Ditto on the Skaggs/Allman track.
Noddy Holder describes the Slade Christmas song as his pension plan, and I read that it earns him somewhere between 500k and 1million each and every year. Who would have thought that in 1973.
I love that you pretended hagatha. I do that with more and more songs in English!
One Christmas song you might not have heard is from local boy Paul Kelly, and while I am not a fan of the song by all accounts I am the only Aussie who isn't (Koala might be able to confirm). Its not quite Holder-esque and not even nearly as jolly but it comes up every year, and now has its own 25th anniversary podcast.
Some people also apparently swear by the recipe as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYqIF2XkqKU

flotsam, your link is one of a handful from this thread that has actually caught my interest enough to listen through to the end. Most of them, I cannot.

High praise indeed oldbroad. That probably makes you an honorary Aussie

How about this one : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfrSIUE3iAE

One of my favorites, CD! Listened to it yesterday while I was walking!

Not bad but I had to close it around the 4 minute mark. Too much music. I like the song part though.

Oldbroad, glad to see at least something on the thread rang your bell!

About time for a couple of bites of Hendrix, who I think still leads the pack (although I also subscribe to the idea that there are bound to be some really great guitarists who have never emerged into public view, probably playing in a shed or garage somewhere...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXwMrBb2x1Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JQjarE-fKE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNBRnkAbhys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpKA9_PJxk0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZBlqcbpmxY

Yeah Lex. It's not that I dislike most of the postings but I don't want to just sit and listen to them. I don't do background music very often. I like to sit and listen and sing when the mood strikes, so that means golden oldies (top 40 songs on the radio back in the day). An example of what I listen to now and then is Gary Puckett and The Union Gap and The Guess Who, and here are links to two songs that I like a lot for both the lyrics and music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THW-5OUTSt8 (Paul Davis)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89dGC8de0CA (Aerosmith)

Oldbroad that last one made me think of you perhaps singing along to Stairway to Heaven...

I think my wife would probably agree with your attitude to music, and at least some of your choices: most of my listening is in the car or on headphones to spare her the pain of most of my choices!

I can sing to Stairway to Heaven but how about this one. I like singing to this also!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nptFEl-nwM

I am a fan of both those sing-a-longs oldbroad, especially the Aerosmith track.
I wonder whether White Wedding is another (it is for me ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAZQaYKZMTI

Sorry flotsam. I never sang along to that and am not even sure if I ever heard the whole song before now.

Flotsam, I guess you heard Billy Idol singing that live in Maine, correct? That would have been so interesting!

I have always wanted to go to Maine - home of several of my ancestors - and have read about it so much in Stephen King's books.

It was indeed Maine Marian, on a pier in Portland. We would go back anytime!
OB, I will stop at one out of two

Maine always sounded good to me because of Dark Shadows

There are so many good dark tales set in Maine, those of John Connolly perhaps being my favourites.

Oldbroad, what is your absolute favourite track for a singalong, and does all of this mean that you are a karaoke regular...?

My son and I actually started watching the entire series on Amazon Prime a couple of years ago. We are going to start watching it again this week. There are so many episodes!

Lex, I don't actually have a "favourite" and I haven't played any CD's for awhile. I just use Google and usually start with one of the songs below and then continue on by selecting things that come up on the side of the screen. No Karaoke for me! My singing is just in the privacy of my own home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu1UXCdyNo0 (This one is really good for singing so maybe it's my favorite?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfwUUM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PfrpcqLyzY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge9Ou3-YyqU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXhsqsh1uX0 (I'm not much into music videos themselves but I really like this one.)

Marian, I have the whole Dark Shadow series on VHS tapes (plus the 4 or 5 Dark Shadows Beginnings DVDs because I don't think the VHS "whole series" actually starts at the beginning). Unfortunately, I never actually made it through the whole series YET. I started watching the VHS tapes over 20 years ago but still have not finished. My plan is to finish them and then start all over again with the DVDs but I don't know when that will ever happen. When I still had Amazon Prime I had put them all in my library to watch but really wanted to finish my VHS tapes first. They show Dark Shadows on one of the TV stations at 4:00 AM on Saturday mornings. I often watch it (or fall asleep watching it).

Dark Shadows, one of my favorites.

Sorry for going off topic, but Connie I am just delighted to discover this series after all of these years. I was well aware of its existence when it was initially aired on television but did not watch it at the time. Pleased to meet another fan.

Ob, that's cool that it airs once a week on television on one of your channels.

Anyway, if anyone wants to talk about it more, feel free to start a new topic in Mixed Bag.

I NEVER missed an episode of Dark Shadows!

Oldbroad, those are some good (and saucy ) songs: Starland Vocal Band was new to me, as was Puddle Of Mudd on C_D's link.

Dark Shadows looks like something I should try, perhaps starting with the film and then the 1991 revival series (rather than the 60s series unless any of you particularly recommend that).

Good to sing to though right?

I had also never heard that Puddle Of Mudd but listened all the way through. (I actually haven't heard of a lot of the postings in the link, having stopped listening to music in my early 20's probably.)

I never watched much of the revival series so I cannot comment on it, and am not sure which film you're looking at, but I'm pretty sure the 60's series is the way to go! It starts off pretty slow but it is worth watching.

The 60's series is the way to start just for the black and white, live, terrible acting and the clumsy sets. Besides, you would miss the episodes like when Barnabas (the vampire) has a fly on his face and just has to keep acting through the scene!