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| bramble |
Posted - Jun 09 2005 : 07:30:54 AM
The music industry has tried to put the world of music into a smaller and smaller box all the time and I am afraid that our children are sensing that unless they look and sound like MTV, they can't sing.A few years ago at a family campout the grown ups were up around the bonfire and we started singing. Old songs, new songs, folk songs , you name it we were having a blast! The kids were out playing manhunt and slowly one by one they came to the fire and stood there gaping at as with this strange expression of disbelief. When we asked them what was the matter they answered "You're singing...are you drunk?" We were not, and it wasn't that unusual for each of us to sing at home so this struck us as very odd.When we inquired further of what was so disturbing about us singing they said "You sounded GOOD!" Imagine that , people over 35 able to sing ! Who would of thunk it!
Do you sing? Though far from good , I love to sing and there is no better feeling of release for me. Happy, sad, lonely, blue music and singing bring me a comfort I don't find elsewhere. I have been harmonizing with a few "folky" friends and we just have a great time.
I am hoping some of this sinks into my son through osmosis because he has a really good voice but never sings and claims he hates to. What about all of you? Do you sing for the pure pleasure of it? I sure hope so, and that your kids do too!
with a happy heart |
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| thehouseminder |
Posted - Jul 29 2005 : 08:48:03 AM
Of course you are right Bramble. I'm just kinda shy. He loves to hear me sing "Oh Danny Boy" because his name is Dan. "Sweet Molly Malone" is also a favorite.
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvest reaps. ---Bronson Alcott
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| bramble |
Posted - Jul 29 2005 : 07:32:42 AM
Lucinda--Take the lid off and let go! You remember how good it felt to sing! Give the cats some cat nip and they won't know the difference! Sounds like your husband misses hearing you...hint, hint!
with a happy heart |
| thehouseminder |
Posted - Jul 28 2005 : 7:22:28 PM
My husband asked me just the other day why I don't sing in the shower anymore. I was horrified. I replied that I have never sung in the shower and he countered that I did and I sang all sorts of things I would never sing out of the shower like "Bring Us In Good Ale," " O Mio Babbino Caro," and my own version of the Jungle Book Tune "I'm the Queen of the Jungle..."
Okay, I was caught. I sing in the shower and in the car. I have asthma and years ago my doctor told me to sing, often, and loud.
I don't want to torture others with it though and since we moved to this house in September of last year, I have tried to keep a lid on it - the cats look at me funny
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvest reaps. ---Bronson Alcott
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| Whimsy_girl |
Posted - Jul 28 2005 : 2:53:44 PM
Him being a man not me btw
you can be oh so smart, or you can be oh so positive. I wasted a lot of time being smart I prefer being positive. James Stewart in the movie HARVEY |
| Whimsy_girl |
Posted - Jul 28 2005 : 2:52:43 PM
I love to sing and because I have 2 babies, I sing to them all the time and they love it... The lullabye that knocks them out most often is actually one I adapted from a Ben Folds 5 Song called Lullabye, and it sort of is one but he sings loudly and being a man I had to mess with the octives before I could do it right but these are the lyrics and I just love them, they leave me with a magic heart swelling type feeling for my kids.. it's silly I guess but anyway here they are.
"I took a short flight
in the middle of the night
from one tiny place to another
and my parents they remained
in the shack with Lorianne
and my aunt and my grandma and brother
We walked past the tarmac and boarded the craft
the rain had me chilled to the bone
just the 3 of us
took flight that night
uncle Richard
Me and James Earl Jones
The pilot he gave me a blanket
then that tall dark man
sang to me in deep rich tones
Good night Good night
Sweet Baby
The world holds more for you
than it seems
good night Good night good night
Let the moonlight
catch a ride on your dreams.
you can be oh so smart, or you can be oh so positive. I wasted a lot of time being smart I prefer being positive. James Stewart in the movie HARVEY |
| CelticCoyote |
Posted - Jul 28 2005 : 10:59:16 AM
I used to sing in high school, and wasn't half bad, but for whatever stupid reason, I simply can't let anyone hear me anymore. It's too embarrassing. :( My two kids are the only ones I can sing in front of, and even then it's only once in a while. That being said, I am also a Car Diva! :D I look forward to long trips alone in the car for that very reason.
Someone mentioned Peggy Lee...I LOVE the song "I Love Being Here With You"! I'd kill to sing with a big band like that. My husband is a professional musician, and we listen to a wiiiide variety of music. :) |
| mollymae |
Posted - Jun 24 2005 : 8:40:15 PM
Awwww Jenny, that is such a sweet story about your mother, and how wonderful your parents are still together after all these years...if only young people starting out could look at that example and know what real love is...
