What Ever Happened To Singing?

[Khandro]

Once upon a time if you walked by a building site it was loud with singing, people sang in factories & pubs. My mother used to sing when she worked around the house & we kids used to sing rhymes & silly songs.
What happened?

[brainiac]

Same with whistling!

[Canary42]

iPhones

[baza]

Britains got talent , the voice and other shows has meant that the peasants try the telly shows instead of being happy with their lot.

[naomi24]

I sing. It's not the best. :o/

[Cloverjo]

Really? I only sing in the shower or in my car or house alone. I remember people whistling (quite annoying, really) but no singing.

[Old_Geezer]

Everyone gave up when they realised that they couldn't compete with me :-(

[naomi24]

I would love to have a nice singing voice.

[ladybirder]

Me too Naomi. I wanted to be an opera singer until I realised I'd no chance:-(
But one of my next door neighbours has a lovely tenor voice and every now and again an aria drifts over the fence, very nice.

[Buenchico]

I still encounter people who're singing. I recently heard an Asda employee singing along to the music on the in-store radio station. I asked her if there was a cover charge for the cabaret ;-)

I think that I'm slightly averse to people singing in public though because my father had a nasty habit of doing it all too often.

Imagine the scene: you're a 14-year-old lad, sitting in the front seats on the top deck of a bus with your Dad, going shopping on a Saturday morning. You're acutely aware that there are a load of your school mates sitting on the back seats. (Simply being seen out with your Dad, rather than out with your mates, is bad news when you're 14!). Your Dad then decides that it's time to launch into a bit of Gilbert and Sullivan at the very top of his voice. (So it's now time to crawl under the seat). However, instead of singing a 'manly' song, such as "I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General", he suddenly shrieks out, in a high falsetto voice, "They Call Me Buttercup"! (Time to die!)

[ladybirder]

Ha ha. Do you think he did it on purpose Chris?

[david small]

Lol Chris most amusing. Poor you.

[Cloverjo]

I feel your pain, Buenchico. My dad was embarrassing too, in a different way though.

[anneasquith]

Ladybird, are you improving since surgery ? Excuse me khandro .

[Coppit]

You'd know had you seen Gareth Malone on TV last week trying to get prisoners to sing. I couldn't bear to watch all of the first episode, let alone the second.
I don't doubt he achieved some kind of result, but from what I saw the participants regarded rap as singing.

[brainiac]

Chris, I think you should post that clip in the supermarket....

[ummmm]

I sing, badly, but I still do it.

[ladybirder]

Slowly Anne thank you. Easing off the painkillers now. Still got the District Nurses coming in. I won't know the actual result of what they found and the implications of that until I see the surgeon on 21st Jan.
Apologies Khandro.

[anneasquith]

Hopefully positive news on 21st.

[DarceyK123]

I dont think so many people are happy with their lot.
I only sing when I'm happy or in a good mood,

[Mamyalynne]

Grew up with singing in the home as did our Daughters, two youngest Grandchildren sing too and I sometimes duet with one of my older Grandsons to songs old and new - badly I must add.

My late Husband was a lovely singer though he preferred his guitar.