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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