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Bizarre: Katie Couric Sings Backup for Jimmy Buffett (Yes, Really!)

NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (TheBlaze/AP) — Television host and former CBS News anchor Katie Couric is no brown-eyed girl, but she can hold her own singing backup for Jimmy Buffett.

Katie Couric Sings Backup for Jimmy Buffett

Katie Couric (Image Credit: ABC News)

The ABC newswoman and TV personality joined Buffett on stage for several songs Tuesday during a concert in Noblesville, Ind., about 20 miles northeast of Indianapolis.

Couric told WRTV-TV in Indianapolis that she thought it would be a fun, visual “little fling.”

Buffett, who covered and often performs the Van Morrison classic “Brown-eyed Girl” at his shows, says Couric can sing and thinks her performance could be the start of a new career for her.

“She can sing. So, it could be a career starting move for her,” Buffett said. “I don‘t think it’s going to be a career-ending move for me.”

Couric has other plans. She’ll launch a new daytime talk show titled “Katie” on Sept. 10. Footage from the event will be featured in the new show.

Comments (47)

  • kontrarian
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 7:16am

    Bulimics may find this barf-inducing spectacle useful.

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    • midwesthippie
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 11:12am

      …blaze…thanks for tricking us into watching a puff piece on glenny’s dream girl…

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    • Libertyluvnmomma
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 4:49pm

      KON- I was going to post something but I didn’t want to compete with your hilarious comment.
      thanks

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  • christhefanatic
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 7:10am

    Who told Katie Couric she could think?

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  • Iomaire52
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 6:29am

    Aren’t “parrot heads” part of the “unwashed masses” that Couric looks down her elitist nose and sniffs. Next she’ll be pulling a Madonna for attention….omg, more soggy wompties fighting the good fight….and losing. Was there a line about lipstick on a pig? It applies.

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  • Hobo Boondocks
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 6:01am

    I sometimes can’t figure if white people are making a sincere effort to sing or dance or making fun of the handicapped…..either way it’s not entertainment. Maybe Kath should stick to what she knows best…keeping the public ignorant of what Obama’s administration has done to the country.

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  • GeorgeWashingtonslept here
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 5:38am

    Jimmy Buffet is a POS. His lawyer’s basically put a small burger joint out of business in Frederick Maryland several years back………….How you ask? They called their business “Cheeseburger’s in Paradise”……………….lawyers said Buffet has the legal right to that name and were going to take them to court. This was a retired couple that opened up during the warm months in Maryland and closed in the winter and went to Florida. And they were Buffet fans. They sold and moved to Florida permanently. Hey Jimmy, ef you and Bruce, you liberal morons. And to the my state,,,,Maryland, you suck as well.

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  • georgepatton
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 5:15am

    Another washed-up leftie lookin’ for a paying gig!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • cookcountypatriot
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 3:33am

    finally….something katie can do…..now go away

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  • getourcountryback
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 3:19am

    Lost all my respect for Buffett a long time ago. He can waste someone else’s money foolishly because I no longer spend any of mine on his crap.

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  • crusaderx9
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 2:58am

    A used-up anti-American liberal hag wandering from one failure to another in the media entertainment kingdom. Unconvincing as a real journalist and a willing fool for progressive political entertainment – she continues to embarrass herself before audiences around the country…

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  • grandma7
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:15am

    Keep her singing. Tired of her pretending to be a journalist.

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  • Tom70
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:11am

    Well there goes Jimmies fred? The chipmunk actually sings might be the only job she’ll get in a sleazey bar singing for tips and beer.

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    • DIR
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:54am

      Katy could start a lounge act in the men’s restroom at a Holiday Inn. Listening to her is guaranteed to give just about anyone the schitz. Listeners would be glad to throw her dimes, quarters maybe even some paper money to have her shut up.

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  • ballsofFe
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:09am

    I felt less sick watching two girls one cup. Katie was already disgusting after what she did to Sarah Palin… but this takes it to a whole new level.

