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Country Roads - John Denver
Teach Your Children - CSN The Last Farewell - Roger Whitaker Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain - Willie Nelson Somewhere Over the Rainbow Dead Skunk - Loudon Wainwright |
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Foster is sometimes referred to as the first "pop song" writer.
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Highway to Hell
She shook me all night long Back in Black Make sure you get the riffs right on your acoustic. |
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Just have fun. TM
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Let's Get Physical by Olivia Newton John
While playing have someone give them a 30 pound medicine ball to throw back and forth to each other. |
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Wow. So many good suggestions. I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed by the possibilities (and by the fact that we only have until next Tuesday to prepare)....more suggestions are still more than welcome though!
I think for this time around we'll probably pick just a few sing along songs and try to work them in, but I can see that this sort of audience might have the most fun if we spent most of our time doing this sort of thing. Maybe we can be better prepared if we do this again at some point. It would probably help also if I were less shy about solo singing in public. As for "quite old" being a relative thing. Yes, absolutely. But I think we are talking about "quite old" by any human standards here. Not 60's. Maybe more along the lines of mid to late 70's, 80's, and 90's (though even in these age ranges, there are folks in their 70's and even 80's who are younger in a functional sense than many others in their early 60's). |
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When the Roll is Called Up Yonder
The Great Speckled Bird In the Sweet Bye and Bye On The Jericho Road Amazing Grace
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In my own songbook I have odd notes that say things like "capo-2 if late at night". So be flexible. G is popular key for women (in general), and I can sing up there, but might be a stretch for older men.
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O Death - Ralph Stanley
Ain't No Grave - Johnny Cash As the life of a Flower - Traditional Where have all the good times gone - Van Halen
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Think about what they listened to in their teens. Anything from Woodstock
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You might be surprised, how many join in to sing along to "The Eagles" eg. Peaceful Easy Feelin, or "The Beatles" eg. Seventeen.
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I have played for older audiences and they always respond best to older songs. Someone mentioned the Doris Day song, What Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera), that is exactly the type of song that generates a lot of enthusiasm. Others, to consider (in versions that are likely to be well received):
Magic Is the Moon Light - Dean Martin Those Lazy, Hazy Days of Summer - Nat King Cole In the Good Old Summertime - Les Paul and Mary Ford Good Night Irene - Les Paul and Mary Ford Vaya Con Dios - Les Paul and Mary Ford El Paso - Marty Robbins Red River Valley - Marty Robbins Return to Me - Marty Robbins Yours (Quiereme Mucho) Marty Robbins Home on the Range - Burl Ives Down In the Valley - Burl Ives Old Paint - Burl Ives San Antonio Rose - Gene Autry (I used John Denver's version) Old Kentucky Home - Gene Autry You Are My Sunshine - Fats Domino Cold, Cold Heart - Hank Williams Shenandoah - Harry Belafonte My Blue Heaven - Gene Austin Crazy - Patsy Cline Happy Trails - Roy Rogers Newer songs that go over well: Yesterday, When I Was Young - Roy Clark Roses Are Red (My Love) - Bobby Vinton Country Roads - John Denver Where Have All the Flowers Gone - Peter, Paul and Mary This Land is Your Land - Peter, Paul and Mary Almost all of these can be sampled on iTunes. Last edited by Herb Hunter; 03-13-2010 at 08:33 AM. |
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If they're elderly and can still sing, etc. then they would be 65 to 85. I would do a few sing a long songs from about 1945 to 1965 as that's the approximate time they were late teens early 20's.
60's era "daddy takes the Tbird away" Beach Boys 50's era "Rock around the clock" Bill Haley & the Comets 40's era "hey good looking" Hank Williams things that are commonly known like that
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Our band plays a ton of rest homes and assisted living facilities and we find they love the 30's and 40's pop songs and many, many of the "older" generation LOVE classic country music, Hank Williams Sr. etc.
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