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Sing-along Café 2024-10-03

It was a lovely evening in lovely company! We were blessed with a still-warm apple and honey cake made by Robin for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Happy New Year! We have so many opportunities to make a new start, to close a door behind us and look with hope into a new and better future. Here is another door opening. Let’s sing even more, and laugh even more starting now.
Our la-la theme is so much fun! The things I enjoyed most were: Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance (Rah, rah-ah-ah-ah; Roma, roma-ma, Gaga, ooh-la-la) and The Oak Ridge Boys’ Elvira (um-poppa-um-poppa, mow, mow). But, there were so many fun things to sing in all the songs. And, as always, there were so many surprising lyrics to talk about!
We will probably have another Thursday evening on the la-la theme in the future, but next week, we’ll do something else: Songs of Home and Family.
We started this playlist last year, but there are so very many good songs about home and family, so we’ll look at it again now that Thanksgiving is coming up and people will be gathering with family on that long weekend. 
Here’s a selection of the songs we sang and listened to and talked about:
  • I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) by the Proclaimers and by JJ Heller (we love her!)
  • Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye by Steam (I’m adding the Supremes and Bananarama versions to my playlist)
  • Everyday People by Sly & The Family Stone
  • Something Just Like This by Cold Play (I love this song)
  • Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm by the Crash Test Dummies (difficult, sad)
  • Blue (Da Ba Dee) by Eiffel 65 (actually sad-blue)
  • Sing, Sing, Sing by The Andrews Sisters and by Louis Prima (Yes! Sing!)
  • The Shoop Shoop Song by Cher and by Betty Everett 
  • Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing by Stevie Wonder and by Tori Kelly (from the movie Sing!)
  • Cake by the Ocean by The Jonas Brothers
  • All Night Long by Lionel Ritchie (*are those words or nonsense?!) 
  • Tom’s Diner by Suzanne Vega (interesting verses, easy chorus)
* some words and some gibberish! "Karamu" is a Swahili word for a party accompanied by a feast; "Liming" is a Caribbean term for getting together, and "Fiesta" is Spanish for party.'Tambo liteh sette mo-jah!'? Lionel Ritchie said: "I made it up on the spot. Now I think that 'Jambo' might have a meaning in Swahili (it does- "hello")"


Not on the playlist...Na-na-na by One Direction


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