From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V5 #223 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 Sunday, November 16 2003 Volume 05 : Number 223 In this issue: Re: [lucy-list] karaoke and me Re: [lucy-list] karaoke and me [lucy-list] more karaoke.... [lucy-list] Who's Molly... Re: [lucy-list] more karaoke.... Re: [lucy-list] more karaoke.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 00:17:41 -0800 From: "Gina" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] karaoke and me The Rose was only made popular by Bette Midler. It was written by Amanda McBroom, who has her own little corner of the singer/songwriter world. I saw her open for Don McLean very many years ago and she was amazing. Would have loved to see you do karaoke, Benay. Gina - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Benay Bubar" To: Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 11:11 PM 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 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 02:19:52 -0800 (PST) From: Helen Mitchell Subject: Re: [lucy-list] karaoke and me Ha ha ha thats funny, Glad u enjoyed. I cant sing to save myself much as I love to all the same, usually in the car whilstb driving. I have done karaoke, as part of a group, when drunk....usually Build me up buttercup or Like a prayer! LOL Pray tell who is molly? anything to do with song for molly? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 13:20:23 -0500 From: "Kristen Myshrall" Subject: [lucy-list] more karaoke.... Hehehe......I too..succumbed to karaoke night last night....after 1 (2, 3 ok more like 5) too many drinks...several of which were long island iced teas (which may i add that in CT they make them wrong...they put coke...WTF?!) I gave in and apparently gave a rousing rendition of You Oughta Know...oh man....we did have my digital camera so i'm sure a slew of drunk pictures will be available once i upload them...maybe...or maybe not...it might not be a pretty picture. Needless to say whenever you actually go up and try to impersonate Alanis Morissette you are destined to spent the rest of the night with your head in the toilet..i swear it's written in a law book somewhere....lovely....24 yr olds shoudl not try to drink like they are 18...we are not! Back to bed...didn't get home til 6.... VERY hungover and needing a shower badly! - -K >From: Benay Bubar >Reply-To: lucy-list@smoe.org >To: lucy-list@smoe.org >Subject: [lucy-list] karaoke and me >Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 02:11:06 -0500 > >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 _________________________________________________________________ Send a QuickGreet with MSN Messenger http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/cdp_games ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 13:22:38 -0500 From: "Kristen Myshrall" Subject: [lucy-list] Who's Molly... Molly is Lucy and Rick's newly adopted baby girl (~10 1/2 months old) from China. They went about 2 weeks ago to pick her up and should be at home with their little girl now! - -K >From: Helen Mitchell >Reply-To: lucy-list@smoe.org >To: lucy-list@smoe.org >Subject: Re: [lucy-list] karaoke and me >Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 02:19:52 -0800 (PST) > >Ha ha ha thats funny, Glad u enjoyed. >I cant sing to save myself much as I love to all the same, usually in the >car whilstb driving. I have done karaoke, as part of a group, when >drunk....usually Build me up buttercup or Like a prayer! LOL >Pray tell who is molly? anything to do with song for molly? >Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard _________________________________________________________________ MSN Messenger with backgrounds, emoticons and more. http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/cdp_customize ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 10:24:59 -0800 (PST) From: Helen Mitchell Subject: Re: [lucy-list] more karaoke.... i find the same that at 23, althought I wasnt much of a go and and drinker til i was 18 or 19, I certainly cant do it like I did then. Although that said, whenever I went out with the satff I worked with last year I was invariable so drunk it wasnt funny, but that was realsing of teacher tensions I swewar!! Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 15:04:43 -0500 From: Benay Bubar Subject: Re: [lucy-list] more karaoke.... Wow, Kristen...little did I know last night was official karaoke night for the Lucy-list (the two of us having done karaoke on the same night is spooky!). As for the impersonating- Alanis-Morissette theory, I don't know...I drank screwdrivers, sang along with a group doing "Isn't It Ironic?", and didn't end up sick...all at the ancient age of almost...gasp...30. Of course, I'm weird...for unknown reasons, though I drink very infrequently, I have quite a high tolerance and always end up feeling pretty much fine, if a little sleepy...though I've also never had a Long Island Iced Tea and am in fact not even quite sure what that is! Anyway, in my limited experience, I am generally an extremely boring drunk (to my perpetual minor disappointment)...so singing karaoke was kind of a breakthrough! But speaking of Alanis, one of my favorite moments of the evening, aside from my star turn, actually came during her song. I guess I could have been hallucinating, but I don't think so...I could swear at one point the lyrics to "Isn't It Ironic?" came up on the screen as "It's like rain on your WEEDING day!" I loved that...a gardener I am not, but rain on your weeding day WOULD probably qualify as ironic! I think we should start a movement to bring Lucy songs to the karaoke world...Turn the Lights Back On could work particularly well... Benay who wishes to assure anyone who may have just joined the list that, despite current appearances, the Lucy-list is really NOT made up solely of drunken karaoke fans...but hey, Lucy's on performance hiatus and there's no new CD until February or March, so we've gotta get through it somehow! ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V5 #223 ******************************* 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