okay...totally lame parent time

ayah · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:03 pm **Posts:** 6402

my daughter just called me for help. she's leaving for south africa in a week and the students at the school where they will be living/doing community service have been practicing a song that they'll perform for the group. so her group is hooking up with a group from london (nine boys and one girl) and thay need to pick a song to practice and sing. it has to be an upbeat song so i am of no help. she needs five ideas for a meeting tonight and has turned to me because she pretty much listens to musicals and opera.

so i throw this out to the obnish: an upbeat tune that 16/17 year olds won't feel lame singing. i realize that this may be impossible but give it a shot people.

Prince of Darkness · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:41 am **Posts:** 11048

Nothing says upbeat like a bunch of suburban kids clapping and singing Lean on Me.

Black Magic Putin · **Posted:** Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:25 pm

In the jungle
the mighty jungle
the lion sleeps tonight

f4df · **Posted:** Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:26 pm

Just because I was listening to it now, I nominate 'Ask the Children' by the Cherry People- the most sugary pop you can imagine..and yet to me, very dark inside. Kinda like the icecream man who has a open, sticky-paged pr0n magazine just out of eyeshot of his customers.

Link to follow? maybe.

tentoze · **Posted:** Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:26 pm

They could pretend to be Honky Ladysmith Black Mombazo and do Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

"Do You Realize?", Maybe?

PopTodd · **Posted:** Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:36 pm

Toots & The Maytalls - "Pomp & Pride"
Everybody just
Cryin out (cry out)
Calm down (calm down)
Have your pomps and pride
Calm down (calm down) (x2) Have your pomps and pride
Everybody just
Cryin out (cry out)
Calm down (calm down)
Have your pomps and pride
Is it an opulin, Iceland, calm down
have your pomps and pride

For today, today, today is a happy day
for tonight tonight, can be another night
do re mi fah so la te do

Everybody's just crying crying
sighing sighing
dying to see the light
and when they see it, they see it's not bright
can this be right?
Everybody just
calm down (calm down)(x2)
Have your pomps and pride

Is it an opulin, Iceland, calm down (have no idea what he says here)??
Calm down
Have your pomps and pride

Prince of Darkness · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:41 am **Posts:** 11048

Africa - Toto

DumpJack · **Posted:** Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:38 pm

There must be some Beatles song that could sing. I was also thinking of the Stones' "I'm Free" but maybe that's not such a good one.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

ooh they should sing "Do They Know it's Christmas"!!!

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

or "(Ain't Gonna Play) Sun City"

katie, a princess · **Posted:** Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:41 pm

"f*ck the pain away" by peaches

Dalen · **Posted:** Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:43 pm

Al Jolson "For Me And My Gal"

f4df · **Posted:** Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:44 pm

'Ask the Children' by the Cherry People

(aka Hide your children )

Code:

http://tinyurl.com/je7ej

ayah · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:03 pm **Posts:** 6402

i'd like to thank everyone for playing.
we have a winner:

This guy has crack Wrote:

In the jungle
the mighty jungle
the lion sleeps tonight

but katie DID place a very close second.

katie, a princess · **Posted:** Fri Jun 30, 2006 3:01 pm

ayah Wrote:

i'd like to thank everyone for playing.
we have a winner:

This guy has crack Wrote:

In the jungle
the mighty jungle
the lion sleeps tonight

but katie DID place a very close second.

both songs deal with... well, there's a pussy joke in there somewhere.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

yeah, depending on where she's singing you might not wanna arm her with a song we stole from the place she's singing it.

still, I think "Sun City" would be hilarious.

katie, a princess · **Posted:** Fri Jun 30, 2006 3:48 pm

"sin city" would be excellent as well.

Sex, Drugs, and Dave · **Posted:** Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:30 pm

Children Of The Future

Children, children,
Future, future.

Are you ready for the children, whoa whoa whoa!
The future is a-coming, hey hey hey!

Children, children,
Future, future

Children, children,
Children are the future!
Kids!

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

yeah do that whitney houston song!

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Fri Jun 30, 2006 5:59 pm

the redworm Wrote:

still, I think "Sun City" would be hilarious.

good call. I was thinking something along the lines of "Street Fightin' Man"

Black Magic Putin · **Posted:** Fri Jun 30, 2006 6:10 pm

there's nothing cooler than an international medley of children doing the "Ah wee mo way a wee mo way" part (perhaps as a round?) in the motherland! well, maybe one thing; who sang A.F.R.I.C.A.? was it Stet?

FT · **Posted:** Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:08 pm

Death To Shoegaze666 Wrote:

Children Of The Future

Children, children,
Future, future.

Are you ready for the children, whoa whoa whoa!
The future is a-coming, hey hey hey!

Children, children,
Future, future

Children, children,
Children are the future!
Kids!

GENIUS, DAVE!!! Everytime the kids at our church get up in front of the congregation and sing something, I lean into my wife's ear and go, "Children...children...future...future."

south pacific · **Posted:** Sun Jul 02, 2006 7:34 am

tentoze Wrote:

They could pretend to be Honky Ladysmith Black Mombazo and do Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes.

Damn, I was totally going to say this too...

OK how about Pete Townsend's "White City" :lol:

no guru · **Posted:** Sun Jul 02, 2006 11:36 am

I was thinking maybe a choral version of Wesley Willis' "I'm Sorry I Got Fat I Will Slim Down"

If that's no good, do "Easy On Down The Road" from The Wiz and have the youngest and shortest dude do a hip-hop solo.

okay...totally lame parent time

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