Cead Mile Failte,
Molly
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." --Henry David Thoreau
**When life throws scraps your way ~ Make a Quilt!**
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| MeadowLark |
Posted - Jun 24 2005 : 8:32:22 PM
Molly, that is wonderful teaching your children about the Native Americans! They did use song to heal! It is sad that our culture does not recognize this as an everyday part of living. When I was out with my extended family recently in celebration of my parent's 50th anniversary we broke into song in front of the restraunt. My mother said " We better be quiet or people will think we have been drinking"... I looked at her, remembering this topic and said " Mom, lets shout it to the mountaintops, your love for my father!" She got tears in her eyes and said " Let's keep singing!"
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." Rumi, 13th century. http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/sb/sb101.html |
| mollymae |
Posted - Jun 24 2005 : 8:26:49 PM
Oh and I forgot, my son (the 11yo again) was in our community theatre's production of "The Music Man" last summer, and so he and I put on the soundtrack all the time and belt out the songs!! So much fun...
Cead Mile Failte,
Molly
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." --Henry David Thoreau
**When life throws scraps your way ~ Make a Quilt!**
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| mollymae |
Posted - Jun 24 2005 : 8:23:54 PM
One of my favorites to sing along to is Patsy Cline...."Crazy..I'm crazy for feelin' so lonely....I'm crazy, crazy for feelin' so blue..." I can even imitate her little "twang" pretty darned good  . I LOVE LOVE LOVE to sing, and I'm always belting it out in the car driving anywhere! I even like to turn up music here at home on iTunes while I'm web-surfing and sing as loud as I want to...I don't care what any of my kids think. Music is so good for the soul!!! My 11-year-old and I were learning about the Native Americans today (we homeschool) and how they felt music could heal people, he twisted his face and said "yeah, right" in the way only an 11-year-old can...hehe. I told him it's true!!! Music lifts me up like nothing else can! I even "brought down the house" at my mom's wedding reception 5 years ago when I sang "The Rose" to her and her new husband (her favorite song) in front of everyone...which I was terrified to do but loved every minute of it! I could go on and on....
Cead Mile Failte,
Molly
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." --Henry David Thoreau
**When life throws scraps your way ~ Make a Quilt!**
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| Fulminous |
Posted - Jun 24 2005 : 4:18:32 PM
I sing whenever the fancy strikes me. I like to make up silly rhyming songs and I sing them off-key unpurpose. My favorite memory of a time when I was doing this was while I was paddling my canoe solo with my dog (who gets very nervous easily), she was unsettled at this particular time because I had put her in the front of the canoe to balance the weight and this furthur away from me than she wanted to be at the moment. She was turned around facing me with her back downstream, she had the sweetest look in her eyes but was still shaking from her typical nervousness. I was then inspired to sing to her as we were approaching some rapids, a loving lullaby of sorts using the words that I know she recognised. Just trying to settle and soothe her, it worked wonders and I have sung to her (and to my fiance) ever since! |
| bramble |
Posted - Jun 24 2005 : 08:30:26 AM
I am a big fan of her "Fever", although a much different sentiment!
She had such a smooth and effortless voice! I also liked Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday!
I love all those old ballad and torch songs! We even danced to "Our love is here to stay" at our wedding in 1987! Friends our age thought we were nuts and our parents were a bit confused as well! I remember an uncle saying to me "I didn't think you even knew about that song, that's WAY before your time!" What can I say...good music is good music always!
with a happy heart |
| jpbluesky |
Posted - Jun 23 2005 : 06:13:45 AM
The "because I'm a woman" song was first sung by Peggy Lee in a group of torch songs. It is for real.
I like to sing "cry me a river" not always because I am especially sad, but because it feels good to sing the tune.
Now you say you love me
You cry the whole night through
Well, you can cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you.
You drove me, nearly drove me out of my mind
and you never shed a tear.
You drove me, nearly drove me out of my mind
Told me love was too plebian
Told me you were through with me and
Now you say you love me
Well, just to prove it's true
Cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you.
P.S. I had to look up the word plebian the first time I heard this song!
jpbluesky
Heartland girl |
| bramble |
Posted - Jun 23 2005 : 04:56:51 AM
I love your singing stories! The other kooky thing I used to sing were all the old commercials and the kids thought I'd lost it until TVLand started rerunning "classsic commercials". Remember "I'm a pepper, he's a pepper, wouldn't you like to be a pepper too? Dr. Pepper...Drink Dr.Pepper! And old tv show theme songs... "Go speed racer, go speed racer...", "Spiderman, Spiderman friendly neighborhood spiderman...", "Na na na na na na na na ....Batman!"
Does anyone remember the Enjoli commercial? " I can bring home the bacon. Fry it up in a pan, and never let you forget you're a man because I'm a WOOOOMAN!" Does perfume really cause all that?!!!Funny how a catchy song will stick in your head no matter what it's saying!
Keep singing everyone!
with a happy heart |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jun 22 2005 : 11:57:59 PM
Jenny....I had to tell you MY green acres story..I loved to think about you mowing to that tune, by the way. My son (he is 8) did a dance thing with his class at their end of the school year "May Festival" and the song was a medley which inclued the Green Acres theme. He came home all amazed. He was sure that I had made up that song. He couldn't figure out how his teacher got ahold of it!! I have always sung it around the kids.
