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Cute song and you don't need a great voice to sing it pretty well cause it's an easier song without the huge range that a lot of songs require. Audiences love songs they can sing along with. As Pam well knows that is one of the reasons country music is so popular.
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No it doesn't bug me when I see other's errors but when I see them in my own posts it upsets me terribly! No matter how many times I try to reread them to make sure I don't make mistakes I still find them sometimes even on my really old posts! That's the worst cause I feel like OMG how many people saw this!!!
Remember I never taught English, well except as a sub, and then I just followed the regular teacher's instructions. Pretty easy to do that. My grammer never has been great. I remember when I was taking Spanish in college. My Spanish teacher was talking to me after class one day and he said that my pronunciation was great and my vocabulary was wonderful but my sentence structure STUNK!!! He said "can't you just take the rules you know in English and reverse them?" "Ah", I replied, "there's the problem! I still don't know the grammatical rules for English!"
I shouldn't laugh cause that's true, I still don't!
And, no, I'm not an angry singer. I thought that was wierd too how they made 2 of the smilies in that band so angry looking! I forget that you haven't met me yet but I've usually got a stupid grin on my face. I have a very hard time keeping a straight face for any length of time.
Yes Lacey we should definitely get together! All of us! Pam you feel up to a road trip? Well maybe after you heal up from your upcoming surgery. I always wanted to get together a bunch of different songs covering a variety of genres. Not that you would want to get too eclectic at any one performance but it's nice to have a lot to offer and it's fun to challenge yourself a little with stuff that might not be right in the middle of your comfort zone. Although I know there are just some types of music my voice isn't suited for there is a lot I can do if I get my head in the right place. Most of the time I think it's more about the emotion behind the performance than the technical correctness of a performance.
For example I used to do the song "Crazy" at least twice a week and I tell ya, the technical aspect didn't change but I got so sick of singing the same song over and over again that I quit feeling the song and it went over like a lead balloon! I've learned since then you need to draw on whatever you can to put that emotion into your performance,
every performance. Even something as simple as looking at your audience and drawing from their enjoyment and their energy can drastically change a performance. I can now sing that song well again because I look at my audience and I can
feel their energy and that reminds me that I am singing a song that brings up some wonderful feelings for them and that is a wonderful gift that they are sharing with me!
All that aside I really want to do some big band stuff but on a smaller level with a little more choreography or at least jazzier and some of the old war songs like "I Love You a Bushel and a Peck" or "Boogie Woogie Bugel Boy" with some really cool male harmony (tenor and bass) in a really jazzy version. That song would really rock if it were done right! Not that it hasn't been done right it would just be fun to mix things up a little. I mean don't change it so much that you destroy the nostalgia but you know, just have some FUN with it!
I also always wanted to do a version of "Hit the Road Jack" with a male and female lead (instead of the female vocals being just backup) with the guy going down on his knees and the woman standing her ground and throwing a duffle bag at him during the song. Stuffed with pillows only of course. That would be cute. I used to do "I Got You Babe" by Sonny and Cher and we had the whole complete getup for it. I wore an outrageous outfit (that showed way too much skin), a long straight black wig with leather headband and my partner had the bad hair and the leather fringed jacket complete with headband. The only thing was, he was taller than me so he did the whole song on his knees with them resting inside his shoes so he would be shorter than me. That was a song that always got a ton of laughs!
