What are your favorite songs to play that get people singing along?
Not my favorites, but I have a couple of Bob Denver songs in my repertoire and people seem to sing along with. Country Roads is probably the one that most people jump in on most often. I really don't like Bob Denver songs, but everyone else seems to. I play them a lot. What the heck is a mountain mama?
Not my favorites, but I have a couple of Bob Denver songs in my repertoire and people seem to sing along with. Country Roads is probably the one that most people jump in on most often. I really don't like Bob Denver songs, but everyone else seems to. I play them a lot. What the heck is a mountain mama?
I have a couple of Bob Denver songs in my repertoire
You guys got me. I won't go back and change it, that would just add to the fun. Sorry Cornfield, for sending your thread off on a tangent so quickly.
Country Roads is probably the one that most people jump in on most often.
Not my favorites, but I have a couple of Bob Denver songs in my repertoire and people seem to sing along with. Country Roads is probably the one that most people jump in on most often. I really don't like Bob Denver songs, but everyone else seems to. I play them a lot. What the heck is a mountain mama?
Here's the lyrics to the IZ ukulele version of this song: https://genius.com/Israel-kamakawiwoole-take-me-home-country-road-lyrics
You must have watched "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis," "F-Troop" or "Gilligan's Island" recently.
What the heck is a mountain mama?
I'm preparing to retire after 40 years as a pediatric nurse (5 weeks and counting)...
Many of these tunes are getting to be 60 years old, which is not such a bad thing.
If you are playing with a younger group of people, many of these tunes will be written before their mothers were born. Look up the lyric to the Beatle's tune: "Your Mother Should Know". If you have accidentally opened a video of a live Taylor Swift concert, you may realise that any of the songs in the Billboard top 100 are good sing along tunes, a lot of younger people know the words by heart.
Its not hard to follow the Billboard chart using a platform like FaceBook or Instathing, or just checking the Billboard chart once a week. Out of the top 100 there will be some tunes that do not fit what you want and there will be one or two that are perfect for your sing-along, once everyone learns the words. They will have words, or a least a chorus, that will be easy to teach to an audience.
So if you are hoping to endear yourself or your group to anyone born after 1980, maybe you would consider concentrating on material that has been released or recorded this century, dropped as they say in the hip newspapers.
I am not sure if Jim Beloff would read this, but maybe he would enjoy a project: "365.25 Tunes from the 21st Century"? Start the project this Saturday on 29 February 2020.