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Karaoke and theater has been my hobby for over two and a half decades to tie me over in between work shifts.  My greatest fan, is my mother. This 200 or so song collection spans my lifetime including time on the stage and those midnight hours spent in front of the microphone just having fun making a Christmas or charity gift.

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Yes, I'm a singing EMT. From Minnesota. Guess I've been infected with a huge lifelong theater bug that won't quit. LOL!
Click to hear an early Sheena Easton song.
Click the jumper's pond to hear my favorite audition piece from Les Miserables, the musical.
This is Nothing, a fun piece, done for an audition recently for A Chorus Line. It's a talk/sing song the character dances to.
Try singing in a trio with just yourself using a sound engineer's board. Funny what bored cast members will do during slow rehearsals when turned loose. This is by Nelson, the twins singer group. LOL!
Click the firemen to return to my Emergency Theater Live website
An EMT who goes absolutely nuts over creative hobbies. Music is her biggest one.
Patti's latest experiment-  Vocal range finding with one of Linda Ronstadt's.
Me and my family at the Mall Of America.
As Bet in Oliver
As a look and sound a like Liza Minelli for a midwest casino party.
As Peri Brown for a Doctor Who British Convention
In an outdoor stage production of The King And I.
Tour with the Bitter Suite- Xena Live Stage, as Gabrielle for local TV
As sound alike Carmen Miranda with Hollywood Images, Inc.
One of my many volunteer work sessions for a local con.
As Mina in Dracula.. private performance Minnesota
With the American Xena in a car as Gabrielle in a Minneapolis Parade.
Lookalike Star Trek Voyager, Captain Janeway work. Body double at midwest sci fi convention.
This song I do for event appearances with a talent agency from time to time. Challenge sounding like her while being a soprano.
I do this for weddings and parties. It's in the best part of my voice in the power zone.
Singer impersonator work sounding like MJ in an earlier style.
One of the earlier voices I developed in college. She got work. :)
My Favorite song to do because of its subtle dynamics. This was a perfect take. One that I cannot pick apart as a singer using my own nit picky rules.
From College, fell in love with a movie's soundtrack. Robin Hood.
This song I learned fifteen years ago in college. I still do this one for weddings.
I loved the power of this piece. Casual, yet haunting.
My first dream role. Auditioned for but never got the part. Still a favorite stage character.
I first heard this song and was captivated by its power and angst. Had to do it.
This is from high school recording. Strictly for practice and not good yet. Bear with me. :)
This is from my brief stint as a  junior high rock singer. heh. Love this song anyway.
If that last song was testing the lows in my voice's register. This one surely tests the highest. LOL! Almost works here. Geez, I still sounded like a little girl in eleventh grade here.
I always love singing with original artists in harmony as a test of ear, since I'm moderately hearing impaired. This was due to an explosion accident while working as an EMT in the late 1980s. I use vibrations to use my natural ability of perfect relative pitch to keep the tempi and key. Hopefully, mistakes are few and no one can tell I live in a partially silent world.
Again, another exercise of me singing with myself in harmony. I usually don't like country, but this piece was more like pop and I fell in love with the singer's emotion in the song.
This musical ballad is heartwrenching and I've won karaoke contests with this solo. I can really get into sad songs and this, is certainly one of the classic tear jerkers. :)
I liked this one for being upbeat. It's rough, still just a practice piece. Turn up the volume in the beginning as this song is a fifteen year old recording.
I did this for fun. I hadn't heard the song since I was a child but was shocked I got a good take down in two tries. Guess it was perking in the background secretly and I had already smoothed out the rough edges. LOL!
Sometimes, I drag my friends into these exercises. Rough, but fun. This is one of my old roommates, giggling himself in a bundle of nerves in the background.
The lyrics to this really touched me. This was someone really in love, sharing with the listener what was inside their heart in a very intimate way. An exercise on breath control and every singer's love/hate piece because it makes you WORK. LOL! I think I was 19 or 20 when I recorded this for the first time. (Uh, no pun intended.)
Here's a bad copy of an eerie ballad sung by a sailor in a cannibalistic barber slasher show. Rough, but it still gives me chills because it's about obsession. This is not me at my best but you'll get the gist of it. I sung this when I was seventeen or so.
I sang this in high school, where this recording came from. It's old so crank it up. I like how I nailed the complex dynamics and timing. Wish I still had this soprano voice. Time has brought it down a few octaves.
A year old, this song was just for discipline. Geez, sounds like I'm bored here. Oh, well. An exercise well learned.
