Really touching. Unresponsive old man reacts to music from his era.

Youtube ^ | 4/7/12 | ncaavideos2

[Winstons Julia]

The part where he does Cab Calloway may cause something to get in your eyes.

[Beowulf9]

That’s amazing. They should introduce this into these care centers for people, music therapy.

[basil]

Absolutely incredible! I’ll remember this for a long time.

[bicyclerepair]

Wow, so uplifting. So beautiful. That was awesome. I couldn’t talk from being so choked up.

[VeniVidiVici]

Very cool

[hinckley buzzard]

The better nursing homes I go into strive to get live entertainment whenever they can. Every resident appreciates music.The old standards are still there, but guess what is a big favorite of the current population--Elvis impersonators. How time flies.

[Battle Hymn of the Republic]

is that a picture of president obama hanging on the wall in the background?

[Winstons Julia]

I guess I “tuned” that out....

[luvbach1]

I should think classical and light classical music would have a similar effect on some residents.

[cherry]

why did it take them 10 yrs to figure this out with this man?....btw, he wasn't "nearly unreponsive"...he answered questions....he was awake....they didn't need to find an Ipod to get this guy going....even piping it over the loudspeaker once in a while would have been enough...

mostly, you have to ENGAGE people like this and converse with them....that's how you keep them with it...

[Cowgirl of Justice]

One of my college classes required volunteering for 20 hours and reporting back to the class. One girl volunteered at a nursing home and was talking about how they played children’s songs and nursery rhymes to the senior citizens. I couldn’t understand why they didn’t play music more to their time, like maybe big band music, jazz or blues. It just seemed so disrespectful and condescending to do that to those poor, helpless people.

[Autonomous User]

Geez...I wasted 6 min of my life on that.

[Nachum]

That was great. Loved it.

[Revolting cat!]

What to do if one’s era was before the dawn of recorded music?

[dayglored]

Wonderful! Thank you for posting this!

[Jet Jaguar]

Very good post. Thanks!

[Winstons Julia]

Sing?

[Winstons Julia]

I agree that you have to engage people.

It seems like he answered things AFTER he was hearing the music.

[Winstons Julia]

And a minute to make your comment ... so that’s seven. Wait ... thirty seconds to read this so ... 7 minutes 30 seconds... you are welcome.

[Revolting cat!]

I haven’t watched it, after reading your and others’ comments, but I think such links should be honestly labeled with warnings that go something like “For Thomas Kinkade & Whitney Houston” fans.