OK lets do the shameless plug first, get it out of the way I say LOL
I have a new blog called “Osmonds Galore” which I am getting “stuff” including content onto as fast as my little pinkies and people knocking at the door with flippin leaflets! will let me, why, well just because! lol
Real reasons:
I find I am blogging more and more on this blog about The Osmonds nowadays and not much else, so I think that needs it’s own home/blog.
The timing is right as far as I am concerned with The Osmonds 50th Anniversary Tour kicking off just a few days ago in Belfast.
I have my own ‘Meet and Greet’ with all of the Osmonds to attend next week on the 28th and yup! I am gonna do a blog about that because it will be so much fun.
So people who want to subscribe to something about the Osmonds can do so WITHOUT getting email updates about Internet Marketing, which, if they subscribe here, they will get.. I am sure they are not interested in those, so this way, they can subscribe to “Osmonds Galore” and only get what they are interested in.
Some more reasons which I forget right now.
I hope to make “Osmonds Galore” into a bit more than a blog and add things like chat facilities, a forum, a place to locate Osmond Memorabilia, other Osmond fan guest blogging, other competitions, raise money for Marie Osmonds Childrens Miracle Network, all kinds of other ideas too.
One of my first posts over there is called “Marie Osmond on floor again” and includes video from Entertainment Tonight (amusing, not nasty) if you would like to read that, please hop on over and also don’t forget to subscribe via the feedburner email subscription in the sidebar so that you will get emailed any time I make a post over there and more importantly, if you are an Osmond fan, you will also get entered into the competition I will run after the tour to win a photo or photos (presuming I get some good ones from the Meet and Greet), details of that will be on the blog when I have it more finalized, however, just subscribe and your entered.
Just a quick update today on the upcoming Osmonds 50th Anniversary UK Tour – all the Osmonds are over here now doing various promotional work before the actual tour begins.
With them they have Jeremy Hall who is the official photographer for the tour. Jeremy always manages not just to get really wonderful photos but also to get really unusual ones, not your standard Celebrity ones. I guess it must help being along for the ride for the whole tour to get those unusual snaps but still he has done some wonderful work with Donny Osmond in recent tours both here and in the US.
I can’t wait to see what he comes up with now he has the chance to get to know and photograph the whole Osmond family, not just Donny.
Here is an example of just such a photo of Donny, taken during their travels over to the UK, it’s on Jeremy’s own blog called “What’s Gotta Stay” and I love this one, simply because it’s not “posed” and I know most Osmond fans will also lap up this kind of photo, so kudos Jeremy.
Just a reminder (or perhaps you didn’t read my previous post on the upcoming tour), if you would be interested in reading my experience of a Meet and Greet for The Osmonds Cardiff concert and/or if you have a burning question you would like to “Ask an Osmond”, or perhaps you would like a free photo emailed to you from the tour (if I get any good ones LOL) then please read the following snippet from that post and/or click to go read it to see what you need to do and don’t worry, it’s not going to cost you anything.
I have decided that I will be blogging about the whole experience of the 28th May, with photos and so if that would interest you, then please do register (top left under my photo) to receive blog updates via newsletter – then you won’t miss anything and for those of you who do, IF I manage to take any good photos then I will select a few to send to you. You don’t need to accept the current free download gift that goes with subscription to “Sue’s Digest” but what you will need to do is, go to my contact page, either before or after subscribing, and send me a quick email with OSMOND in the subject, then I can put you in a separate list from my other subscribers and make sure you get a photo.
Now lastly, I would love to know what any of you would want to “Ask an Osmond” at a question and answer session, so please do leave me a comment and tell me what you would ask.. and perhaps let me know via comments if you would like me to blog and show some other photos from all the recent Donny tours I have been on?
The Osmonds, all of them, arrive in the UK next week to start their sell out 50th Anniversary Tour and my darling fiancee bought me the most wonderful Christmas present, one of the VIP packages to the Cardiff Tour Date on Wednesday 28th May – which includes among other things, access to the Sound Check, Question & Answer session and Meet and Greet.. so The Osmonds finally get to meet me, sure hope they are as excited about that as I am!! LOL
Actually as you can see below I have been very lucky in recent years to fulfill my teenage dream of one day meeting Donny – yep I am one of his “Puppy Lovers” as he affectionately calls us and that means, if it’s not obvious, any fan of his from the 70’s – I saw The Osmonds twice in concert back in those teeney bopper days but was never lucky enough to meet any of them, let alone Donny (who of course, like a gazzillion other girls, I was going to marry but you know what, he never asked me, what was that all about LOL).