Wanna hear me reading off a screen in a first try attempt? Made me feel like I was singing like Liza Minelli again. Didn't know this song was about Elvis Presley. :)
I was curious how this song might sound with a harmony so I experimented. Not polished, but fun.
This ballad is where I truly discovered the power of my lower saxophone register in my voice. This appeared in my thirties, a sign that my voice was beginning to age.
Loved this M-TV video, and the song. So I'm plying half hearted skill on the lost cause of sounding like a rock singer.
Turn up for the intro. It's pretty. I fell in love with Bernadette Peter's voice in this musical and had to do the part of Dot for myself. Heh. This is a rough study. Most is 'a capella.' I'm still learning.
The ending, where I blew up a microphone... ( Just kidding )
College had a few singers that seemed to be great commuting songs. This was one of them that fascinated with its strange but neat delayed syncopation in the beginning, spoken lyrics on the downbeat and then the hypnotic b*itch*n guitar music following. Hehe. :)
I've always had a soft spot for folk songs, especially ones about love, and life. This, I recorded twenty years ago, in high school just after my adolescent voice change from first soprano to mezzo.
An old musician friend asked me to sing this once years ago and now, because of him, I will forever associate this song with Florida beaches, morning dolphins, and warm mists. His face comes smiling in memory whenever I sing this. I miss you Paul Robertson. Look me up sometime. This is a working rehearsal take, I did not know the words yet, or the melody, in stone. I was reading off a karaoke lyrics scroller. Song is incomplete as I was limited to a 5 MB sized file for its upload onto my server. :)
The soprano voice of my youth returned one day and I took full advantage of it. Hear me run on ice shards and egg shells exploring where I could still go up there.
This was recorded on the same day as the song above. I was getting a cold in later hours, so it was easy to fake dying. This is still my favorite tear jerker broadway song. LOL!
I heard the Hollywood voice dubber Marni Nixon sing this once and the minors caught me to try to sing. This one you can belt out and it still sounds good. Kid memory song. :)
I got into a James Bond movie kick five years ago. Had to do this just in tribute to such a great character. Song gives me chills when the long notes are held right and listened to on playback. This is the one song that Dad actually complimented me on once on a road trip somewhere.
Had the flu seven winters ago. Needed to clean out the pipes despite a fever. So, listen to me hack through this one. Nice low voice.  Sort of like a frog.. Heh.
Got totally tickled by this song, so I sang it. Experimenting on harmony and enjoying myself thoroughly. Niece's fav by her auntie.
Did this for mom. Surprised myself when I nailed it on the second try instead of the usual twenty five takes or so. Wow. Cool..
Another agency rehearsed song for my soundalike work. Loved the jazzy feel of this one.
Did this as a junior in HS. My favorite character of Lady Thiang. Still want to do her. Almost had the part once. But didn't make third call backs. :( That's why I sang this to see what it would have been like.
I never had the role of Mother Superior but used her song to torture myself and listeners. This is from high school. I was beginning to learn my voice's power then.
Professional Sound-A-Like Songs
As Liza Minelli- Cabaret
As Celine Dion- Power Of Love
As Michael Jackson- He's Out Of My Life
As John Denver- Sunshine On My Shoulders
As Sheena Easton- Almost Over You
Everything I Do, I Do It For You- Bryan Adams
My Heart Will Go On- Celine Dion
These Foolish Games- Jewel
Uninvited- By Alanis Morrisette
Straight From The Heart- Bryan Adams
Hotel California- Journey
We've Got Tonight- Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton
Angel- Duet with Sarah McLachlan
Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough-Self Duet- Patty Smythe
Don't Cry For Me Argentina- From Evita
Playing With The Queen Of Hearts- Juice Newton
Yesterday- Beatles
All That She Wants- Ace Of Base- (With John Allen)
First Time Ever I Saw Your Face- Roberta Flack
Johanna- From the musical Sweeney Todd
Memory- From Cats
Take My Breath Away- Berlin (From The Movie Top Gun)
Black Velvet- Alannah Myles
Forever And For Always- Duet with Faith Hill
Bring Him Home- From the musical Les Miserables
I'd Do Anything For Love- Meatloaf
Sunday In The Park- (with Mandy Patinkin)- Part One
Sunday In The Park- (with Mandy Patinkin)- Part Two
Do I Have To Say The Words?- Bryan Adams
Where Have You Been?- Kathy Mattea
November Rain- Guns And Roses
In My Life- Cosette- From the musical Les Miserables
A Little Fall Of Rain- From the musical Les Miserables
Feed The Birds- Mary Poppins
For Your Eyes Only- Sheena Easton
Desperado- Eagles
Forever and For Always- with Faith Hill- Duet
You Don't Bring Me Flowers- Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond
Because You Loved Me- Celine Dion
Something Wonderful- From The King And I
On My Own- Eponine- From the musical Les Miserables
General Radio and Musical Theater Songs
From 1981, our first day together, when we met. Nikki later lightened to the color of foam on hot chocolate and we lived and loved for fifteen years after that. An old secret pain is that she died alone within steps of my parents' house. I recorded this song to help us all get over the grieving process. It helped the good memories of Nikki we had return faster.
