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Today is all about Really Rosie in my head, words by Maurice Sendak, music by Carole King. (Woah, there's an album? I must get it. No, no more CDs! Somebody stop me!)

Really Rosie, familiar to me from the cartoon (not the original book nor the album) that aired on some CBS Saturday morning long ago when the sister and I were wee, is perhaps the simple most influential piece of music/video of my life. Rosie is a young girl in a New York brownstone with big ideas. She is going to put on a big production (not Godspell, but you see where I'm coming from) and is auditioning all the neighbourhood kids and crocodiles to be in her big movie. She, of course will be the star. She wears a long, slinky red dress, a fur stole, too-big high-heels, a large floppy hat. She is all diva. She is all star. She sings,

I'm Really Rosie,
and I'm Rosie real.
You'd better believe me,
I'm a great big deal!

She sounds like Carole King when she sings, of course.

Kirsten and I used to sing the songs together. They are wonderful songs; "One Was Johnny", "Alligators All Around", "Pierre", "Chicken Soup with Rice", "Screaming and Yelling"...

Really Rosie was my first diva. I still want to be her when I grow up.

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