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I am a new poster, but this subject is near and dear to my heart.

I, like other ladies on this thread, am drawn to the uber-fabulous vocal stylings of Mr. Kenny Rogers.  My favorite is "Lady."  (oh and I BRING IT!)

It puzzles people because I am a girl, and a girly girl at that, and not a gay girl (not that there's anything wrong with that.)  So it entertains me, as well as others, and I definitely think Kenny would want it that way.

So thank you Kenny Rogers.  I believe in your song.  I believe.

I have sung songs by many male artists such as :Stryper, Rod Stewart, Steve Perry, Journey, Kenny Loggins, Air Supply, Survivor, Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods, Enrique Iglesias, Colin Raye, Ray Boltz, and REO Speedwagon. I like to sing a variety if you couldn't tell.    Have a great evening - Tonya

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Kenny Rogers is one I can sing on original key.  

Remeinds me, I remember trying to find a girl in the bar to sing the female part of "Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer", but nobody knew it.    

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A crying shame, sir.  Rest assured, I feel your pain.

I've done Karen Carpenter, Britney Spears, and Shania Twain to name just a few.

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Gigi and I have done Up Where We Belong. She sings the Joe Cocker part and I sing the Jennifer Warnes part.

Hi Morgan.

I just subbed REM's Man on the Moon

Chuckles

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"Be who you are and say what you feel... Because those that matter... Don't mind...And those that mind... Don't matter."

I would pay money to see that!

Hello everyone,
First time posting here...

The one girl song I do is "Solitaire" by Laura Branigan....

Only thing is I need to quit smoking Black and Mild cigars for a month and then I can do it...  

Otherwise my voice cracks...

I sung Kerosene by Miranda Lambert the other night.  The singer had left and I just started into it, and it was sounding good, so I kept on with it, and nailed it.  :)

I would never have thought to hear a guy sing that, but I bet it actually WOULD make a great song for a guy. I'd like to hear it:)

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♥ Laugh your heart out, dance in the rain. Cherish the memories, ignore the pain. Love and learn, forget and forgive. Because you only have one life to live. ♥

I'll reserve two VIP tickets at the door for you to my next show.  :)

And you live WHERE? Cause if it involves long distances (ie- plane rides)..... I'll settle for a video via email:) Charmin can't do airplanes. Only 2 things will make me ever get on one: the first is (bleep.. edited due to confidential info), the other is if my little bro decides to move back- promised him I'd personally fly out there and drive his Uhaul back. (cause i miss him)

Nah, really, like I said earlier- wouldn't have thought of it, but now that you say so.... I think some men could really do a great job on that song. Can't ya just SUB it in the showcase?

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♥ Laugh your heart out, dance in the rain. Cherish the memories, ignore the pain. Love and learn, forget and forgive. Because you only have one life to live. ♥

I'd say mine are about 1/2 girls' songs and 1/2 guys' songs.  (That's just a rough guesstimate.)  I do change the words if necessary, or sing some of the lines an octave higher.  For me, it doesn't matter if it's a girls' or guys' song.  What matters is whether THIS girl thinks she can make the song work.

For instance, one song I sang last night was "Der Kommissar" by After the Fire.  Gosh, I love that song!  And I'd never heard anyone sing it for karaoke, so I decided to try it.  Anyway, I changed lines like "when she rides with the others in the subway..."  to "when he rides with the others in the subway...".


(Edited to say: Back doing karaoke now; have been singing this song again. Earlier this week, I tried singing it the way I described here, changing some of the pronouns, and I flubbed it (although I don't think anyone noticed), so I've just been singing the regular words, at least for now. I STILL want to know if anyone else here has sung this! End of updated paragraph; back to older message.)


 As a straight female, I decided since this person is described as being "hot" ("I knew that she was hot"), it should probably be someone of the opposite sex.  However, I figured that the "kommissar" in the song could still be male, so I didn't change the words on the choruses.  

Am I making sense?   Or should I say:  Alles klar?    

(BTW, have any of the rest of you guys or girls ever sung that?)

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I now do so many songs that I can't accuse anyone of "stealing my song". But I do accuse my wife, who has now stolen two of mine! And bizarre ones, too -- "Folsom Prison Blues" and "Are We In Trouble Now".

I don't mess with that!  For one thing, because of the "chipmunk" effect in the bgv's.  Another reason is that once I was at a karaoke place and the kj had changed the key for the person ahead of me, and then forgot to change it back--so my song started out in the wrong key!  I just said, "Whoa, wait a minute--what key are we in?" and he realized what happened and changed it back.  So I don't have them change the key for me, because I don't want to throw anyone off.

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