See the smart aleck nun with the glasses second in line? Guess who? I always seem to get roles in shows that are either virgins, or wenches. Heh. Go figure.
Climb Every Mountain- From The Sound of Music
Recorded in 2006. This was a way to vent while complaining about a serious case of plantar fasciitis in BOTH feet. I was suffering for three years before I was cured and so, I sang this just to whine because I couldn't do it in front of my patients. D*mned pretty dirge, too? Ain't it? Listen to me improve after every verse. Reading off a scroller again.
I wrote, learned to play piano, composed, and then sang this tribute to a beloved pet poodle who drown accidently in a winter lake when she got lost in the dark in Nov. 1996.  She had been blinded by cataracts and was hurting that morning from a pancreatic attack. We couldn't find her in time to save her.
I'm something of a bulldog when it comes to practicing. This piece is rough, but shows me feeling my way through brand new lyrics. Yes, this is country, but the highs and lows were something to navigate while staying on pitch. It'll get better over time.
Wanna hear me on no sleep for two days? This is one of those kind of songs where you know the melody, but not the words that well. Watch me muddle through, handicapped by a freezing lyrics reading scroller.
Nothing like playing a ghost who sings for a whole season. I played a blind girl, too, in the next song. Civil war period.
Nikki- Music, Piano and Lyrics by Patti
Just Breathe- Faith Hill
He's Gone Away-Lydia Puckett- From Spoon River
I had to paint life sized mausoleum stage walls to get this song put into the show. My director admitted to me that I could make him cry singing this, and I did, while kneeling in front of a prop gravestone.
Lindy Lou- Burl Ives- Adapted for Spoon River
Hehehe. I gave my mom chills with the ending note on this song. This I had ready, but never did with the talent agency.
All By Myself- Celine Dion
Back On My Feet Again- Michael Bolton
Yes, I'm one of those rare EMTs with a sense of humor. This is while treating a hypoglycemic at a sci fi convention on volunteer work. This man was ok. Gluc paste and sloppy joes are wonderful meds. This event had a faint, a nonbreathing convulsion, and a passed out on the back drunk vomiter who needed a door bashed down first before we could save him. All lived. So did the door.
The deep booming sax in my lower register comes out in this song. Got it down in three takes.
Let It Be- Beatles
Did this one after staying up all night while nervous about a new job. It's weary, but relaxes towards the end. Get ready for a really bad high note.
This one I sang for a cast party. Safe for the kids who were in Oliver with us. This song reminds me of a childhood friend, Christa.
I'm Almost Over You- Sheena Easton
Wind Beneath My Wings- Bette Midler
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A sassy teen! Nikki was sure a lot of fun. Would be an attack dog in play on command and could turn it on and off again like a faucet.
I Want You Just The Way You Are- Billy Joel
See the maid? A walk-on part for the Sound Of Music. One night, I came out with bagels instead of buns. :)
Here's me singing the song from the Titanic as Celine Dion. That piece was a little further up above a few tiers.
This is that blind girl singing to her dead baby in Spoon River. This is before the grave stone scene. I'm next to that mausoleum I had to make and paint as a condition to putting my Lindy Lou song in the show.
A Boy Like That/I Have A Love-West Side Story
Blue Bayou Duet- With Roy Orbison
I Will Always Love You- Whitney Houston
You Needed Me- Anne Murray
Now that you're happy. I'm gonna make you cry with this a capella practice, singing two roles.
Another pick me up. This time with a fussy baby. Worked.
I thought I was funny in this one when no one else did. LOL! You'll see..
Ever try to record a karaoke song and for some reason, you never get the feeling of where the music is under you? This was one such torture session. But here it is anyway.
This I remember doing way back in high school for a pop concert. Brings back memories.
An early high school dub made just for fun. Always wished I could sing a duet like this with Rita Moreno.
Come To Me- Fantine- From the Musical Les Miserables
Here Comes The Sun- Beatles
That baby sophomore soprano again. Sung at age 14. Learning a new ballad. Geez, was I ever that nostalgic?
The Colors Of The Wind- From Pocahontas
Move On- From Sunday In The Park With George
Forever Young- Rod Stewart
Wanted to do a soundtrack once for an animated film. It was this one.
