Sing-along Café Thursday, June 4th, 2026

A lovely afternoon in lovely company ending a lovely season of singing together!

It was so nice that the air conditioning was good and strong. I had prepared a no-bake treat, date brownies. They're made of dates blended with peanut butter and cocoa, a little flour and cinnamon and then pressed into a muffin cup, then topped with melted dark chocolate with a little butter. Frozen briefly and kept cold in the refrigerator. Yum! Little clementine oranges, nice and cool were also perfect for a hot afternoon.

Summer is coming and it's already hot outside, time for pools and cottages and slow afternoons on the porch or deck. Summer activities often feel like an escape, a vacation even for a few hours. Love was a good theme for our last time together for the season.

One of the themes of love songs that we encountered in the past and noticed again today was that the world sometimes disappears when you're with your lover. Just being together can be an escape. Love can take you away from your everyday concerns and push away any thoughts of the wacky world "out there". It's especially so with a new love.

We noticed that a number of the songs were sweetly melodic, soft and slow, seemingly made especially for slow dancing. But, others were very bouncy and not obviously love songs.

My playlist was "Songs for Keeping Love Alive" and that love theme is a little different. I was thinking of songs that promise a forever love, of course, but also songs like The Pina Colada Song, where love needs a fresh new perspective to give it a boost so that it stays alive, or comes back to life.

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

As by Stevie Wonder and by George Michael (Not the best title. I would have called it "Always" or "Until". If you haven't heard this, please give it a listen. So good.)
Escape (The Pina Colada Song) by Rupert Holmes
Get On Your Feet by Gloria Estefan
Here, There and Everywhere by The Beatles
Hold Each Other by A Great Big World (You have to listen to this one and learn the story behind it!)
How Deep is Your Love by the Bee Gees (Why did I think they were Swedish? lol!)
I Melt With You by Modern English
I Will by the Beatles
Never Gonna Let You Go by Sergio Mendes
P.S. I Love You by the Beatles
Sealed With a Kiss by Brian Hyland
Together Forever by Rick Astley
You're Still the One by Shania Twain

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