preferably ones people enjoy singing too, not just annoying ones. We want to have a singing time with cookies in the kitchen of our dorm, but I need a list of songs everybody knows-since my knowledge of music is abnormal in the extreme, I have NO idea what songs people would know-yall have any ideas???
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
you can't fail with the supremes. singing, you can't hurry love or stop in the name of love. Classic songs are known by all! Like the Shoop Shoop song that is In his kiss i'll think of some more...
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
Lean on Me
A bunch of old TV Themes: Flintstones Brady Bunch
Cole Porter songs: I Get a Kick Out of You Wunderbar
Sound of Music and Fiddler on the Roof soundtracks
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Wunderbar?
um, you do realize this is a college dorm.....?
I was thinking more along the lines of "Tubthumping"
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
I was just thinking songs everyone knows.
I've never heard of "Tubthumping"
Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :
Toretha, are you talking about radio songs from the 90's? From the 00's?
Here are some "alternative" songs from my playlist that are sing-along-able....
"Love Shack" by B-52's "Distance" by Cake lots of U2 songs like "When Love Comes To Town" or "Pride (In the Name of Love") "Come on Eileen" "Mrs Robinson"
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
Everybody knows and loves "Sweet Child of Mine".
If they tell you differently, they're lying.
Posted by Sachiko (Member # 6139) on :
The jingle from the "Meow Mix" commercials
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Last time I was part of a sing-a-long around a campfire, it ended up all being TV theme songs (Gilligan's Island, and Beverly Hillbillies) and commercial jingles, etc.
And that was fun.
Some Beatles tunes are almost world-wide known. (We all live in a yellow submarine)
Kind of depends on the ages of the group, and what they have been exposed to, though. I know all the Mitch Miller songs, without having lived through that era, because my grandma played them constantly.
Farmgirl
Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
A few years ago, some educational group (perhaps a music education group) came out with a list of 100 or so songs that every American should know. Part of the point was that any child who doesn't know a good number of those songs has not been adequately educated.
Does anyone remember this list? Does anyone know where I can find it? I just remember that, although I consider myself a musician and quite music-literate, there were quite a few songs on the list that I didn't know.
Edit: I found a version of the list. It's at this page. It was originally released in 1996 by the Music Educators National Conference.
[ February 26, 2004, 10:49 AM: Message edited by: UofUlawguy ]
Posted by raphael (Member # 5870) on :
try disney songs. anyone who doesn't know them definitly had a deprived childhood.
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
Christmas songs tend to be pretty well-known, at least in North America. Happy Birthday To You The ABC song/Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star/Baa Baa Black Sheep
Uhhh... Every Breath You Take American Pie Piano Man Stairway to Heaven
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
"Bohemian Rhapsody", definitely.
Maybe "Mony, Mony".
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Cecilia leaps to mind. Everybody seems to know that one, and have fun singing it.
Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard is a fun one to sing along to, but it isn't as well know.
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
Be Thankful For What You Got by William Devaughn
"Though you may not drive a great big Cadillac"
Posted by jehovoid (Member # 2014) on :
Bohemian Rhapsody is a good one. Which gets me thinking about other songs sung in movies:
Tiny Dancer (Almost Famous)
Well, I can think of others (from Armageddon, Congo), but they're not as good as Tiny Dancer.
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