Do people sing anymore?

My Dad, his Brother (my Uncle) and I played Country music for the family on special occasions, or just whenever we felt like it. My Dad was an accomplished musician that played the fiddle, the banjo (he picked it, not strummed it), guitar, piano and harmonica. My Uncle played the guitar only and I played the fiddle and harmonica and to some degree the banjo. We always needed a drummer. My Dad "thought" he could yodel, but was not very good. We sounded pretty good together. All three of us could sing pretty good, or at least that's what people told us.

I often wish we would have had some recordings made from those days.
 
LOL, Meanderer!

I feel cheated as both my parents could sing - mom had a lovely soprano voice, my sister and one brother are good singers. The other brother and I are awful.

I sing when I'm alone and am playing music to sing to. In the car, or cleaning house.
 
Seems like families and friends would get together to sing.. maybe it was a simpler time and there weren't all that many avenues of entertainment.. I don't think that happens any longer.
 
Before electronic entertainment,or even the windup victrola, the piano was the heart of the living room, or the parlor as it was called way back then. Usually a family member could play some and this naturally led to singing. My grandparents and parents grew up singing around a piano...
 
My parents didn't have a piano... but everyone sang anyway.. and some were even pretty good at harmony. It didn't sound bad.. In fact.. I'm pretty good at harmony myself..
 
I had an uncle who was so good that he got offers to sing on the stage and on the radio when that came along, but his mother said that that would be sinful so he restricted himself to singing at weddings and wound up selling suits for a living rather than pursuing a singing career. Kind of sad when you think about it...
 
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Professor Graham Welch, Chair of Music Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, has studied developmental and medical aspects of singing for 30 years and he says the health benefits of singing are both physical and psychological.
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“Singing has physical benefits because it is an aerobic activity that increases oxygenation in the blood stream and exercises major muscle groups in the upper body, even when sitting. Singing has psychological benefits because of its normally positive effect in reducing stress levels through the action of the endocrine system which is linked to our sense of emotional well-being. Psychological benefits are also evident when people sing together as well as alone because of the increased sense of community, belonging and shared endeavour."
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My grandmother could play by ear. I grew up listening to all the old Baptist hymns played on the black keys of the piano. Everything she played carried an eerie Celtic lilt because it was played in the minor key. We had regular singalongs. In my teens I sang folk songs to her, and very quickly she was able to play the music back to me. I still have her piano. I miss her.
 
I like to sing while I am out walking and listening to my IPod... They say if you can sing and hold a note while doing cardio, you are not overtaxing yourself.. AND.. I get the strangest looks too!! lol!!
 
Shalimar said:
My grandmother could play by ear. I grew up listening to all the old Baptist hymns played on the black keys of the piano. Everything she played carried an eerie Celtic lilt because it was played in the minor key. We had regular singalongs. In my teens I sang folk songs to her, and very quickly she was able to play the music back to me. I still have her piano. I miss her.
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My late inlaws were from Alabama.. They would put on their gospel albums and we would sing.. On the Wings of a Snow White Dove... Turn the Radio on.. Daddy Sang Bass. Love the old Gospel tunes.
 
QuickSilver said:
I like to sing while I am out walking and listening to my IPod... They say if you can sing and hold a note while doing cardio, you are not overtaxing yourself.. AND.. I get the strangest looks too!! lol!!
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I'd get more than looks, I'd get rotten tomatoes thrown at me!
 
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In 1916, they may have preferred Joan, along with Alma. Here she sings A song about a young Australian soldier maimed during the Battle of Gallipoli (1915) during the First World War; written by Eric Bogle in 1972. The paintings of Degas, Sargent, and the visual arts of Spadecaller, augment the song's theme. :)
...beautiful and bittersweet.
 
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