Do Good Entertainers

[watson]

Upset!
Just watched a bit of news, where they showed people being "entertained" in a nursing home.
According to the announcer, the "inmates" were between 64 and 75 yrs old.
The "entertainer" played them "roll out the barrel".
Bugger Me! I'm 65 , and if ever I have to sit through that, I would fall out of my chair....roll towards the "entertainer"........and eat his/her foot off!!!
God .....I hope I pop my clogs before that ever happens to me.
The most moving bit of memorable music from my formative years contained.....words like...Tutti Fruiti....and Wop Bop A Loo Bop.

Rave Off.

[artme]

That crap is not entertaining at all. When I get to that stage I want some Dixieland Jazz, Ry Cooder, BadenPowell, Gilberto Gill, Muddy Water, Al Gereau etc.,etc.,etc.
And I don' want it presented by some bloody young dork in a striped outfit.

[echnidna]

I don't want to go into a home, I'd rather go fishing and fall out of the boat.

[DavidG]

Don't forget that the residents with dementia may have regressed back to the 40's.
Music from that era is appropriate in some circumstances.

One of the problems is finding younger people prepared to give up their time to entertain the elderly.

[watson]

Don't forget that the residents with dementia may have regressed back to the 40's.
Music from that era is appropriate in some circumstances.

One of the problems is finding younger people prepared to give up their time to entertain the elderly.

Understand what you say about regression David.....but as we get longer in the tooth, we're actually the next generation of residents.......:oo:

In a past life I did a lot of gigs in homes, and my most memorable was in a home for deaf/blind people..........only 10 of them. And they spent the whole time with hands on my face/throat and chest. Still gives me goose bumps!.

I'm with Echidna though.......Plan ahead...I really couldn't cop "Roll Out The Barrel"

[watson]

That crap is not entertaining at all. When I get to that stage I want some Dixieland Jazz, Ry Cooder, BadenPowell, Gilberto Gill, Muddy Water, Al Gereau etc.,etc.,etc.
And I don' want it presented by some bloody young dork in a striped outfit.

Me three......all of those and maybe some Doobies...some Van......some guy Clark and some Eva Cassidy......and some early Ray Charles...then I could die happy

[DavidG]

Yeh. I suppose they will give me endless sessions of the beatles and JOK singing? Shout.

ps
Mum loves the 40's music. Regresses back to the army days. :C

[abitfishy]

I wonder what they will play when I'm in a nursing home (I'm currently 32). I doubt it will be Kiss or ACDC somehow. :)

[Groggy]

I wonder what they will play when I'm in a nursing home (I'm currently 32). I doubt it will be Kiss or ACDC somehow. :)Oooh, I dunno about that "Dirty deeds done dirt cheap" might be appropriate. :D

[watson]

And will anybody ever remember all the words in a sing-a-long for Bat out of Hell???

[tea lady]

Prolly the only thing you'll remember in the end. And all the words to Bohemian Rhapsody.:rolleyes:

[watson]

True

[Howdya do that]

Now, Now Watson. Be a good boy. and if you take your pills we might take you out for RSL bingo on thursday:D

[watson]

Bingo...........:no:


Noel

[wheelinround]

The trouble here is realising that the entertainers we would like to have from our period are all mostly gone or will be gone by the time we get there.

Unlike many who sang the songs of the 30's & 40's.

Old Max Bygraves is still wowing them in QLD on the Gold Coast thats the retirement village of Australia isn't it:D.

Can you honestly see Mick Jagger doing the rounds of nursing homes or Sir Paul or Sir Elton.

Closer to home those that at present still alive, Midnight Oil, John Farnham, Johnny Young does it now, Debbie Burn, Jamie Redfern, Kylie and Dani, Marsha Hines, Jon English. Sherbert, Seekers, Men At Work,

Billy Thorp wont be there, Shirl neither.

From Wkipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Australia

[underfoot]

Prolly the only thing you'll remember in the end. And all the words to Bohemian Rhapsody.:rolleyes:

just had the strangest vision of me sittin in the nursing home when I'm old'
in me wheelchair, with a whole bunch of folk,
head banging to the guitar break on Bohemian rhapsody,

Beelzebub has a devil put aside for meeee
for meeee eeee
for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
(head bang NOW)

[DavidG]

oooooh that is ugly.

Good enough reason for euthanasia.

[Ron Dunn]

Maybe the future will see old-peoples' homes classified by taste and lifestyle.

Imagine the "nightclub" home ... hard to tell the ecstasy users from the Parkinsons sufferers ... hahahahahah

[Gingermick]

I'm assuming you're using the term 'Do Good' as a derogatory moniker? I'm sure you would prefer them going to your place than someone there to do harm, or steal you video or puter. :D
There are lots of lonely people tucked away in homes and if someone can bring a smile (even a pained one) to their faces then I think that is laudable.
But then, I have a long time to go before my kids park me in one of them :D:D:D

[jerryc]

Roll out the barrel?

I'm now of vintage years but it was my old dad who sang that sort of stuff, not me.
In me yoof before rock and roll I was into skiffle and folks songs.

But what goes around comes around. Back in the fifties when I was into real trad, I remember discovering an old 78 dated 1936 which had Cab Calloway singing Minnie the Moocher and guess what? Blues Bros discovered him much later and Min the Moo was back in vogue. Also remember Good Morning Vietnam where Robin whatisface rediscovered Louis singing Blueberry Hill? I had that on 78 also

My old gran knew all the old music hall songs and I see that someone has rediscovered one she taught me " Your baby has gone down the plug hole"
Don't see myself ending up in a God's Waiting Room. But if I do and some character tries to sing Roll out the barrel he will come to an early and painful end.

Found a video of Pete Seger singing "Get up and Go" Felt hat would be more appropriate to the Zombie Home so I sent it to all my old friends of the teenage years and they appreciated it.

Jerry

War does not decide who is right.War only decides who is left

[wheelinround]

Now come on with MP3 players and Blue Tooth and what have you by the time we get old enough they'll be standard equipment the entertainers will do their performances across oceans form their nursing homes via satalite TV.

[Buzza]

The entertainers go into these places to mainly just give the inmates a change of scenery, some different noises and not to display their misical prowess so much. Fullmarks to those people I say. What goes around comes around, and old songs do come back. I taught my grand-daughters the old time musical hall song "I like Pickled Onions", and they think it is great fun to sing it to their fortyyish Dad, who can't stand it. :)

So long as the oldies in there tap their toes to the music, who cares? :D

A famous rock and roll star of the sixties and seventies that worked most of Australia, just this last weekend bowled into a nursing home, and gave them a blast of soul music. The inmates don't mind, and it is just for an hour or so, so well done voluntary entertainers I reckon. :cool:

[jerryc]

Buzza,

I'm not knocking the good heartedness of these "entertainers", just their choice of music. They have a truly captive audience and any entertainer will tell you the audience will let you know whether you've bombed or not.

Jerry

War does not decide who is right. War only decides who is left

[DavidG]

There is an old guy who goes to the place where my mum (88 with dementia) is and he plays and sings his heart out.

The oldies seem to love it but I am not quite that senile ...... yet. :B

[Buzza]

Yes Jerry C I know what you mean, and I have visited rellies and heard some of the people who go in there, and play the out-of-tune piano "in the cracks", and I cringe a bit meself. However, there are a thousand gigs a week at such places, but very few performers. :rolleyes:

[ernknot]

Those folk with dementia probably think the people singing Roll out the barrel are from the mental ward.
When I get there I want to see strippers and pole dancers - younguns of course hee hee.

[Sebastiaan56]

I just wiki'ed the song in question and it appears it is of WW2 vintage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Barrel_Polka. By my calc the WW2 survivors are getting thin on the ground now, maybe our entertainer cut his teeth in his youth on these people?

For myself, air guitar competitions to "Smoke on the Water" or "All Along the Watchtower" may be better. But I totally agree Watson. My favourite nursing home clip is this one

YouTube - The Zimmers "My Generation" Released: 28/05/07