Hi Ysabella - Please consider recording "Southern Cross" by CNS&Y and or "Summer Wind" by Frank Sinatra

Greetings:

In order to keep the ball rolling, I shall append my previous list with the following ear-wrenching racket which at one time was passed off as music.

I would appreciate assistance from the peanut gallery here. I find it extremely painful to recall and transcribe these dogs. Morphine is impotent. This despite knowing the beneficial outcome for all by requesting them of our girl.

Ysabella Brave, in addition to the twenty previously mentioned instruments of torture, would you kindly perform the following:

In the Ghetto — Elvis Presley
The Ballad of the Green Berets — Sgt. Barry Sadler
A Horse With No Name — America
Muskrat Love — The Captain & Tennille
Dancing Queen — ABBA
Loving You — Minnie Ripperton
Don’t Pass Me By — The Beatles
Afternoon Delight — Starland Vocal Band
San Franciscan Nights — Eric Burdon & The Animals
Don’t Take Your Guns To Town — Johnny Cash

My keyboard is beginning to lock up and my hard drive is complaining more than my wife at this point. I might be losing a tooth. Just look at my photo. I had a full head of hair when I started on these lists. It is imperative that someone else risk life and limb to render our lives secure from catastrophic sonic invasion. I do not know how much longer I can endure.

Your pal,

Clamchucker

At Last By Etta James .........Ysabella would do a fabulous job of it i am sure .

Pete (uk)

Clamchucker: Perry Como's "Hot Diggety Dog Ziggety Boom What You Do to Me". Only the ancients on this board will have endured it and emerged alive.

Clamchucker: Here's another: Rolling Stones' "Ruby Tuesday". I'm groaning to think it will be playing in my mind now, all afternoon.

Clamchucker: Um, Mungo Jerry, "In the Summertime"? Or does that not qualify because it's too moronic? Hey, I have a new twist on this: at the college radio station where I worked many years ago, a DJ said, "This song is just like [the American soda pop] Mountain Dew. It's sooooo bad, it's good!" Melanie's "Brand New Key" comes to mind. So does McCartney's "Uncle Albert". Some or all of Barry Manilow's oevre qualifies. Any ideas?

Clamchucker: You are a delight. These are what are called really bad earworms. May I suggest "The Night Chicago Died" to your list? Anything by Gary Pucket & the Union Gap qualifies -- "Lady Willpower", even if she changes around the lyrics, would be a reason for all of us to drink the Kool-Aid. The weird thing is that she has the perfect pipes to do that melody! and make it the best ever. Gotta be at work in 20 minutes; let me think of some more. This is a really cool topic. Let's all play that game -- songs we would NOT want YB to sing!

Greetings:

Bob Robertson posted the following on the Ysabella Brave/Notes on Fandom message board: “Dang, I just thought of a great song for her, but please don’t tell her, because if she knew we were recommending, she won’t do it. . . . Forget it. Sorry I mentioned it. . . . I’ve just poisoned it. If she sings this song, she’ll have to sing every request anyone ever proposed to her.”

Bearing this in mind, perhaps we should request only bad music, thus assuring lousy songs will never be performed by Ysabella Brave. This would limit the cacophonous field somewhat and hopefully spare our refined auditory systems excruciating aesthetic assault.

We are reinforcing our safety net here because submitting requests to Ysabella Brave is an exercise in futility. Additionally, our girl has excellent taste and would not touch any of these with a ten foot pole and lead shielding. I will postulate that if she succumbed to a cerebrovascular accident and actually performed any of these, they would sound good for the first time ever. However, for the preservation of humanity I would not want to risk trying the experiment.

Allow me to get the ball rolling with the following. These are listed in conjunction with the performers who contributed so much to the pathetic quality of the songs in question. The composer may be the same in some cases, although I assume any composer would be somewhat loathe to admit penning them. They are in no particular order (odor?), so here goes.

Ysabella Brave, I respectfully request that you perform the following alleged musical selections:

In the Year 2525 — Zager & Evans
Puppy Love — Donny Osmond
This Girl is a Woman Now — Gary Puckett and the Union Gap
Indian Reservation — Paul Revere and the Raiders
Tie a Yellow Ribbon ’Round the Old Oak Tree — Tony Orlando and Dawn
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida — Iron Butterfly
Honey — Bobby Goldsboro
Watching Scotty Grow — Bobby Goldsboro
Achy Breaky Heart — Billy Ray Cyrus
Illogical — Leonard Nimoy
The Name Game — Shirley Ellis
You’re So Vain — Carly Simon
Song Sung Blue — Neil Diamond
(You’re) Having My Baby — Paul Anka
Mockingbird — James Taylor/Carly Simon
Yummy Yummy Yummy I’ve Got Love in My Tummy — Ohio Express
96 Tears — Question Mark & the Mysterians
Indiana Wants Me — R. Dean Taylor
The Men in My Little Girl’s Life — Mike Douglas
The Candy Man — Sammy Davis, Jr.

