Vienna Teng on Letterman

:: Tuesday, January 21st, 2003 @ 1:20:14 am

:: Tags: Music

You know what? Even I was nervous when she showed up on stage. It must have been nerve-wracking to be on the same show as Simon Cowell of American Idol, who spent his entire interview talking about talentless musicians. But Vienna performed marvelously. I can’t wait to see where she goes from here! I have some photos that I snapped of my TV, below.

“Our next guest is a talented singer/song-writer from the Bay Area who is making her television debut with us tonight. This is her CD entitled ‘Waking Hour.’ I’ve heard the entire CD and there’s not a dud on this. You get your money’s worth here, ladies and gentlemen.” - David Letterman

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After I updated this entry, Greymatter decided to delete its gm-entrylist.cgi file (the one that tracks all of the entries in this journal), so I had to dig it up out of yesterday's backup. Thank God for chron jobs! :) Actually, I just discovered it's because my host won't let me write over existing files in the cgi-bin/ directory. Bizarre.

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1. posted by norm on Tue, January 21, 2003 @ 1:32 pm

   Teri sat up and clapped when they announced. It really was exciting…

2. posted by cyn on Tue, January 21, 2003 @ 5:07 pm

   I’d think you of all people would have a video capture of her performance : )

3. posted by e on Tue, January 21, 2003 @ 5:10 pm

   She performed great….as always!!!

4. posted by Tae on Tue, January 21, 2003 @ 5:24 pm

   Go Vienna! I was so psyched and nervous, but she pulled through.

5. posted by Raymond on Tue, January 21, 2003 @ 10:39 pm

   Wow! I didn’t have TV reception last night and had to listen to Letterman on the radio. Thanks for always being so thorough, Eric!

6. posted by mad_cao on Tue, January 21, 2003 @ 11:28 pm

   hi eric –
   
   hope you are well. looking at your journal, it seems like your life is exciting! :)
   
   anyway, i thought you might have caps up so i wanted to come by and check. i was so proud when i heard she’d be on the show that i emailed about 50 friends. i also beamed and clapped afterward, even though my tv sucks and gave me black and white fuzzy reception.
   
   i can’t believe she’s #8 on amazon right now. the cd looks like it’s on backorder; i just got my roommate to buy a copy and it won’t get here until MARCH!
   
   bich ngoc

7. posted by Tun on Thu, January 23, 2003 @ 4:30 pm

   I think this will be showing on cable here in the UK soon, so will have to check that out. I don’t think we can get her CD in local stores yet. I give em a week ^_^

8. posted by Ratmuffin on Mon, January 27, 2003 @ 5:01 pm

   Does anyone know which song she sang on Letterman. I liked it and I just bought the CD.

9. posted by syndromes on Sun, February 02, 2003 @ 10:54 pm

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   Hope to see you back blogging again soon… I miss my photo phix!

10. posted by Cheryl on Mon, February 24, 2003 @ 1:08 pm

    I had the pleasure of hearing Vienna sing for the first time on Letterman. What a phenomenon! She sings like an angel.
    I ordered "Waking Hour" the following day & just received it. Dave is right…absolutely No Duds.
    Can’t wait to see her perform in Nashville in April

11. posted by Jennifer on Thu, March 06, 2003 @ 6:46 am

    I heard Vienna for the first time the other day on Radio Paradise (streaming on my computer, against regs) and just yesterday bought the only copy of "Waking Hour" at Borders. LOVE the whole CD, and hope she’ll make it to Tallahassee one day soon.

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