Let’s face it, drunk people can’t sing and below is a list of 10 karaoke songs that all drunk people try to sing. And yes, I’ve tried to sing them all myself when I shouldn’t have.

What also strikes me as odd is people actually post these videos on the internet for all of us to listen to and shake our collective heads. So here we go:

We are the Champions

I think this is a glee club from small town America and they just beat the choir from the assisted living center in a sing off, this is there victory song.

Bye Bye Miss American Pie

I’m not sure but this woman may have this song confused with a Bob Dylan song. She may not remember if she cried, but I know I did.

Like a Virgin

I’m pretty sure if this guy keeps singing he’ll be a virgin for a long, long time! And check out those shorts: hot, hot, hot.

Friends in Low Places

I wonder if they were playing strip poker?

Margaritaville

I’m a big Jimmy Buffet fan but even I can’t listen to this. On a positive note at least these two have a couple of women there to catch them if they fall of the stage.

Good Bye Earl

These two must have got some cool new video editing software I figure. Why else would they post this?

Love Shack

The woman in this video isn’t too bad. The guy I’m pretty sure after this company Christmas party performance isn’t going to be up for promotion any time soon.

Hound Dog

Does screaming really help?

Mustang Sally

It’s really hard to sing when you can no longer read the words on the screen.

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One of the greatest educational benefits you can offer a child is teaching children how to sing. Singing does many things in the human brain for making connections between neurons, by helping kids associate words with certain activities. Children who sing are much likelier to hang structures together for retaining knowledge, and are likelier to make associations between words and objects shown to them when they’re linked by singing.

This aspect of teaching children to sing is nothing new; singing your lessons has been a part of educational pedagogy since the Greeks and Romans, where in addition to several techniques about building the palace of the mind, the key lessons were tied to singing to reinforce the connection between the data and the comprehension mechanism. It was preserved in the monasteries of Europ during the middle ages, where singing ones devotions helped a monk retain knowledge, and acolytes and initiates were shown their tasks by a friar who sang the steps as they were being shown.

This practice advanced in the Middle Ages, where it was (again) applied to children and teaching children to sing, though mostly for those wealthy enough to have tutors. The Renaissance expanded on this procedure, but it wasn’t until the Reformation that it really hit the massive bulk of the populace, with the movement to present the teachings of the Church in the common language of the people rather than Latin.

One of the leaders in teaching children to sing as an educational process was England, with compulsory education, and its intellectual inheritor, the United States. Both benefited from the development of the printing press, making both hymnals and text books much cheaper to produce, and putting a significant benefit on universal literacy.

With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, and literacy needing wider acceptance, and then the creation of both recorded media and radio broadcasting, it was common practice to make things that had to be remembered tied to a system of mnemonics (the ancient Greek system) and to make the mnemonic catchy – presenting it as a jingle. This is why nearly every radio and television commercial uses music. When it came to children’s education, this had slipped out of the mainstream until the 1970s, when School House Rock, a series of 3 minute clips on various topics, were aired on ABC as part of the requirements for educational content for children. These little cartoon clips taught children to sing and taught them history, mathematics, and several other concepts by associating them with catchy jingles. Public Broadcasting caught into the same trend with The Electric Company and Sesame Street, where similar processes happened.

There are many benefits to teaching children to sing, and most of them will help them throughout their lives; studies of Alzheimer’s patients have shown that those who imprinted information by singing had some advantages in retaining their knowledge and fighting off the effects of the disease.

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I’ll be you never knew that singing could improve you health and make you live longer, I know I didn’t. The follow article is one I found on the internet and it hit home with me and I thought it would be great to share with everyone.

Title: Recreational Singing May Make You Live Longer

Author: Chris Chew

Article:

So you love to sing? Besides deriving the recreational pleasure of good singing, do you know that singing is actually good for your health and can even extend your longevity provided that you sing with the correct techniques?

The National Charity, Heart Research of the United Kingdom intends to get everyone in the world singing from 8-15 December 2008 to help raise funds to find cures for heart diseases and also because this charity believes that there are sufficient evidence to show that singing is good for your health.

Professor Graham Welch, who is the Chairman of Music Education at the Institute of Education, University of London has studied developmental and medical aspects of singing for more than three decades said not so long ago that health benefits of good singing are both physical and psychological.

Singing has physical benefits because it is an aerobic activity that increases oxygenation in the blood stream and it exercises major muscle groups in the upper body. Singing has psychological benefits because of its normally positive effect in reducing stress through the action of the endocrine system which is linked to our sense of emotional well being.

Psychological and emotional benefits are also pretty evident when people sing together as a group because of the increased sense of community bonding, belonging and shared recreation pursuit.

According to a research conducted by leading singer cum singing teacher, Helen Astrid from The Helen Astrid Singing Academy in London, regular vocal cord exercises are also thought to prolong life.

This was what Helen said, “Singing is an excellent way to keep fit because you are exercising your lungs and heart (cardio vascular exercise). Furthermore, your body produces endorphins (happy hormones), just like when you eat a bar of chocolate except that with singing is that you won’t consume any extra calories as in eating chocolates! Singing not only increases your lung capacity, it improves posture, clears respiratory tracks and sinuses and can even increase mental alertness through greater oxygenation. Singing often also helps to tone and firm up your abdominal and back muscles as well. However, that is if you are singing correctly using the correct singing techniques.”

“Another great benefit of singing is that it can keep you looking young since you are gently exercising your facial muscles”, added Helen who looks more than a decade younger than she really is. Isn’t this the most natural and inexpensive anti-aging treatment?

According to the findings of a joint study conducted by Harvard and Yale, singing can even help you live longer. The study showed that choral singing increased the life expectancy of the population of New Haven, Connecticut. This report concluded that this was because singing promotes a healthy heart and an enhanced mental state.

So if singing is really good for your health, then let’s have fun, keep fit and healthy by singing more often. However, do bear in mind that it is not just the mere action of singing that gives you all these health benefits, but correct singing that do.

Remember the song by Helen Reddy “Keep On Singing”? Go on, sing away!

About the author:
Chris Chew loves to sing and owns a music education website at Learn How To Sing Correctly and Learn How To Be A Lead Guitarist

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