[Dixielandjazz] Vocalists

[Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis]

> Yeah Larry but . . . . How were they on the "Auditioning couch"???
>
> --Bob Ringwald

Bob just take out the unnecessary words ----

We held auditions .... then a young woman walked in........ and was a looker 
on top of it..... She ..... screwed ..... and was very professional.

Is that better?
Larry
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert S. Ringwald" <robert at ringwald.com>
To: "Larry Walton" <larrys.bands at charter.net>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 2:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Vocalists


> 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
>
>
>
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