Finding Ethel Merman

[mariness]

So our local library has a pretty cool system called Freegal which allows you to download three - exactly three - songs per week, DRM-free. This is awesome, but equally awesome is the completely incomprehensible search function. It works something like this

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[norda]

Too, too funny.

I have to wonder if you'd get either The Oakridge Boys or The Rolling Stones if you typed in "Eric Burdon".

[mariness]

I'm afraid to find out :)

[norda]

And now I want to **hear** Susan Boyle do a cover of "House of the Rising Sun".

[mariness]

I actually am now secretly hoping that her next album will just be Ethel Merman covers.

On a related note, since I forgot to mention this in the post, but meant to, I just have the Carol Channing cover of "Hello Dolly" not the Ethel Merman one. I was satisfied with this for a long time (especially because I have it for purely sentimental reasons) but now I am beginning to think that someone is Trying To Tell Me Something.