In February 2021, The Bridge Singers had their Top 10 Singalong on Zoom. The choir voted for their favourite five songs that we’d ever sung and the ones with the most votes (well, ten of them) were sung on Valentine’s Day. I hunted out recordings of us for us to sing along to – we discovered that singing along to ourselves was the closest we could come to replicating singing live. Our top 10 were:

1. Bogoroditse Devo.
2. Abendlied
3. Lullaby Of Silences
4. Northumberland
5. 59^th Street Bridge Song
6. Hallelujah (Cohen)
7. If Ye Love Me
8. Skydancer: Ghost Of The Moors
9. Locus Iste
10. The Peanut Vendor
11. The Parting Glass

A wide variety of styles, I think you’ll agree. I was pleased at this result as this has always been my aim for the choir – that we cater to the wide variety of styles that people enjoy. Also pleased that two of mine were on there!!!

And yes, I know…that’s 11. There’s a good reason. If you want to sing along yourselves, here are all the links on this blog. The Bridge Singers’ Top 10 Singalong – Cheryl Camm – Composer

Lots of people said that Lullaby Of Silences would have been on their list, but it’s too sad for a celebratory event that’s meant to cheer us up, so they left it off the list. I decided that there was were so many comments like this, that we wouldn’t sing it that night. We replaced it with one of our 11^th place songs, The Parting Glass – I think this is a warm-hearted end-of-a night-in-a pub song, so perfect for our singalong!