Subject: RE: Songs NOT to sing in nursing homes! From: The Walrus Date: 10 Oct 06 - 03:11 AM The Parting Glass? W |
Subject: RE: Songs NOT to sing in nursing homes! From: Tattie Bogle Date: 10 Oct 06 - 07:42 PM Tom Paxton again - "Can't help but wonder where I'm bound". From "Steady boys, walk on" - "this will be the last trip home". And Adam McNaughtan "You're all gonnae die". |
Subject: RE: Songs NOT to sing in nursing homes! From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 11 Oct 06 - 08:33 AM Why does brocoli look like a cartoon fart? |
Subject: RE: Songs NOT to sing in nursing homes! From: GUEST,steve benbows protege off line Date: 11 Oct 06 - 04:16 PM What about "Burn Baby Burn" or the crap song "The only way is up" |
Subject: RE: Songs NOT to sing in nursing homes! From: Genie Date: 24 Oct 06 - 04:31 PM Can't Help But Wander, So I'm Bound |
Subject: RE: Songs NOT to sing in nursing homes! From: SharonA Date: 24 Oct 06 - 06:52 PM "I Don't Look Good Naked Anymore" |
Subject: RE: Songs NOT to sing in nursing homes! From: oggie Date: 25 Oct 06 - 04:26 PM Tom Paxton again 'Forest Lawns'. 'Life is a Lemon (and I wantmy money back)' Meatloaf (or 'Bat out of Hell') All the best oggie |
Subject: RE: Songs NOT to sing in nursing homes! From: GUEST Date: 22 Jan 19 - 02:09 AM My Way Auld lang syne I'll be home for Christmas. |
Subject: RE: Songs NOT to sing in nursing homes! From: Joe Offer Date: 22 Jan 19 - 03:39 AM I've found nursing home audiences to be very enthusiastic. They don't seem to be fussy about anything - songs that mention death and old age are fine with them. They do seem to prefer songs that they know, songs that spark a memory. In the first message, Genie listed
Don't Fence Me In Dry Bones I Almost Lost My Mind Urge For Goin' -Joe- |
Subject: RE: Songs NOT to sing in nursing homes! From: GUEST,Andiliqueur Date: 22 Jan 19 - 04:44 AM I remember feeling very uncomfortable singing "All my Trials Lord soon be over" with my choir at a nursing home. |
Subject: RE: Songs NOT to sing in nursing homes! From: GUEST,Grishka Date: 22 Jan 19 - 06:10 AM Some years ago is was in the news that a nursing home had banned "My Way" (from its collection of vinyl disks?), arguing that it made the inmates depressive. The worst problems are not being old facing death, but being suggested that they (we)
Once I had the problem of selecting autumn songs. Almost all those I found talked about relaxing towards the end of one's life - this is not the right idea! Farmers nowadays know that there is work all year. |
Subject: RE: Songs NOT to sing in nursing homes! From: wysiwyg Date: 22 Jan 19 - 06:46 PM Our nursing home gigs have had universal success with the blues, for both secular gigs and church services there. They are the first-requested, each time we've returned. Built for Comfort is big with elders! ~S~ |
Subject: RE: Songs NOT to sing in nursing homes! From: GUEST,Dave D Date: 22 Jan 19 - 07:04 PM well outside the folk idiom, but - The Jam's Going Underground :) |
Subject: RE: Songs NOT to sing in nursing homes! From: Joe_F Date: 22 Jan 19 - 10:08 PM The Revel: Then stand to your glasses steady. This world is a world of lies. Here's a sip to the dead already And a cup to the next that dies. |
Subject: RE: Songs NOT to sing in nursing homes! From: GUEST,Tunesmith Date: 23 Jan 19 - 10:31 AM Catherine Tate is a much loved British comic actress/performer. here she is talking about performing to pensioners. No pleasing those old folk! |
Subject: RE: Songs NOT to sing in nursing homes! From: GUEST,Jerry Date: 24 Jan 19 - 04:56 AM Has anybody mentioned ‘Old Friends’? That line “how terribly strange to be seventy” must be a bit disturbing when you’ve now got children nearly that age. |
Subject: RE: Songs NOT to sing in nursing homes! From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 24 Jan 19 - 06:32 PM I believe "Happy Trails to You" ... is one of the most recognized from radio dramas. Two times, in the last 15 years, it has been sung at "alternative funerals." Sincerely, Gargoyle |
Subject: RE: Songs NOT to sing in nursing homes! From: wysiwyg Date: 24 Jan 19 - 06:38 PM My partner Greg sez his blues requests are neck and neck for "... But she gave me gasoline..." |
Subject: RE: Songs NOT to sing in nursing homes! From: wysiwyg Date: 24 Jan 19 - 08:10 PM Here's one right on that fine line: https://youtu.be/HoRNN8kJ0AU |
Subject: RE: Songs NOT to sing in nursing homes! From: The Sandman Date: 25 Jan 19 - 03:30 AM hes old and only in the way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFF4ANolpAc |
Subject: RE: Songs NOT to sing in nursing homes! From: Long Firm Freddie Date: 25 Jan 19 - 06:09 AM John Shuttleworth's "God's Waiting Room": "This is going out to my brothers and sisters Well it would do if they still existed But they're all dead now and I'm all alone All alone in a residential home" God's Waiting Room LFF |
Subject: RE: Songs NOT to sing in nursing homes! From: Neil D Date: 25 Jan 19 - 06:22 AM Harry Nilsson had a song on his "Son of Schmilsson" album called "I'd Rather Be Dead". The chorus line being I'd rather be dead than wet my bed, on which the Senior Citizens of the Stepney & Pinner Choir Club No. 6, London, England provided backing vocals. |
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