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Singing is Fun and Healthy -the book

Singing is Fun and Healthy-(SingingASong.net) – the book

A new book about singing. It includes blog entries form this site and more.

A friend said,

“Wish you could teach me to sing.”

Singing is Fun and Healthy

Part 1
is a blog about singing, the fun of it and the health benefits,
the how and where to learn and practice all in the posts of this
by Jay Beacham

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And Part 2

In the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire, Harold Abrahams, the 1924
Olympic champion in the 100 metres sprint, ran and sang. He loved
Gilbert and Sullivan and was in the Gilbert and Sullivan Society.
For both running and singing one needs lots of breathe. Mr. Abrahams
was very healthy, performing well in both running and
singing.
Many of us can’t run but we can all sing.
And we can add to our health in the process.
More about singing form “Singing is Fun and Healthy”

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Songs about the joy of singing

Singing – Practice the Fun Way

I get revitalized when I’m tired; happy when I’m sad, and just feel better.

How about you?

It’s kind of hard to stay sad when you are singing. I guess that’s what the Neil Diamond song “Song Sung Blue” tells about, what song can do for a person. Can’t get him here so I recorded a version of the song.

http://www.singsnap.com/karaoke/r/be9ad1dcc

4 women and 1 man commented on my rendition. Now you have a chance but if you can’t say it’s good, don’t say anything please.

What songs can you suggest about the joy of singing?

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I first wrote this post on May 8.2013. But no one has commented so I will. Most comments coming to sites like this are just automated advertising. You must know I won’t approve those.

Singing is joyous! Just look at those in this street concert audience.

Flashmob Flash Mob – Ode an die Freude ( Ode to Joy ) Beethoven Symphony No.9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJcQYVtZMo

(performance From May 19, 2012)

Have Fun With Barbershop Singing

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Some of the most singing fun I have ever had has been with barbershop quartet singing. The organized group is the Barbershop Harmony Society, legally and historically named the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc.(SPEBSQSA). Their practice sessions are really fun. Ladies have their own group the Sweet Adelines International (SAI).

(SPEBSQSA), is the first of several organizations to promote and preserve barbershop music as an art form. Founded by Owen C. Cash and Rupert I. Hall in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1938, the organization quickly grew, promoting barbershop harmony among men of all ages. As of 2012, just under 25,000 men in the United States and Canada are members of this organization whose focus is on a cappella music. The international headquarters was in Kenosha, Wisconsin for fifty years before moving to Nashville, Tennessee in 2007. http://barbershop.org/

The Ringmasters quartet out of Sweden. One member says he like’s all good music. Watch the following video at the link above.

Ringmasters on NBC’s Today Show
Thursday, April 11, 2013
The Barbershop Harmony Society is celebrating its 75th Anniversary in high style. Its current champ Ringmasters appeared on NBC’s Today Show on Thursday morning, April 11, singing I Can’t Give You Anything But Love for Today hosts andEight Days A Week for Hoda and Kathy Lee.

Remember the quartet in Music Man? See the Buffalo Bills http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbhnRuJBHLs

(SAI) was founded in 1945. A second women’s barbershop harmony organization, Harmony, Inc., broke from SAI in 1959 over an issue of racial exclusion, with SAI (like SPEBSQSA) being a white-only organization at that time. Several international affiliate organizations, in countries around the world, add their own flavor to the signature sound of barbershop harmony. http://www.sweetadelineintl.org/

Watch some fine new ladies groups performances at: http://www.sweetadelineintl.org/index.cfm?id=4

Like Mitch Miller (remember his sing-a-long show?) said, “Let’s keep America singing.”

Let’s do!

Get a hold of your local group and start having fun.