From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V5 #222 Reply-To: lucy-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk lucy-list-digest Saturday, November 15 2003 Volume 05 : Number 222 In this issue: [lucy-list] give erin her shot- vote for erin... [lucy-list] karaoke and me ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:45:23 -0500 From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] give erin her shot- vote for erin... http://www.bbc.co.uk/later/ vote for erin Erin is CLose in the running on this BBC Vote for your favorite website.. so if you havent voted please go to the BBC site and on to later and vote for Erin... please pass this along to those lists that would be invaluable to erin.. get the word out.. voting time is limited.. do it now sharonG Oh my fair North Star, I have held to you dearly, I had asked you to steer me, Till one cloud-scattered night, I got lost and in my travels I met Leo the lion Met a king and met a giant, with their errant light, There's the wind and the rain, and the mercy of the fallen, Who say they have no claim to know what's right. There's the weak and the strong and the beds that have no answer, We have some of them inside us. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 02:11:06 -0500 From: Benay Bubar Subject: [lucy-list] karaoke and me Well...despite the fact that Lucy is not currently doing any shows (though she and Rick are presumably back home with Molly now!!!), I must mention that two important musical events took place in New York City tonight. One was the Nields performing at Fez. I suppose they were good; unfortunately, I didn't get to go. You see, I was engaged in my OWN public singing debut...and I have to break it to you that unless there were any undercover Lucy-listers there, you all missed it. Yes, tonight on West 55th Street, history was made. It was Benay Meets Karaoke Bar. From this experience, I learned several things: 1. Lucy's songs have not yet achieved the level of fame...or infamy...required to hit the karaoke circuit. (Yes, I DID look.) Shawn Colvin, Suzanne Vega, and Mary Chapin Carpenter were on the list, but with fairly obscure songs. Of Lucy's covers, only More Than This and I've Just Seen A Face were among the options, though they remain roads yet untaken by me. Too bad there was no Lucy----Ten Year Night in a karaoke bar would've been something. But at any rate... 2. Singing out loud, in public, into a microphone, is awfully hard for the nonprofessional even WITHOUT playing a guitar at the same time and even when the lyrics are on a screen right in front of you! Yet... 3. With a couple of drinks and a decent soundtrack, even the most reserved person in the room is capable of belting out The Rose by Bette Midler. (Yes. This was me. The whole song. I have witnesses. And afterward I was assured that I had really NOT sounded like Cameron Diaz in the karaoke scene in _My Best Friend's Wedding_. People CLAPPED. They did. And they were not under duress.) Which brings me to: 4. Even when one has just belted out The Rose by Bette Midler in the middle of a karaoke bar, the adulation of an adoring crowd (even when it is an adoring DRUNK crowd) is surprisingly gratifying. It must be downright addictive to be applauded for real PERFORMANCE, when you're actually GOOD. No wonder Lucy likes singing in front of audiences. And finally... 5. Though I know audiences will be clamoring, my future karaoke gigs are as yet undecided. And oh, yeah...stunning as my debut was, Lucy's career is safe...I am unlikely to be giving her a run for her money in the singing department anytime soon. Benay ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V5 #222 ******************************* This has been a posting from the Lucy Kaplansky mail list digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe lucy-list-digest" in the body of the message