Counter-Currents
The Counter-Currents 2024 Fundraiser
Imagine Jim Goad Singing “Imagine”
Greg Johnson
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One sign of a healthy subculture is the emergence of new traditions such as Millennial Woes’ Millenniyule (I will be appearing there again this year), Frodi Midjord’s Decameron Film Festival (I just appeared there this week discussing La Dolce Vita), and now . . . Jim Goad’s Karaoke Challenge.
From now until New Year’s Eve, Jim is offering his karaoke talents to help Counter-Currents get closer toward our fundraising goal. As Jim puts it:
For the absurdly low price of $500 [or more], I will debase myself by performing a song of your choice live and on camera. But let’s not go bonkers — if it’s a song that I don’t even know and/or a song I don’t think I can handle, I’ll ask you to pick another song.
My first intro to Jim’s karaoke chops was his takedown of the insufferable David Aurini, “Sneaky Like the Snake,” based on Duran Duran’s “Hungry Like the Wolf.”
Here’s Jim’s cover of “White Room”:
Jim’s first fundraiser karaoke of 2023 is Eddy Arnold’s “Cattle Call”:
I’ve been thinking of songs that I would love to hear Jim cover:
- John Lennon’s “Imagine”
- Wings’ “Band on the Run”
- Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” or “It Was a Very Good Year”
- Christopher Cross’ “Ride Like the Wind”
- Elvis’ “In the Ghetto” (wait, he’s already done that one!)
- David E. Williams’ “I Have Forgotten How to Love You”
Share your suggestions in the comments below.
Or better yet, e-mail Jim at [email protected] to place your song request, and he’ll take it from there.
The easiest way to help out this year is with an e-check donation. All you need is your checkbook. If it is for a karaoke song, please include a note to that effect.
E-checks don’t work for donors outside the US, but there are other options to explore on our newly-redesigned Donate page.
Also, check out our Paywall page!
Thank you again for your loyal readership and support.
Greg Johnson
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8 comments
I’m not sure this “Imagine” could be topped, lol:
c/o DtO
https://www.bitchute.com/video/il9mtSDx0oC3/
I’ll try to come up with a good song; (I do favor duets though.)
Okay: Josh Turner’s “Your Man”
I can’t even imagine seeing/hearing a guy on the……..Far Right
sing this ballad. (And I’m fairly imaginative!) If Jim sings this one, he’s earned 500 for the cause, and he’s allowed me to die a happy woman.
One of my favorites to pick for someone else at karaoke is Bust a Move by Young MC. Remember that one?
“You got no money and you got no car, so you got no woman, and there you are” or however it went.
And to think that those other “MCs” dissed Young MC and thought he was milquetoast. He was more popular than all of them put together… umm, and then moved on to amiable West Indian anonymity. I hope.
Meta-karaoke: do the entire Hung for Christmas album. Remember that Chinese guy?
How about the song “Scumbag” by John, Yoko, and Frank Zappa. The song can be dedicated to Letitia James or Keir Starmer or any other garden-variety scumbag that comes to mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYLGbH0f0GI
I don’t have that kind of money right now but I’m sure Jim could do a blistering version of “Rock N Roll Nigger” that would be even better than the original.
I know Jim would do an amazing job of “Woman is the Nigger of the World” too. I wish I had $1000 (or any money) to donate.
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