemed to be fine. I went to bed, but still there was this incessant tick-tick-tick.
The explosion brought me tumbling to the floor as the entire house shuddered, groaned and shook like a war-ravaged thing. In a panic, I raced to check on the children. The house across the street was completely engulfed in flames.
It would be one of the last nights I remembered in Flint.
Welcome to Hell (Only Further North)
The gas station attendant literally flinched when I mentioned that I was trying to find my way to a rental property in downtown Flint. "Bad neighborhood?" I queried, and she gave me a pensive look before reluctantly voicing, "Well, it all depends on where you're moving up there." I revealed the address and she flinched again.
Great.
But sometimes you don't have a choice. Michigan's unemployment rate was on the rise and I had two children to support. Finding a house that rented for less than $400 a month was like a dream come true. For that price, we could ignore the spray painting on the house next door and the abandoned houses up the street. If we stayed inside and minded our own business, it wouldn't be that terrible. After all, most of what you hear on the news is all media hype. It really couldn't be all that bad, could it?
Does Flint Deserve its Reputation as a Dangerous City?
The explosion brought me tumbling to the floor as the entire house shuddered, groaned and shook like a war-ravaged thing. In a panic, I raced to check on the children. The house across the street was completely engulfed in flames.
It would be one of the last nights I remembered in Flint.
Welcome to Hell (Only Further North)
The gas station attendant literally flinched when I mentioned that I was trying to find my way to a rental property in downtown Flint. "Bad neighborhood?" I queried, and she gave me a pensive look before reluctantly voicing, "Well, it all depends on where you're moving up there." I revealed the address and she flinched again.
Great.
But sometimes you don't have a choice. Michigan's unemployment rate was on the rise and I had two children to support. Finding a house that rented for less than $400 a month was like a dream come true. For that price, we could ignore the spray painting on the house next door and the abandoned houses up the street. If we stayed inside and minded our own business, it wouldn't be that terrible. After all, most of what you hear on the news is all media hype. It really couldn't be all that bad, could it?
Does Flint Deserve its Reputation as a Dangerous City?
Gunshots ring out in the night, so frequently that it actually seems eerily quiet when you don't hear them. Kids are forced to walk through metal detectors and have their belongings searched before they can enter the schools (and my daughter was still jumped and nearly beaten unconscious by other girls). Every day, more people are murdered and more houses are vacated, boarded up and abandoned. The overall feeling is not unlike the city suffering some form of pestilence that's slowly spreading, creeping from house to house as it poisons and chokes the life from everything it touches.
Flint Today
Flint has earned its "CQ Press" reputation as one of the most dangerous cities in the U.S. because it's a dying city, filled with desperate souls who have lost everything. A couple of months ago, I learned that my daughter's school had burned down and that the police suspected arson. Since then, the three-bedroom house we'd rented burned to the ground - It was one of six Flint homes that an arsonist torched in a single evening.
The news left me with a sad, empty feeling, thinking back on some of the memories that we'd had in that old house. There was a sad, empty feeling and yet... I couldn't help but feel relieved.
We'd escaped.
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Hmmmmmm....well boo-freakin' hoo, lady....
Great..........well, I suppose I escaped many years ago, too. Anyhow, the feeling I get reading an article like that is a bit complex. Angry, mostly, because the entire city isn't like that....really. Parts of it are VERY bad, don't get me wrong, but when I read something like that......I think.....outsider. She didn't know the city, didn't even investigate where she was moving.....and put her kids in that environment.....please. She could've found housing that cheap easily in another part of the city. F*cking, idiot......that's my conclusion. Move BACK to Detroit...they can have you. And, stop whining and grow a pair....really.
I haven't lived in Flint for 20 years. I've been in Chicago....(and trust me, living in my neighborhood is no walk in the park....in isn't that nicer, either). If I moved back to Flint, tomorrow, I'd damn sure check where I was renting before I signed a damn lease. I would never move somewhere in Chicago without knowing everything from what the neighborhood gangs are, what the schools are like......and believe, me, I've lived in some "interesting" neighborhoods over the years I've been here. I never moved into any of them without knowing everything good, and bad, before I did.
Flint isn't anything nice, but it made me the person I am....warts and all. I can handle just about anything as a result of it. Being Flint-born has kept me real, and gave me a great BS radar for anything that comes my way......that's a good thing...a bit raw sometimes, but something lacking in a lot of folks I meet.
Flint isn't anything nice, but it made me the person I am....warts and all. I can handle just about anything as a result of it. Being Flint-born has kept me real, and gave me a great BS radar for anything that comes my way......that's a good thing...a bit raw sometimes, but something lacking in a lot of folks I meet.
