Tenor Banana is back with the bunch!!
| Type of post: | Chorus news item |
| Sub-type: | No sub-type |
| Posted By: | Sam English |
| Status: | Current |
| Date Posted: | Fri, Aug 9 2024 |
Tenor Banana Back with the Bunch
On Friday, August 2nd, the Nashville Music Medics were on the stage at Ryan Seacrest Studio, Monroe Carell Jr. Childrens’ Hospital at Vanderbilt University Medical Center Hospital, for our monthly visit.
It was an “eventful” visit since “No Green Bananas” quartet represented Nashville Music Medics! Eventful? Yes, indeed! “No Green Bananas” had been unable to sing together for a number of months; this was for us an “eventful reunion”.
We had a wonderful participation by guests including patients and families, staff and visitors, and a Professor/Physician who had sought us out at the suggestion of a common friend of his and of No Green Bananas, “Snookie”. (If you are reading this Kyle you likely have this figured out!)
We were pleased to have been able to present most of the Nashville Music Medics’ children’s song repertoire from the ever-popular “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” to “Sitting on Top of the World”. In recognition of the USA athletes’ successes in Paris at the Summer Olympics we even presented one of our favorites, “The Star Spangled Banner”.
The welcome by Monroe Carell staff is always so very cordial and cheerful!
And we never know what to expect!
While No Green Bananas was warming up in the foyer between the garage and hospital we were approached by a vendor who was entering the hospital. This chap, Travis, was no stranger to our style of close harmony as he filmed and we then chatted. We learned of his experience with his own band. Of course, we ended up singing “The Becca Song” for him to send to his wife.
AND then as we were leaving the hospital an hour later, on that same walkway to the garage, we were approached by a Vanderbilt Radiology staff member who thought she may have seen us somewhere else. Indeed she had! She had seen a viral TikTok video which a child’s mother had uploaded when we sang to her daughter in another Emergency Department late last year.
We could not let the occasion slip by! We offered (and she accepted) to re-create that event for her. With no hesitation other than readying her iPhone we broke into “The Whitney Song”.
(Yes, it is quite similar to “The Becca Song”)
“It’s Great to Be a Nashville Music” changing the world one smile at a time!
Sam English for Nashville Music Medics and No Green Bananas
