Cyndi Lauper Documentary “Let the Canary Sing” World Premieres Today
(MANDATORY CREDIT Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images) Cindi Lauper taken in a hotel room, March 1984, Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images)
Cyndi Lauper has been eligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since 2009, and I really thought she was going to get in this year. She was second in the fan vote, but it was not enough to put her over the top.
However, that hasn’t slowed her down. Cyndi has a new documentary, Let The Canary Sing, and it will have its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival today, Wednesday, June 14, and she recently let the world know why she decided to reveal her life story on the big screen.
She spoke with The Hollywood Reporter and said, “I just think a documentary sometimes helps show people how, because everybody starts out with somebody saying, What are you going to do that for? Don’t do that. Get a real job, It’s so amazing when that starts to change and they want to know what you’re doing and you try and explain, and they always say, Well, good luck with your work.”
She also shared some advice from what she experienced, “So instead of being disheartened, it’s good to learn about someone else and see how they made their good steps and bad steps.”
Cyndi says she wasn’t very hands-on in the making of the documentary, and joked that “The only thing I got involved with, you know me, sitting in front of the camera,” although she did have to go and get photos and go through all the stuff from her past. She said that she wasn’t more involved in the making of the film because she believes that if a person is overly involved in their own documentary, then it’s not really a documentary.
Cyndi says she saw the film very early on and wasn’t sure if she enjoyed it at that stage. She was only watching to make sure all the information was correct and everything was legit and truthful.
The Tribeca Festival continues through June 18th in New York City. More info can be found at tribecafestival.com.
Top 20 Songs Americans Wants To Learn How To Play The Most
Take a minute to think about your favorite songs.
Whether you can play an instrument or not, is there a song that you’ve always wanted to learn how to play? There’s definitely one or two that immediately come to mind because it’s either a classic or perhaps overplayed.
To answer that very question, Ukulele World conducted a new survey to discover which song is the most searched for in the United States overall. The team analyzed over 1,000 songs based on searches including how to play them on guitar, piano, ukulele, violin, and cello.
With a total of 48,960.8 average monthly searches, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” written by Harold Arlen comes out on top of the list. Second on the list is Vance Joy’s “Riptide” with both songs having the highest searches on how to play them with an ukulele.
It’s no surprise though that the traditional holiday song “Jingle Bells” is also among the top 5 coming in at third with the classical ballad (popular on all instruments) “Hallelujah” coming in fourth.
“It’s always inspiring to see people keen to learn how to play a song on an instrument and it’s fascinating to discover which songs they want to start with or are just curious to check out. Songs like ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’, ‘Hallelujah’ and ‘Fur Elise’ are considered classics that it’s very common to start from, mostly for their popularity rather than their level of difficulty,” a spokesperson for Ukulele World commented on the findings.
We can’t promise you won’t have one of the songs highlighted here stuck in your head for the rest of the day. It’s now time to scroll below and check out the top 20 songs Americans want to learn how to play the most.
Joel Katz is the Morning Show Personality, Assistant Program Director, Podcast Host, Voiceover artist, audio producer, and Digital Content Writer for Magic 98.3. Joel has been working in New Jersey radio since college and started at Magic in 2002 as the Morning Show Host, “I can’t think of another place where I’d fit more perfectly; it’s just a great company with awesome people.” Joel is married to Kathleen, his elementary school sweetheart (they were each other’s first dates at age 9), shares a birthday with his oldest son, Ty, and has twins, Kiera and Liam. Joel runs at least 3.1 miles every day and enjoys playing basketball, doing laundry, saving his turn signal for when he really needs it, kissing dogs through a fence, using coasters, making that cool noise by rubbing his fingers on balloons, and chasing after ping pong balls on a windy cruise ship.
