La donna e mobile Rigoletto

La donna e mobile | Day 283

La donna e mobile, I’ve done it before, I think, but I was in such good voice and the song has been on my mind lately, I decided to do it again. La donna e mobile, one of the most famous Tenor Arias around, was one of the first songs […]Read more »

Hold On Kansas

“Hold On” by Kansas | Day 282

“Hold On”, a song by Kansas on day 282 has shown me how I want to do things and how this site / blog will change after this under the overpass thing is done. “Hold On” is a song I’ve done a few times in church.  I knew the tune […]Read more »

Ray Charles I Got A Woman

I Got A Woman | Day 281

I Got A Woman, a Ray Charles song, has it’s roots in an old Gospel tune. Funny how that works. I Got A Woman is a song that I heard first on the movie “Mr. Holland’s Opus”. I thought that it was Ray Charles singing the song when I heard […]Read more »

Claudio Monteverdi Lasciatemi morire

Lasciatemi morire | Day 280

Lasciatemi morire, a song by Claudio Monteverdi, could be considered, by some, to be the very first emo song as the title translates “Let me die”. Lasciatemi morire was one of the first Italian songs I ever learned in college. Jeff Nolte, my second voice teacher, taught me that when […]Read more »