The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #61375   Message #986645
Posted By: GUEST,Kelsie
19-Jul-03 - 02:32 PM
Thread Name: Recommendations: Simple Favorites
Subject: RE: Recommendations: Simple Favorites
Age range -- From seven years old to never-ask-a-lady. Mostly twenty-somethings. 60-40 Female-Male split. Seven who showed last week, and about double that who've expressed interest. Now that I'M not exhausted, we DO have...

Cold Haily Windy Night (well, okay, some of these fly over the seven-year old's head, and some of them we sing after she's had enough and gone off to play on the swingset despite that. We're letting Mom call the tone.)
Frere Jacques (French and English)
My Grandfather's Clock
Hole in the Bucket
Lusty Young Smith
Roll the Old Chariot Along
Rose Red
The Undaunted Female
Waltzing Matilda
I've been Working on the Railroad
Some gregorian chants (by special request)

And yes, we did sing Row Row Row... and the Itsy Bitsy Spider, too! (Seven year olds are great!)

The range isn't bad, but it shows some biases, I think. Some of those reflect the group we collected (and the fact that the seven year old was an unexpected blessing) and all of them reflect the simple reality of the number of songs I could locate, transcribe and partially memorize in two weeks. (Ignores the fact that in the process she forgot to transcribe the warm-ups... D'oh!)

I'm ultimately wanting to add some barbershop for the men and some ballads for the women, provided everyone gets a chance to sing SOMETHING. And I'm getting a head start on it while we have fun with the songs we DO have, so I never have to spend another two weeks like that again....