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.......

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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[watson]

Bingo...........


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.

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