[Dixielandjazz] Vocalists

[Robert S. Ringwald]

Larry Walton wrote:

 > When I was a lot younger we were looking for a singer and we put an ad in
> the paper and sent word through a friend who was a secretary at the local
> university music dept.
>
> We were deluged with women who wanted to give it a go.  It was a lot like
> the tryouts for Idol.  The problems that they had were:
>
> 1. no experience singing with a mike.
> 2. had sung with records
> 3. never sung with a band
> 4. couldn't read music
> 5. didn't bring charts they could do.
> 6. Didn't know what key they sung in.
> 7. didn't know any of our tunes
> 8. bad voice quality
> 9. couldn't sing in tune.
(snip)

Yeah Larry but . . . . How were they on the "Auditioning couch"???

--Bob Ringwald