It's a 33 and a pleasant good morning, Sharon Macquarie is here with me this morning.
You always wake up so cheery and wide awake in the morning.
Well, you know, sometimes there's those days where I'm so tired, I can't wake up at all.
I don't pick that up.
I don't picture that.
I think you, you're just a walking bottle of five hour energy, I think.
Well, I try, but I think you got me beat down.
So you sing a lot and it's got to be a morning or a day, especially you have an early morning
performance.
We just can't get the voice going.
I can know because I can't get the voice going in the morning sometimes.
Yeah, you got to get up, especially if I'm wetting in the morning.
I have to be up early.
If it's going to be 11 o'clock wedding, I got to make sure I'm doing my vocal ranges and
my checks early.
So I get the frogs out before I start singing at the wedding.
So what's the magic of luxury after drink?
Do you drink hot tea, warm tea?
What do you drink?
A little bit of all of the above.
You know, warm tea, in fact, I helped teach vocal lessons as needed.
Warm tea with honey and lemon really helps to de-conjust.
It helps to smooth out the vocal chords and licorice writ is also good for singing.
Licorice writ.
It's kind of a, it's kind of a organic, homeopathic type thing and you can actually use it.
It actually comes in a tea.
You can get in a tablet.
You can open them up and put it in your tea.
But that's really good.
It's called licorice writ.
It's kind of a slippery elm is another good one that helps out with vocal clarity.
Yeah.
Only in lemon, I think, is good.
Honey and lemon's always been the best favorite.
All of this, I know that.
The other stuff you're mentioning sounds scary.
It sounds like some witch's brew.
Yeah.
The big kettle.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that's how you get ready to go in the morning?
Yes.
And do your ranges and make sure you don't push it if you're sick.
Don't sing.
It'll ruin your voice, literally.
You just give up on it that day.
Yeah.
If I get to do the anthem and I get a little bit of a cold, I have to say, okay, it's
going to be the low range and I'm not going to do anything fluffy.
Just keep it simple.
I can't say.
I, you know, I was in the, I don't know how I went, I was just a soprano in the grammar
school choir.
I can't believe it.
But, you know, I was.
I couldn't sing a note.
But when you have like, you know, a hundred other people singing a couple of bad boy,
like Barney and Andy Griffith, a couple of bad notes in the, you're not going to notice.
Yeah.
Because I was covering up.
Yeah.
That's true.
And then you got to go and repile types that all of a sudden, you'll go all the way
and then he sings with this great operatic voice to get those occasionally too.
Yeah.
All right.
So here, you're going to wear.
We're going to rent, uh, right over to Hanchel Park again for the law enforcement ceremony
today to honor, uh, during police week, our local officers.
So it's going to be great to be out there and it's going to be outside.
It's going to be outside.
Right into the band show.
Right under the, you got the pavilion there.
And so we're going to just plug right in there and share some music as people are assembling
between 9 30 and 10 kick off at the ceremony at 10.
And, uh, our waiter will be there to open up a little prayer and then I'll be doing
the anthem and then we'll have speaking from various officers that I'll be there.
I know that Christopher Smollin will be there and um, um, Amir is going to be there and
it's going to be other people there as well.
Well, I've tried to pick your 5400 bird avenue.
I know where bird avenue is.
Yeah, just east of, uh, if you go to Lincoln, Villa, um, nursing home, you just take that
east on bird and take a, take a left right there and it's the park is kind of just east
and take a left and go north and it's, it's right off of bird at already.
I'm lost.
That's why my wife's the navigator on our large trips.
All right.
So that's today.
That's a 10 a.m.
Everyone's welcome, right?
Yep.
Everyone's welcome.
What are you doing on that phone?
You were a lot of.
Um, I'm just checking out our tiniere.
We have Ralph Maliki.
I was seen Connie executive.
Uh, he'll be out there and then the, uh, we've seen police chief Alexander Ramirez
will be there as well.
Um, and then we'll have a district attorney Patricia Hansen city.
We've seen alderman Henry Perez.
So people that we all know and then they're going to close out with Steve Keith is going
to kick it out on the, uh, on the, uh, Celtic nation's pipes and dreams.
He's going to be coming to close it out at the end.
So it's going to be a nice program.
Okay.
That's today.
Now next week.
Oh, that's also today.
You got two things today.
Why are you busy, busy lady today?
Yeah.
So we're going to be next.
After that, then I'm going to go and sing for our Harmony Club, which is wonderful.
Um, it's a senior social program that also offers, um,
care, it's adult care for seniors and, uh, it's wonderful.
So if you have any caregivers that need respite, um, Harmony Club,
it's just a wonderful opportunity to provide, um, care and respite for caregivers.
And it's really great because we have clubs throughout the scene.
We have a club out on St. Sebastian's Institute event.
We have one down here in Missine at St. Richards.
We have one out in Lions, Wisconsin.
We have two in Kenosha, North Point and also Lord of Life.
So I've seen all those clubs and help out to promote this wonderful opportunity.
If you have a, a loved one, it may be as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's, um,
our Harmony Club is just a wonderful opportunity to provide affordable care, daily
care Monday through Thursday and the first Monday were off.