I first met Donny in 2004 and chose to subject the poor guy to my “statue” impression, yep, couldn’t move or talk, could barely breath! since then I have met him lots of other times and now I can actually form sentences when around him, really!
I have now found though that as you get to know Donny for the lovely down to earth bloke he is, you stop putting him up on that pedestal and you can start being human again when your around him.
Now for the rest of the family, I have been up close to Jay and Jimmy but not to chat to. Merrill, now with our dear ‘Bear’ a few years ago, I decided that as I was not allowed to go hanging around airports, hotels and stage doors in the 70’s by my parents (I was so held back, no fair) anywho, that now as an adult, I needed to experience what that was like and headed on over to Heathrow on one of Merrill’s trips here and got some lovely pictures, a chat and a “walk with me” arm over my shoulder kind of hug.
So that leaves Wayne, Alan and Marie.
Marie, have not seen her since the 70’s – loved her on “Dancing with the Stars” recently as I love to dance as well, so I cannot wait to meet her (and she is just 4 months older than me).
Wayne is such a joker so I understand and an absolute sweetheart, cant wait to meet him.
And Alan again, never met him, so want to.
I was lucky enough to go to The Osmonds concert and Londons Hammersmith Apollo in March of 2006 (line up was Jay, Merrill, Wayne and Jimmy) and we were told that if Alan was well enough, he may put in a guest appearance (Alan suffers with MS and has not been able to perform with his brothers for some time). Well he did, I had a front row seat – not that you use your seat at an Osmond Concert – and when he walked onto the stage to the resounding chorus of the entire venue shouting “We Want the Osmonds” and then you stamp with your feet and repeat, over and over, well his face was an absolute picture. I think the idea was that Jimmy would introduce him and then – allow a bit of applause then got on with one or two songs if Alan could cope – now remember Alan had not performed for years and the last time he would have seen a reaction like he got was back in the 70’s.
Well they did not get to do that, we fans had other ideas and everyone there seemed to know that WE were going to treat Alan to reliving a memory and the stomping and chanting went on for at least five minutes – yep, the Apollo full of 40 somethings women and you were transformed back to the 70’s.
Alan just stood there and took it all in and you saw the tears roll down his cheeks, I have chills now just thinking about it, I am so very proud to have been a part of that moment, of giving Alan that memory back and I so want to tell him as well and give him a hug, hopefully I will now get to do it.
The picture below is one from that concert in 2006 and we got more than one song with Alan. That concert was not like a concert, it was like some huge family reunion.. so now with all of them, together for this 50th Anniversary Tour I simply cannot imagine what the atmosphere is going to be like.
The picture shows from left to right, Jay, Alan, Merrill and just a little bit of Wayne.
And this picture shows that an Osmond concert is the same as it was in the 70’s, just look at all those adoring hands all wanting to touch an Osmond, this is Jay running along the front of the stage and grabbing as many as he can, yep I got a quick hand hold. I don’t know who enjoyed that concert more, us or The Osmonds LOL
Now as this blog has got very long, I had better get to my other point of it.
I have decided that I will be blogging about the whole experience of the 28th May, with photos and so if that would interest you, then please do register (top left under my photo) to receive blog updates via newsletter – then you won’t miss anything and for those of you who do, IF I manage to take any good photos then I will select a few to send to you. You don’t need to accept the current free download gift that goes with subscription to “Sue’s Digest” but what you will need to do is, go to my contact page, either before or after subscribing, and send me a quick email with OSMOND in the subject, then I can put you in a separate list from my other subscribers and make sure you get a photo.
Now lastly, I would love to know what any of you would want to “Ask an Osmond” at a question and answer session, so please do leave me a comment and tell me what you would ask.. and perhaps let me know via comments if you would like me to blog and show some other photos from all the recent Donny tours I have been on?
Setting: The 80th Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood…
Date: 24th February 2008
Singing legend (yes people he sings too) Donny Osmond arrives with his lovely wife “Melissa“of almost 30 years (you don’t see that much in Hollywood, long term marriages that is, not arrivals LOL)..
Not sure how amused Debbie Osmond will be about her new name though
Come on people get the simple facts right at least!! Melissa Osmond is Donny and Debbie’s daughter-in-law!!
Mind you, I know Donny has a great sense of humor and I am darn sure Debbie will have too so they probably will see how amusing this is.. good job really LOL
So whoever wrote the little ditty below, needs a little education. They can get that by popping on over to Donny’s website Donny.com and find out all kinds of things.. it’s easy, I believe it would come under the heading of “investigative journalism”
