Songs for an Alzheimer's group!

Thank you all for your suggestions.

We are trying to get away from CDs G23 as people were getting left behind.

anno, exactly! The reason I got involved with the Alzheimer's society is that 2 people who were at university with dh were diagnosed before they were 70 and are only 73/74 now. Obviously, we have older members too but they remember songs from the 60s.

Venus in blue jeans
Release me
Spanish Eyes
Monday Monday
Dream a little dream of me.

DH attends Alzheimer's Society day care once a week and was as bored as the others with their 40's and wartime singalongs. He has taken along some of the CD's from his time playing with a 'dinner dance & wedding band'. No song sheets required, the members sing a long to the CDs which feature the 'standards' from the 60's & 70's. Things like, Raindrops keep falling on my head, Born with a smile on my face, Proud Mary, Mandy,

When he later took along CD's from his time with a Scottish Country Dance/Ceilidh Band, these proved to be an even bigger success as the folk could not only singalong to the tunes (Mhairi's Wedding, I belong to Glasgow, Loch Lomond, etc. but even got up and started to dance.

Simple Simon says.. is it appropriate these days?
Probably not.

Yellow submarine..
Wake up little Suzie..
California dreaming..

Lily the pink!

Raindrops keep falling on my head
Twist and Shout
Rock Around the Clock
Tie a Yellow Ribbon
I met him on a Monday and his name was Bill - da doo ron ron etc.
Dancing Queen
Rocket Man
The Great Pretender
Why do Fools Fall in Love?
Hit the Road, Jack
Puff the Magic Dragon

Lipstick on your collar
(She was) Only Sixteen
Will you still love me tomorrow
It might as well rain until September
I got you babe
I can't stop loving you
It's my party (and I'll cry if I want to)
Going to the Chapel of Love
Blowing in the wind
Wouldn't it be lovely
Itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini
Seven little girls (sitting in the backseat)
(I wanna be) Bobby's Girl
If I had a hammer

Its not unusual to be loved by anyone...

Now there are three steps to heaven (doo-wah-wah-dooo!)

Magic Moments
Catch a Falling Star
Nellie the Elephant
Bring me Sunshine
Doh's a Deer
The Young Ones
Mud Mud Glorious Mud
If you were the only Girl in the World
Release Me
Anniversary Waltz

Not war songs I was told by my mum and others at the care home, they did however like hymns. I enjoy singing along to songs of praise kitty. I remember the words from school days.

I'm sure that's true kitty. Some posters here have forgotten that many people with dementia are of our (at least my) generation or even younger.

I am interested in what people on here would like to sing along to.

We have a Cd of songs for babyboomers! War songs are too old for our members!

Sue that's very true - sometimes the Memory Cafe here says "Please sing songs for the Baby Boomers!" (how scary is that! So ... one of the big favourites is "Suspicious Minds" everyone knows the bit that goes "We can't go on together, with suspicious minds ..."

Kitty I have a bittersweet "final" memory of my late MIL who already had advanced Alzheimers so she didn't know who I was at that stage, making her way slowly across to me where I was picking out one of her favourite Scottish songs on the piano and singing along, and she whispered "Thank you" with a beautiful smile on her face. She was no longer talking at that time, and we were all amazed.

Just Google hit songs of the 60's. There are loads of lists. This is just one. www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/07/the-100-best-songs-of-the-1960s.html

I just called to say I love you..
Saturday night at the movies..
Pretty woman..
I'd like to teach the world to sing..

War songs, white cliffs of Dover , we ll meet again, Long way to Tipperary Pub songs Down at the old bull and bush George formby cleaning windows Waiting on the corner of the street, Sally
White Christmas ( not yet)
People with dementia can often sing word perfect even when they don’t know which way is up

We are trying to find songs from the sixties onwards. Lots of this group are in their 70s.

It is amazing gk how singing helps the mood of people living with Alzheimer's isn't it!

It depends on the age group. Our friend has quite advanced Alzheimer's but he's only 70 so those old wartime songs don't mean anything to him. He's very much reliving his 20's again so it's songs from the 60's that he remembers.

Love to sing along with Delilah. Especially the haha haha bit!

My first thought was "Bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover"

Singing in the Rain

Some good ones there Grannyknot

Hi kitty this list is from our local Memory Cafe:

You Are My Sunshine
She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain
This Land is Your Land
Amazing Grace
Over the Rainbow
Memories are Made of This
You Must Remember This
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
Top Hat White Tie and Tails

I love singing to Alzheimer's patients, I think that music is a powerful tool in the handling of Alzheimers.

Definitely "Delilah" ! Never fails.

Delilah..