And it's just great.
The loved ones can drop them off by 930 and they can hang out with their peers
and have bingo and crafts and a delicious homemade lunch.
And we have musical activities, including myself helping out when I
can. So I'll be there today right after the, after the law enforcement ceremony.
I'm heading over there right afterwards.
Then Saturday is to go more stuff to do.
Yes.
Saturday is going to be the wonderful game changes, um,
car show out at school days more.
If you haven't been out there, that's a neat place to go in.
Boy, you, you can see if you think we're vintage, you can see the most neatest
collector items out there at school days mall.
And we're going to be just on the north side of the building, which isn't back of it.
So to speak, and they're going to have finished cars.
So we'll be out there sharing some music and keeping the vibe going out there.
Pick up people are bringing up their old cars and trucks and motorcycles out to that.
And you can go to school days mall and check out information.
If you want to check it out with game changers and register your vehicle,
it's free for the coming and it's 10 to 2, I believe we're going to be out there.
So another great day coming up for some car show lovers this weekend.
Everything I own is vintage.
So my entire life has been going to my basement.
I have beta VCRs.
I've got VHS VCRs.
I've got laser disc players.
I've got cassette decks.
My entire life is vintage.
This is nothing new to me.
You should rent out a booth out of school days mall and you can go bring
this stuff out there.
In fact, we were there the other day, get set up with one with the owner.
And we saw some neat things in the glass cases that, oh my goodness,
I haven't seen since I've been a kid, but it's, it's pretty cool.
You can go through, go through all the different stores that they have there.
But school days mall, it's a pretty, pretty cool little out, you know, out there.
There's a little restaurant about a block away called Mrs. River's bakery and
smokehouse.
Now we tried it for the first time.
It's very good.
It's a little tiny place.
Mrs. Rivers does all the cooking and it's about a block away.
And they were one of our advertisers.
So I tried it.
We were heading home myself.
Let's go in there.
It was really good.
Briscuits sandwiches pies.
Now my favorite is coconut cream.
Oh, one day they have a list of like 100 pies.
Only one had a line going through it.
Coconut cream, because they were out of it that day.
Oh, no, but I had key lime.
Key lime was just as good.
Yes.
So how many do you have any more events lined up after this?
Yes, we actually do.
We're getting ready for some other events next month.
We'll be doing some Memorial Day.
Get together and some performing for some of those events coming up.
Then we get started building our float for the same parade again.
Yeah.
I'm going to end the June.
Just got that set.
So anybody out there wants to be part of the received fourth best parade.
Get your application in and that will be out there for that as well.
And we got some other gigs in between that.
So got the family to come in up in July over at Island Park.
So maybe we can reconnect the big about that.
That's always a fun time with Mary Beth.
And the river council.
We always have the big family day.
Say that again.
What council?
The river.
See that when I first came to Wisconsin, somebody said, rut.
I said, rut.
Isn't a root.
But yeah, they always say rut.
The rut river.
The two always in their root.
I remember the TV show back in the seventies, ruts, or is it roots?
I think it was roots, not roots.
I noticed you said the other one got me when I first came here.
I remember my daughter.
She was only three months old.
So I go to the doctor and I see you know, water fountain.
The bubblers down the hallway.
Yeah, you got a water fountain.
Yeah, the bubblers right there.
I don't know what they were talking about.
The bubbler.
I said, that's a water fountain.
I said, well, yeah, it's kind of a bubbler that we call it.
Yeah, we used to call it a bubbler.
And then yeah, we heard about the transition for a water fountain.
So the other one was pop.
Do you have any soda?
Soda?
Is it what we have pop?
Yeah, what kind of pop?
The soda.
I want a soda.
Yeah, I know a lot of words.
Yes, exactly.
Yeah, it's funny.
We're all part of the same country.
Yet you get when I live down south in Georgia, I couldn't understand them.
You know, they're talking about half the time and you move to Wisconsin.
I know what you're talking about half the time and you go out to all these different places
all over the country.
What you're talking about.
And we're all in the same country.
We all have a different language.
And that happened.
Mm hmm.
Yeah.
All right.
So a quick review.
Today, 10 a.m.
The Racine County Law Enforcement Memorial Annual Ceremony at Hanchill, Hanchill Park,
which is I got to look at that.
I got to drive past there.
It's not far from where we are right now, 5400 bird avenue.
You'll have some prelude music and also performing the National Anthem.
You ever forget the words?
You know what?
That is not easy.
That's a yes.
That's a yes.
That's a yes.
Um, you know, I had where I was coming just just realizing that I had to have some surgery
for that infection that invaded my stomach that put vocal cord ulcers on my vocal cords.
And during that time, I was rasping, didn't know what was going on.
So at the end, I just, I just got it to the end.
But most of the time, no, I haven't really had a problem with them.
But if you're out there like I was at Wilmont last Saturday, I was out there.
I was out there and it was a big burst noise.
And I just skipped and went to the next word.
But you know, the wind there's a lot of noise like at Wilmont, you have to be very focused
when you're saying you have to because you got hot rods driving around this track.
