Songs that you just have to sing


It occurred to me the other day as I was driving to work that I cannot help but to sing certain songs as I hear them on the radio - especially the one word songs like Tequila! You know, hum hum hum hum, hum hum hum hum, Tequila! I just have to sing it, even if I were sitting in church and heard in ever-so-faintly from some teenager's car's radio in the parking lot on a hot summer day. I'd still sing it!

There are others as well - Puff the Magic Dragon, for instance - you can't hear it without joining in verbally.

Of course Springsteen's "Born to Run" - I remember the college parties. Eeven the girls who didn't know the words would mumble inaduibly until the chorus kicked in, and then would loudly scream, "Baby, I was born to run - yes girl, to run!!!" Then they started to mumble again...

Another list. This time, it' sing-along songs.
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Tubegroover: Don't be daunted in the least. There's nothing like hammering that very last "Vincerò!" and bowing, exhausted and fulfilled, to your audience, even when the audience is nothing more than the shampoo bottles in your own steamy shower.

C'mon guys, surely SOME of you besides Tubegroover and I sing classical music.

will
Anything from Oklahoma (movie better than Broadway)
Jackie Wilson Said and Wild Night, Van Morrison
Gimme Back my Bullets and I Aint the One, Lynyrd Skynyrd
Let's Stay Together, Al Green
Rock & Roll Woman, Buffalo Springfield
Rose of Cimmaron, Poco
Got to Give it Up, Marvin Gaye
And of course The Star Spangled Banner

Strangely, my daughter's first complete sentence was' "Daddy, stop singing!"
Thanks Tubegroover, I almost forgot some of my favorite oldies.

You've Lost That Loving Feeling - The Rightous Brothers

Since I Lost My Baby, The Way You Do The Things You Do, Ain't to Proud to Beg, My Girl - The Temptations

Going Out Of My Head - Little Anthony and the Imperials

Duke of Earl - Gene Chandler

Bye Bye Love, Wake Up Little Suzie - Everly Brothers

Silhouettes - The Rays

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Thomas, B.J.

The Wanderer, I Wonder Why - Dion

You Belong to Me - Duprees

Baby I Need Your Loving, I Can't Help Myself - Four Tops

Dancing in the Street - Martha & The Vandellas

I Heard It Through the Grapevine, What's Goin' On - Marvin Gaye
Ramblin' Man
Heard It In A Love Song
Take It Easy
Help Me Rhonda
I Get Around
The chorus of Garden Party