{"id":2761,"date":"2010-05-28T00:23:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T04:23:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-28T00:26:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T00:26:49","slug":"sing-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/sing-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Sing-along"},"content":{"rendered":"
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More than a couple of Townspeople have mentioned their discomfort with the “Tiny Dancer” sing-along scene in Almost Famous<\/em><\/a> based on their personal discomfort with sing-alongs. Considering there are a number of musicians among us, including – I would imagine – at least a few chorus and theater members at one time or another – have any of you EVER enjoyed an informal sing-along? Do you ever willingly participate in informal sing-alongs, that is, sing-alongs that aren’t rehearsed and structured (eg, church or school chorus)? <\/p>\n

I usually cringe at sing-alongs – or feel completely embarrassed and duck out of them. I was that way as a kid, too, from what I recall. I can’t stand when an artist tries to get me to sing-along by holding out the microphone or whatever, but I’m pretty sure I’ve sung along without prompting to favorite lines at Elvis Costello shows. That was just me singing along with Elvis, though, not singing with the entire crowd. The one regular sing-along I join in on is “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” Going to baseball games is pretty much my form of going to church and the song is set for a standard time in each game, but I’m counting it as my example of regular, informal sing-along participation.<\/p>\n

I just remembered one other time when I’ve sung along with an audience; in fact, I did so just a few weeks ago: the chorus of Baby Flamehead<\/a>‘s “Amy” is worth singing along to – with everybody else!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More than a couple of Townspeople have mentioned their discomfort with the “Tiny Dancer” sing-along scene in Almost Famous based on their personal discomfort with sing-alongs. Considering there are a number of musicians among us, including – I would imagine – at least a few chorus and theater members at one time or another – […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}