I've seen professional people on the National Anthem on TV all of a sudden, they black
out and I can't think of the words.
There was a young girl, she was singing the National Anthem and was at an NBA basketball
game and all of a sudden the coach came over and helped her with the words.
And then she's an adult later on, he came back and there he was along the sidelines
of the time.
And she remembered the way it's nerve-wracking.
I mean, I have written in front of me, WRJN, I've been there 26 years.
You think I remember those letters, but they had to put it on a dimo label on, there's
a blast from the past for you, a dimo label and they had to stick in in front of me because
I can't remember the call letters.
I mean, what I'll have to remember, the WRJN, and every time I say it, I look at it.
But when you're singing the National Anthem, tell me when you say it.
Yes, you really got to focus.
Everybody thinks they know the words and they don't know the words.
You got to, you know, like I said, when you have a big pop of something, it happens and
it scares you, you know, you just go to the next word.
And I actually had a wedding, I was singing at the interlock and someone came up, it was
outside.
And all of a sudden, we were just performing, I was performing you rain over the rainbow.
And it was the bride's grandma's favorite.
So as they came in and they walked up, they came off of horses, they came, the, the procession
was on horses and they got off the horses and they walked up the front.
She let butterflies go and doves and a jet ski came outside and I'm ready to do over
the rainbow and I'm singing it and a jet ski was roll out, boom, and it knocked our sound
system off.
I was singing, even though there was no music, I kept singing through the song and when
the song popped back in, my husband was able to get it back on, I came right at you to
the part where the part, the next part, I kept singing through the song and that's what
I tell my soul, my soul was if something's happening and the music stops, keep singing
right through it.
You'd be surprised when you can pop.
See, when I don't forget the words, I go somewhere over the rainbow, da, da, da, da, da,
da.
Just keep going.
Just keep it going.
I don't know.
I can't sing.
I'm learning to play the piano now and I got to tell you something.
It is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life because I'm trying to see, they got
two staves, one for the right hand, one for the left hand.
I'm trying to look at the keys, look at the nose, look at the keys, look at the note,
kind of comprehend what notes they are.
Yes.
And my wife, I think, is losing patience with me because I don't practice enough.
But it's hard.
I mean, well, I do it with a 12.
She teaches a 12 year old girl too.
A 12 year old girl is playing the piano like she's lady Gaga and playing the piano and
honestly does it.
Some people have music quality in them and they can just do it.
Yes.
You have music memories also very important too, is a singer.
That's one thing that I encourage our singers and I'm a worship director at our church
in Kenosha.
My husband, Mike, is always drumming with me with our band and also with the church events.
But music memory is a wonderful thing that singers can be born with and you can acquire
it by practicing and you can remember those songs really well if you can just keep your
music memory.
My brother played every instrument, played woodwinds.
He played the piano.
He played the guitar.
He played everything.
And he played with some of the biggest groups of the 60s, Benny King, the drifters, Ruby
and the Romantics, the Cherelles, the Chiffons, Little Anthony Imperials, Jay and the Americans,
Strawberry Alarm Clock, he was a guitarist.
Wow.
Where is he?
Bring him aboard.
He's a doctor now.
Oh, my goodness.
He's retired now, but he became a doctor.
Boy.
And so he played with some and the Shangri-La's he played with goodness.
And so he took me along to meet all these people.
Wow.
The brother.
Yeah.
Because he could read music and back in the 60s, Bans didn't really read music.
So these groups like Benny King with the drifters just to come in.
Here's my music.
Yeah.
We go on tonight at seven, learn it, and he was able to, you know, work the music and
get all the time.
We'll be doing some Benny this Saturday at the Car Show everything from standards to
JS to a little bit of Johnny D, a little bit of country.
Love songs.
I played basketball with Benny King.
Did you really?
We were at South Fallsburg, New York.
My brother's band was playing with them, and they wanted to warm up as a resort.
And he said, let's get warps a little basketball here.
You, you're on my team, and he pointed to me and I play basketball with Benny King.
That is absolutely wonderful.
I would like to see a picture of that one.
No, there's no pictures.
This was back in the early 60s.
They didn't have cell phone cameras.
All right, quick review.
Today, Cheryl's going to be at the Racine County Law Enforcement Memorial Annual
Ceremony.
That's at Hansel Park.
Then later today at our Harmony Club at lunch in there in North Point.
That's at 1 p.m.
This Saturday, from 10 to 2, you'll be at the Game Changers' Car Show at the School
Day's Mall.
That's right there on Durand Avenue.
Are we 11 in Stertavant?
Yes, Stertavant.
Stertavant.
Stertavant.
Stertavant.
We'll go through it a bit.
You've got a big schedule.
Good luck to you.
Yeah, it's going to be great.
And we look forward to seeing you seen Don at the scene.
Worth Best Prairie again this year is shining through, and everybody off their feet
singing along as we flow through.
So thanks again, Don.
It's always great to be here on program with all of you guys.
We call peace, forget, and want to be more than without doing frozen W-R-J-N.
