sing-alongn.adj.
A. n.
1. A song or recording to which one can sing along in accompaniment (esp. a light popular song with an easy rhythm).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > other types of song
roundelaya1475
black sanctus?1533
pastorella1597
orgial1610
balow1613
comic song1718
hunting-song1727
vaudeville1739
apopemptic1753
melologue1820
Orphic1855
wren song1855
air de cour1878
Kunstlied1880
action song1883
come-all-you1887
marching song1894
party song1911
theme song1929
honky-tonker1950
protest song1953
sing-along1959
slow jam1961
talking blues1969
rap1979
1959 Time 17 Aug. 60/3 The nation's mature citizens are merely striking back at rock'n'roll, buying the sing~alongs.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Feb. 23/1 A Gay Nineties room with sing-alongs, familiar tunes of that era.
1971 Ink 31 July 16/2 Those ringing certainties which made ‘Woodstock’ and ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ into such cosy sing-alongs.
1981 J. Wainwright Urge for Justice i. xii. 84 He could tickle the old ivories..could hammer out a singalong with the best.
2. A sing-song to the accompaniment of a song-leader or tune.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [noun] > sing-song
sing-song1769
sing1850
singing1860
sing-in1968
sing-along1973
1973 B. Broadfoot Ten Lost Years xxii. 256 There would be a sing-along, or the manager maybe would just pull a lucky number from a hat.
1975 Daily Mail 9 June 18/1 Someone in the next room's having a sing-along!
1979 Guardian 27 June 11/8 The insulting..notion that working-class audiences want only a beery community sing-along on their night out.
B. adj.
Of a song, recording, etc.: to which one can sing along in accompaniment. Of or characterized by this unsophisticated but cheerful style.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [adjective]
unaccompanied1818
madrigalian1848
madrigalesque1853
folk-songish1925
torchy1941
sing-along1959
1959 Time 17 Aug. 60/3 Whether anyone actually sings along with the sing-along albums probably does not bother..Miller.
1967 Melody Maker 1 Apr. 9 How can the Beatles' best..single yet be ousted by so many sing-along melodies and slush-ridden lyrics?
1974 Financial Times 24 Apr. 2/3 Happy music in singalong style.
1977 P. Hill Liars ii. 9 A group of relatives were following the words of a sing-along record.
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n.adj.1959