My list for the best ten songs to include in a Summer music therapy session with older adults. I do like to test the boundaries of music that I use and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. There are songs on this list from the early twentieth century and a few from the 60's & 70's. My residents have become so diverse in age that it is difficult to plan for large group sessions as the 100 year residents are in a different generation than the 75 year old residents. Using familiar songs that most everyone has heard at least once does help. Broadway tunes seem to be known by most along with songs from movies.
1. Those Lazy, Hazy. Crazy Days of Summer
1963 Recorded by Nat King Cole
2.The Things We Did Last Summer
Originally recorded 1946.
Dean Martin version recorded 1959.
3. June is Busting Out
1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein
"Carousel"
4. Oh, What a Beautiful Morning
1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein
"Oklahoma"
5. Summertime
1934-Gershwin
"Porgy & Bess"
6. Itsy Bitsy Tiny Yellow Polkadot Bikini
1960-Bryan Hyland
7. Summer Nights
1978--"Grease"
8. By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Originally written 1909. Released in movie 1953
9. I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
Originally written 1919.
Re-released in "On Moonlight Bay" 1951
10. Beer Barrel Polka
Written 1927.
Became world famous during WWII.
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