Diana In The Hospital.

Here  is the scoop!!!!  While it was originally thought by both the emergency ward and Diana’s personal physician after a few tests, that Diana had a Kidney Stone and that she may have passed it on December 1st.   Today  the severe pain returned this moring, while preparing to attend the Talent Quest Competition tonight at the Ramada.   She went to her doctor just before noon and he had her go immediatly to community hospital emergency.   After a few tests they were unable to determine the cause of her pain and tonight at 5 PM was admitted into the hospital for extensive testing.   As of right now she is there and will undergo more testing tomorrow.   As a result of this The talent Quest Competition for the Ramda was canceled.   However,   there are no plans to cancel the contest tomorrow night at R Beach.   She will not be there, and the doctors are doing their best to find the problem and have her ready for her show on Saturday at the Ramada.  

Daily updates will be posted as soon as more is learned.  In the meantime please hold her up in your prayers, for a speady recovery.  

Diana is in room 245B at Community Hospital in New Port Richey.

Thank you for all your support.  Harold and Alice.

Please Understand.

Diana is very sick,   She is on a Morphine patch and unable to do all that she needs to do.   We know that some of the results for for the individual weeks were not posted due to Diana being ill the first time.  Then she got sick again and is in severe pain.   The results are archived in a file.    it will take me some time to sort out the week that was missing and compile the standings for that week.     The key factor is this.   Everyone of the people that would have been in the top standing for that week are the ones who are always in the top standings each week.   Addtionally all of you that were in that position then are qualified for the finals now.    And as soon as we do the finals the results of the qualifying are nul and void and have no meaning on the reults of the finals.   The finals will have completely different judges and have no idea what you sang or how you sang in the qualifying rounds.    We only posted the results as a courtesy to you so that you may better understand your position and what you needed to do in order to place well in  the local finals.    Now with Diana being very ill, unless something happens drastically between now and Wednesday or Thursday We will need all of your help at the qualifying rounds to make things run smoothly as we will not have Diana there to help with the flow of things at the venue.   Please accept our apology for any inconvience this may cause.   I will begin to work on the archives of the weeks of the contest and try to have the results for the missing weeks prior to this weeks competition.

Harold

Harold

A Challenging Month For Diana

With all the show’s and trips to perform around the country,   Diana has had food Poisoning and now today at 5:00 AM was rushsed to the hospital emergency room in severe pain.   As a result it has been determined that she has a Kidney Stone.    She was sent home and told to rest and take some medication and watch her diet.   If all ” PASSES PROPERLY”  she will soon be up and about and ready for her show’s this weekend.     She is looking forward to seeing all of you at one or both of her show’s and or the Talent Quest Competition this week.  Of course Myself and Alice are doing our best to take care of her.   We however, will be at Karaoke tonight at the Ramda Inn, New Port Richey while Diana rests.   Then as soon as Diana is well on her way to recovery Alice and I will be checking into Rehab for much needed rest.

Harold and Alice

Happy Thanksgiving

I would like to wish all of my

Friends and Fans a very

 Special and Happy Thanksgiving.  

Hope to see you all very soon.

Diana

An Update To My Friends From Vegas

Hi everyone, I made it! The flight was smooth. It was cloudy but no real turbulence. Its cool here, feels like the high 60’s but I’m not really sure. The room is cold as ice but gorgeous! I got a chance to watch the fountains before I entered the hotel. They are nothing short of amazing! This whole place is amazing

I had my first show this evening and it went really well. A lot of people were dancing and seemed pretty attentive. Of course there is always the one loud mouth! But for the most part everyone was respectful and enjoyed my singing. Some people asked if I was going to be here permanently. I told them, “Not if I can help it”. Quite a few locals come out just to listen to music and dance. I think Las Vegas has a rather large retirement community. A lot of them showed up tonight. Now if I could only get them to follow me to Florida, I would have it made, LOL!

 This one man, nice looking “sixtyish”, sat in a corner at a small table alone for my whole show, (two hours). He was sipping something the whole time.  At my last break, this really cute little twenty something cocktail waitress came over to me and said she had a tip for me, “from the man in the corner”. I looked over at him, smiled and then looked back to her. She put something in my hand. It felt like paper wrapped around something round. I took a quick glance down and saw a flash of money green. I squeezed it as I tucked it into my Palazzo pant pocket. Yes, it felt like it might be a chip. I glanced back over toward the man’s table to mouth, “thank you” but the, “sipper” had left. I didn’t think anything more about it and started my last set.

 When the show ended I was so tired I just wanted to get to my room relax and order a little dinner. After I ate a small meal… half of a great New York deli sandwich with an astounding pickle, I remembered about the, “sipper” and the, “flash of money green”.

 

 I had removed my show clothes to put on a soft pair Betty Boop pajamas to get comfortable. I returned to the closet to pull the mysterious tip out of its hiding place. As I reached into the pants I thought it might be a five dollar bill but hoping it was twenty bucks.

  I have received twenty dollar tips in the past. Three times at The Ramada Inn actually as crazy as that sounds! Anyway, I pulled out the little packet and recognize the bill from the design, it was no twenty, it was not even a fifty.  It’s a hundred dollar bill! Any yes, I yelled that out loud!

