Hello! So I am putting together a slideshow for a part of the senior class (of roughly 60 students who have taken part in a leadership program and worked together for 4 years). Anyone have ideas for songs that would be good to thank them all, as I am in charge of them, preferably something that would be tearjerking.
Thanks
The song “For Good” from the musical “Wicked”— about how friends influence the course of each other’s lives.
Skip the plot specific intro and begin with the main portion of the song, which has a generic lyric that will work well for your purpose.
Vitamin C “Graduation Song” (Friends Forever).
Good Riddance by Green Day is always good.
Listen to I Was Here by Lady Antebellum and see if that would work.
One Direction “History”
Beatles “In My Life”
Rent “Seasons of Love”
Trace Adkins “You’re Gonna Miss This”
Kenny Chesney “Don’t Blink”
Fleet wood Mac “Landslide”
Andy Grammer “Back Home”
Paul Anka “Times of Your Life”
Michael W Smith “Friends”
Boyz II Men “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday”
Carole King “Now and Forever”
Wiz Khalifa - See You Again
Simple Minds “Don’t You Forget About Me”
Alphaville “Forever Young”
Seals and Crofts: We May Never Pass This Way Again
Carol King: You’ve Got a Friend
Beach Boys: Be True to Your School
Avett Brothers’ I and Love and You.
My first thought was the Wicked song which is mentioned in the first post. Also “I Hope You Dance” and “My Way.”
Barbra Streisand: The Way We Were
“Time in a Bottle”
'Never Say Goodbye" - BonJovi
I think “See you Again” is the most appropriate for a current graduating class. It was popular when they were likely first getting into music. That is to say it’s of their generation though they’d consider it an " oldie". But they probably made memories listening to this…unlike many of the others.
It was literally the most viewed you tube video of all time during its heyday. Plus it’s a beautiful song.
"We’ve come a long way from where we began
Oh, I’ll tell you all about it when I see you again
Dang, who knew…
Good things we’ve been through
That I’ll be standing right here talking to you
'Bout another path
I know we loved to hit the road and laugh
But something told me that it wouldn’t last
Had to switch up
Look at things different, see the bigger picture
Those were the days
Hard work forever pays
Now I see you in a better place"
…
As a goof - “School’s Out” by Alice Cooper.
Also, “Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong, which is now featured (in what I think is a horrible version, in a car commercial).
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I honestly think that if these kids weren’t alive when the song was released it’s a no. There are a couple of suggestions here that fit that standard. I’d look at the lyrics to those and see which you like best. I know what I’d go with but I definitely wouldn’t pick a song popular a half century before this class graduates !
@maya54 -
I respectfully disagree. These kids didn’t grow up in a vacuum, hopefully. They have presumably been exposed to music older than the year 2000, when I assume most of them were born. I think we are selling these kids short by limiting the choices to songs from a relatively short period of time.