SOURCES INDEX 2: ESL COLLECTIONS

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1 The following collections were catalogued in this directory; see accompanying notes on page 71 below. ESL Express (Laurie Wellman and Don R. H. Byrd) Ú The Circus Clown Horace's Tale I Love You, Baby, But... I Used to Sing a Song... I'll Always Remember Now's the Time Try Beginning Your Life Again When Are You Going to Marry Me? Which Country Is the Best? Yesterday and Today Even If You Can't Carry a Tune (Polly Merdinger/Joel Rosenfeld) Ú Cat's in the Cradle (2) I'll Know I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter Little Boxes (2) The Marvellous Toy My Love (2) Oh, What a Beautiful Morning Tennessee Waltz (2) Tie a Yellow Ribbon Under the Boardwalk (3) Goodbye Rainbow (Ken Wilson/Solid British Hat Band) Ú Along the Road City Boy Glitter Hair Cream Goodbye Rainbow He'd Still Be Here The Houses are Built Looking Forward to the Day Not Enough Ways Nothing Has Changed One Day Questions Seagull Hard to Learn That ESL Blues (Laurie Wellman and Don R. H. Byrd) Ú Country Dreaming Do You Calypso? ESL Blues I'm Happy in Love Modal Melody Morning Round Past Progressive Jealousy Cha, Cha, Cha Tell Me, Tell Me, Please They Tell Me It's a Song TV Blues Mister Monday (Ken Wilson/Solid British Hat Band) Ú Alice's Song Did You Use to Be Like Me? Going To I'm Sitting All Alone If You Go to Rome It's Only Half Past Three Mister Monday Present Continuous Baby Tomorrow Will Be Wonderful When You Wake English: Sing It (Millie Grenough) Ú Clementine (1) The Cruel War Dry Bones Foggy Dew I Wish I Were Single Again I've been Working on the R. R. So Long The Strangest Dream (2) Swing Low Sweet Chariot This Land is Your Land Turn! Turn! Turn! (1) Wayfaring Stranger You've Got a Friend (3) Skyhigh (Brian Abbs and Nola York) Ú Getting It Together Instant Powdered Coffee It's All over Now Love Song Making Plans Mystery Man Robinson, Barton and Stone Things You Like Thirty-Three to Paradise Tropical Island Unhappy Housewife Warnings What Have They Done to the World Sunday Afternoons (Roy Kingsbury and Patrick O'Shea) Ú But Now I'm Home If I Were You It's About Time On Sunday Afternoons One of Those Days Samantha's Picture Book The Ballad of Sheriff McGregor They Made Me Travelling in My Mind When I Phoned page 63

2 THE ESL SONG DIRECTORY Notes on the ESL Song Collections Included in this Directory: Brain Abbs and Nola York. Skyhigh. London: Longman, [Written for use with the Longman Strategy series. Clear and well-produced with some "British-isms;" lyrics, song summaries, and general suggestions are incl but no exercises; on vinyl and tape] Millie Grenough. English: Sing It! New York: McGraw-Hill, [The best overall collection with very clear and w produced though sometimes simplified arrangements of tunes: comes with two tapes and a book of sheet m exercises. A second, completely revamped version is due out in 1994.] The following songs included in the English: Sing It! collection were NOT included in this directory mainly because of their juvenile character however, this by no means implies that they shouldn't be used: All Together Now Alphabet Song Are You Sleeping Banks of the Ohio Bingo Go, Tell it on the Mountain Happy Birthday He's Got the Whole World Mail Myself To You Michael, Row the Boat Ashore My Bonnie Old Texas On Top of Old Smoky One Little Indian Rock My Soul Row Your Bow She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain Sinner Man There's a Hole When the Saints Go Marching In Roy Kingsbury and Patrick O'Shea. Sunday Afternoons. London: Longman, [Well-produced; British accents and colloquialisms; comes in vinyl and tape forms with lyrics and suggestions for classroom use] Polly Merdinger and Joel Rosenfeld. Even If You Can't Carry a Tune... New York: Newbury House, [Next best collection: 10 songs with music performed very closely to original style and quality of the pop releases; with extensive preparatory notes, exercises, and structural explanations; meant to be a stand-alone course i case, it would probably not be successful because it over-works the songs themselves] Laurie Wellman and Donald Byrd. Hard to Learn That English as a Second Language Blues. New York: Collier Macmillan, 1975/1979. [Music performed by "The Brain Train;" Solid, well-produced although the ly seem somewhat contrived; comes in vinyl and tape with lyrics, notes, and specific suggestions for classroom Laurie Wellman and Donald Byrd. ESL Express. New York: Collier Macmillan, [See Hard to Learn... above] Ken Wilson. Mister Monday. London: Longman, [Music by the Solid British Hat Band: well-produced; British accents and colloquialisms has a 1960's tone and attitude; comes in vinyl and tape with lyrics, notes, and so suggestions for classroom use] Ken Wilson. Goodbye Rainbow. London: Longman, [See Mister Monday] page 64