 I just stood there, my hand extended in front of me staring down at the thing! I’m thinking, “Holy crap!” I guess this guy really liked my show! As I unfolded the Ben Franklin I could tell, “the sipper” used it to wrap a chip. I had squeezed it early before stashing it in my pocket. I continued with the unwrapping very slowly; I was afraid to see how much it contained. He had already given me a hundred bucks!

  The last unfold of the bill almost revealed the denomination as the chip fell out of my quivering hand. It hit the carpet and kind of did a little dance as it continued to roll a bit. It finally settled, face up. I stood staring face down, mouth open to discover it read, “five hundred dollars”! I nearly pooped! I never even had a chance to thank him, I merely smiled.

 I’m a little taken a back about the whole thing. Maybe I shouldn’t be, after all this is Vegas, for some people money runs like water, for others the well is dry. But I am alone here, no Harold or Alice to protect me! I’m on my own. Oh well, I might never see him again but you can be sure tomorrow if the same cocktail gal is working I am going to do some serious interrogating!

Results of R Beach 11/19

Again let me apologize for not posting last weeks scores, we all know I was sick. I can get to those another time, I am so tired!

I do want to say, Arthur Haywood, unbenounced to him reached his perfect score goal! He has a perfect score of 150! Fabulous job. I took notes that night and I also remember what I wrote, here it is. Smokin Hot! Done better than the origianl artist! You gave me goose bumps. Holy cow, what a voice!

If anyone dares to make a comment against this man I invite you to do it to my face and not behind my back please! If you are not happy with your scores, again, I am not the judge! There were three tonight. There were two when Arthur sang. I had no influence on them. Here are some of the biggest reasons your scores were not higher, that I saw.

 Appearence! How many times do I have to say this?

Stage presence, listen, the stage in Tampa is huge.

 Anyway, that is my hint for the day.

I will state this again. If you wish to leave you are more than welcome to, but, not when a singer is singing. Leave before they start or wait until after they are done.  But let me interject, how would you feel if you had to sing to an almost empty house? It is common curtesy to wait until everyone is through singing. I do understand sometimes you need to leave for reasons, but please let us show respect and love to our contestants and karaoke singers. I want to thank the people I have seen waiting at the bottom of the steps until the singer is through, thank your mothers, you were brought up right.

Tonight,  I thought we had no judges, we ended up with three! You asked for more judges, now you have them! This is how we figured the scores. We added all three judges together for each person and took the top three highest scoring contestants. This is how they will do it at state, so get used to it. One judge might love you, the next maybe not so much the third so so. It takes into consideration all opinions. Here is another thing to consider. 

So without further pause let me get to it so I can go to bed, I need to get on a plane tomorrow and head to Vegas. 

Men’s 50+ 

1^st  Place  Michael Alan Mack

2^nd Place   Francis Gordon (Gordy)

3^rd Place   Ed Gallaway

 

Women’s 50+ 

1^st  Place   Carla Paull

2^nd Place   Gwen Battle

3^rd Place     Jane Williams 

Men’s Pop 

1^st   Place Xavier Stephens

2^nd  Place Tommy Coole

 

 

 

 

A Case Of Food Poisoning!

I need to apologize to everyone for not posting the standings for both venues. I probably should have been in the emergency room this weekend but I’m too damn stubborn. Food poisoning hit me on Friday, while in Tampa! I am almost over it now, but not totally. I hope sometime today I can get all the score information and post it. My head still feels like it wants to explode and my stomach hates me! Today I am finally able to keep more than half a cracker, and ice chips down. I have been so ill I just wanted to die! Do please be patient.

I want to thank Alice and Harold for taking such great care of me, I don’t know what I would have done without them. They, “were/are” my angels!

Diana

Diana Feeling Under The Weather

Just  a Quick note to all of the Fans of Diana and the contestants in the Talent Quest Contest at both venues.    Due to Diana’s busy schedule,  she is feeling a bit under the weather having over taxed herself.  Nothing serious,  She just needs to get some bed rest today and tonight.   She should be fine tomorrow and ready to go.  She does have a private party this Saturday night, and vows to be ready for it.   She asked me to pass on her apology for not having all of the results and happenings posted today about the Contest.  She will attend to that as soon as possible.   And hopes to hear from all of you and see you all soon.   Don’t forget to come on out on Tuesday night and enjoy her show at the Ramada Inn, New Port Richey.  She could use the support to help make her feel better.     Harold And Alice

Don’t forget to come on out to Classy Jac’s inside the Ramada Inn New Port Richey.   Every Tuesday Night.   Show starts at 7:00 PM with DJ Dance music.  The Diana show will start at 8:30 as Diana sings the slow romantic hits of the past and present.   Then at 9:30 Diana will do her Patsy Cline Tribute.     At!10:30 Diana finishes the show with a mix of songs that could include country, rock, blues and maybe even a show tune or two.    No cover at the door.  However a two drink minimum will be enforced during the show.  Call 813-919-8326 if you would like to reserve a table.

Results for Classy Jac’s Talent Quest Competition November 4th

I would like  to congratulate our top performers for the week.     Male over 50 category Bruce Bathhurst and as of right now he is  the top performer for Ramada to date.   In the male and female country  Dusty and Theresa Ward are the week’s top performers and top performers to date.    In the Female Over 50 .   Georgia Bovinett is our Top performer over all for the Ramada to date,  and is also the top female performer between both venues.   Achieving a fantastic total score of 148 out of a possible 150.  Great job Georgia.