This week’s theme selections are in honor of Nancy and her new wheels:

Prince – Little Red Corvette

Sheila E. – The Glamorous Life

Don Papillon – Corvette, Cadillac, Pickup Truck

Klymaxx – Meeting in the Ladies Room

Janet Jackson – Nasty

Divinyls – I Touch Myself

Bruce Springsteen – Secret Garden

Grateful Dead – Mama Tried

Junior Walker & The All Stars – Shotgun

And for the octogenarians and incontinent:

 

JABBERWOCKY

Lewis Carroll

(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872) `Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought —
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

In honor of JZ’s Marathon efforts, this week’s theme is running.  Since no one has taken advantage of the karaoke offerings yet, I’m not supplying the links to the lyrics because there are too many theme songs, and I do have a life … ok I don’t have a life, but I have to go visit my mom and haven’t taken a shower yet.  If you really want the lyrics, place a request in the comments or on the forum.  I will not respond to e mails…..

Velvet Underground – Run Run Run

Springsteen – Born to Run

Jackson Browne’s – Running on Empty

Dion and the Belmonts – Runaround Sue

Del Shannon – Runaway

Sweet -Fox on the Run

Creedence Clearwater Revival – Run Through the Jungle

Pink Floyd – Run Like Hell

Steve Miller Band – Take the Money and Run

Rolling Stones – Before They Make Me Run

The Notorious B.I.G. – Running Your Mouth

Yes – Long Distance Runaround

Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Come on Eileen

Run-DMC – Walk This Way

Eminem – Rabbit Run

Grateful Dead – We Can Run (obscure Brent Mydland song, but they were mostly too wasted to run).

Taking a queue from the title of this tournament, this week’s theme is brotherhood, harmony, unity – call it what you will.

Jesse Colin Young’s Get Together

War’s Why Can’t We Be Friends?

Paul McCartney’s Ebony and Ivory 

Bette Midler’s Friends

And other songs:

Monkees/Neil Diamond’s I’m a Believer

Adam Sandler’s At a Medium Pace

Bruce Springsteen’s Thunder Road

Grateful Dead’s Eyes of the World

And, for the octogenarian set, Keats’ Ode to Autumn

Good luck, and may the odds be ever in your favor.

 

Although I am not inclined to take requests, I will from time to time make an exception.  As such, our first selection for this tournament is:

Jonathan Coulton’s A Gambler’s Prayer

As your karaoke master, I will be exploring various themes in the weeks to come, one theme per tournament, with an average of three songs per theme. I reserve the right to abandon the theme idea at any time and for any reason. And of course, we’ll have  obligatory songs by Springsteen and the Grateful Dead each week.  William and any other octogenarians will have the option of reciting poetry, however, the poet and sometimes the text will be selected by me.

This week’s theme is karma, and we offer these theme selections:

John Lennon’s Instant Karma

Radiohead’s Karma Police

Culture Club’s Karma Chameleon

Other selections:

Chuck Berry’s Around and Around

The Carter Family’s Can the Circle Be Unbroken

Grateful Dead’s Ripple

Pete Seeger’s Pay Me My Money Down

Digital Underground’s The Humpty Dance

Beastie Boys’ No Sleep Til Brooklyn

Bruce Springsteen’s Because the Night

And for any octogenarians needing a re-buy: Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, Parts I & II