songs you hear and have to sing along

Subject: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 12:06 AM

Top 10 songs you hear on the radio and just have to sing along with?

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: MBSLynne
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 06:16 AM

Most of them. Anything from the 60s. Stairway to Heaven...House of the Rising Sun...Living on a prayer...

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: lady penelope
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 06:38 AM

Bohemian Rhapsody, can't not sing along..........and head bang in the guitar break........even in a posh frock at a wedding..........

TTFN Lady P.

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: s6k
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 06:52 AM

mozfart

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: MBSLynne
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 08:58 AM

Oh of course! I forgot Bohemian Rhapsody! Definitely one of the top two or three!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: jacqui.c
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 09:15 AM

Bohemian Rhapsody
Unchained Melody
That'll Be The Day
Let It Be Me
Stairway To Heaven
Cathy's Clown
Bridge Over Troubled Water
America
You'll Never Walk Alone
Tonight

Do I have to stop at ten?

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: PoppaGator
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 03:10 PM

Brown-Eyed Girl -- if not the whole song, definitely the "sha-la-la" part...

Like a Rolling Stone -- again, maybe not the whole thing, but certainly the part about "How Does It FREEEEEEEL?"

Li'l Liza Jane, as played by Kermit Ruffins or Rebirth or any of the New Orleans new-school brass bands. Oh, yeah -- you never hear that on the radio anywhere else in the world, unless you tune your computer to www.wwoz.org.

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 03:12 PM

basically anything that isn't so synthisized and overproduced as to be rendered incapable of reproduction by the human organism.

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: GUEST,PoohBear
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 11:23 PM

Flower of Scotland
Stairway to Heaven
Yellow Submarine
Mrs Robinson

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: open mike
Date: 27 Aug 04 - 11:58 PM

City of New Orleans...
and i love the part in
yesterday when it says
suddenly, I'm, not half the man i used to be
this is a great part for a girl...

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: Joe Offer
Date: 28 Aug 04 - 03:16 AM

I sing along with girl group songs - just about all of them. My favorite is "Chapel of Love."
-Joe Offer, with a damn strrong falsetto-

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: frogprince
Date: 28 Aug 04 - 10:47 AM

The Weight(Take a load off, Fanny...and put the load, put the load. right on me)
American Pie
Amazing Grace
Like a Rolling Stone
Wild Rose of the Mountain
Blowing in the Wind
That's What You Get For Loving Me
Simple Gifts
If I Needed You
and(God help me)Do-wa-diddy-diddy-dum-diddy-dum.

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: Sorcha
Date: 28 Aug 04 - 11:09 AM

And nobody has said American Pie!

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: Metchosin
Date: 28 Aug 04 - 11:37 AM

Northwest Passage
Tom's Gone to Hilo
Santayana
It Doesn't Matter Anymore
Amazing Grace
Mule Train
A Wee Docht and Doris
The Prune Song
This Ole House
Come Softly to Me.....dum dum, dum do dum do doody, do dum dum, dum do dum do doody

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 28 Aug 04 - 12:50 PM

Mary Ellen Carter; Wimoweh; I Fall To Pieces; Keep On The Sunny Side; Hard Times Come Again No More....Depends what day it is, what else is happening -- LOTS of faves. Tw

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: GUEST,chinmusuc
Date: 28 Aug 04 - 01:06 PM

1- Over The Rainbow
2- Roseville Fair
3- Acony Bell
4- Wayward Wind
5- Mr. Bogangles
6- Moon River
7- So Sad
8- Blue Eyes Cryin' In The Rain
9- I'm Easy
10- Sunday Morning Comin' Down

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: Eric the Streetsinger
Date: 28 Aug 04 - 03:30 PM

That old Greg Brown tune
"Rooty-Toot-Toot for the Moon" is a real earworm!
Also an old kid'd song:

"I know someone you don't know,
yogi, yogi bear.
I know someone you don't know,
yogi, yogi bear.
Yogi yogi bear,
Yogi yogi bear,
I know someone you don't know,
yogi yogi bear.

