• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Excuse me, but I got an ovation doing karaoke twice in two different places.

    It’s the only two times outside of high school plays anyone ever clapped for me, so I appreciated it.

    That said, I used to do VO work and I have (or maybe had at this point, I’m way out of practice) a knack for doing impersonations, including musical ones. The first time I did Minnie the Moocher with a passable Cab Calloway, and the second time I did Space Oddity doing a damn perfect Bowie if I do say so myself.

    I only got paid to sing once though. And it wasn’t to sing well.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq3tVrTFcKk

    Also, that show never made it to TV, so it only exists on YouTube. They were really nice guys though. (I only did the singing, not the puppetry, and I never met the kid.)

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        8 months ago

        No one has in quite a while. I haven’t done it since my daughter was born. At first because I had no time and later because I’m just not into going to bars anymore. So it’s been a good 13 years. And even back then I didn’t exactly do it every weekend.

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          8 months ago

          FWIW, I once almost got offered an album deal.

          The CIA ultimately went with crying babies because they didn’t have to pay them.

          It’s not how I go looking for a note. It’s not even how I find the wrong note…. It’s how I find all the notes.

          So everyone who’s not heard me sing. Your welcome .