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Sing-along Café Thursday, October 30th, 2025

We are ready for Halloween! 

My theme today was Halloween. I found a couple of playlists of Halloween music on Apple Music, and we started with the one that is designated as a sing-along playlist. Apple Music Sing is a feature that I don't have on my devices, but there are playlists that are made for it, so all the songs on the playlist have scrolling lyrics. That's good enough for us. 

We started with a song that we loved singing, but we wondered what made it a Halloween selection. The others were pretty obvious. I made a connection with newer songs about love being magical and the singer feeling like he's under a spell and two much older songs, by Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. There were a lot of similarities. And, we noticed that those older songs are pretty hard to sing along with. Sometimes we think that new songs are tricky. We laughed about how we "know" lots of songs and can sing the chorus, but have no idea what the words in the verses are, maybe because we just danced and didn't worry about the lyrics. It's something that comes up again and again. It's always fun to see and sing the lyrics to older songs we only ever heard, but never saw written down. 

I struggle to try to explain what it is that we do, and why I like it so much. Deb gave me a good way to describe it: It's like singing along at a concert, with a band you love. We're like friends that went to a concert together. Except, you don't have the huge crowd and the lights, and the volume isn't that loud, we're sitting in armchairs, and we have lyrics! And tea and muffins (pumpkin apple muffins today). 

We agreed that this time of day is better, and although an hour seems to fly by, it's a good amount of time. I hope we get even more people coming next week. 

Here are some of the songs we sang and listened to:

  • Sweet Dreams are Made of This by the Eurythmics
  • Somebody's Watching Me by Rockwell
  • Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr.
  • One Way or Another (Hocus Pocus 2 Version) by Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy (this was fun!)
  • Thriller by Michael Jackson (we didn't do the zombie dance) 
  • Bad Moon Rising by CCR
  • Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon
  • Abracadabra by Steve Miller Band
  • Witchcraft by Frank Sinatra
  • That Old Black Magic by Sammy Davis Jr 
  • Sugar Sugar by the Archies
  • I Want Candy by Bow Wow Wow

There are so many fun Halloween songs! Maybe you'll sing some tomorrow-before the Jays' Game? 

 

 

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