Karaoke anyone?

TC Byrd was up too late last night over at Hattie's Blog and tossed me the ball (which she got from Gwen at Gwen's Petty, Judgmental, Evil Thoughts) on this goofy 'Fantasy Karaoke' meme. All there is to it is to name the song you wish you could sing at a karaoke bar but so far don't have the guts to do it.

That would be all of them, I'm afraid. It's not that I don't have the guts, but I just am a totally lame-ass singer, and I can't remember lyrics, and I can never quite see the words on the teleprompter screen. I just don't have this kind of fantasy. Ever.

I confess I've never been to a karaoke bar, although we did once bring a karaoke machine into the radio studio during a fundraising drive and I did participate in the "call in your pledge right now or we'll sing 'McArthur Park' all the way through" episode. But I didn't sing; I played air tambourine or something. If there was anyone still listening they did not call for fear of being made to sing on the air. We had to sing it.

That was not my fantasy though. And I had much better luck fundraising-wise when I threatened to play Side 2 of "Hammered Dulcimer Holiday Classics" if nobody called. I got lots of pledges. Then about an hour later someone called and said she would pledge a whole pile of money but only if I played said side in its entirety.

You win some, you lose some.

OK, maybe I'd do 'Proud Mary,' or that one about 'Jeremiah was a bullfrog,' which we used to play on the jukebox and get up on the stage above the dining room and lipsynch to at my friend's dad's restaurant. With choreography. When I was in like second grade.

But I'll only do it if you don't call in your pledge right now.