Blog 806 – 10.26.2017

Home

Home is a subject that I write about often for it is a concept, a person, a place that I have devoted as many of you a lot of thought to. One of my favorite songs by the same name, “Home”, was recorded by Michael Buble and I sing it every chance I get. I am a karaoke singer and because I am such an early riser to write and post this blog I have not for some time now gotten to sing to an audience. The best way bar none (and most karaoke singing is done in bars) to improve one’s voice and delivery is to practice and to perform. And that requires an audience.

Some years ago I took my karaoke machine to a Christmas gathering of family in my home town of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Due to car trouble along the way from Houston, my teenaged son (at the time) and I were quite late arriving. But several family members lingered to see and spend time with us. We felt like honored guests and in the course of the evening I sang “Home.” My brother was even impressed by that one. Robert has alway had the stronger, finer voice, still does. I can still hear him singing in my head, “Ten Thousand Angels” and “My Cup Runneth Over With Love.” But all my practice singing with my karaoke machine and performing karaoke in a few bars had improved my voice enough to impress my hard to impress brother. Oh, and I know I have a ways to go to be able to sing like Josh Groban or Celine Dionne but hey what I lack in talent I will make up for in determination and feeling. My favorite singers are what I call “soul singers” or “lounge singers” their voices express that they are “carrying a torch” as one of the greatest, Frank Sinatra, sings in “One For My Baby”:

“This torch that I’ve found

It’s gotta be drown

Or it soon might explode

Make it one for my Baby

And one more for the road.”

Michael Buble’s style is that of a Sinatra, a crooner. And this mockingbird loves copying the greats. I hope you enjoy my rendition of “Home.”

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5UGucaz8iwNOVZIRTkzWlJCeEE

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White