Sing-along Café 2024-11-07

This week, we had the best theme of all: Singing!

Songs about singing and singers was a fun theme-lots of great songs to sing- and they led to lots of interesting conversations.

We ended up spending some time listening to songs that were not in the theme because we wanted to hear more of a certain singer’s voice. I guess that was on-theme. Singers voices can be so attractive that we are mesmerized or amazed, moved by the sound of their voice as much as by the songs they sing. Two of the singers with outstanding voices were Enya and Ellie Goulding.

We had a laugh listening to Leonard Cohen sing about singing with his rough voice and barely-singing style, but loved his song and appreciated his offering of it, remembering that one of my Big Beliefs is that everyone can and should sing and that no voice is bad.

I shared pumpkin muffins that I had baked and made myself a cup of ginger peach tea. It was a lovely evening in lovely company.

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

Do-Re-Mi by Julie Andrews (from the Sound of Music- can you believe she’s still acting, and is the voice of the narrator, Lady Whistledown, on Bridgestone)
How can I Keep from Singing by Enya and by Libera
Sing by the Carpenters
Sing by Pentatonix (we listened to and watched a few of their videos and were reminded of the Nylons, a Canadian a cappella group- singing without accompaniment is special)
Song Sung Blue by Neil Diamond
Singin’ in the Rain by Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and JJ Heller
Your Song by Ellie Goulding
When Smokey Sings by ABC
I’ll Have to Say I Love You in a Song by Jim Croce (another beautiful voice)
I Write the Songs by Barry Manilow
Magic Power by Triumph (a Canadian band- I'm young, I'm wild, and I'm free. Got the magic power of the music in me)
Riptide by Vance Joy (reminds me of singing with my daughters at campfires)
Love Song by Sara Bareilles
Sing a Happy Song by George McCrae (Sing la la-la-la-la cha-locka-locka-locka!)
You Got Me Singing by Leonard Cohen

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