Hello world! Welcome to Singing and Signing.

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Today I moved all my singing posts to this blog. I used to have everything on my main blog, danielgreene.com, and for a while, I actually called my blog “Just Singin’ and Signin’ in the Sun.” Then, as I blogged over the years, my blog became about interpreting, transliterating, photography, technology, Web authoring, and singing. Because it was so broad, I called it Daniel Greene’s Blog-o-rama for a couple of years. Recently, I changed it to TerpTrans and moved everything else to different blogs. I now have blogs for each of my interests, and readers who follow each blog can expect consistency. In case you’re interested, my other blogs are:

Singing “Try To Remember” from The Fantasticks in 1996

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I put on a one–man cabaret concert in 1996. This is one of the songs I sang— “Try To Remember” from The Fantasticks, lyrics by Tom Jones & music by David Schmidt. This performance was held at A Better Worlde Galleria in the Mission Hills neighborhood of San Diego, California in 1996. My pianist was James Bianchi.

Singing answering machine greetings

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When I was twenty years old, I made up a couple of outgoing greetings for my answering machine based on an old TV show theme song and a showtune from Bye Bye Birdie. The TV show theme song was from I Love Lucy and the song from Bye Bye Birdie was “Talk to Me” which is originally sung from a telephone booth. Anyway, I created these outgoing greetings and I left them on my answering machine for a little while, and then I felt sort of silly about them and afraid of what people might think, so I took them off. But now here we are in the Age of YouTube, and it’s—gosh—almost twenty-five years later, and I figured, “Why not? Just for fun, share them with the world.” So, here are my silly outgoing greeting songs that I created in 1988. Hope you enjoy! Continue reading →