3 Some Recommended ESL Song Collections Not Included in this Directory: Carolyn Graham. The Carolyn Graham Turn of the Century Songbook. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Regents, [New "structurally-oriented" lyrics to traditional songs; 20 songs with tape and 96 page book; meant for clas singing activities; with follow-up notes and exercises based on Graham's Jazz Chants methodology] Christopher Jones. Back Home. London: Longman, [12 songs on tape; includes lyrics and exercises of intere mainly to teenagers] Mark Hancock, Singing Grammar: Teaching Grammar Through Song. Cambridge. CUP, Uwe Kind. Tune into English: Learning English through Familiar Melodies. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Regents, [New lyrics written to traditional songs from around the world; 20 songs on two tapes with 1 page book with follow-up exercises and games] Roy Kingsbury and Patrick O'Shea. Seasons and People. Oxford: Oxford UP, [Supposed to be a very good production but it is very difficult to find] )))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))Q Using Songs in ESL Instruction: A Selective Bibliography David Cranmer and Clement Laroy. Musical Openings. London: Longman (Pilgrims Resource Books), [Based mostly on classical music] Louise Cullen. "A new music education for our Canadian multicultural society," TESL Talk, 2/ Carolyn Graham. Singing, Chanting, Telling Tales. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Regents, [Good ideas for writing lyrics to old standard songs; focuses on rhythm and stress] Dale T. Griffee. Songs in Action. New York: Prentice-Hall, [Practical classroom focus] Tim Murphey. Music & Song. Oxford: Oxford University Press, [Most comprehensive] Tim Murphey. "The Discourse of Pop Songs," TESOL Quarterly, 26/ Marj Overstreet. "Songs for Grammar and Listening Practice, or Wake up your Class with Songs!" TNTESOL Newsletter, S. A. Nambiar. "Pop Songs in Language Teaching" reprinted in Methods that Work, 2nd Edition. Ed. by John Oller. Boston: Heinle & Heinle, Penny Ur. Teaching Listening Comprehension. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Meguido Zola and Joachim Sandvoss. "Song in Second-language Teaching: The uses of imagery," Canadian Modern Language Review, 33/ Other Resources: All-Music Guide: World Almanac of Recorded Music. CD-ROM Software for IMB and Compatibles. Selectware Technologies. [A comprehensive data-base of popular and classical music; useful for locating so titles, singers and the albums or CDs on which the tracks appear. Also contains useful articles and reviews popular song titles. Now published in paperback form, 1995] page 65

4 THE ESL SONG DIRECTORY Scott Buchanan, ed. Rock 'n Roll: The Famous Lyrics. New York: HarperCollins, [Short abstracts of selected lyrics from over 1000 songs with title/keyword and song-writer indexes] Peter Goddard and Philip Kamin. Shakin' All Over: The Rock 'N Roll Years in Canada. Toronto: McGRaw-Hill, [A collection of articles by and about Canada's pop legends, e.g. Dan Hill, Lorraine Segato, David Clayt Thomas, Neil Young. Filled with pictures and bios; no index] Todd Lowry, arr. The Complete Beatles. Two Volumes. Milwaukee: Hal Leonard Publishing, [Sheet music an lyrics for 207 of Fab Four's recordings] Dave Marsh and James Bernard. The New Book of Rock Lists. New York: Simon and Schuster, [á la Letterman, hundreds of lists such as "25 Songs about Children, Childhood and Parenting;" useful for finding about certain topics] Bruce Nash and Allan Zullo. The Wacky Top 40. Holbrook, MA: Bob Adams Pub., [Contains the lyrics, background and musical history of 40 "novelty" songs which became popular hits such as Monster Mash, Piña Colada Song (Escape) and Short People. Many of these songs could be developed into useful and amusing ESL activities] Joel Whitburn. The BillBoard Book of Top 40 Hits. New York: BillBoard Books, 1992 (updated yearly). [Great for locating popular songs] page 66

