Sing-along Café Thursday, February 26th, 2026

It was a lovely afternoon spent in lovely company. I baked raisin bran muffins earlier and brought them with a few slices of a pumpkin loaf I baked earlier in the week. We didn't manage to eat much because we sang a lot today, and had some lively conversation as well.

Who knew there were so many songs about pets, or on the theme of pets?! Some songs were obvisously not about cats or dogs, but about people (What's New Pussycat?), and some really had nothing to do with pets (Year of the Cat), while others were about pets but sounded like they were about people (Martha, My Dear). We had fun looking up the year of release of some of these songs. How little were we when we first heard these songs?! So many songs were from the 1970s.

I'm thinking, for something different, to look at a playlist of 1970s songs.

I hope to see you next week. For now, here's what we sang and listened to on Feb. 26th:

Always on My Mind and I Want a Dog by the Pet Shop Boys
Cat's in the Cradle by Harry Chapin
A Horse With No Name by America
Hound Dog by Big Mama Thornton and by Elvis Presley
Martha My Dear by the Beatles
Me and My Arrow by Harry Nilsson
Me and You and a Dog Named Boo by Lobo
Puppy Love by Donny Osmond
Scooby Doo Theme by the Hollywood Sound Machine
What's New Pussycat by Tom Jones
Year of the Cat by Al Stewart

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