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1. You’ll Never Walk Alone by Barbra Streisand
Song therapy: Songs from the 60s and 70s to make you feel great
March 27, 2011 by Leave a Comment
1. Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head sung by BJ Thomas
2.Obladi Oblada sung by The Beatles
3. Purple People Eater sung by Sheb Wooley
4. Twist and Shout sung by the Beatles
5. La Bamba sung by Ritchie Valens
6. Hound Dog sung by Elvis Presley
7. Octopus’s Garden sung by the Beatles
8. Yellow Submarine sung by the Beatles
9. Shout! sung by The Isley Brothers
10. Rockin’ Robin sung by The Jackson 5
11. Chantilly Lace sung by Big Bopper
12. Rock Around the Clock sung by Bill haley and the Comets
13. Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini sung by Connie Francis
14. Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree sung by Tony Orlando and Dawn
15. Da Doo Ron Ron sung by the Crystals
26.The Locomotion sung by Little Eva
17. When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbing Along sung by Doris Day
Happy, fun songs for very young kids (and not so young kids)
March 27, 2011 by Leave a Comment
1. Teddy Bears’ Picnic by Henry Hall and his Orchestra
2. Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf by Henry Hall and his Orchestra
3. Little Red Caboose by the Children’s Music Workshop
4. The Bare Necessities from The Jungle Book
5. Supercalifragilististicexpialidocious from Mary Poppins sung by Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews
6. Chim Chim Cherie from Mary Poppins sung by Dick Van Dyke
7. Let’s Go Fly a Kite from Mary Poppins
8. A Spoonful of Sugar from Mary Poppins sung by Julie Andrews
9. Do Re Mi from The Sound of Music sung by Julie Andrews
10. My Favorite Things from The Sound of Music sung by Julie Andrews
11. Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines from Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
12. Jake the Peg sung by Rolf Harris
13. Never Smile at a Crocodile sung by Rolf Harris
14. Zip-A-Dee_Doo-Dah from Sing Along Songs sung by UncleJimboy
Song therapy: 4 songs to tip us into optimism
March 24, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Don’t like the pessimistic mood you’re in? Dial up an optimistic mood by listening to these über-optimism songs:
1. The best optimism song of them all ( IMHO!): A Cock-eyed Optimist from South Pacific.
Warning: This song is an earworm: once you hear it, you may not be able to get it out of your head for days!
So many great singers have sung it. Here are my four favourite versions:
Reba McIntyre
Kiri Te Kanawa
Mitzi Gaynor (from the original film)
Barbra Streisand (for a very dramatic-must-listen-to-at-least-once version! Opens with an inspiring optimistic poem as well)
2. Accentuate the Positive sung by Bing Crosby and the Andrew Sisters
Or for the same version done quirky Singing Detective style!
3. Blue Skies sung jauntily by Ella Fitzgerald
and sung soulfully by Willie Nelson
4. Always look on the bright side of life by Monty Python
5. I Can Clearly Now sung by Johnny Nash
Songs that inspire us to keep pursuing our dreams
March 24, 2011 by Leave a Comment
BHAGs are Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals.
We know BHAGs are probably impossible to achieve, yet they grab hold of us and we feel compelled to try really hard at to achieve them anyway.
If a BHAG has grabbed hold of you, you’ll know what I’m talking about. If one hasn’t, the rest of this post is going to sound really corny!
It’s emotionally hard and lonely pursuing a BHAG. Nobody else quite gets what you’re talking about. Other people just see the impossibility and insane grandiosity of it all.
So you quickly discover you’ll have to pursue your BHAG largely on your own — at least in the early days when you have nothing concrete to show for your efforts.
You”ll often get dishearted and your faith will start to wobble;you’ll need to come up with ways to get yourself back on track and re-inspired, or you won’t succeed.
That’s where song therapy comes in. The right songs — with the right words and the right music sung by the right singer singing with the right feeling — can generate inside you the strong emotions you need to feel fired up and believing again.
And the new mood kicks in so easily. How magical is that!
The tricky bit is finding the right songs that do it for you. There aren’t many dream-inspiring songs out there to choose from. And the songs that move me may repulse you!
Here is how to get song therapy working for you:
1. Find a few dream-inspiring songs that resonate with you.
2. Listen to one of your songs when you feel down-hearted. Purchase your dream-inspiring songs and put them on a playlist on your Iphone or Ipod or whatever and listen to them whenever you need to. Or watch them on your computer.
3. But don’t just listen to them passively — you have to “feel” the song deeply as you listen and encourage all the strong emotions of determination and commitment and passion to well up from deep inside you. It’s intensely emotional — but very pleasant as well.
4. By the end of listening to one of your songs, you should notice your mood has shifted towards optimism for, and commitment to, your BHAG. Voila! You have successfully re-set your mood! How easy is that!
Here are five songs that “do it for me”:
1. Best song : The Impossible Dream exquisitely sung-acted by Brian Stokes Mitchell
2. Higher Ground by Barbra Streisand ( This song really resonates with me – I don’t see it as a religious song or a love song; I see it as a song sung to my BHAG or my “higher self” or something that’s hard to explain!)
3. The River by Garth Brooks
4.To Beat the Devil by Kris Kristofferson
5. I’m Gonna Take That Mountain by Reba McEntire
