Today my DH and his little karaoke group took their show to my Mom's senior home. Since yesterday was Valentines day the theme was of course love songs. They were down two men but one of them not there is totally tone dead and it also comes across in his expressions and stance, if you know what I mean. Of course I think my DH is the best. Our daughters names are Christina Marie and Michelle. So he always sang Maria from west Side story to the oldest one and the Beatles song Michelle (french) to the younger one. His song to me when we were dating was Andy Williams "More'. So he sang all of those today. My Mom was just in tears. When he was singing the girls songs I turned on my cell phone. I knew that they were busy so their voice mails would pick up, that's what I wanted. He didn't even know I was doing it!

The guy that owns the compnay has been married for 46 years so he is a little older than the rest of the guys and he knew a little more of the songs that this older generation would love to hear. And they sang a lot of some of Elvis' earlier songs.My DH also sang the 'first dance' song at our youngest daughters wedding so he sang that one. We had a good time.

This group likes to go to nursing homes, retirement homes and any fund raiser for our local National Guard unit of which several fo us have family members in and they do it for free.

That is so cool of your DH and his group to brighten up the residents, esp your dear Mom w/their singing. The fact that your DH adds his own touch of love to you and the girls' makes it just so much more special, Doyd.

It's just so refreshing to hear things like this, as we all need more to smile about.

Thanks for sharing, Doyd!

Awwww, I'll bet your daughters were tickled when they listened to their voice mail!

My Dad used to sing "Daddy's Little Girl" to me.

What a great thing to do for the residents of the Nursing Home.

How cool!

I volunteer to play "dinner music" at a nursing home weekly. The volunteer coordinator lets me play whatever I want, so I just do a huge variety. Hymns is often a favorite there, but I also do classical, oldies, country, movie or show tunes, etc.

For me, the biggest compliment is when someone gets up and comes to the piano and sings along.

Not exactly karaoke, but your post reminded me of that immediately.

~ Faith