This is the first of a series of posts on songs from my recent past, which means pop­u­lar songs when I was grow­ing up in the 90’s.

You Were There was some­thing that became a hit when I was in 4^th year high school (circa 1995). That was a time of ide­al­ism and hope and love. When you’re high school, it seemed like you have the world in the palm of your hands and any­thing is pos­si­ble. This song hear­kens back to that time in my life.

Terry Fator is known as The Human Juke­box because he is capa­ble of mak­ing over 100 ven­tril­o­quial imper­son­ations. He uses 16 dif­fer­ent pup­pets for his shows. The videos here are from the 2^nd sea­son of America’s Got Tal­ent which he won.

He has rev­o­lu­tion­ized Ven­tril­o­quism and he is one of my most favorite per­form­ers. The cool thing about him is that he’s not just a great ven­tril­o­quist, he also has a great singing voice, and he has a flair for com­edy as well. The com­bi­na­tion makes for great tal­ent. Simon Cow­ell has called him “One of the two most tal­ented peo­ple in the planet.”

This is Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown per­form­ing my newest favorite song on Amer­i­can Idol. I love the rhythm, the music and the lyrics.
The music video of this song is even bet­ter. Click here for the music video.
No Air
Jordin Sparks feat. Chris Brown
Tell me how I’m sup­posed to breathe with no air
If I should die before I wake
It’s ’cause you took my breath away
Los­ing you is like liv­ing in a world with no air
Oh
[Chris Brown]
I’m here alone, didn’t wanna leave
My heart won’t move, it’s incom­plete
If there was a way that I can make …

This is one clas­sic break up song. I heard it on the taxi on the way home from work and wanted to write about it. I just love this ver­sion by Regine Velasquez. Regine has gone through bad break-ups and “bad” rela­tion­ships where she was seen as the other woman who broke up cou­ples. She’s in a rela­tion­ship with singer/songwriter Ogie Alcasid right now, which started out weird but is end­ing hap­pily.
When you’re bluer than blue and sad­der than sad, maybe you just need to wait and let things …

It’s a Sun­day and I’m not even sup­posed to post any­thing today. But I just had to post this video I found on YouTube. It’s Nina’s ver­sion of Steep which was a Lau­ren Christy orig­i­nal. The song is poignant and sad and makes you wanna cry (hehe). And I love this ver­sion by Nina. For some rea­son, I love this even bet­ter than the orig­i­nal. This is a friend’s favorite song and she kept ask­ing me for it the past days. I think she finally got a copy through LimeWire …