Falling in love with this stage character, Dot. She sounds like she'd be so much fun to do. A practice run.
Had a cold that month. So I sang this to get happier about it. Nice oldie.
I wrote, sung, and composed this ballad in tribute to a TV series, Xena. It's told from the point of view of her loyal staff swinging sidekick, Gabrielle reflecting on the serious side of their ripening friendship. Lyrics by me. :)
This is a second stage role I've always wanted to do. One of a troubled queen as Guinievere opposite the character King Arthur.
I remember waiting months for this video to come out on MTV and I was thrilled when it finally premiered. I was fascinated with the minor keys and the Arabian like melody.
Good bluesy feel. Violin is Andy, improvising. Midi squeals but good enough.
Lydia Puckett, a ghost who snubbed her civil war soldier boyfriend after she died. Singing...He's Gone Away from Spoon River.
Gabrielle, Lyrics and Song by Patti-For the TV series Xena
Before I Gaze At You Again- From Camelot
Frozen- Madonna
Mona Lisa- Nat King Cole
Forgive the old tape sound the first few measures. I liked the role of Cassie in this movie musical. So I did this song sounding like her. Deep and throaty.
What I Did For Love- From A Chorus Line
Andy with his violin. A computer professor and a dear friend. Here, on the open stage with me at one of my favorite places, the Gingko Coffee House.  One night, we sat down and played on the computer with a couple of mics.
Special Concert 2002
This is Andy, a dear friend and a musician of natural inborn skill on the violin. I got to the point of running out of orchestral karaoke backtracks and so one night, we sat down and explored a bunch of really really bad midi files that squelched horribly in the background, but we still had fun. I decided to use them from then on out because they were so cheap.. (They were free :) )
We suffered giggle fits and frequent technical problems but these songs and tapes endeared themselves to us even as we cringed, because the ugly midis we found on the web opened up my vastly shortened inventory of pieces to do. So from here on out, ignore the music and focus on the voices. If you've an ear for musical stubbornness, you'll see the same fun we did in these.
I wanted to show Andy a harmony line I learned in first grade to this one. He was intrigued.
Neither one of us knows this song, just remember the melody and harmony stuff. Hysterical session. This is a pair of singers in the rough.
Andy claims he's not a singer, so you be the judge. We both have different genes on improvisation and here it worked when we did opposite things. Unpolished but colorful.
My cats wondered about the meowing in this one and came running. LOL!
Kid memory song. Reminds us both of Chicago where we're from.
Good traveling song. I flip to it whenever I'm on the road. Andy's first time hearing and singing it.
Another suburban Chicago memory radio song. Nice kid memories.
This was one we both knew from twenty years ago. Kinda funk.
If you listen close, Andy is doing this killler violin and bass harmony with his voice. Gives me chills.
Love this ballad. Wanted to know if I could do it in this range.
Still The One- Shania Twain
Cecelia- Beatles
The Cat Came Back - Marc Gunn
Sweet Dreams- The Eurythmics
All Through The Night- Cyndi Lauper
I have no idea how this goes. Eventually I will, but I wanted Andy to hear it as it's a country that I actually like.
This Land Is Your Land- Woody Guthrie 
Runaway Train- Soul Asylum
She's Always A Woman- Billy Joel
Down Town- Frank Sinatra 
Amie- Pure Prairie League 
Tin Man- America
This ditty has special meaning to a close friend and I. Too many goodbyes I guess. We choke up when we do this one.
Danny's Song- Anne Murray
Leaving On A Jet Plane- John Denver
This song reminds me of sleepy summer nights at the Bridgeman's ice cream parlor trying to eat Lalapaloozas. We tried as kids once and my sister got sick as a dog on a pineapple shake and lost it all into the street. LOL!
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No particular memory attached here. Just very deeply embedded in my soul's subculture. Very very familiar song there.
Faithfully- Journey
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Played a drunk Captain Janeway Star Trek fan. Infatuated with my stuffed white dragon. This is from a fan run spoof on West Side Story.
Played a side kick on an amateur science fiction movie, Doctor Who. Had to run wearing heels. Almost needed an EMT myself.
I'm in white third from the left. I'm struggling with my snakes again. And no, I don't mean caduceuses.
See? I'm playing another virgin again. First nuns, then bar wenches.. Hmm. This is Philia here. From A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
My mom listened to this singer all the time when I was a kid. Soon, I wanted to start to sing like her. Never really tried until well after college years. Here it is. Weird how the nuances stuck in my head even after not actually hearing the thing for over twenty five years.
