Learning to Fly

"Learning to Fly" by Tom Petty is an amazing song.
This promises to be a fairly stupid post.
I'm really into pop songs in which the melody is carried entirely by the voice, and where there is no production trickery to layer two vocal parts for one voice on top of one anther so it sounds like it is coming from some impossible fake parallel universe - that's not very realistic is it? When you are singing this kind of song you don't have to go "dun-dun-dun" or "zhrr zhrr zhrr" (fake gtr sounds). These songs are singing songs. They might actually sound good to someone who was listening, wheras songs where the melody is carried by an instrument, the sound is usually in your head, so when you are singing along it sounds stupid. Songs to sing when you are doing yardwork - or in the subway - the subway has the best singing environment because everybody can hear you, but nobody acknowledges it, and the screaming wheels give you a great noisy, harmonic environment. Some singalong songs are great songs to improvise around, writing your own melodies - I've been into doing Bollywoodesque vocals on American pop songs - amazing. Also good for this are the Beatles, the Pogues, Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie, etc. But "Learning to Fly" is a great song because it is so simple - the call and response.
Hint - if you are singing this song to your dog it's probably a good idea to sing the response in a kind of woofy-woof-dog voice so if someone were listening it might seem as though you were singing along with your dog - it would also be appropriate to sing the following lyrics:

I'm learning to woof
(learning to woof)
cause I'm a DOG
(learning to woof)
learning to woof
(learning to woof)
is the hardest thing
(learning to woof)
...

Note that this abandons the rhyme, but that loss is more than offset if you actually use the woof-dog accent.
I'd like to hear more about what songs people sing when they sing to themselves. What works? I want to expand my repetoire. And I wanna know why people don't sing singalong songs that much anymore. And why people don't dance when there is music playing - I was in Washington Square Park and I was feeling dancy, and there was nobody dancing. It made me want to move to a different country.
Anyway, you should really try singing "learning to woof." No seriously. Give it a shot.

In the meanwhere - here is a great song that has nothing to do with woof dogs:

Mehboob Mere