Charmaine was my evil sister's friend. We hit it off at hello. She was another character in my life. She was married to a mariachi and she played the piano. She could play classical music at heart and she could also play modern music.
You know me and films. We were watching a Burt Reynolds film and I started to laugh at a certain scene, the only one in the audience. She had to wait later, the scene showed Burt reading a letter. What was funny was that the letter was at an angle. The audience bent their heads in the direction of the letter. I guess you must've been there.
We would get together and cook, drink, and laugh. She had a gorgeous daughter who I fell in love with. She authorized me as a driver when picking her up.
We would watch fabulous movies, and sing and quote the movie. One time we watched porn and we were all laughing. I didn't have any gay porn at the time. Now I do.
Some of my favorite times were the times we sat at the piano and she played and I sang. I had a fabulous voice at the time, my voice comes and goes. Joel, David, and June love my voice. Early this century my voice wasn't up to par.
Sidenote. Back in the 90's, I was in the Alamo City Men's Chorale. Of course I always had a solo. Once we did Broadway music. They had the lyrics available, but hello?, we're faggots and of course we new the words.
Anyhoo, I would sing American standards and Piaf, she's been around my life most of the time. She knew most of them. I did Johnny Mathis, Elvis, Barbra, Bette, Nancy Wilson, and loads more. She was surprised I knew so many.
Several times she sat me at the piano and I'd play and she figured that I play by sight. Meaning I could play but cannot read notes.
Back in the 60's, my dream job was playing piano at a bar and play all my oldies. But that's another story.
Introducing the Whiners: .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI8iCnM1QV0
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