Broke my singing voice in Vietnam. Ever since, when I sing out loud, the donkeys cry real tears. I’m still a passable dancer. Never could do the robot, though.
It’s a good thing I don’t dance when I’m driving alone listening to music. It’s embarrassing enough when I’m singing and the other drivers ask me to stop.
Dancing Queen" is supposedly the favorite song of Queen Elizabeth (II, of England, of course).
She has been quoted in several places…. which doesn’t make it true, certainly, but I’d like to think it is…
as saying to guests, after a royal dinner, when “Dancing Queen” was being played….
“I always try to dance when this song comes on, because I am the Queen, and I like to dance”.
The song was also played, in her honor, in 2018, at a changing of the guard ceremony, instead of the usual fanfare…
after which the Royal Twitter account (yes, there is one!) posted “Many thanks to The Band of The Royal Logistic Corp for this beautiful rendition!” along with a video!
Not of the Queen dancing, sorry… but of the band playing “Dancing Queen” for her.
My wife claims (OK, also my kids and pretty much everyone else) that I can’t sing. My response is that what I lack in singing talent is made up for with volume and enthusiasm.
I expected that Arlo’s line would run to “See that girl with the red dress on”. I guess I came from a different time warp.But I still can’t carry a tune in a bucket, beat time with a stick, and can’t find the pitch with a pipe. Pretty good on kazoo, though.
Even worse than not being able to sing or dance, I often do not regular a song unless it has lyrics.
We are members of an 18th century reenactment unit. One year the unit’s music master (in charge of fifes and drums) decided that we all needed to learn certain songs of the period, one being “Chester”. Chester (not Yankee Doodle Dandy) was the unofficial anthem of the colonies during the American Revolution.
While the unit learned the lyrics and to sing it, husband really wanted me to learn to recognize the tune as often it was played as musical piece. This is not something easy for me to do. Every time it was played he ask me “What is this song” and I would tell him that I didn’t know, and he would say “Chester”. It finally dawned on me that whenever he asked me what a period piece being played was, it was Chester. So I started replying “Chester” whenever he asked me – I did could not tell that was what it was, but whenever he asked me, that was what it was. He became happy at the thought that he had managed to teach me to recognize Chester. (I should mention that I know the words – if it was being sung, I would know that it was same.) One day he asks, I say Chester and it wasn’t and I was fount out.
If a piece has no singing being done I can generally tell the difference between classical, rock and roll, folk, country, and American colonial music – but not the song itself.
mddshubby2005 almost 5 years ago
Sorry, Arlo – you’ll never be the dancing queen without a few major changes.
Dirty Dragon almost 5 years ago
Arlo can’t possibly be worse than Pierce Brosnan, can he?
gduncan58 almost 5 years ago
Oh, that was painful to listen to!
Jesy Bertz Premium Member almost 5 years ago
ABBA dabba Don’t!
Robin Harwood almost 5 years ago
Singing should be avoided in all circumstances.
anymouse77 almost 5 years ago
“Digging the dancing queen”
Boots at the Boar Premium Member almost 5 years ago
I’m not sure what’s worse: dancing to or singing along with Dancing Queen.
eromlig almost 5 years ago
See no evil, hear no evil, sing no evil.
hawgowar almost 5 years ago
Broke my singing voice in Vietnam. Ever since, when I sing out loud, the donkeys cry real tears. I’m still a passable dancer. Never could do the robot, though.
nosirrom almost 5 years ago
It’s a good thing I don’t dance when I’m driving alone listening to music. It’s embarrassing enough when I’m singing and the other drivers ask me to stop.
andyboda almost 5 years ago
It is hard to dance lugging around that bucket I need to carry a tune in as well.
Russell Bedford almost 5 years ago
not all God’s children got rhythm [a direct quote by my junior high dance teacher about me]
Màiri almost 5 years ago
African proverb: if you can talk, you can sing, if you can walk, you can dance.
ankerdorthe almost 5 years ago
I only sing when I am unhappy. Then the others will be unhappy too.
Tyge almost 5 years ago
Ego crush in 3… 2… 1…
jr1234 almost 5 years ago
Dance like no one’s watching…and Siiiiing, Sing a song, make it simple, sing out strong……
jr1234 almost 5 years ago
Guessing A and J are dancing all week long
SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Dancing Queen" is supposedly the favorite song of Queen Elizabeth (II, of England, of course).
She has been quoted in several places…. which doesn’t make it true, certainly, but I’d like to think it is…
as saying to guests, after a royal dinner, when “Dancing Queen” was being played….
“I always try to dance when this song comes on, because I am the Queen, and I like to dance”.
The song was also played, in her honor, in 2018, at a changing of the guard ceremony, instead of the usual fanfare…
after which the Royal Twitter account (yes, there is one!) posted “Many thanks to The Band of The Royal Logistic Corp for this beautiful rendition!” along with a video!
Not of the Queen dancing, sorry… but of the band playing “Dancing Queen” for her.
Michael G. almost 5 years ago
Janis is really setting the mood, isn’t she?
ChessPirate almost 5 years ago
Arlo! Belt it ou… up!
CitizenKing almost 5 years ago
My wife claims (OK, also my kids and pretty much everyone else) that I can’t sing. My response is that what I lack in singing talent is made up for with volume and enthusiasm.
cuzinron47 almost 5 years ago
I’m thinking it’s not so much his singing, but she’s just not into Abba.
alexius23 almost 5 years ago
Ah, Dancing Queen….
DCBakerEsq almost 5 years ago
FUN FACT. You can’t unsee me dance.
Back to Big Mike almost 5 years ago
“Dancing Queen” by Abba. I haven’t thought about that song in the longest.
1MadHat Premium Member almost 5 years ago
I expected that Arlo’s line would run to “See that girl with the red dress on”. I guess I came from a different time warp.But I still can’t carry a tune in a bucket, beat time with a stick, and can’t find the pitch with a pipe. Pretty good on kazoo, though.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 5 years ago
I sing better than I dance anyway.
Dr_Fogg almost 5 years ago
oh sure, now I have an earwig
athikers almost 5 years ago
….dance like nobody’s watching. Satchel Paige.
DDrazen almost 5 years ago
Dance as if nobody’s watching, unless they’re playing ABBA then all bets are off.
ariel777000 almost 5 years ago
I heard that some people should sing tenor…ten or twelve feet from the microphone.
mafastore almost 5 years ago
Even worse than not being able to sing or dance, I often do not regular a song unless it has lyrics.
We are members of an 18th century reenactment unit. One year the unit’s music master (in charge of fifes and drums) decided that we all needed to learn certain songs of the period, one being “Chester”. Chester (not Yankee Doodle Dandy) was the unofficial anthem of the colonies during the American Revolution.
While the unit learned the lyrics and to sing it, husband really wanted me to learn to recognize the tune as often it was played as musical piece. This is not something easy for me to do. Every time it was played he ask me “What is this song” and I would tell him that I didn’t know, and he would say “Chester”. It finally dawned on me that whenever he asked me what a period piece being played was, it was Chester. So I started replying “Chester” whenever he asked me – I did could not tell that was what it was, but whenever he asked me, that was what it was. He became happy at the thought that he had managed to teach me to recognize Chester. (I should mention that I know the words – if it was being sung, I would know that it was same.) One day he asks, I say Chester and it wasn’t and I was fount out.
If a piece has no singing being done I can generally tell the difference between classical, rock and roll, folk, country, and American colonial music – but not the song itself.