The Song List Grows..and grows

November 12, 2008


 

 My trio and I are determined to never be stumped by a request.

 

 

As Time Goes By    C

A Train   Bb

After You’ve Gone  C

A Foggy  Day    Db

All of Me   C

All or Nothing at all  Em

Be Meir Bis Du Eb

Black Coffee  G

Body and Soul   Ab

Blue Skies  Am

But Beautiful   Ab

Boulevard of Broken Dreams  Em

Best is Yet to Come   E

Can’t Take That away from Me  G

Can’t Take that Away  G

Crazy he calls me  C

Cheek to Cheek   G

Don’t Explain

Don’t Worry Bout Me  C

Fascinating Rhythm   D

Funny Valentine  C

Give my Regards to Broadway  Eb

I get a Kick out of You  G

Fever   Cm

It’s Don’t Mean a Thing   Bb

I Can’t give you Anything but Love  Eb

I Love Paris   C

I Want to Be Happy  Eb

Get Happy  Ab

Let’ Get Away from it All   F

Lover Man   D

More than you Know

My Buddy  Bb

Making Whoopie   G

My Kind of Trouble is You   F#

New York, New York  Eb

Pennies from Heaven   C

Route 66   G

Smoke Gets in your Eyes  A

Stormy Weather   D

Summertime  Bb

Satin Doll  C

Sing, Sing, Sing   Em

Side by Side  G

Slow Boat to China

The Man I Love  G

Tomorrow   Eb

Night and Day    E

Moon River   D

Lazy Afternoon G

Strangers in the Night  A

Love and Marriage   Eb

Let’s Get Lost  Dmaj

Summer Wind   E

All or Nothing at All  Em

Embraceable You   Bb

Just in Time   Bb

My Way  B

Nobody does it Better  F

Don’t Get Around Much anymore   Bb

Who Can I Turn To?  Bb

Where or When  C

 

 

Very good year  C

Whiskey Bar   Dm

More  Db

Shadow of your Smile  Bb

Wee Small Hours  Ab

Luck be a Lady   F

Witchcraft  D

Second Time Around

A tisket, A Tasket  G

Am I blue   Bb

Beyond the Sea  C

Blues Skies  Bb

But Beautiful   Ab

Cry me a River

Fine and Mellow   F

Good Morning Heartache   Db

How Long has This been Going On

I’ll be Seeing You  C

I should care  Eb

My Buddy  Bb

Sentimental Journey C

Slow Boat to China   G

Summertime  Bb

Stormy Weather  D

That’s All  F

Where or When

On a Clear Day  Emaj7

Tuxedo Junction  Eb

Pennies from Heaven  Eb

Honeysuckle Rose   G

In the Mood   F

Cheek to Cheek  G

Bill Bailey   Eb

Do Nothing till you Hear from Me

Cry me a River

Funny Valentine  C

I’m Always Chasing Rainbows

Smoke Gets in your Eyes Ab

Fever  Cm

Night and Day  E

Juke Box Saturday Night

Hello Dolly   G

I Could have Danced all Night  D

Climb Every Mountain  Bb

Make Someone Happy  C

Moonlight in Vermont

Once in a While  C

Let’s get Away from it All  F

Me and my Gin

One Meatball

It Don’t Mean a Thing

Ain’t Misbehavin   G

That Old Feeling  C

Something Stupid   Bb

Strangers in the Night   A

Over the Rainbow

My Favorite Things  Bbm

But Beautiful   Bb

Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend   C

Regards to Broadway    Eb

A Taste of Honey   Db

New York State of Mind   Ab

Pennies from Heaven   C

People will say we’re in love  Bb

Satin Doll  C

Till There was You  Bb

Unforgettable  F

Kick out of you   G

I’m all Smiles

Whiskey and Gin  Bb

Cement Mixer   C

Dancing on the Ceiling

The Parties Over

Chattanooga Choo Choo

When the Saints come Marching    C

When you Wish Upon a Star

Why Don’t you Do Right?

