Sing-along Café 2024-09-19

Our theme was Days of the Week, and there were so many fun songs!

I was surprised at how many songs have days of the week in their titles and when I considered Yesterday and Tomrrow as days, well, that added a whole bunch of good music to my playlist.

Here's a link to my Songs with Days of the Week playlist on Apple Music. There's about 4 and a half hours of music there, so we could potentially do this theme another time.

We met a new friend last night and it was heartwarming to see and hear how happy he was to be singing! Singing when it's not a show, just for fun, familiar songs with words there to share is "easy like Sunday morning". And, tea and carrot cake and banana muffins shared with good people and good conversation make it even more enjoyable.

Here's a selection of the songs we sang and listened to:

Rainy Days and Mondays by the Carpenters

Manic Monday by the Bangles

Monday, Monday by the Mamas and the Papas

Saturday Night by the Bay City Rollers

Saturday Night's alright for Fighting by Elton John

Sunday Morning Coming Down by Kris Kristofferson

Easy by the Commodores (Easy like Sunday morning)

Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson (It's Saturday night and we in the spot)

Eight Days a Week by the Beatles

9-5 by Dolly Parton (implies Monday to Friday?)

Seven Day Fool by Jully Black

Yesterday by the Beatles

Yesterday Once More by the Carpenters

Tomorrow by JJ Heller

Next week's theme will be: Songs with La-las and other Nonsense (that's a link to the playlist)

We have had this theme before but a couple of regulars are going to be missing, and I have hours of music on this theme. In case you don't know me well, la-las is what I call all the stuff that's not words in a song. So, la-la, da-da-dum, scooby dooby doo, whoa-whoa, shoop shoop, etc.

Come and join us! Remember we have new hours 7:00-8:30 every Thursday

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Thursday, April 18 Sing-along Café Review

The theme for the evening was: Songs with La-las (and other nonsense: ooh, doo-dah, na-na, scoobie-doobie, bum-ba-bum, hey!). I call all of these little non-word lyrics la-las. They're often my favourite part of a song. Everyone can sing those words, usually. With scat singing, not usually, and with yodeling, not everyone. But, think about the Beatles song Hey Jude. At the end, everyone can sing along with the na-nas and some of us even like to harmonize with them. When my daughter was writing songs, I urged her to put some nonesense la-las in her songs. Don't worry about finding beautiful, powerful words for all the verses, or all the lines of the chorus. Sometimes, the lack of words makes a melody more powerful. Here's the list of songs we sang and listened to: Can't Get You Out of My Head by Kylie Minogue Everything by Michael Bublé Those Were the Days by Mary Hopkin Hey Jude by the Beatles Tom's Diner by Suzanne Vega &DNA De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da

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 Raffer

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