Voice Virtuosos Gifts

Natalie Merchant

"The 'Sing Only in the Shower' Community Chorus"

'We're out of earshot now, so you can drop the phoney, Oxbridge accent.'

'Either you do or you don't - there isn't any 'cooling-off' period!'

Gymnasts falling off the winners pedestal.

The Work-from-Home-Polka

War Heros Variety Night (playing a tune on his medals).

I'm a songbird. He's my lyricist.

Does "worldly goods" include intellectual property?

"Can you teach me to really bark? I only seem to be able to yap..."

It's more than a mike!

"Dad, is there a word that contains all the vowels?"

'This is all without rhyme or reason.'

'I'm a voice over artist.'

"I don't like the tone of your voice. Mind if I tweak it a bit?"

". . . and do you, John, give up your smug air of bemused detachment for the demands of marriage?"

Leonard Cohen

"...and are you, Jessica, committed to this bit?"

"Now this is a Francis Ford Coppola. We still haven't been here quite long enough to be drinkable ourselves."

Alexander Pope

Barbara Streisand

'I'm sorry, Sally, you can't buy a vowel.'

"It took years of vocal training, but I now have a vocal range from squeaky right down to tenor..."

Recording Studio

Dame Edna Sitwell

Violin Mutes

'Wait a minute -- aren't you going to read me my rights?'

Pianist takes his bow whilst the singer carries on singing.

'...Love, honor, cherish, and be careful what you wish for.'

"I was kind of hoping for 'new voices' who'd also sung before."

Sarah Vaughan

"Instead of careful interpretation of the prose, maybe try pronouncing even the most basic words like an insane person?"

'My best attribute? That would be my glottal stop.'

Focoso - to sing with fire and passion.

"But we ARE practising, Mum."