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...think I'll go with My Funny Valentine, then decide I don't want the single piece in my repertoire to sound sad. Well, that, and the chords are too hard. I settle on one of my favorite Sinatra songs, Rodgers and Hart's The Lady Is a Tramp. It's lighthearted, recognizable and such a crowd pleaser that I may have to master another tune because that one calls for encores! Plus, I agree with the lyrics: much of California is cold and damp...
...think I'll go with My Funny Valentine, then decide I don't want the single piece in my repertoire to sound sad. Well, that, and the chords are too hard. I settle on one of my favorite Sinatra songs, Rodgers and Hart's The Lady Is a Tramp. It's lighthearted, recognizable and such a crowd pleaser that I may have to master another tune because that one calls for encores! Plus, I agree with the lyrics: much of California is cold and damp...
Lucky for him, it's my friend Geoff's birthday. "Have I got a present for you!" I say, putting the phone by the keyboard and eking out The Lady Is a Tramp. My first public performance: only 14 mistakes, tops! "That was--good," Geoff tells me, "but maybe it's just a little--I don't know--slow...
...familiar with only the third-person Sinatra version of The Lady Is a Tramp, so I am surprised to learn that Lorenz Hart's original lyrics are in the first person. So when this lady learns to play it, it will have an autobiographical ring of truth. After all, I too eschew crap games with barons and earls...
...only trampolining televised in the U.S. is on The Man Show, which has a feature called "Girls on Trampolines" that is highly competitive in a very un-Olympic sort of way. Other than The Man Show's hosts, it's not easy to find hard-core tramp fans. Even Robert Null, Parilla's coach, offers a parsed plug. "I think after this Olympics, more kids will want to do it," he says. "I mean, it's one more way to get to the Olympics...