Re:Subject: [Harp-L] LD Miller info. & thanks and request for song suggestions

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Nancy Oeswein writes of LD Miller (snipped):

SO  THE BIG TOUGH QUESTION:  If you had only 90 seconds to show off  range
and variety as well as a little vocals on the #1 show in  America right
now, what song would you choose?   
Thanks.  Nancy O.




Hi Nancy:
 
Because the audience for these shows seem to revert back to their  childhood 
and love it when a kid shows he or  she can perform an old standard from long 
before they were  born...how about:
 
A little Elvis......"Are you Lonesome Tonight"....something   America would 
recognize....(might just do the trick)
  :)
 
or 'Summertime" 
 
Or Billie Holiday's "God Bless the Child"  (kind of  apropos)
 
My personal taste would be something from  60's R&B....Otis  Redding's "Try a 
Little Tenderness"...
 
or Brooke Benton's "Rainy Night in Georgia". 
 
.....But there might be something to be said about doing a completely  
current song along the lines of "You're Beautiful"...by the  British singer James 
Blunt.  It isn't Blues, but the  audience would know the song.  I doubt the 
public at large  knows or cares about the old Blues masters....and the purpose is 
to get  them behind LD.  So bring them something they recognize and can sing  
along with.
 
 
Elizabeth