That one gets going, and just drives me crazy!

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: Ron Davies
Date: 29 Aug 04 - 09:18 AM

Almost unlimited number of songs. I get complaints from passengers for doing just that in the car (for some reason they think I should pay more attention to them--now why would that be?). Best solution I've found is to have passengers who enjoy doing it as much.

Anyway, I'm with Joe Offer on this--love to sing falsetto in the car.

In fact, I owe my membership in any choral group at all to the car radio. I have a lousy range--one and half octaves--but with falsetto, it's doubled. Some guys in my group have no falsetto at all and several times we've been asked to use it--particularly to slide seamlessly into it.

Anyway, I have the Beach Boys to thank for my choral career. (I've tried to sing a few 4 Seasons hits, but Frankee Vallee just goes too high---how does he do it?--was that a studio trick?)

At, any rate, I'd definitely sing any Beach Boys hit in the car--top 10--no particular order--

Don't Worry Baby
Fun Fun Fun
Wendy
California Girls
Surfer Girl
Be True To Your School
Sloop John B.
Wouldn't It Be Nice?

and just for a break, to round it off--2 non Beach Boys

Under the Boardwalk--love to sing all the parts
The Lion Sleeps Tonight --same

It would be real easy to make other, long, lists, especially of doo-wop--alternating singing the various parts.

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Aug 04 - 01:27 PM

California Dreamin'

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: GUEST,Augie
Date: 29 Aug 04 - 10:25 PM

Michael Smith's "The Dutchman"

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: GUEST,Snagger
Date: 29 Aug 04 - 11:14 PM

Fields of Gold
Over the Rainbow
Satisfaction
Respect
Where the Streets have no name

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: MBSLynne
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 04:14 AM

Just about every one anyone has already said, plus about fifty million more!

Love LYnne

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: Gurney
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 06:12 AM

On the radio... anything by Buddy Holly, most by the Beach Boys.

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 06:46 AM

I don't have to sing along to any song. Sometimes I may choose to. Whether I do or not depends on factors including where I am at the time, whether I've had a drink or not and my general mood. The song itself, assuming I know it is pretty much an irellevant factor.

Not really singing along but last night when out with my brother a music conversation started in a pub and we went though things including Bowie's "Quicksand" and Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond". Another night it could be singing songs like "Take Me Back To The Black Hills" or "Poor Judd Is Dead" in the car. Maybe on another occasion it could be "The Blacksmith", etc.

It's as simple as that. Songs don't compel me to sing along but appropriate occasions might...

Jon

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: Willie-O
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 10:04 AM

[i be not really william darling, i be his pirate daughter. yarrr.]

-tiny dancer (although elton john confuses me, by not knowing how to write a song that i'm just kinda in the middle about. they're all either passionately loved or hated. whyyyy-eeee?)
-breakfast at tiffany's (or at least the chorus, because i honestly can't remember a single other word of it, and i've no idea whose song it is, it's just one of those things that appears at cottages and makes me happy.)
-hotel california (until recently i had not heard the original version of this, nor heard anyone sing/play it while sober and properly awake. it actually works better as a tired drunken end-of-cast-party song, methinks.)
-anything from any musical i know at all (particularily if i've actually been in it, of course, but things that i've a desperate desire to be in some day--like rent or hedwig--count too.)
-hallelujah (preeeeeeetty. that's all i really have to say here, but i must make the comment properly long to match the others.)
-er...anything i...know...really. (i'm not very descriminating at all, you see...)

[arrr.]

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: frogprince
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 07:24 PM

Can't believe none of us said "The Mary Ellen Carter" before Tannyhill; can't imagine NOT singing along to that song..

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: GUEST,Anne Croucher
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 07:42 PM

I never hear any songs on the radio I would want to sing along to, let alone have to.

Maybe I don't look as hard as if I had no music of my own.