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  • Constantine Ivanov
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:06am

    Oh, sure, when a blonde jerks her hips, opens her mouth and emanates a few sounds slightly better than a crow, it’s immediately said: “She can sing…”
    Sure, screaming and croaking are called singing in our country last 40 years

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  • Tri-ox
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:05am

    Uh, is there anyone who can stand Katie Couric?

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  • Parnell3rd
    Posted on August 1, 2012 at 11:42pm

    Can we send Katie Komrade Kuric home? She is such a ……

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  • Pyrat
    Posted on August 1, 2012 at 11:36pm

    You won’t find a greater group of people than Parrotheads! Conservatives and liberals, they are some of the best people I’ve ever met and had the great pleasure to be around. They can put all the garbage aside for a few hours and throw the best party you can imagine. They got a ton of donations and put together a huge party for the troop, I believe it was $1000 just for the lights alone. Jimmy had one of the greatest shows I ever heard, it was in Noblesville in 2001. The first show after 9/11 There are copies of that show online, I still get chills thinking about it. The emotions from the fans, Jimmy and the band were incredible. Jimmy could barely hold himself together through Tin Cup Chalice, amazing moment. If I was so close minded about everything I ever enjoyed at one point I would never have anything left in my life to enjoy.

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  • FaithfulFriend
    Posted on August 1, 2012 at 11:28pm

    Just a little near flashback to the good old days in the ‘90s when at least one of Jimmy’s backup singers was doing Ted Kennedy.

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  • KangarooJack
    Posted on August 1, 2012 at 11:25pm

    Just want to say that Jimmy Buffet was/is coming to Detroit. ALL the local newscasts have touted this……touted his lead in act- Lionel Richie I believe.

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  • Meyvn
    Posted on August 1, 2012 at 11:17pm

    Puhlease!

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  • trolltrainer
    Posted on August 1, 2012 at 11:06pm

    I miss the good old days when I was politically niave and could enjoy singers like Jimmy Buffet and Bruce Springsteen and most hollyweird actors…

    Now I cant stand the sight of any of them…

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    • Cadcamtrainer
      Posted on August 1, 2012 at 11:17pm

      I agree with you 100 %

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:27am

      Bruce Springysteen doesn’t pay his property taxes in NJ
      Claims he is a llama farmer?
      Or is that Jon Bon Jon bovine who raises pigs?

      Courack is a kook. She should have kept her day job.
      NBC/Nothing But Crap paid her well
      LOSER!!!
      OMG 2012

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    • DaveOregon
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 1:03am

      Ditto – reall ruined a lot o music for me. Cher makes we want to barf! Jimmy – sad, man. Really, really sad.

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    • CatB
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 1:09am

      Amen to that … Buffet and some of the Hollyweirds actually vacation near me .. I pray I never have to see one in person .. don’t know if I could hold my tongue .. I might actually tell them EXACTLY what I think of them and their hypocrisy!

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  • 65Mustang
    Posted on August 1, 2012 at 11:00pm

    Still can’t stand her and definitely will not watch her show….what was the name of it?

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    • Ibanez6
      Posted on August 1, 2012 at 11:19pm

      I guess I’m conflicted. I‘m ultra conservative and I can’t stand Katies politics but I must confess that I do find her to be a rather good looking woman..

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on August 1, 2012 at 10:56pm

    I think I just threw up a little in my mouth………ughhh

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  • scuba13
    Posted on August 1, 2012 at 10:55pm

    That was the worst American Idol contestant I have ever seen.

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on August 1, 2012 at 11:37pm

      Well, she does look like something Susan Doyle left in the toilet.

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    • CatB
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 1:10am

      LOL .. SCUBAA13 .. they would have to be on the night of losers edition. Where they show the bad and the ugly.

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    • formidable_foe
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 3:53pm

      The good news is that when she’s singing, she’s not talking.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on August 1, 2012 at 10:54pm

    Were they singing “Lost again in Mediocre Ville”

    Or Sleaze Bag in Paradise

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  • dadsrootbeer
    Posted on August 1, 2012 at 10:49pm

    Please make it stop

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