I can't believe this.ĭon't tell me you don't trade on your looks every day, Ally. It's just easier being screwed by a beautiful woman. The clients think their lawyers are only out to screw them. But you have to remember, people hate lawyers. What ability? I'm still looking for that. So, this had nothing to do with my ability as a lawyer. Why bite the hand that wants to touch you? Did I interview you for the job?ĭid I ask to see a reference or a transcript? Ally, did we know each other in law school? Richard, I'm going to ask you one more time, did you hire me based on my looks? American singer-songwriter and musician, Vonda Shepard is coming to the Apex in Bury St. Well, what are you talking about over ice cream? I thought we were watching our cholesterol this month. McBeal turns to Renee and says, "She's talking to you.Hey, Larry. Ally McBeal became an instant pop culture phenomenon when the quirky legal drama premiered on Fox in 1997, winning the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, landing on the cover of Time magazine. Ally plays mediator when a minister breaks up with his churchs choir singer and a client sues a plastic surgeons nurse for misrepresenting her natural breasts as implants. From behind her piano, Shepard breaks into the 1966 hit "Walk Away Renee" by the Left Banke. "Ally and I, it's like we're the same person."īack at the nightclub, McBeal's roomie Renee drills the boyfriendless lawyer about a shoplifting incident involving spermicidal jelly. Shepard says she and Kelley have a kind of "organic, psychic connection." Although Kelley has been known to blast Shepard's CDs while writing for the show, and Shepard often gets scripts in advance to inspire her musically, she says the link between the writing and the music isn't forced. I thought he would use a few songs here and there, but my role has devoloped into an integral part of the show." "At first, I was blown away with the results. She also appears weekly as a member of the cast, a first for any musician. Kelley, a longtime fan of Shepard's folk-rock sound, asked her to produce and perform all the show's songs. "My lyrics are very thought out and on the somewhat intellectual side," she says. Shepard describes herself as an "introspective singer/songwriter with a soulful voice." And Shepard has a new CD due next summer from her record company, Vesper Alley. A video for "Searchin' My Soul," featuring cast members, shoots this week. An "Ally McBeal" soundtrack is planned for release in December. Her work for "Ally McBeal" is invigorating her career.
Most recently, she was the opening act for selected Indigo Girls dates. Some folks may remember her 1989 song and video "Don't Cry Ilene" or her duet with Dan Hill, "Can't We Try," which reached No. Since then, she's released three albums: "Vonda Shepard," "It's Good Eve" and "The Radical Light." Songs from each have been used on the show. At 19, she got her first big break when Rickie Lee Jones asked her to play keyboards and sing backup vocals with her touring band. "I've been around for a long time," says the 34-year-old Los Angeles native.
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So where did Shepard, unknown to most TV and music audiences until now, come from? With each song choice, Shepard sets McBeal's thoughts and feelings to music. Background and transitional music is a mix of quirky '50s and '60s covers and more of her original tunes. The show's theme song, her own heartfelt "Searchin' My Soul," mirrors McBeal's journey to find herself and romance. As the cast's resident singer/songwriter, it's her job to give the show its musical soul. It also has them asking: Who is this mind-reading chanteuse? It's scenes like this that have fans praising the cosmic connection between the show's story line and musical selections.
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