Do Good Entertainers

[underfoot]

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

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.
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

[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?

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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[ame="http://youtube.com/watch?v=zqfFrCUrEbY"]YouTube - The Zimmers "My Generation" Released: 28/05/07[/ame]