# I like to sing! How about you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 7, 2014, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-to-sing-how-about-you/683124 "2014-03-07T16:49:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-to-sing-how-about-you/683124/21 "2014-03-10T19:12:30Z")
“On the Street Where You Live” is a great shower song. Other shower songs are “My Sweetheart’s the Man in the Moon” and “The Band Played On.” “Part of Your World” is incredibly fun to sing. I also randomly will sing the national anthem, which is weird. I am NOT a good singer. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-to-sing-how-about-you/683124/22 "2014-03-11T00:39:57Z")
I’ll sing almost any damned thing, and the _only_ reason I was in choir was they were way short of tenors. So I sing. A lot. I sang to my children from the moment they arrived. My daughter was gifted with wonderful enunciation as soon as she started speaking (early, of course). I swear her first proper sentence, delivered clear as a bell, was “Daddy, stop singing!” I’m especially partial to Lovin’ Spoonful tunes. You’ll never be able to hear John Sebastian the same way again, once I’m finished with him! ---
**Author:** ![Roundabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dec6dc/32.png) [@Roundabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roundabout)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-to-sing-how-about-you/683124/23 "2014-03-11T01:15:23Z")
I like to sing, I’m just terrible at it. Favs: **Turn on Some Music** by Marvin Gaye (my favorite of Gaye’s sensual songs) **Trouble Man** by Marvin Gaye (probably his most easy going tune) **Inner City Blues** by Marvin Gaye (timeless lyrics) I’ve probably been singing on and off in the shower for months. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-to-sing-how-about-you/683124/24 "2014-03-11T02:05:29Z")
I love to sing but I’m too shy to do it in front of anyone else. The spouse, who’s actually trained at it (he sang in school choirs throughout high school and college) says I’m not too bad and encourages me, but I get embarrassed. I wish I was brave enough to do karaoke, because I’d probably love it. As it is, I sing in the car a lot 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-to-sing-how-about-you/683124/25 "2014-03-11T14:11:57Z")
OMG, my daughter had a karaoke machine when she was younger and we had the best time with it! That was me, my mother, and the kids. When we incorporated more people into the household, we got too embarrassed to play with it anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-to-sing-how-about-you/683124/26 "2014-03-11T15:17:20Z")
I’m a great singer. I can hit every note in Bohemian Rhapsody. All from my throat of course. You wouldn’t be able to hear me 20 feet away. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-to-sing-how-about-you/683124/27 "2014-03-14T18:54:44Z")
I’m a semi-professional jazz singer who loves all kinds of music, and sings along to everything from Broadway to Iron Maiden in the car. I hardly ever do karaoke, because I feel like that’s a place for non-professionals who are just trying to have fun (and it’s usually kind of painful for me to listen to), but whenever I get talked into it I break out Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’”: it’s a blast to sing, my range is similar to Steve Perry’s (I’m a chick), and karaoke crowds _love_ that song! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-to-sing-how-about-you/683124/28 "2014-03-14T19:11:41Z")
I’m a pretty bad singer, but at family gatherings, I end up singing a LOT because I’m one of the few people in the family who actually knows and remembers all the lyrics to the songs we sing. But I never sing publicly, otherwise. I even lip-synched for the hymns in my wedding video. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-to-sing-how-about-you/683124/29 "2014-03-14T22:08:26Z")
Singing is my main hobby. At the moment my choir is in the middle of a series of performances of Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky. ---
**Author:** ![gracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-to-sing-how-about-you/683124/30 "2014-03-14T22:26:15Z")
> [@smaje1](#): > > So, what’s your favorite song to sing out loud, really belting it, you know? I think mine would have to be “Part of Your World,” but “Let it Go” is coming in a close second. God, what a set of pipes on that Adele Nazeem. > [@JohnT](#): > > Others… > > _Belle_, from Beauty and the Beast, the part where Gaston starts singing… “Right from the moment when I met her, saw her…” Yes! Love singing! Disney is always a goodun. I just bought a teapot that looks a little like Mrs. Potts, so now pouring tea has a theme song. Both my SO and I break into “Tale as old as time. Song as old as rhyme. Beeeaaauty and the Beeeast.” every time we pour tea. 😃 What surprises me is how many people just never sing, and are therefore really bad at it. Some friends of mine found a parlour game app recently where others have to hum/sing a song and you have to guess which song. Basically, if it’s not me or my SO singing, you’ll have no earthly idea what they are singing. One is a good guitar player, another teaches salsa dancing, so it’s not that they are entirely unmusical, it’s just that they never sing so they suck at it. Not even suck at it musically, they’re just not good at giving it their all and don’t convey what they are singing at all. I don’t even care if people sing out of tune, just go for it! Silly people. More singing = more good! Even bad singing = more good! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-like-to-sing-how-about-you/683124.md?page=1)