In anticipation of Valentine’s Day, Cupid went on Colorado & Company to talk all things singing telegram.
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Focus attention on the guest of honor with a customized (outdoor) singing telegram from Orange peel moses of Custom Singing Telegrams. Jenny Baker-Strasburg says clients are regaled by two or three songs and gifted handwritten lyrics as a keepsake.
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As challenging as it was, starting an entertainment business would have been infinitely more difficult if I hadn't begun studying music at such a young age. My mother's encouragement to take piano lessons and then join the school band when I was young gave me a definite head start in the music department. I'm infinitely grateful to her for that.
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I remember envisioning delivering singing telegrams when I was 17 or 18, just a few years after I began writing rudimentary original songs. Even though I’d seen Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, I failed to connect what I was picturing to the balloon bouquet-wielding nurse that hilariously performs for Ferris’s unamused sister.
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George Peele has been dressing up as Cupid and serenading people for the last 15 years. This Valentine’s, be bold and different by sending your love interest a surprise serenade.
From Valentine’s Day to anniversaries to birthdays, a singing telegram is the epitome of saying “I love you” in a song. Denver 7’s Gerardo Federico shows us a Colorado man in his fifteenth year, with over 3000 satisfied customers.
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"Ok, that is a grown man in a diaper."
Watch the moment when Denver singing Cupid George Peele surprises 9 News anchor Liz Kotalik during her Valentine's Day live shot at the King Soopers in Glendale.
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On Valentine's Day, Channel 2 reporter Kevin Torres followed Custom Singing Telegrams' founder George Peele and singer Melissa Ivey around for a couple of hours. Click on the image above to see the TV segment that aired.
Custom Singing Telegrams gives a multitude of costume options for its messengers, including a naughty nurse, Harry Potter, Jesus, a unicorn, “Cock Rocker,” “Crosstitute,” a vampire and more. The gorilla in a tutu is the most popular costume request, but Hammerberg says David Bowie is his favorite costume. Or, rather, it used to be. Image courtesy Mark Cafiero.
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