Sleepin Bee  B

That Old Feeling  C

When Sunny Gets Blue

Who can I Turn To

Deep Purple  G

It was a Very Good Year   Ab

I Got it Bad and That Ain’t Good

Is you or Is you Not my Baby

Just One of those Things

Old Devil Moon

Polka Dots and Moonbeams

Swing Low Sweet Chariot   B

Just you, Just me

How High the Moon  B

Im a fool to Want You

You’re Nobody till Somebody Loves you

Hit the Road to Dreamland

Until the Real Thing Comes Along

The Good Life

I Wanna be Around

Smile

Up a Lazy River

Gimme A Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer

I’ve been working on the railroad

Always

I’ll never be the same   Eb

I’m All Smiles

Deep Purple  G

I Believe in You

Running Wild

Another Opening, Another Show

I Can’t stop Loving You  G

Nevertheless, I’m in Love with You

Zing, went the strings  C

Spring is Here  Db

A Good Man is Hard to Find

After the Ball is Over

Here’s that Rainy Day

Hello Ma Baby    C

Don’t Go to Strangers

Rawhide   A

Im Beginning to See the Light   F

You’d be So Nice to Come Home To   Eb

Johnny One Note

Keepin out of Mischief Now

I Don’t Know Enough About You  Bb

Let the Good Times Roll

Good Morning Heartache  Db

I’ve Written a Letter to Daddy  F

Pizza Every Night   F minor

I should Care   Eb

Get Happy

Happiness is Just a Thing Called Joe

Big Nobody

La Vie En Rose   C

Nobodies Sweetheart Now   Bb

New York State of Mind   Ab

I’ll Never be the Same   Eb

Stout Hearted Men

 

SHOW BIZ WORLD LEADERS CONFUSED

May 7, 2008

ant-woman.JPGimg_0225.JPGWhy must I be pigeon-holed by Show Biz middle management? I’m an actress, okay? I can play Doris Duke or Jesus, the carpenter. I am perfectly comfortable in those roles and many, many others which I cannot reveal due to contractual agreements. I am building a bomb shelter in Vermont. I am also hob-nobbing with the beautiful people in Newport. I am not singing.  I don’t want to ruin my fun with nightclub clientele who shove wet napkins in my hand or tip-jar, with a song request/demand. The song is written in ink, the ink soaks through the napkin and on my hands. I itch my nose. Ink on my nose. I scratch my crotch. Ink on my cabaret gown. The song? New York, New York. Fly me To The Moon or Memories. period. that’s it. I like not singing New York, New York. I like not taking requests. I like not wearing long dresses or Marlene Dietrich garb. Just for a few more months. A few more hob-nobs. Another room on the bomb shelter. What’s the hurry now that I’ve finally recognized my “type” — grandma.  

laurel casey 2007

April 15, 2008


April 1, 2008

Fifty Five and Still ALIVE

Performance Art Piece at Salvation Cafe, April 1st, Newport, RI

March 27, 2008

me.JPGI will be dragging a bowling ball on a chain wrapped around my ankle and wearing handcuffs. Otherwise, I intend to make appropriate small talk with party goers celebrating the first edition of a new magazine featuring one of my stories. I am honored to be included in the first edition of the Newpy News, and look forward to working with the editors on future issues. The bowling ball and handcuffs signify my mental state at the moment, and the confinement of said equipment will provoke a spontaneous and musically uplifting performance installation without signifigance although I will be suggesting that I am against slavery and the limitations of my First Amendment rights. Yes, it’s a powerful and physically challenging endeavor, as I recreate the most intricate dance sequences from “West Side Story.” andy-andy-andy-and-andy.JPGThe subtexts of both musical and magazine, being one in the same, will allow both audience participation and chanting. After singing “Somewhere” I will be reading from my latest vignette based on information collected during my Washington D.C. hotel visit with a Congressional Aide. He, may I add, is Hispanic and helped me to better understand reignited resentments of minorities in the United States. My performance installation, the first in a series of ten, will make absolutely no sense until, after three drinks, I write an essay explaining it in an application for an arts grant. The comedic value of this piece cannot be overstated.