Jenny in Utah
The best things in life arn't things! |
| MeadowLark |
Posted - Jun 22 2005 : 6:58:25 PM
Here is another dimension to singing... The songs we sing to our babies and children. My sweet mother taught me songs to sing to my babies, the same ones she sang to me. "I'm a little teapot, short and stout. here is my handle, here is my spout, when i get all steamed up hear me shout, just tip me over and pour me out!" "Insty winsty spider, climbed up the water spout, down came the rain and washed the spider out...out came the sun and dried up all the rain, the insty winsty spider climbed up the spout again."
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." Rumi, 13th century. http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/sb/sb101.html |
| MeadowLark |
Posted - Jun 22 2005 : 6:11:32 PM
My mower is really loud so I can sing very loudly and badly...My mowing songs of choice...theme song to Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies.
Green acres is the place to be...
Farm livin is the life for me...
Land spreadin out so far and wide...
Keep manhattan just gimme that countryside!
Come and let me tell a story bout a man named Jed...
Poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed...
Then one day he was shootin at some food...
and up through the ground came a bubblin crude...
Oil that is...Black gold, Texas Tea...
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." Rumi, 13th century. http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/sb/sb101.html |
| atwell |
Posted - Jun 22 2005 : 5:58:30 PM
ok ive got another story about singing!!!I was working for the state highway department as a flag person one summer during college. As a flagger you are quite a ways from the rest of the work crew...so to keep myself entertained i was wailing completely outloud who knows what... but the cows in the pasture across the way were so intrigued they had to come up to the fence and stare at me!!!! They probably thought I was wailing some sort of distress call. I think i ended up laughing so hard I was crying!!At least THEY didnt hold their noses and booo me!!!!
FatQuarterQuiltFarm
Long Arm Machine
Quilting ~and~
Fabric Flea Market |
| atwell |
Posted - Jun 22 2005 : 5:49:58 PM
singing!!!!!yes yes yes !!!!!!Its too bad my voice is pretty mediocre because i do love to sing. all it takes is one word or phrase and its like instant name that tune!!!I think kids will sing if they are so inclined..if they are in a comfortable setting.I know my nieces 12 and 9 love to jam with my mom in her sewing room to some country and western!! Now they wouldnt choose that on their own..but i think its important to let them know its a great method of self-expression even if you arent on american idol!!!!!Such a simple source of pure joy!~!
FatQuarterQuiltFarm
Long Arm Machine
Quilting ~and~
Fabric Flea Market |
| PJJ |
Posted - Jun 22 2005 : 4:41:47 PM
How do I sing? Poorly, but I still do it.
Actually, my song of the week is Jo Dee Messina's "My Give A Damn's Busted," but you'd have to be living my life to fully appreciate it!
We sing a lot together, in the car and such. The kids probably know more about 60s and 70s music than popular music of today. And, of course, we know all the Girl and Boy Scout camp songs! I'm sure Ty will come home with a few more from Boy Scout camp this week.
Showers are too quick for me to sing in there. But I love having some nice music on if/when I find time for a bath!
Paula J.
Paula J., with Ty, Cara, Brody, Blue, and Fidget |
| goalieboy |
Posted - Jun 22 2005 : 1:00:44 PM
The Worry Song, from Anchor's Aweigh, as sung by Gene Kelly to Jerry the Mouse.
If you worry, if you worry
if you bother your head,
It won't help you, it won't help you
it won't butter your bread.
Grouches, groaners, cranks and moaners,
they're so unfair,
if you can't be gay and merry,
lock yourself in solitary.
Though it hurts you, though it hurts you,
be a pleasanter guy
You may even learn to like it,
if you'd give it a try.
You could laugh and sing and dance as gaily as an elf but
don't expect to get much help if you don't help yourself.
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| goalieboy |
Posted - Jun 22 2005 : 12:53:18 PM
"Singin' in the Rain" The best movie ever, hands down. |
| Clare |
Posted - Jun 22 2005 : 12:34:08 PM
Thanks for the encouragement to sing, Erik. Looking back, I do remember some "looks"... probably part of the stigma, for sure. I have recently started renting 1940's type musicals, what few my video store has... and they've all been pretty cool, really, and yes- easy to sing along with. If they're dancing, so much the better!
****Gardener, Stitcher, Spiritual Explorer and Appreciator of all Things Natural****
"Begin to weave and God will give the thread." - German Proverb |
| goalieboy |
Posted - Jun 22 2005 : 12:28:50 PM
Oh yeah, and MJ's been singing this one:
if you can't be gay and merry
lock yourself in sol-it-ar-y |
| jpbluesky |
Posted - Jun 22 2005 : 12:28:20 PM
Goalieboy - sing on. A woman loves to hear a man sing to her. And dance with her. I remember sometimes my dad would just grab my mom and dance with her in the kitchen, and she had such a look of joy on her face.
jpbluesky
Heartland girl |
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