Singing families

Valerie Yule would like the UK to copy the popular Chinese 'Singing Families' TV competition. In fact she would like not only a televised show to find the Singing Family of the Year, but also other TV contests for Over-Fifties, Work-Place Singers, Pub Singers, etc.

'It is astonishing how many people today never enjoy singing, when in the past and the world over singing together or alone has always been one of the great pleasures of life'

'It is astonishing how many people today never enjoy singing,' says Valerie Yule, 'when in the past and the world over singing together or alone has always been one of the great pleasures of life. Drunks used to be able to sing all of 'Sweet Adeline', now they can only manage the first phrase of a song. Particularly in places of high unemployment, being able to sing, and knowing the words of the songs, are pleasures that cannot be taken away. It is also good physical exercise. People who meet anywhere could have singing as a sideline.'

A condition of the television contests, Yule adds, would be that no line could be repeated more than once in any verse or chorus, and that all choruses must have different verses in between, as a guard against totally mindless pap; and the songs would be subtitled, so that viewers could learn to sing them too.

Valerie Yule, 57 Waimairie Drive, Mount Waverley, Victoria, Australia 3149 (tel 807 4315).

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