Anyone Want To Help Me?

[Babyjustrun]

What exactly do I want help on?
Well, I'm on a VERY VERY VERY small comittee that creates a slideshow for the end of the school year. Seen as I'm in junior high, we don't get those huge yearbooks, so we take pictures all year long and create a slideshow for the whole school to see. It's always very special because it's the last day of school, you have people going on summer vacation, moving and the grade eights are heading off to high school. So we work hard to make it as good as possible.
Right now we have a short to do list:
- Rearrange the slideshow so it goes by the date it was taken
- We need 200 more pictures
- Get some music together

Right now I really need to find some music. I'm hard pressed for it because we have about two more weeks to get this done and we can only gather about twice a week.

I need music that is:

- Appropriate for the time (like happy, BFF-ish)
- Appropraite language wise (we've got younger grades, swearing is a no-no, though h*ll is okay as long it isn't repetitive)
- Timely. We need music that isn't so old no one knows it.

So far we have:

Photograph - Nickelback
Good Riddance - Green Day
Friends Forever - Vitamin C

I wanted to use Birthday by the Beatles because it's the schools tenth anniversary. Is that a good idea?

Can you guys help me at all?

 

[Daisymae26]

I was going to suggest "Friends Forever" but I see you already have that down! Ummm...I can't really think of anything unless "Breakaway" by Kelly Clarkson, but I don't know if that's a good idea or not. I'll try to keep thinking. Good luck!

 

[Lil_Tink]

Hmm Im thinking of songs younger grades could enjoy to.....what about Lean on me-Bill Withers, Pump it-Black Eyed Peas, I like to move move it-Crazy Frog, Can you move it like this-Baha Men, Kids in America- Kim Wilde...

Maybe somewhat older songs that have an upbeat rhytem?

 

[Babyjustrun]

thanks
i don't think i'll be using Breakaway. I find it's kind of... depressing. Not like totally, but it's got those points. I went through about every cd i had yesterday, going 'this song will be a happy song' but most of the songs these days are depressing.

i'm not trying to go upbeat with the songs really, i'm looking for something enjoyable, but that actually has something to do with the school year. (btw, we're not Americans)

 

[Lil_Tink]

Ohh then I would just recommend Lean On Me because that is just a nice friendship song :]

 

[Lil_Tink]

thanks
i don't think i'll be using Breakaway. I find it's kind of... depressing. Not like totally, but it's got those points. I went through about every cd i had yesterday, going 'this song will be a happy song' but most of the songs these days are depressing.

i'm not trying to go upbeat with the songs really, i'm looking for something enjoyable, but that actually has something to do with the school year. (btw, we're not Americans)

Im so blonde I was even staring at your Canadian icon

 

[Babyjustrun]

kk i'll try that, thanks

i love it when people do stupid things (i don't mean this in a bad way) it makes me smile and laugh. i could be having a horrible day (which i'm not, but that's besides the point) and one thing that could make me laugh makes it that much better.

 

[ktbutterfly2011]

You'll Never Walk Alone- from the musical Carosel (or however you spell it) is what we sang to our powerpoint kind of depressing but very very very graduationish

I suppose at the end you could have like pics of kids being crazzy and then play that "school's out for summer" song

 

[TheGirlin14G]

"Unwritten" by Natasha Beddingfield - it's upbeat, inspirational, and was pretty popular this year... and it's especially good for the 8th graders... hmm.. I'll try to think of more, but that's all I could think of right now.

 

[VolleyballQt07]

friends forever would be a rlly great choice! i went to an end of the year dance saying goodbye to our 8th graders and even tho it was rlly emotional, it expressed our yrs together!

 

[Babyjustrun]

i love Friends Forever. I first heard it when my brother left for high school almost.. 3 or four years ago. it's a sad song, and i have a hard time listening to it without crying. i just hope i don't that day. i'd be embarrased. (and i'm ugly when i cry)

but Unwritten is good
thanks.

 

[poisoned apple]

my school does that sort of thing too...
here is a song that my brother's year used...
Time In A Bottle-Jim Croce
it is kinda sad but very appropriate...
i was gonna say this like Life song but i don't know the full title...

 

[jenbabe13]

good times by tommy lee.

very appropriate for this!!!!!

 

[BandGeek911]

You'll Never Walk Alone- from the musical Carosel (or however you spell it) is what we sang to our powerpoint kind of depressing but very very very graduationish

Sorry for being but we sang that for choir this year, and it's very pretty.

 

[DDRManiac]

well you could use, ready to go by republica thats an upbeat song that kind of fits in with the situation, time of your life, greenday would be ok...ummm...for a school theme ABC 123 by the jackson 5......you could use the wonder years theme song by joe cocker........and lastly im having a bit of a mental block but the songs that have "schools out for the summer" and "hey teacher leave those kids alone"

 

[TheGirlin14G]

I noticed that one person suggested a song from a musical.. you could check out "For Good" from Wicked.. it's about friendship and leaving and such.. my older sister sang it at her high school graduation last year and everyone was crying... and maybe if any teachers are retiring and you have pictures of them put them in there.

btw - I like the whole "Birthday" - Beatles thing

 

[AmoDolphin]

What about stuff like "Listen To Your Heart" by D.H.T? It's not exactly end-of-schoolish, but it's a dance song, so it's really upbeat. Same thing for "Everytime We Touch" by Cascada.
How young are the grades? I mean, my little sister and her friends like ANYTHING by Crazy Frog, especially "Popcorn", "Axel F", and I know it was mentioned before, but "I Like To Move It".
A best friend-ish song would be Carole King's "Where You Lead", which is the Gilmore Girls theme song.
If I think of anything else, I'll let you know.

 

[Babyjustrun]

thanks. it's a kindergarten to grade 8. so basically it's from 5 - 14 years olds.

 

[ktbutterfly2011]

Sorry for being but we sang that for choir this year, and it's very pretty.

I'm the OP of the post about You'll never walk alone for those too lazy to figure it out and we sang that for choir too... thats kinda freeakkkayyyy