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What songs for care homes?

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Helpaladyoutplease · 14/11/2023 17:40

Hi, random query but im going along to sing at a care home in a few weeks and want to sing some non christmas songs among the carols. But im struggling to work out which songs might be meaningful to the residents overall? I mean they were born at the end of ww2ish right so it's not the war songs generation anymore! Any advice from people who work in care homes or perhaps have older parents?

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garlictwist · 16/11/2023 09:46

TotalOverhaul · 15/11/2023 22:16

DH and I realised we were old when we tuned into Radio 2 one day and Sex Pistols were on. In my youth, Radio 2 was Terry Wogan's Floral Dance

As a child in the early 90s I used to listen to Radio 2 as I loved the music. It was all 50s and 60s stuff (I have always been old before my time) so I guess if you go by that barometer, that's the stuff the people in care homes today would have enjoyed in their youth.

Helpaladyoutplease · 18/11/2023 13:38

Thank you for extra input since i last looked. I took my school kids to sing in a different care home this week and 103 year old resident was loving the air guitar solos in fleetwood mac!
Im building up a good list. They're still confirming date when they want me in

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