Please God, let it be me

I took a giant leap of faith last night and entered a contest.. the prize, you ask? To sing back-up for Rod Stewart in Las Vegas!! Can you believe that!! I thought the rules said that I needed to upload an original song so I wrote this whimsical little ditty entitled “Let it Be Me”.. the song pleads with Rod to pick me, and includes some of his hook lines from a few of his songs, like: “tonights the night”, and ’time is on our side” (young turks). It was such a rush job, my heart was racing as I was uploading the video onto YouTube, while creating my profile on Talenthouse.com all at the same time with only minutes left before the clock struck midnight and the contest was closed.

Unfortunately, the editing is a bit choppy. I only had time for 2 takes before I realized just how much I was running out of time, and in editing, I mean swapping back and forth between two takes (it was all I had time for)  to cut out the chippery-chirps and garble from my quaker parrot who tried to sing along with me!  I didn’t realize until after it was all posted and done that I had totally cut out the third verse, where I sing “Oh Mr Stewart please, let’s make sweet harmony” and the tag at the end where I sing ‘the first cut is the deepest, so spare me the pain and let it be me”

And now, it’s all up to the voters.  I can’t believe that the highest total number of votes will win this thing, and actually get to sing with Rod Stewart in Las Vegas! I have never been to Vegas before.. I’m not much of a gambler but I would love to go, to experience it, to travel and explore somewhere new, and maybe see a show or two..including Rod’s of course.

WOW! Sing with Rod Stewart… me?? Is it possible??

If you are reading this, please take a moment to vote for me.. here’s the link:

http://www.talenthouse.com/creativeinvites/preview/ae3ea3e9041a77bbaf27da380e7e4f5a/209
You will need to sign into Talent House with either a facebook or twitter account, then click the VOTE button on the page. If you don’t use facebook or twitter, there’s a link below the vote button that you can click on to access at text number.

Martin Luther King said that the dreams of today shape the realities of our tomorrow. I sure hope and pray that in this case, this dream becomes my reality!

Here’s the tune.. hope you enjoy it!