Everybody's got their life to live

[raybear]

Last night's theme was Songs I've Never Sung Before

1. It Don't Matter to Me -- Bread
2. Common People -- Pulp
3. With You I'm Born Again -- Billy Preston and Syreeta [duet with vfc]
4. A Little More Love -- Olivia Newton John
5. The Difficult Kind -- Sheryl Crow [duet with iamthesphinx]
6. Touch Me In the Morning -- Diana Ross
7. After All -- Cher and Peter Cetera [duet with vfc]

I also jumped on stage and helped a stranger sing Toto's Africa as well as crashing iamthesphinx's version of Kelly Clarkson's Walk Away.

The Diana Ross one was a little rough because it was in some weird key I couldn't follow and its not like its an easy song in general. I should have just ignored the backing track and sang the version in my head -- that's actually what I do with "Since U Been Gone". But singing that Olivia Newton John song was a dream come true. Ronnie the KJ was chatting with us occasionally and came up and said, hey, I have my personal collection here so if there's something you don't see, ask. And I immediately asked about ONJ. And he had it. And now I want to sing it every time I'm there.

Comments

[magdalene1.livejournal.com]

I am sad I missed it. I was thinking of you, but friend is leaving town and I had to suck up all the time with her I can.

[tracijean.livejournal.com]

Common People! That sounds like fun.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

it was fun. and nicely in my vocal range. except there was a 30 second instrumental which i used to not mind in karaoke because i would use that time to light up and smoke on stage, but now there's no smoking! so i stand and tap my foot and play with the microphone stand.

[thebrownhornet.livejournal.com]

No smoking? Word?

[raybear.livejournal.com]

only by the bar -- not anywhere near the stage (because that is the "restaurant" portion of the place).

[sharkysmachine.livejournal.com]

I have a lot of trouble with Elton John for the reason you mentioned about Ms. Ross.

How did "With you I'm born again" go? I've wanted to sing that (Billy Preston's part) before.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

you know....it was a little rough, only because the karaoke version is hard to follow because of lack of clarity in which part was which. i think it would work better to just sing it as a solo. that's what Babs would do.

[sharkysmachine.livejournal.com]

Babs or Marilyn McCoo!

Barbie and I tried I just can't stop loving you, which was a disaster!

We both wanted to be Michael!!!

after all

[louche.livejournal.com]

haha. i just put that as the last song on a mix cd for jp. oh man it woulda been great to see you do it!!

sorry i couldn't make it... i was knee deep in a photo shoot last night that lasted till 100am. ow. 10 people. i hope to make it next time!

[penpusher.livejournal.com]

Too bad there's no karaoke bar like 7Bamboo, where you can perform live on internet streaming video, the way apriljoy does did!

You could bring a vidcam to the proceedings and treat us all to a snippet!

And now, because you need to see it: Kelly Clarkson Drunk At A Rock Show.

[nineinchlovely.livejournal.com]

Classic. The Kelly Clarkson clip is great, a little skeevy feel to the clip but damn can she sing.

[trooper6.livejournal.com]

Kelly can really sing...and her boyfriend? The Yellowcard guy? Not so interesting. And the Metal Skool? Skeevy.

[trooper6.livejournal.com]

Oh...I love that song "A Little More Love" Rock on you that you got to sing it...

Have you gotten Olivia Newton-John's Video Gold DVDs (part 1 and 2) yet? You should if you haven't!

[sharkysmachine.livejournal.com]

Livin' in desperate times and Tied Up are the best ONJ videos ever!

[trooper6.livejournal.com]

Those are awesome...but I'll always have a soft spot for Landslide...that is an awesome video! In her video special that was aired in the late 80s. It was for the album Rumour (which is great)...but it was also a travelogue for Austrailia...there were some awesome video there...ONJ, social commentary and beautiful vistas of Australia...what more could a person want?

[sharkysmachine.livejournal.com]

landside is brilliant! What are you thoughts on Carried Away?

I loved "The Rumour"!!!

[sharkysmachine.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjEGpasQxG8

[unscrambled.livejournal.com]

"Common People" is a powerful choice not only because it's a karaoke classic (in my brain, meaning I've sung it before) but also because Jarvis Cocker kind of loses it in the end of the song, which is perfect for you, because I feel like you really like to sing songs where It All Gets A Little Unhinged.

As an aside, I would like to make a mix of songs where the singer totally loses it. Marvin Gaye's "You" is the thing that is immediately coming to mind.

Do you think that the kj has the Pogues? Because, if yes, I will drag you (or someone) onstage for "Fairytale of New York." If you don't know that song, you'd better get to practicing. I'll lend you the tape. You can even sing the Shane McGowan (sp?) part.

I could have been someone.....Well so could anyone.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

I love Fairytale in New York and would gladly sing it. When I have a spot of money again, I will finally order some custom-made karaoke CDs or rarer songs and I will look for it.

And yes, I definitely love the song where they lose it a little. Or a lot. Mostly a lot.