Wednesday, July 16, 2008

• Karaoke

  Wow . . .  two days in a row.  Whoda thunk it?

  Anyhoo, one of the cloggers talked me into going out with her and her boyfriend to the Dog House in Palm Bay for karaoke last Thursday.  I picked up another clogger and we met them there.  I told her ahead of time - "I am not gonna sing - no way, no how!"  She grinned and said that was fine . . .  'just come with us and you'll have a great time'.  So I did, and I did!  (I won't tell you about the morning after though.  NOT fun.

  But back to the evening itself.  I've heard some karaoke before and it was baaaaaad.  But lots of these folks were actually  . . .  good.  After a drink, I tell my buddy, "You know, the only tunes I'd even consider singing are Stevie Nicks songs."  So she gets all wild-eyed and puts in a request for the two of us to sing "Landslide".  She got up on the little stage and I sat there at my seat with my mic, and we get through it.  Turns out, my mic wasn't on!  Not that I'm complaining.  Anyway, the night goes on, we get drunk, and so on and so forth.

  But I get to thinking, I would like to do a Stevie song in the future.  This was a great group at the Dog House - friendly sorts, enthusiastic (even to those peeps that were less than stellar).  Why not? I ask myself.  Well, I'm not that great a singer.  I used to sing all the time -  in the car, in the shower, whenever, wherever.  I'd sing Stevie, Fleetwood Mac, Abba, Heart, Olivia Newton-John . . . I kept in tune, for the most part.  But that was years ago.  Hubby says I canNOT sing well at all.  I guess that's true.  "But, I love to sing" I tell him.  "And that's not helping" he shoots back.

  So I'm laying in bed one night and all these song possiblities are running through my mind.  It would be stupid to attempt any Heart songs.  Ann Wilson's voice is way too strong and powerful and I'd make a fool out of myself.  I still consider a Stevie song, perhaps "Gold Dust Woman". Yeah, that would be good.  But I don't remember seeing that on the playlist.  "Edge of Seventeen"?  Uh, there's that scream in the middle of it and they may call an ambulance thinking I'm suddenly in severe pain.  Then, I wonder about other voices I could try to do, like Chrissie Hynde from the Pretenders.  "Brass in Pocket"?  It's a deeper sound and I could fudge that pretty well.  Hmmmmm.  I wonder . . .

  I'll give it more thought.

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