A very long time ago, I used to sing at many functions. Toni Brooks, my other half, played the piano for me. There was a Rhode Show coming up and we were looking for something we could do to take part in it. We were looking through her piano bench and trying songs out when her mom came in and told us she had just the song we should do. She looked in the piano bench and pulled out the music to, "The Little Blue Man." Toni and I went through it and fell in love with it. So we practiced almost every night until the night of the big event. I dressed up in some funky out fit and we headed to the church.
It came my turn to sing, I was so nervous, I would be singing in front of way more people than I was used to. My turn came and I sang it perfectly except for one place I forgot the words and cried out "Oh NO, OH NO," Toni improvised some how on the piano too, but no one caught on, they thought it was part of the song.
The song became a hit and I was asked to sing it in an assembly at school. But this time I told Toni that I needed a little blue man to help act the song out. No one and I mean No one would help us out until, finally, I was able to convince my favorite guy, Kent Hawkins in to joining our part of the show. I dyed a mop head blue for his hair, but he stood rather tall, taller than me, so he had to crunch down to be smaller than I was.
The day of the assembly came. Toni and I were actually quite excited. We were going to do the best. I started singing and Kent was doing great acting his part, but at the end of the song it goes like this: One evening in wild desperation, I rushed to a roof top in town, and over the side Pushed the little Blue man"....... and that's when it happened. I pushed the little blue man a little too hard, being crouched down he lost his balance and went flying off the stage. The entire auditorium was roaring with laughter, while I tried to finish the song and make sure Kent was okay. I felt so bad. But he survived and at the end of the song the little Blue Man says, "I don't wuv you anymore." And Kent - The Little Blue Man - really meant it.
Then the day came that Toni and I were asked to do the song in Vegas with our Choir group. I was preparing to go but became very sick. I found out I was pregnant with my lovely daughter Debbie, so we didn't ever go to Vegas. But that's okay, I've never regretted it. My baby was the world to me now.
The song continued through the years as I sang it to my children, my nieces and nephews and now my grand kids. A few years ago Kylie and I performed it together. She was the little blue man, at a program in Round Mountain.
Thanks to Toni's mom and to Toni for being my piano player, the song has survived 35 years in our family. Everyone still loves it. I wonder if Toni ever plays it on her piano after all these years.
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