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Day 17: A Song You’d Sing With Someone On Karaoke

Posted in Blogging, tagged , , , on November 17, 2019| Leave a Comment »

This month I’m doing a 30-day song challenge following the prompts given by Donna from MyOBT, one of my favorite blogs. It sounded like so much fun I couldn’t resist. Feel free to join in on your social media platform, add your picks in the comments below, or simply enjoy (hopefully) the music I’ve chosen.

This one made me laugh.  The one and only time I sang karaoke I was at the Minnesota State Fair where Charlotte and I belted out our version of Fat Bottomed Girls at the Minnesota State Fair at a very small stage.  No one really paid attention.

But when I think of duets the first couple to come to mind is Steve and Eydie.  I grew up with this song at my grandparents house.  I’d beg to listen to it time and time again, making Grandma find the record and play it on their very fancy console.  I even made Grandma Harriet promise to leave the album to me in her will.  She did.  Thanks Gram!

I don’t know how well I’d do singing this with someone else on karaoke, but I’d love to try.

 

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Day 16: A Song That’s A Classic Favorite

Posted in Blogging, tagged , , on November 16, 2019| Leave a Comment »

This month I’m doing a 30-day song challenge following the prompts given by Donna from MyOBT, one of my favorite blogs. It sounded like so much fun I couldn’t resist. Feel free to join in on your social media platform, add your picks in the comments below, or simply enjoy (hopefully) the music I’ve chosen.

A classic favorite?  There are millions!

When I saw this prompt the first thing that came to mind was Dorothy, singing to the sky with her little dog Toto nearby.  I could do a whole month of posts with this prompt, but for now I’ll follow the rainbow to Oz.

 

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Day 15: A Song That’s Covered By Another Artist

Posted in Blogging, tagged , , , on November 15, 2019| Leave a Comment »

This month I’m doing a 30-day song challenge following the prompts given by Donna from MyOBT, one of my favorite blogs. It sounded like so much fun I couldn’t resist. Feel free to join in on your social media platform, add your picks in the comments below, or simply enjoy (hopefully) the music I’ve chosen.

OK, I have no qualms about Simon and Garfunkle.  Art has the voice of an angel and Paul is a great lyricist.  But I never realized the strength of this song until I heard it sung by David Draiman.  Disturbed covered this song in a way no one else ever could.

 

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Day 14: A Song You’d Love To Be Played At Your Wedding

Posted in Blogging, tagged , on November 14, 2019| Leave a Comment »

This month I’m doing a 30-day song challenge following the prompts given by Donna from MyOBT, one of my favorite blogs. It sounded like so much fun I couldn’t resist. Feel free to join in on your social media platform, add your picks in the comments below, or simply enjoy (hopefully) the music I’ve chosen.

This is one prompt I especially love because 1) I finally met and married the man of my dreams (after waiting 35 years) and 2) I got to have the wedding day of my dreams.

When it came to my wedding day I needed to find an organist, one who could give me the grandeur I wanted at the ceremony.  I “auditioned” a stranger recommended by a friend, at his church, on his organ.  I told him I wanted a grandiose processional.  He played a few pieces, beautifully performed, but cliché.  I came out with it and said, “I want something like the processional in The Sound of Music.”  To my amazement, he played the exact piece for me then and there.

Since I was a child I thought the wedding processional in The Sound of Music was perfect for such an occasion.  Who would’ve thought I’d have it in my own wedding!

I hired him on the spot.  Right now I can’t even remember any of the other pieces he played on our wedding day, but the procession was wonderful.  My dad thought, as we walked down the aisle, that my shaking arm was from nervousness.  But it was only because all of my dreams had come true, that moment and for the rest of my life.

The song I dreamed to be played at my wedding was played at my wedding, and majestically.  (Sans the “Maria” part.)   I was every bit as pretty a bride as Maria.  And my groom was every bit as handsome as Captain Von Trapp.

 

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Day 13: A Song You Like From the ’70s

Posted in Blogging, tagged , , on November 13, 2019| Leave a Comment »

This month I’m doing a 30-day song challenge following the prompts given by Donna from MyOBT, one of my favorite blogs. It sounded like so much fun I couldn’t resist. Feel free to join in on your social media platform, add your picks in the comments below, or simply enjoy (hopefully) the music I’ve chosen.

I’m not sorry I was too young to hit the clubs during the era of disco, because I couldn’t dance. I’m also not sorry to admit I actually kind of liked the music. “It has a great beat, easy to dance to”…said everyone on American Bandstand. I salute one of the dancing queens of disco with this song. Have fun listening, Charlotte!

 

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