Songs for Closing Time

[FlightlessDuck]

Did you know "Closing Time" is actually about the birth of Dan Wilson's first child?

 

[FlightlessDuck]

 

[disneychrista]

Did you know "Closing Time" is actually about the birth of Dan Wilson's first child?

I did.
If you listen to the lyrics it makes sense. But alas it is the song of choice at "closing time" in bars

 

[tvguy]

Now it's time to say goodbye to all our company....M-I-C see ya real soon K-E-Y why, because we like you M-O-U-S-E

MJ

I kind of hoped they played that at the bar at the Disneyland Hotel....got thrown out of there once, no last call music, just a "you have to leave now" and that was at 1:30 am, 30 minutes before they are legally required to close. Disney being Disney, they don't want any violations. We were at the Grand Californian in December, our server says the policy is the same. Also said they had to take out the mini bars from the rooms because of how many under age people were getting drunk from that liquor, then passing out in the lobby or bar.

 

[disneychrista]

Found this song that I thought was very funny!

 

[disneychrista]

I kind of hoped they played that at the bar at the Disneyland Hotel....got thrown out of there once, no last call music, just a "you have to leave now" and that was at 1:30 am, 30 minutes before they are legally required to close.

Many bars close at 1:30am, to ensure that everyone is out of the place by 2am.

 

[Gary M]

"Goodnight Sweetheart"-The Spaniels

When I was in high school in the late '50's this was the last song at the sock hop. I think it could apply to a bar also. Indiana taverns closing time is 3:00 am, so the song really applies to that. I'm old and the closing time hasn't meant anything to me for 30 years.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

I did.
If you listen to the lyrics it makes sense. But alas it is the song of choice at "closing time" in bars

I actually thought it was about graduating college until I watched that video with him explaining it.

 

[jdb in AZ]

When a local restaurant/bar stopped serving liquor at 1 a.m. they played a recording of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing the Hallelujah Chorus.

 

[lovetoscrap]

The bar I used to go to in college would play "American Pie" as the last song of the evening. We would all put our arms around each other, sway back and forth, sing at the top of our (drunk) lungs, down the last of the drinks and as soon as it was over the lights went on and the staff all shooed us out the doors.

 

[disneychrista]

I actually thought it was about graduating college until I watched that video with him explaining it.

Well really it is this lyric that makes you go ahhh...This room won't be open 'til your brothers or you sisters come.

 

[U2_rocks!]

A popular band on our party scene in the 80s and 90s used to close the night with their own rendition of "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye". The whole crowd would sing along to the chorus, especially towards the end of the song when the chorus is repeated over and over, and there was always a huge drumroll at the very end. It was a fitting close to the night's festivities.

 

[jdb in AZ]

When DH plays in his rock band they always end with "We Gotta Get Outta This Place."

 

[Smuggs]

The Irish pub we hang out at plays "The Parting Glass" and everyone sings along. There are a few versions, this was one I found

 

[lauradis]

"Goodnight Sweetheart"-The Spaniels

When I was in high school in the late '50's this was the last song at the sock hop. I think it could apply to a bar also. Indiana taverns closing time is 3:00 am, so the song really applies to that. I'm old and the closing time hasn't meant anything to me for 30 years.

I have heard this in nightclubs with in the last couple of years.
The drunk people that know it, where dancing and singing it. lol
Good songs never go away.