REASONS:

1) To get to the other side! (of a ballad)

2) Because it was stapled to the chicken.

3) To avoid having to work with other people I hate.

4) In hopes the Taliban will see the error of their ways and join me in awesome 8-million voice harmony.

5) To keep others from leaving my folk group like Elvis did. (He died.)
Like Patti Page did. (She died too.)
Like the late Rosemary Clooney did as well.

Yes, as you might remember, we were called Presley, Page, Rosemary and Thieme when we played Newport in 1950.

Wonderful memories!! But that's why I sing unaccompanied.

Art Thieme