I don't only listen to '30s stuff.........lol
I was listening to a this LP, tonight.............maybe it's a Michigan thang, but damn this brings back some great memories.......... :)
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
The Hollies-Stay with The Hollies 1964
Ok....Another favourite childhood LP. Yeah, I know folks bitch about how all the group did was covers in the early years, and heavy handed ones, at that......I don't care. I loved this as a kid.....I still do.
I put the stereo versions on this list.
Talkin' 'bout you
Mr. Moonlight
You better move on
Lucille
Baby don't cry
Memphis
Stay
Rockin' robin
Whatcha gonna do 'bout it
Do you love me
It's only make believe
What kind of girl are you
Little lover
Candy man
Just for fun....The Roy Milton-Miltone Records cartoon picture labels........
Just for fun......here are some of the picture cartoon labels of releases on Roy Milton's Miltone records.....some great art work, and seriously fun images.........
More details and images are available at: http://koti.mbnet.fi/flidi/milton/
Pt 2....Esther Phillips.....the middle years...........early 1960s-early 1970s
And I love him -1965 From "And I love him"
Release me -1963 From "Release me"
'Tis Auntumn -1965 From "And I love him"
Just out of reach -1966 From "The country side of E.P."
Mojo Hannah (LP version) -1963 From "Release me"
Shangri-la -1965 From "And I love him"
I really don't want to know -1963 From "Release me"
Be honest with me -1966 From "The country side of E.P."
Moonglow and Theme from Picnic -1965 From "And I love him"
Tomorrow night -1963 From "Release me"
I've forgotten more than you'll ever know -1966 From "The country side of E.P."
Out of the blue -1965 From "And I love him"
Double crossing blues -1963 From "Release me"
People -1965 From "And I love him"
Hello walls -1963 From "Release me"
I'd fight the world -1966 From "The country side of E.P."
Makin' whoopee -1965 From "And I love him"
Am I that easy to forget -1966 From "The country side of E.P."
The girl from Ipanema -1965 From "And I love him"
Catch me I'm falling -1963 From "Release me"
After lovin' you -1966 From "The country side of E.P."
I wish you love -1965 From "And I love him"
You can't go home again -1966 From "Esther Phillips sings"
Just say goodbye -1966 From "Esther Phillips sings"
I could have told you so -1966 From "Esther Phillips sings"
Everytime we say goodbye -1966 From "Esther Phillips sings"
As tears go by -1966 From "Esther Phillips sings"
The party's over -1966 From "Esther Phillips sings"
The second section of this list is mostly releases from the early 1970s, including the excellent "From a whisper to a scream".
Use me -1972 From "Alone Again (Naturally)"
I've only known a stranger -1973 From "Black eyed blues"
I don't want to do wrong -1972 From "Alone Again (Naturally)"
I got it bad and that ain't good -1973 From "Black eyed blues"
Let's move and groove -1972 From "Alone Again (Naturally)"
Let me in your life -1972 From "Alone Again (Naturally)"
Black eyed blues -1973 From "Black eyed blues"
Too many roads -1973 From "Black eyed blues"
Cherry red -1972 From "Alone Again (Naturally)"
You could have had me baby -1973 From "Black eyed blues"
I've never found a man to love me like you do -1972 From "Alone Again (Naturally)"
Tangle in your lifeline -1973 From "Black eyed blues"
Alone again, naturally -1972 From "Alone Again (Naturally)"
Do right woman do right man -1972 From "Alone Again (Naturally)"
You and me together -1972 From "Alone Again (Naturally)"
Georgia rose -1972 From "Alone Again (Naturally)"
Why should we try anymore -1966 From "The country side of E.P."
I feel the same -1974 From "Performance"
Performance -1974 From "Performance"
Doing our thing -1974 From "Performance"
Disposable society -1974 From "Performance"
Living alone (we're gonna make it) -1974 From "Performance"
Home is where the hatred is -1972 From "From a whisper to a scream"
From a whisper to a scream -1972 From "From a whisper to a scream"
To lay down beside you -1972 From "From a whisper to a scream"
That's alright with me -1972 From "From a whisper to a scream"
Sweet touch of love -1972 From "From a whisper to a scream"
Baby I'm for real -1972 From "From a whisper to a scream"
Your love is so doggone good -1972 From "From a whisper to a scream"
How blue can you get -1972 From "From a whisper to a scream"
Brother brother -1972 From "From a whisper to a scream"
Don't run and hide -1972 From "From a whisper to a scream"
Look next for a list of strictly live performances, from both the 1970 "Live at Freddie Jett's Pied Piper/Burnin'" release, and also from a 1977 live recording, "Live at the Rising Sun Club, Montreal".
Stay tuned..........
Stay tuned..........
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