Anne

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: mike_in_st_c
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 10:41 PM

Hotel California, but at night in a driving rain.
Mary Ellen Carter
Barret's Privateers
You've Got a Friend
With a Little Help From My Friends
Fire and Rain
Lucy in the Sky
Desperado
Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)- Heck I don't need the radio to break into that one...I do it regularly at the end of a night shift when I'm getting a client ready for the day.
Shenandoah=--do I have to stop at ten? Mike

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: Teresa
Date: 30 Aug 04 - 11:55 PM

Somewhere Over the rainbow, (which also always makes me cry)
A Chat With Your Mother by Lou and Peter berryman
Barret's Privateers (and also Garnet's Homemade Beer) ;)
The Eagle and the Hawk by John Denver
We shall all Go Together when We Go by Tom Lehrer (Ok, I have a dark sense of humor)

Well if I heard these on the radio ...
Spanish Lady; Sweet Thames Flow Softly; They'll Never get Their Man, Ye Jacobites by Name; Jack of All Trades--all as sung by the Johnstons with their wondrous harmony. It just makes me want to sing along.

How many was that? Math has never been my forte. ;)
T

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: Mudlark
Date: 31 Aug 04 - 02:33 AM

Lookin' for the Heart of Sat'day Night (Tom Waits)
Love Has No Pride (Bonnie Raitt)
Day Tripper (beatles)
Hit the Road, Jack (Linda R.)
Wild Thing
Smooth Operator (sades)
Paperback Writer (beatles)
Your Cheatin' Heart (H. Wms)
Louie, Louie
And just about anything sung by Emmy Lou before 1985.

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: GUEST,GROK
Date: 01 Sep 04 - 02:25 AM

Jimmy Brown (The Three Bells)
Good Night Irene
Yellow Rose of Texas
Like a Rollin' Stone
Memphis Blues Again
Blue Moon
Surfin' Safari
Break My Mind
Summer of '69 (Bryan Adams)
Boys of Summer

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: PoppaGator
Date: 01 Sep 04 - 12:26 PM

I love these "name your favorite songs" threads, because they always remind me of great tunes I've almost forgotten about.

They also always include names of songs I've never heard -- in most cases, probably because I live on one side of the world and not the other. In any event, it stimulates my curiosity, and when I encounter the same title over and over again, I eventually learn to look for it.

I love to sing along with girl-group tunes, too, especially in the car -- just like Joe Offer, Ron Davies, and like the Beatles so obviously did. And, when my vocal range is at its peak, I really enjoy singing along with Al Green, too.

A special thanks to Metchosin for reminding me of the Fleetwoods' extremely wonderful "Come Softly To Me." Wow.

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: Sorcha
Date: 01 Sep 04 - 01:19 PM

Can't believe nobody has said Spirit in the Sky!

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: TS
Date: 01 Sep 04 - 01:52 PM

Liked alot of the choices...wondered about some of your crowds on others....mine..(based on some ofthe previously listed)

Barrett's Privateers
Wild Rover
Black Velvet Band
American Pie
Browneyed Girl
Hey Jude
Sweet City Woman
Me and Julio
Wasn't that a Party (God, forgive me)
Whiskey in the Jar

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 12:45 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: el_punkoid_nouveau
Date: 03 Sep 04 - 09:40 AM

And nobody has mentioned Layla! Especially the instrumental bit that got cut from the single...

Meet Me On The Corner

Any other Eagles stuff, just as much as Hotel California...

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: Brían
Date: 03 Sep 04 - 10:44 AM

I was driving back from Quebec through NY last week and I stumbled across a 70's format program. I believe one of the songs that got me singing the most was Bill Wither's LEAN ON ME. I love Soul but unfortunately, I have no falsetto. I guess that's one reson I sing fok music.

Brían

Subject: RE: songs you hear and have to sing along
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 09:48 AM

Anything by Thursday or Brand New. =)
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