Out of self preservation I have limited myself to the 20 abominable pieces listed. It is the only merciful thing I can do. I apologize if you now find yourself in the throes of indigestion or dysentery. It is a rotten job, but somebody has to do it. Unfortunately most, if not all of these can currently be found on YouTube. That is positively frightening.

Please assist me by adding your own selections to the list and posting them. I do not look forward to your suggestions. In order to make the world safe for future generations it behooves us to insure that music of this ilk is never performed under any circumstances. We are delicate, fragile creatures. Life is precious. There is a finite limit to human endurance.

Your pal,

Clamchucker

Send in the Clowns ?

I would like to draw the attention to some wery nice songs, namely:

"Summerwind" and "May each day".

I think Ysabella's woice is perfect for those songs.

And another song thats maybe outside Ysabellas normal repetoire "Can't Take My Eyes Off You". (sorry i just can't)

"You light up my life" of Lee Ann Rimes you fit as a glove.

While I would like to hear your personalized version of this song, as I believe it is within your range and sense of fun based on the variety of songs that you've posted (I have listened since you started on-line); here's a song I think you may just have fun listening and singing along to. Besides, to publish it on-line in a video, you'd have to film it in the kitchen while pretending to cook, and that may just give up too many secrets, lol.
Keep up the good work and positive attitude, and I hope the day job isn't getting too worrisome, based on what the news is posting lately. Hugs and best wishes, young lady.

Version by Maria Muldour (there were many since the 1930's; I'm sure you can find the videos from others on YouTube)

http://ellicotttalentgroup.com/music/muldaur/Sweet%20And%20Slow/Cooking%20Breakfast%20for%20the%20One%20I%20Love.mp3

Written by: William Rose and Henry Tobias, from the musical "Be Yourself" (c. 1930)
[ Chorus: ]
Morning, I'll be getting up, Morning, I'll be setting up.
A tiny table for two.
Breakfast, I'll be making his breakfast,
He'll be taking his shave and his shower,
My happy hour

[ 1st verse: ]
The coffee is steaming,
Oh boy what I'm dreaming
While I'm cooking breakfast
For the one I love.
My baby likes bacon,
And that's what I'm making!
While I'm cooking breakfast
For the one I love.
Our life has been so nice and chummy
right from the start
When I won his tummy, I won his heart.
My baby is happy, oh boy am I happy
While I'm cooking breakfast for the one I love.

[ 2nd verse: ]
I'm baking a biscuit,
He's willing to risk it
While I'm cooking breakfast for the one I love.
He's wiping the dishes and he's breaking the dishes
While I'm cooking breakfast for the one I love.
I serve a plate of steaming oatmeal
Taste it but schucks!
Who the heck wants oatmeal,
sprinkled with "Lux?"
To show that he's grateful
He eats a big plateful and he
Faints right after breakfast
For the one he loves.

I agree, "Zing" would be a fun one to listen to and watch!
The old 1920s song "Deep Purple" has been remade only about every other decade. Your dreamy voice would really give the lyrics "breathing my name with a sigh" extra goosebumps!

OK, as long as this is just a topic and not a request list, let me throw in my own "suggestion". I'm not especially fond of Judy Garland, but this is one of my favorite songs in my whole life: 'Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart' : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZasR5PMsPU
YB could, with her voice and visual performance skills, make the best version EVER of this song!

* "where the wild roses grow" (nick cave / kylie minogue)
(tuned about your interpretation)

* "maggies farm" -dylan

Yea that would be nice. I did like Olivia's songs a while back.

I'd love to hear you do anything Olivia Newton-John sang on the Xanadu soundtrack. "Suspended In Time"..."Magic"..."Whenever You're Away From Me..." etc. (Not exactly an award-winning movie but I love the soundtrack. It reminds me of your stuff.)

Dear Ysabella, I think you should try to sing "La vie en rose", it may cost you some effort because is a French song, but is one of the most known and passional love songs in the world... I think it is perfectly suitable to your voice, and everyone of your fans will surely consider it the number-one You Tube tape!!!

I love the way you sing Ysabella. Could you please add at least one of the next songs: The Way We Were (Marvin Hamlisch); Memory (A. Loyd Webber, T. S. Eliot, T. Nunn), Auld Lang Syne (Robert Burns), And All That Jazz (Fred Ebb)?. Thank you.

Could you sing Unforgettable by Nat King Cole? And something like Sway by Micheal Buble, or one of Dean Martin's great songs?