Singing (Kinda) The Day Away!
By Catherine
@bluesa (15023)
Johannesburg, South Africa
February 24, 2017 7:34am CST
Okay, not quite singing, maybe more like softly singing, because I am no super singing star!
What is making me sing my day away? I found a channel playing Eighties music, and before I knew it, I was humming and singing along to songs I thought I had long forgotten!
I am talking, A-ha, Duran Duran, Aerosmith, Queen, Van Halen and so many more!
The words from songs just came back to me from seemingly nowhere and I was singing away.
Do you still listen to Eighties music? Who were your favourite groups, bands, or singer's from the Eighties?
@JolietJake and @TRBRocks420 have been talking music, I am no music fundi like them though.
Have a great weekend ahead all
Photo is of me on Christmas Day, Cheers!
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
25 Feb 17
I listen to a wonderful channel here in the uk called Classic Gold FM and they play all the music from the 50's, 60's and 70's. I love it and it brings back such happy memories of when I was a child. OK I am going to man up here and tell you that when I was about 3-4 years old Diana Ross was my idol I loved her I used to kneel in front of the television and thought she was singing baby love to me................Gawd what an idiot eh!
I saw her in a concert in Hyde Park London about 10 years ago. I had been excited for months on end getting really excited. My heart dropped a beat I can tell you I was distraught my superstar Diana Ross could not sing to save her
life, she squealed and screeched, she was awful. My childhood dreams were shattered. I am a heartbroken man!
I hope that was a very large glass of Amarula!
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@bluesa (15023)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
25 Feb 17
Oh my goodness, Gary, that is so sweet about "baby love" !!! I love Disco music, many say it was just silly, but I love it. Sorry about Diana Ross, some singers only have a good studio voice and can't sing live at all.
Yes, spot on, it was Amarula! How did you know @garymarsh6 ? I would so share!
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@bluesa (15023)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
25 Feb 17
Oh, and it is great you have Classic Gold FM to enjoy listening to, Gary. Music is medicine for the soul they say @garymarsh6 . :)
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
25 Feb 17
@bluesa I only discovered it a couple of years ago and boy isn't it delicious. More so than Baileys. I am not really a cream drinker but Amarula is like nectar of the gods! She was only singing because it was Prince Charles Charity and he was going to be there. The superstar of the concert though was Shirley Bassey. My God even after all these years she can still belt out a song she is amazing! So there was some consolation Shirley Bassey is my dream idol now! Actually I could be her toy boy couldn't I. She is in her 70's now! OMG Catherine I have just checked and she is actually 80! My daughter met her on a flight a few months ago and said dad her skin is like porcelain she is beautiful. Now that is something coming from a young pretty stewardess saying she is pretty eh!
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@Orson_Kart (6095)
• United Kingdom
23 Jun 17
Yeah, the 80's was a good time for music.
I like the ones you already mentioned, especially Queen.
Trying to think who else to mention. Blondie, Madness, Adam & The Ants, The Jam. And who can forget Captain Beaky? God knows I've tried.
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@Orson_Kart (6095)
• United Kingdom
23 Jun 17
@bluesa You're right, the hair. It was special back in the 80's. That's because I had some.
You've got me thinking now - what else have I lost since then?
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@bluesa (15023)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
24 Jun 17
@Orson_Kart , . That is scary to ponder, not even I want to think what I have lost since the 80's !
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@bluesa (15023)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
23 Jun 17
@Orson_Kart , it was a good, fun and at the same time very scary time for music and fashion! And hair, oh my goodness the hair! There are some things a person never forgets
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
24 Feb 17
By the time the 80's came around I was busy with kids and moving to Canada. It was a busy time for us and I wasn't listening to a lot radio. I do remember Captain & Tennille, Kenny Rogers with Dolly Parton, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, The Beach Boys...not exactly rock and roll...
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@bluesa (15023)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
24 Feb 17
@PainsOnSlate , Tina Turner, Whitney Houston and the Beach Boys are some of my favourites too!
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
25 Feb 17
i love the 'take on me' by A-HA, 'a view to a kill' by Duran-Duran, 'Bohemian Rhapsody' and 'love of my life' by the Queen, and many more. i think we belong to the same genre,right?
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@bluesa (15023)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
25 Feb 17
Those are great songs @ridingbet ! "Bohemian Rhapsody" from "Queen" gets me each time. :)
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@bluesa (15023)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
26 Feb 17
@ridingbet , I think you use the song well, to teach of the highs and lows of a not sound mind.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
26 Feb 17
@bluesa the "Bohemian Rhapsody" is the song that i always tell my students during case colloquium on mental health and psychiatric nursing because of the sudden change of tempo of the song. highs then lows, slow, then fast---so similar to the mind of a personality-deranged person.
when my students do not know how the song goes, i would sing the first 4 lines, and they would clap because i sing with my low voice.
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@FayeHazel (40248)
• United States
26 Feb 17
Cheers! I love the 80s music, it is so upbeat usually! @teamfreak16 usually posts some great music threads, too :-)
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@bluesa (15023)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
27 Feb 17
@FayeHazel , cheers :) . I agree, the 80's was mostly upbeat music. I'll check for those music threads :)
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@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
26 Jun 17
80s had some Great music. Loved Queen, Journey, Air Supply, Cars. Still find myself from time to time going back to those times and remembering where I first was when I heard these songs and groups. And yes, I still sing along with them when I hear them too.
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@bluesa (15023)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
26 Jun 17
@KrauseHome , these songs and groups really do take us down memory lane and are fun to sing along to.
@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
24 Feb 17
I prefer the music of the 60s or current music but yes, I would be singing along. lol
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@bluesa (15023)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
24 Feb 17
@BelleStarr , I love most music, even, wait for it, Disco! Lol, we'd be singing along together :)
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@Tampa_girl7 (48890)
• United States
22 Mar 17
I love the older songs. My favorite decades for music are the 60!s and 70's.
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@spaceseed (2843)
• India
24 Jun 17
Though I understand that a period has some impact on music being produced, but for me i like music depends on mood. so eighties is no exception
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@bluesa (15023)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
24 Jun 17
@spaceseed , yes, the music I listen to in a day also depends on my mood