I use to sing (sic)

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I use to sing all the time. It drove my (now ex) wife crazy. Then six months ago, flashing lights, double vision, visual snow etc joined the line-up of loud tinnitus noises and hearing loss and I stopped singing. I didnt even notice at the time. This morning I found my self singing in the bathroom. Not for long and it sure wasnt pretty. But it was singing all the same. Maybe it means something.

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Hi, I find myself singing in the shower.

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singing is good for you, releases all those endorphins.

i used to have a half decent voice but now it’s gone all growly.

now i love janis joplin’s growly voice but i don’t have her cool.

— tend to do mercedes benz because at least i can still hit the notes.

can i please do a bit now?

"oh lord won’t you buy me a mercedes benz

my friends all drive porsches i must make amends

worked hard all my lifetime no help from my friends

oh lord won’t you buy me a mercedes benz"

sorry about your ear worm

carole x

ps rupert well done you, maybe turning a corner?

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Thanks for the ear worm Carole. One I particularly like, and hurray, it’s chased Roachfords ‘Cuddly Toy’ out (was on the radio this morning).

Good for you Rupert, maybe it’s a slow sneaky bit of remission. Perhaps your tinnitus will gradually slope off and one day you’ll suddenly notice it’s been gone for a few days. Will keep my fingers firmly Xd.

Sue

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I sing all the time. My carer Bev and I soon pick up a song from any words we say, and immediately go into trills.

My hubby says I can’t sing… Doesn’t stop me trying!

Never heard him sing in 46 years!

Pollsx

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I sing all the time. I learned the acoustic guitar a few years and still play (as badly as ever) when my hands aren’t sore.

My kids are always telling me to be quiet, but every now and them I catch them singing one of “Dad’s songs”.

my wife is a truly awful singer. Extremely awful. But that doesn’t stop her trying. She doesn’t know most of the words and tends to make up the lyrics and the tune as she goes along. It does my head in!

derek

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derek

my mum was always singing along to the radio.

if she didn’t know the exact lyrics she would make them up.

my favourite is bob marley’s “is this love” mum sang it as “we’ll be together with a roof rack (?) over our heads”!

bless you mum, miss you every day.

carole x

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When I looked after my young grandson and sang, he’d put his little hand over my mouth and say., ‘Save it till bedtime, gwanma!’

Pollsx

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There’s someone else with a great gravely voice but surprise surprise I cant remember her name. Anyways, she did a song called something like as tears go by and went out with Mick Jagger. I thought if I kept typing trivia that it would come to me but it hasnt.

Thanks. Maybe I am turning a corner and at least with teh singing people will hear me coming.

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Thanks Sue. Hope u doing OK. Tbh I know there is almost no chance of teh tinnitus ever going, just getting louder. But maybe I will learn to treat it as no more than a major nuisance.

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Keep singing the duets with your carer Polls. Spouses are rarely the best judges of these things.

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If she is making up the lyrics then maybe song writing is where her talents lie?

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Gravely voice…with Mick Jagger…gotta be Marianne Faithful?

Bonnie Tyler? Elkie Brooks?

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When I looked after my young grandson and sang, he’d put his little hand over my mouth and say., ‘Save it till bedtime, gwanma!’

Pollsx

[/quote] well u all made me laugh, polls, when i hum(can’t sing for for the love of God) my grandson hums along he has just turned 2.he even hums when we go to shops

And gets angry if I don’t join him.

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I love to sing. It really is good for the spirit Bob.

I knew I could hold a tune and could keep harmonies in school but I never realised I was any good until only about 15 years ago! I sang along with a guy on guitar in a group of friends one evening, at his house. His wife can play the spoons, brilliantly. Hubby plays banjo, Bluegrass style. We finished up about 4am. Fantastic evening and I’ve sang ever since, usually only in company I’m comfortable with, but I have sang in a couple if local pubs when asked up, and once in a pub abroad.

My voice is more suited to ballads and I love traditional Irish songs too. Can’t understand how I can sing my heart out but cannot manage any instrument.

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rupert

you were thinking of marianne faithfull?

wierd how i remember things like ths when i can never remember what i had for breakfast and whether i HAD breakfast.

carole x

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Thanks Poppy, Marianne Faithful was who I had in mind. Marinne LePen had gone through my mind but I knew that I could never have been a big fan of hers!

I loved Bonnie Tyler as kid but it was a secret passion., Especially Total Eclipse of the Heart. Oh, and Tina Turner.

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Hi Carole.

Just replied, tried to edit out shocking typo and accidently deleted the post. Anyhow, long and the short of it is that I think u and Poppy cracked it.

Hope you doing ok.

Cheers

Rupert

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I immediately thought Marianne Faithful too. Why does my brain remember such a useless piece of information? I’ve never had cause to remember it before. I wouldn’t have known I knew that they went out together. Yet useful things are just beyond me.

Ah brains, can’t live with 'em, can’t live without 'em (or something like that!)

Sue

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Ah brains, can’t live with 'em, can’t live without 'em (or something like that!)

Sue

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