song parody

Two Saratoga County towns have made the finals for a theme song to be created on next week's Your Town Thursday.  Who will it be now?  Cast your vote!

The singers and live musicians continue to be restless over this proposed ruling in Albany to shut the volume off in Albany bars. Now one man sounds off by slipping his lyrics to me to sing on the air. Song below

You must know the song by now.  "Call Me Maybe" has been sung, resung and parodied millions of times already on YouTube.  I thought I would take a shot at it and do it up "redneck country style"

It was a fairly tight race between Ballston Spa and Perth.  Looks like the Spa wins the right to have a theme song written for them  (Don't worry, Perth.  I'll get to you next week)

Don't get me wrong.  It would be Un-American to totally diss the Olympics.  I'm all for getting behind our teams over there.  But I'm a little bit old school when it comes to the sports I'm accustomed to seeing during the coverage of the Olympics.  I will now present my humble opinion in song form and then we'll see if you agree

So here I am, walking into a classroom in the middle of June assuming that the only thing on a kid's mind these days is summer vacation.  Wow, was I proven wrong again! Meet the virtuous 3rd graders from St. Thomas School in Delmar

Looks like we're wrapping up yet another school year.  I can't believe it myself.  Once again I have about 25 class appearances under my belt, and each one has been a blast.   This was no exception - Joseph Henry Elementary in Galway

I recently got a request to create  a song for Rock City Falls, NY for Your Town Thursday.   Ok, I'm up for that.

All of a sudden it's Wednesday, and it dawned upon me - I have no town for this week's Your Town Thursday!  Would love to see who would like to get their town "all rhymed up".

That's right, folks.  It's an all points bulletin.  Shout it from the rooftops. "Richie needs facts about Mayfield so he can write you a song for the next "Your Town Thursday" segment.

I get chastised a lot  for my over abundance of exclamation points in my blogs.  Yes, I do agree that I get over excited sometimes .  Even in the title of this blog I used the dreaded piece of punctuation.   Why?  Because I want to emphasize that YOUR town could get a theme song next for free!! Whoops.  I mean FREE. ( I did it again)

Once again, I experienced a 24-hour period where I couldn't wipe the smile off my face.  It happened right after I visited Slingerlands Elementary School. These kids love to read and SING - what a perfect fit for the Reading, Writing and Rhyming Tour.