The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #155421   Message #3655701
Posted By: GUEST
31-Aug-14 - 09:43 PM
Thread Name: Which songs are really sung?
Subject: RE: Which songs are really sung?
If this is RUS: Rise Up Singing - Table of Contents, that's a lot of songs for one book. There are over 1,300 titles in that list. I counted 1,316, but some were duplicate titles. And there were many instances of two titles on one line; I may not have found all of those.

I've collected and sung at least that many songs over the past 50 years, and my collection is a similar mix of traditional songs, new and old pop songs, and hymns. But only 91 of the 1,300 Rise Up Singing titles have ever been in my notebooks, and only 27 of them are in the notebooks that I use currently. How uncool does that make me?

I studied the list because I thought it might give me some ideas for new songs to add to my notebooks. But I only found 9 that I would consider singing, and so many of the others were such horrible songs that I'm not sure it would be worth doing research on the several hundred that I've never heard of.