![]() I asked my Facebook friends (most of whom are songwriters) which recent songs they considered fun-and fun to sing along with. I wondered if feel-good songs like these have been relegated to a more distant past. ![]() The Beach Boys and Abba recorded a slew of songs that had an entire generation singing along. Who could resist singing along when Bill Withers crooned his self-penned #1 classic, “ Lean On Me?” and when he sang “I know-I know-I know-I know-I know-I know…” twenty-six times in his 1972 GRAMMY-winning R&B Song of the Year, “ Ain’t No Sunshine”(written by Bill Withers). I thought about other infectious sing-alongs such as Cyndi Lauper’s “ She-Bop” (Cyndi Lauper, Gary Corbett, Richard Chertoff, Steve Lunt), and Sheryl Crow’s “ All I Wanna Do” (written by Sheryl Crow, David Berwald, William Bottrell, Wyn Cooper, and Kevin Gilbert). Anyone of a certain age remembers plugging his or her name into the formula, “Shirley, Shirley Bo-ber-ley, bo-na-na fanna Fo-fer-ley, fee fi mo-mer-ley, Shirley!”Īs I thought about hit songs that were fun (as opposed to being “funny” or humorous) I remembered singing along at the top of my lungs every time “ We Are Family” (recorded by Sister Sledge and written by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards) came on the radio. When it was suggested I write about songs that are fun to sing, the jukebox in my brain instantly thought of “ The Name Game” (recorded by Shirley Ellis, written by Lincoln Chase and Shirley Elliston). ![]()
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