5 ADDENDUM Against All Odds All My Life Phil Collins Against All Odds [soundtrack] No Jacket Required clauses just, only, even love lost Phil Collins But Seriously past modals perfect tenses love (regret) Another Day in Paradise Phil Collins But Seriously simple present used for narrative homeless people, poverty social responsibility low intermediate Are You Sleeping? Ú Millie Grenough English Sing It! present continuous, questions folk (slow) low beginner Baby It's Cold Outside Johnny Mercer/Margaret Whiting Christmas by the Fireside mixed tenses and modals seduction and temptation battle of the sexes intertwined duet (medium) advanced lackbird Beatles White Album Ballads participles, present and past folk (medium) low intermediate Bring Me Some Water Melissa Etheridge Melissa Etheridge love: unfaithfulness rock (medium fast) advanced Daniel Elton John Greatest Hits V present modals: can must be, should family pain low intermediate Hard Day's Night Beatles The Beatles/ (1993) mixed tenses: present perfect (simple and continuous), present, going to working hard rock (fast) low intermediate Have I Told You Lately Rod Stewart Unplugged and Unseated present perfect vs present low intermediate I Will Always Love You Whitney Houston Bodyguard Soundtrack future (will = promise) love (self-denial) low intermediate Beauty and the Beast Celine Dion and Others Celine Dion truncated sentences certainty and change Functions: rhyming pop (slow) low intermediate If I Were You Celine Dion Celine Dion conditional 2: were subjunctive love: advice pop low intermediate page 67

6 THE ESL SONG DIRECTORY f Only Rod Stewart Vagabond Heart conditional 3 love (regret) If You Asked Me Celine Dion Celine Dion conditional 2, used to pop low intermediate It's a Big Old Goofy World John Prine The Missing Years adjective + as, "happy as a clam" comparative idioms; cliches folk (medium) low intermediate Letter, The (1) Box Tops Ultimate Box Tops (1967) air travel Function: syllable perception; guess title rock (fast) low intermediate Letter, The (2) Joe Cocker Greatest Hits air travel Functions: as above; compare versions (quite different words) rock-blues (medium) low intermediate Love Is a Wonderful Thing Michael Bolton Time, Love and Tenderness grammar mistakes love (regret) low intermediate Molly Malone Traditional various St. Patrick's Day folk low intermediate orthwest Passage Stan Rogers Northwest Passage Canadian exploration, identity Canadian geography folk, a cappella (slow) Occasionally Melissa Etheridge Melissa Etheridge adverbs vs "ly" adjectives loneliness Functions: poetic irony rock, a cappella (medium) advanced Old Time Rock 'n Roll Bob Seger Greatest Hits present, future (simple) music styles and preferences rock (medium) low intermediate Power of Love Celine Dion The Colour of My Love clauses: time, adjective, cause, concession, noun, location love Pretty Woman Roy Orbison Greatest Hits present simple, commands (positive and negative) rock (medium) high beginner Sealed with a Kiss Christine Lavine et al Buy Me Bring Me Take Me (Bitchin' Babes) V. 2 future simple: promising summer; absence low intermediate Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Beatles Sergeant Pepper's-- sentence structures: clausal, phrasal analysis rock (medium) low intermediate page 68

7 So in Love K D Lang Red, Hot & Blue (Cole Porter Tribute) subject-verb reversals pop, torch (slow) Summertime Ella Fitzgerald Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife present simple and continuous, future simple, going to summer; lullaby blues (slow) high beginner Wildflower Skylark Best of Canadian Rock--(1973) 1991 clauses: adverb, adjective, noun love: tenderness, fragility page 69

At Seventeen Every Breath You Take I'm Leaving on a Jet Plane Something. Rainy Day People The Rose. Up on the Roof

At Seventeen Every Breath You Take I'm Leaving on a Jet Plane Something. Rainy Day People The Rose. Up on the Roof adjective clauses "that" phrases adjective/noun clauses adjectives and adverbs and prepositions opposites, colours adverb clauses (see also temporal conjunctions) adverbs construction; "- ly" frequency