Follow Me- Olivia Newton John
I developed a taste for Irish 5th century ballads working the Minnesota Rennaissance Festival during summers. I'm a graves EMT. I need my sun, dang it all. So I gave up sleep to sing.
Songs For Charity
This EMT's CD is entering post production and will include every song you'll see linked on the site. This work is dedicated to Felicia, a child who starred in one of our ETL Emergency TV Series Episodes, Canine Capers. Felicia asked us to let her appear in a story as her last wish in Dec 2006. She wrote her own scenes. Felicia was a bright and beautiful girl we all loved and we miss her.

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The recorded collection is now complete and only awaits uploading to this page one by one and the final CD burning. All told 235 songs will be coming for a total of 538 MB of mp3 songs sung by this EMT.

New works will follow over the course of the summer during the active theater season in Minnesota which frees up the singer to produce more of her vocal art. 
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This is a first time trying. Rough, but still kinda oddly hypnotic. Heh.
I remember singing this once in a junior high pop concert in a school cafeteria. It was when I was first bitten by the theater bug. This song was particularly sweet. I felt like I was on Broadway. Sang for mom in the audience that night.
This is from 1987. A bad recording but a bar song from this musical. Still fun throwing a fake accent.
Recorded in January 2007 for a niece who was rediscovering herself during some rough days. This animated movie's songs really brought a message I thought would help... It did.
I'm On Fire- Bruce Springsteen
Oom Pah Pah- From Oliver
Who Are You?- From Balto 2
Practice run. Rough. One of those crappy midi tracks again, but I liked the experimental duet I looped while learning this oldie. Kinda weird listening to yourself in a duo. LOL!
I felt a strange compelling pull when I first heard this song in Celtic. I had no idea why I was so strangely captivated. I had to translate its meaning. So this started three weeks research learning the artist and lyrics. When I found the words, I almost started crying. The song felt like it was written for me and me alone, all about the earth and the night. Two things very close to mind in my life right now.  I'm singing the new words softly over the Irish soloist. First in unison and then in harmony.
This is the only audition I ever blew for being overconfident. I said something stupid and got dismissed as number two choice for this role because of something stupid I said about the rehearsal rooms being cold at this that church theater. Got to burn with shame a million times on the way home, sick with flu and driving home in a lightning riddled snowstorm. But, I deep down I still felt like I had sounded like Laura Branigan.
Endless Love- Lionel Ritchie-Self Duet
Deora Ar Mo Chroi- Enya
Narrator's Prologue- From Joseph
and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Out Here On My Own- From Fame
Again, another sad song that grabs me and doesn't let go. I recorded this the night I lost a male patient by a couple of hours in the casino hotel at work, in a fit of tears.  I held the wife in my arms but could say nothing to ease her agony. Those calls are always hard. I've lost seventeen kids and nine adults in my career to date. Like all the saves, I remember each and every loss in great detail. But I wouldn't trade those memories for the world. They shape who I am.
I had fun quarteting again. This time, taking out all the stops. The timing here got into my blood. I really felt like I was one of them during this take. heh. :)
I've always been fascinated with quartet singers, never having really had the chance to be in a group like that myself. So,..I sing with others who are. This one turned out nice I think. I'm in the middle of the pack somewhere. If you're used to my voice now, you'll hear me despite my blending. :)
I fell in love with the story of this song. Each verse gets better and better as I learn the feel of this ballad. A happy song, no doubt. I can just see this couple, celebrating life to its fullest.
The Last Song- Elton John
The Lion Sleeps Tonight- with The Nylons
Up On The Roof- with The Nylons
Fields Of Gold- Sting
If there's one song I'd do in a concert in a heartbeat, it would be this one that's so full of angst and fear and sadness. I fumble words in this one, but its soul is all there. You have emotions to move folks deeply with this song, you know what I mean? Imagine my shock when I discovered this "perfect" take on playback with its end sheared off by accident. LOL!
A week later, I sang the above song's antithesis. Feeling how the wife must have felt the day she married her husband at the beginning of their life. It made me feel better immensely. I'm sure music is a balm to a LOT of EMTs out there like it is for me.
The Winner Takes It All- Abba
The Wedding Song- Paul Stookey
I auditioned for this role once for a night club tour. Had fun on that audition wondering what it would be like doing a show that wasn't inside a theater. Unique perspective, a prostitute who's attracted to a savior in this song. Like the seventies bluesy feel of it.
I Don't Know How To Love Him- From Jesus Christ Superstar
For a very very short time, I got on a Madonna kick. This is one of them.
You Must Love Me- Evita
One of this singing EMT's favorite recordings.
One of this singing EMT's favorite recordings.