Ya don't have to answer... just sharing some thoughts after DW said "Do you really HAVE to sing... ALL the time?"
Probably a bit of the senility, but a habit that started around 2nd year of life. Our family... the whole extended family, aunts, uncles cousins and even their neighbors... sang... a lot... No one except Aunt Alice really had a singing voice, but we sang... late 1930's all the way through 1950's. Player piano at Grandma's house. War songs, revival songs, Christmas songs, Andrews Sisters, Doris Day, Sinatra, Como and then around the late 40's, western songs, like Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers.
Age 12 thru 15, as a YMCA Jr., then Sr. camp counselor... joined with 6 buddies who all played the ukelele... The game was to memorize the words of every song we ever heard, and challenge each other to sing and play. We carried those ukes around like they were six guns. Never without the uke and always ready to get the kids singing.
Even now, in our FL community, a chance to join with the guys who play and sing... Jamming... Guitar, piano, drums... and always... singing...
Hee Haw, Buffet, Garth Brooks, and one guy who does Sinatra so well he wins the talent contest on every cruise.
So it's a habit... DW has calmed me down from singing to whistling or even quieter. Biggest embarrassment of my life: Walking the aisles at Walmart, and two giggly teen age girls passed me. I overheard "There's another hummer"... Sheesh.
Now I look around at the kids today, and hardly ever see tham singing. 'Course I can understand part of that comes from not being able to understand the words, but you'd think they could look the lyrics up on-line.
Even in my own community, except for my guys in the group, hardly anyone sings during the day. There's a small group of about 25 who do hymn sings, and on talent night a few more to do solos, but it's becoming a task to get the group into the act to even sing Happy Birthday... like, half the guys kind of mumble and their lips move, but not much sound. AuldAngSyne is a little better, but that's after a few kegs of beer.
The question wasn't really a question... more like a rant. I just wonder what happened to people who make their own music by singing. Why I never hear people singing absent-mindedly the way I do. Doomed to be the oddball, but it doesn't bother me much... A day without music is like a day without sunshine. YMMV
Probably a bit of the senility, but a habit that started around 2nd year of life. Our family... the whole extended family, aunts, uncles cousins and even their neighbors... sang... a lot... No one except Aunt Alice really had a singing voice, but we sang... late 1930's all the way through 1950's. Player piano at Grandma's house. War songs, revival songs, Christmas songs, Andrews Sisters, Doris Day, Sinatra, Como and then around the late 40's, western songs, like Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers.
Age 12 thru 15, as a YMCA Jr., then Sr. camp counselor... joined with 6 buddies who all played the ukelele... The game was to memorize the words of every song we ever heard, and challenge each other to sing and play. We carried those ukes around like they were six guns. Never without the uke and always ready to get the kids singing.
Even now, in our FL community, a chance to join with the guys who play and sing... Jamming... Guitar, piano, drums... and always... singing...
Hee Haw, Buffet, Garth Brooks, and one guy who does Sinatra so well he wins the talent contest on every cruise.
So it's a habit... DW has calmed me down from singing to whistling or even quieter. Biggest embarrassment of my life: Walking the aisles at Walmart, and two giggly teen age girls passed me. I overheard "There's another hummer"... Sheesh.
Now I look around at the kids today, and hardly ever see tham singing. 'Course I can understand part of that comes from not being able to understand the words, but you'd think they could look the lyrics up on-line.
Even in my own community, except for my guys in the group, hardly anyone sings during the day. There's a small group of about 25 who do hymn sings, and on talent night a few more to do solos, but it's becoming a task to get the group into the act to even sing Happy Birthday... like, half the guys kind of mumble and their lips move, but not much sound. AuldAngSyne is a little better, but that's after a few kegs of beer.
The question wasn't really a question... more like a rant. I just wonder what happened to people who make their own music by singing. Why I never hear people singing absent-mindedly the way I do. Doomed to be the oddball, but it doesn't bother me much... A day without music is like a day without sunshine. YMMV
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