Yes, GUEST, you made my point my clearly than I did. Training makes a huge difference, especially in the ability to crossover to other forms of music. Ross wasn't trying to crossover, she was trying to comingle, and in my opinion, it didn't work.

On a humorous note, I was recently speaking to my young realtor and a young man giving us a bid on a new air conditioning system for a house I was considering buying. Turns out he is a graduate of the University of North Texas (Denton), where I go to graduate school. He asked if I was familiar with their music program. I'm in the philosophy department, but I have friends who studied music there. One is a producer for Burt Bacharach, and I told them a funny story of when Rob got lost in Dallas when he was driving Dione to a studio where they'd be working. He has no sense of direction and had to call his wife for directions, and she could hear Dione in the background laughing about the call. Anyway, these two young pups didn't know Burt OR Dione. Sheesh. I had to backtrack from Whitney to make the connection for them.

Maggie