Sing-along Café 2024-10-24

Halloween is so much fun! We had lots of laughs and some chills and jitters too. In addition to singing along with songs from the Apple Music Halloween Essentials playlist, we watched the whole Thriller video on YouTube. It was scarier and more gruesome than I remembered. Song lyrics surprised us more than usual it seemed. Some of the songs turned us off, and we skipped them. We had lots of good conversation and some cranberry cake and a couple of Halloween chocolates too. It was a lovely evening in lovely company.

We will not be meeting on Halloween night, next Thursday, October 31st.

Stay tuned for our theme for November 7th (I haven't decided yet, so you can let me know if you have something in mind.)

Here are some of the songs we sang and listened to and a link to the playlist we used (we didn't listen to most of those songs, given the time we spent in comfortable conversation and given that we only have an hour and a half).

Thriller by Michael Jackson

Superstition by Stevie Wonder

Bad Moon Rising by CCR

Hungry Like a Wolf by Duran Duran

Abracadabra by the Steve Miller Band

Love Potion No. 9 by The Searchers

Purple People Eater by Sheb Wooley

Time Warp by Little Nell, Patricia Quinn & Richard O’Brien

That Old Black Magic by Sammy Davis Jr.

Monster Mash by Bobby “Boris” Pickett & the Crypt-Kickers

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