Josh Groban was on Repeat After Me yesterday and Wendi McLendon-Covey guided him into Frederick’s of Hollywood. Once he was inside, she instructed him to introduce himself to the whole store by singing his name. Then when a salesgirl came to help him out, he wanted to know what was the largest size they make in panties. The girl kept her professionalism as she asked him if he wanted crotchless or not. It just went downhill from there for him.
Eventually, Wendi whispered in his ear that he should sing his huge song, You Raise Me Up. Although she made him change the lyrics to, “She wears D-Cups cause they’re the size of mountains.” You know what, when he is done promoting his upcoming album Stages, that’s out on April 28th, he should release that song! You Raise Me Up really works with those lyrics, if you know what I mean…
Finally, he put on a black shiny newsboy cap and Freddie Mercury’s style works on him. Don’t you think that should be his signature look from now on?
BTW I wonder what he bought his girlfriend, Kat Dennings, from that store. He better not have left the lingerie shoppe empty handed. I mean, she has video proof that he was there, so there is no excuse why he didn’t buy her pair of those crotchless panties he had his eyes on or the nightgown he left his mark on! Right?
On April 28th, Josh Groban is releasing Stages, an album full of movie and show tune covers. One of the tracks off of it is a duet with Tony winner Audra McDonald from Carousel called If I Loved You. Their powerful voices combined makes this song even more romantic than the original version.
So sit back, hit play, close your eyes and let your pure imagination transport you to that feeling you got when your date took you for a ride on a magical carousel. You know, when you wondered if they loved you and you knew at that moment they did.
On April 28th, Josh Groban is releasing an album full of his interpretation of some of the most iconic Broadway tunes and movie musical numbers. Stages includes songs like Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz and What I Did for Love from A Chorus Line, but in a way that personifies his boisterous voice.
Another song off the record is Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’s Pure Imagination and he just released the music video for it. I will openly admit, he is no Gene Wilder; but he comes really close. I just love the control that Groban has over his voice as he belts out the beautiful haunting tune. Plus, the way he hits the high notes, it’s like I found the Golden Ticket and got to eat the chocolate bar too.
Don’t you just love the way he used his pure imagination to make Pure Imagination come to life in his own special way?
Josh Groban has a very important question, and that is he wants to know, “Do you think I’m cute?” The baratone singer didn’t ask it in his normal very masculine voice, instead he sounded like a little girl thanks to the app DubSmash.com. And when a man like him sounds like that, how can you not think he is squeeze those chubby cheeks cute? Right!
Josh Groban parents are both only children, so he doesn’t know too much about his family tree. Tonight at 10p on TLC’s Who Do You Think You Are?, he learns a lot about his ancestors going back to the late 1600’s. The singer’s search focuses on his 8X great grandfather, Johann Jacob Zimmerman, who lived in Germany, and the two family members have a lot in common.
Even though Zimmerman’s father was a craftsman, Johann did not follow in his father’s footsteps. Instead, he want to University and became a music teacher. Besides teaching music and singing, he was a Deacon at his Lutheran Church. If that is not enough, he also studied astronomy and mathematics, and wrote 12 books on the topic.
In 1680, Johann saw something great in the sky from his Church that changed his whole life and his family’s lives. Something so astronomical that Isaac Newton wrote about him in his book, Book 3 of Isaac Newton’s Principia.
What is it? How did it change everything for Groban’s lineage? You just have to watch this extremely compelling episode of Who Do You Think You Are? to find out.
Groban will discover the answers to these questions when he travels to Germany. When arrives there, he visits the archives. From there he goes to the University that his 8X great grandfather was a student. His next stop is to the church that Johann worked a Deacon and made the discovery that changed everything. A discovery that revolutionized his way of thinking so much so that he had to beg the local Duke to keep his job at the Church. This revelation leads Groban to his final stop, the archives of the Lutheran Church. There he learns about all the sacrifices Zimmerman made for his new beliefs. With the book almost closed on Groban’s research, there is one more astonishing fact that he finds out about Zimmerman that will blow him and you away.
When Groban’s search is concluded, he gets to reflect on his 8X Great Grandfather and how much they have in common. In some ways. It is almost like they are connected even though they lived almost three and a half centuries apart.
Maybe it is because I was a Religious Studies major, but I was completely enthralled with this episode of Who Do You Think You Are? Although I really think that I was so captivated by the show because his history is so unbelievable and interesting that you just want to know more and more. In fact, after the episode I concluded, I had to research Johann Jacob Zimmerman and I learned some more incredible facts about the impact he had on his time and ours.
