I'm afraid I have some bad news, part 2

Entry for September 11, 2008 I'm afraid I have some bad news part 2

More singers who show why those wanna be's on American Idol shouldn't even get on stage...

Jim Croce
Operator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2iS8XctJKo
time in a bottle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovku1oRuidE
Photographs and memories
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJgDGTyOxq0
I'll have to say I love you in a song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFT34H1MfE8
These dreams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZsusLw0XgM

Karen Carpenter - I cried so hard when she died...
Superstar (LOVE the scene in Tommy boy!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWkOryYF6CI
Rainy days and Mondays
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPmbT5XC-q0
Let me be the one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBtVUSIcAjM
Only yesterday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQmbHGwMcCo
Yesterday once more (they still make me smile...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEOGjJe5OLg
All you get from love is a love song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw_1iUh72hY

Pat Benatar (she had trained as an opera singer...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82jmm4leHOo
Fire and ice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnpUKf--VmA
We belong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtuyYAL-nNY

Tony Braxton (and she's such an itty bitty thing, then you hear her and go wow! And Man she makes some Smoking vids!)
Unbreak my heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mK3N72UlNc
You're making me high
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggULcgl8V8w
How could an angel break my heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMDJHTLU9qk
I don't want to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSzu1NYmruc
Please
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtH6ruS-OaU

Smoky Robinson
Ooo Baby baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uThnUmWRCCs
Cruisin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwiwEdTZ-7c
Here I go again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcoklcPk5JM
Baby come close
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNNCNCuCfv0

Yvonne Elliman - Another lost treasure. amazing voice, sexy, and from Hawaii...
I don't know how to love him
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn7exBrCiUI
Can't find my way home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDFRVWMA8wY
If I can't have you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76uNR9OUsL4

Diana Ross
Do you know
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P92fGeYS_Mw
Baby love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eYAilmqe9w
You keep me hanging on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xphbrcUEi10
Love child
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rntxzyRt9UQ
My world is empty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgHTRPKoxjs
Where did our love go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhw2ZyWQ7sM

Linda Ronstadt -sexy, and an amazing voice. Had/have the biggest crush on her. And, the Eagles were once her band....
Long long time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0qm8nq8RcA
Desperado
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djP8zIwCp3I
You're no good (love that babydoll minidress)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr9vKWLgZzo
Oooo baby baby (that face, sigh)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtcRj1JBx0M
for a while now, she's been doing standards, such a perfect voice for these songs...and I love these songs and this type of music.
Let those American Idol wannabe's try this!
I've got a crush on you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mgS-Wm9WvA
Someone to watch over me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3TyHUZ3dQg
Lover Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRcgNYCOK2k
Goodbye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNzwTglPzns
Dream (it gets to the song in about a minute...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzr9Lho6dvI

Dana Owens - better known as Queen Latifah, she put out a standards album a while back, under Dana Owens, amazing voice. And so stunning.
Simply beautiful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB7ADdF6x64
Lush life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMoelYEqgYQ
California Dreaming
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3f7JmlpcCs
Close your eyes (sly's song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iGwwck8S-U
Hello stranger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcODhSP36yQ
I put a spell on you (Love this song, and hers is one of my fave versions)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2CKHFC5mBw

George Michael
Freedom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTugeLRZ6GI
Father figure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0z2TWkwD6M
I can't make you love me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfd7a1hEJf0
Don't let the sun go down on me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtZB4jluIO4
Kissing a fool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTowiDF-KbQ
You have been loved
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaDGXXF5Ve0

Corrine Bailey Rae
Like a star
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e19eZJX8QHY
Put your records on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVNK_VDQY8I
Till it happens to you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jZvRMbNv74
I'd like to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFvw59QPdtM

Sade
The sweetest taboo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwuUuvZ4dAo
Smooth operator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnNQwQY_pHE
Jezebel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlNNm0q23VE
Please send me someone to love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdxOZAvgiFU

so, like I said in part 1,

Those wanna be American Idols, aren't even close.
Angie
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joe m…
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Bad news is right. For the record business, and the consumer. Talent, and mastery of your instrument is no longer required. What passes for music these days makes me sick. I haven't listened to the radio in years. The only stations playing anything worth listening to anymore are the oldies stations.
Friday September 12, 2008 - 06:54pm (CDT) Remove Comment
[dele…
Hey Joe...I bet you've mastered your "instrument!" BAH HAA HAA HA HAAAAAABut seriously, I understand how you feel, Joe. But not listening to any of it is cutting yourself off from some really good songs. For instance, you are Huge Beatles fan, and don't usually like the covers of their albums. But, you did like the few that I posted on my old blog that were just covers. I know, because you have one posted somewhere yourself...I think on your other web page. Anyway, don't cut your nose off to spite your face. I'm sure if you tried you would find something new out there that you would like. Until then, I guess you'll just have to stick with mastering your own instrument! BAHH AHHA HAAAHAAA(gawd..sorry though. my sense of humor lately has been quite on the juvenile side!)Somebody!! SLAP ME!!!Love,Sly
Monday September 15, 2008 - 05:48pm (PDT) Remove Comment
[dele…
ps...i Love Operator! all i've listened to so far.kiss