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Thursday, April 11 Sing-along Café Review

The theme for the evening was: Songs with Instumentals that We Sing. 

The easiest way to introduce this theme is "Sweet Caroline, BA-BA-BA!". Everyone sings along with the brass section, singing like trumpets. There's also a little instrumental interlude that I sing along with. I almost always sing la-las (or ba-ba, da-da, nya-nya, doo, dit, bop...) for the instrumental introductions and interludes in songs. I sing with classical instrumental music, joking that "I know all the words." I'm not the only one. You do this too.

Here's the list of songs we sang:

  • Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond
  • A Taste of Honey by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
  • Wipe Out by the Surfaris
  • The Fool on the Hill by the Beatles
  • I'll Never Fall in Love Again by Dionne Warwick
  • Windy by The Association
  • Careless Whisper by George Michael
  • True by Spandau Ballet
  • Down Under by Men at Work
  • Feeling Good by Michael Bublé
  • More Than a Feeling by Boston
  • Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty
  • Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder
  • 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago
  • Just the Way You Are by Billy Joel
  • Take it Easy by the Eagles
  • Love Her Madly by the Doors
  • Car Wash by Rose Royce
  • I've Been Thinking About You by Londonbeat
  • We Got the Beat by The Go-Go's
  • Rhythm of the Night by DeBarge
  • The Logical Song by Supertramp
  • Don't Bring Me Down by Electric Light Orchestra
  • Barracuda by Heart
  • Mamma Mia by ABBA
  • Funeral for a Friend/ Love Lies Bleeding by Elton John
These songs are in my playlist called Songs with Instrumentals that We Sing. That's a link to the Apple playlist. I've stopped adding songs to the My Singing Night playlist. That playlist was getting too big anyway. It will be easier now to find any songs you are curious about now. You can find all of these songs by searching on any music streaming service that you use. 

We might go back to this theme some day, because it was fun and there are so many more songs on that playlist that we didn't sing last night. 

We enjoyed tea and homemade chocolate chip muffins and leftover candy-covered chocolate Easter eggs (can't remember what brand). We talked a bit about family, family-in-law, and selling houses. It's good to have people to share our messy life stories with, to commiserate and comfort. And, once the singing started, we forgot about the messy bits and enjoyed laughing and remembering better things. 

It's hard to be sad when you're playing air guitar and singing "nya-nyur-nyur, nyow!"

Next week's theme is related to this one's: Songs with La-las! These will be songs where the singing is like the nonsense syllables we sing when we're singing the instrumental bits: la-la, loo, doo, bop, ooh-woah!  And, there will be things like "gruss" from Don't Bring Me Down, and Supercalifragilistic, and, well, come and see!

There's lots of room for more friends to come and sing with us.









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