Can you sing?

[elperromagico]

Poll question: Can you sing?

[eyesroll]

1. No. Hell no.

Pretty much any ability that involves my ears -- singing, hearing, balance -- is sub-par. Singing's the worst of the lot.

[Kahuna]

2. I cannot sing. It's really sad considering I come from a very..

talented family. Some family members have actually had brushes with fame. :(

[Screaming Lord Byron]

3. I do a great Elvis Costello.

Well, Elvis Costello eating the embalmed corpse of Neil Finn.

[LiberalVoice]

4. Not to toot my own horn but...

I am one damn good singer.

I suppose its useful considering i'm an actor and it's easier to get parts for musicals that way. So I guess I sorta have to be :P

[Cheswick2.0]

5. What roles have you done?

I'm just nosy.

[LiberalVoice]

9. Too many to remember lol

been doing it sinc eI was 11.

I will say some of my fav's were Hugo from Bye Bye Birde and Jekyll/Hyde in Jekyll & Hyde.

[Cheswick2.0]

12. cool

I have been doing it since about the same age. I am not acting right now and am thinking of going innactive with Equity.

[LiberalVoice]

15. Were you trying to do it as a carreer or...?

Now i'm being nosey. :shrug:

[Cheswick2.0]

20. I did do it as a career

for awhile. Then being a single mother got in the way when I got divorced.

That is why I asked what roles you had done. I was interested to see what type you are and if we had done any of the same shows.

[dolo amber]

6. Really depends on the song...

I can do a mean PJ Harvey, fwiw. :D

[pagerbear]

7. Interesting how many of us sing well

[jpgray]

13. Interesting how many of us say they sing well

:D

[terrya]

17. pager sings very well!

He's got a beautiful voice. I'm so jealous!

[pagerbear]

26. NYC area DUers can hear Pager sing

...Nov. 4 & 5 at a benefit. Details to follow.

I know I can always count on you for an opening, Terry! ;)

[terrya]

35. My pleasure, Pager!

True ear candy, guy. :-)

[Cheswick2.0]

8. I sing well

and I love doing it.

[LiberalVoice]

10. 8 votes for singing well so far!

Someones fibbing...maybe I am lol

[Philostopher]

11. One vote for 'decent,' here.

I'm a good 'part singer,' grew up singing next to my tenor/alto mother in church. My high school choir director loved me, but I don't have what it takes to be a soloist -- voice is strong, but pretty undistinguished by itself.

[dancing kali]

36. You sound like me.

I am a tenor/contralto - with a good warm-up I can sing mezzo. I'm a good choral voice but as soon as I have to do solo work... the voice I can bounce off the back wall of a good sized theatre as an actor - goes about 6 inches from my mouth and dies. Doesn't do that in voice lesson. Sigh, guess I'll never sing Carmen.

[terrya]

14. I scare the children, dogs, cats and people in general when I sing.

[Magrittes Pipe]

16. I sing like a hippopotamus having an orgasm.

[jpgray]

19. With mud all over the place and a Time Life photographer nearby? (nt)

[pagerbear]

27. You would think the hippo wouldn't be thinking of singing

...at that moment.

Unless it's "Ah sweet mysery of life, at last I've found you...."

[Magrittes Pipe]

31. He usually sings Daland.

Of course, Hippos don't sing much non-Wagner stuff very well.

[pagerbear]

33. Ich lache laut!

[TX-RAT]

18. Only in the shower.

When i sing Red Headed Stranger.

[OldEurope]

21. voted for decent.

Not really good enough for the public, but ...ok.
I remember a time, when my son was about 16 months or so. At that time he reclaimed a new song every second evening, or he would not sleep. I recalled every little part of any song I ever heard. Maybe even songs I did not hear...

:D

[BlueJazz]

22. Humbug!..You're all a bunch of no-talent hacks.

(Cackle)

[Beware the Beast Man]

23. I'm a baritone, but I do a mean falsetto.

My in-the-car version of "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, however, sounds like a hyena being castrated.

[underpants]

24. Lots of people tell me I have QUITE the voice

:shrug:

[pagerbear]

28. Sounds like an un-compliment I got at an audition

...after singing a very difficult aria: "My! That was quite an undertaking!"

[dancing kali]

37. Ouch.

Were they playing with their coffee cups and pencils too? Poor Bear! That was a horrible thing to say. Auditions are hell. What aria did you sing? My dream is someday to sing "Che Faro Senza Eurydice" for an audition and just blow them away.

[pagerbear]

39. Lindoro's aria from Italiana in Algieri

It's hard as all get-out!

I have the French version of Che farò senza Euridice in the tenor key--it's a killer!

[dancing kali]

40. That's one I don't recognize...

I'll have to keep an ear out for it. Wish I could hear you sing it.

[pagerbear]

41. Oh, I can't sing it any more!

It was a little bit beyond me then.

[underpants]

38. No My mother and wife told it to me

I mean come on you can't get more objective than that!

Seriously I have been told that I am a pretty good singer. :shrug: I guess all those years singing in the car paid off.

[jukes]

25. sing to my cats freq

roomie & other humans ask me to a capella for them.

[flvegan]

29. I'm more of a rapper...word to your mutha.

I kill me.

[mrboba1]

30. I can sing.

It's just that no one else wants to hear it...

:shrug:

[Spiffarino]

32. I sing bluegrass and old-time

Does that really count as singing? If so, I'm just OK.

[Kat45]

34. I can't sing at all, and I wish I could.

You know when you have a song in your head and can't remember the name, then you try to hum it to someone (who you know would know it) to find out what it is, but it's so bad that it's totally unrecognizable? That's me. I love music and used to write about it, so I've had a lot of friends who're musicians and really good singers. I would have loved to have fronted a rock band if I could sing.

Bums me out that I can't sing; I felt like everybody else in the world can sing except me. (I don't mean everyone could be up on stage, but I get the impression most people can at least carry a tune, which I can't.)