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Does any song/tune spark a memory of your parents?

 
Mon, 06/12/2023 - 1:08pm

My dad was an engineer.

So I remember him singing this tune, and taking particular amusement when he got to the part, "Don't know what a slide rule is for." Because he used one.

Then when he was done with the song, he would look at me as a little boy, and say, gosh this guy doesn't seem to know much about anything. Then laugh.

I think this is a particularly good rendition:

https://youtu.be/MzaYdjWQwxA

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Mon, 06/12/2023 - 2:21pm

Wonderful World

The song Wonderful World was released by Sam Cooke in the early 60's and was quite popular when I was a teen. Hermans Hermits recorded it a few years later in the mid 60's and it was quite high on the charts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HoVF6iv7OE

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Mon, 06/12/2023 - 5:36pm

Parent songs

Yeah, I like "Wonderful World," too. Of course, most people now don't know how to use a slide rule or even what it's for. Handheld electronic calculators turned them into buggy whips. Slide rules were only good for approximating a math solution anyway, most of the time.

For me, the parent song is the duet version of "You Are My Sunshine" which my folks would sing together, like this duo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu8AYFu2hMQ
only a capella, or with a ukulele, since neither played the guitar. Note it was a 1940, late-Great Depression song, so just as in that YouTube video, it often feels like there's a touch of sadness.

My parents ended up getting divorced. Skies got *really* gray, I guess. But I still think of them together when I hear Sunshine.

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Tue, 06/13/2023 - 12:42pm

Another One

Oh they had another song they'd sing as a duet that still reminds me of them: The Everly Brothers' "Devoted to You," written by Boudleaux & Felice Bryant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LboNYB_oKTY

Yeah the eternal devotion theme in that song didn't work out either.

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