[Music] Songs that remind you of your parents

[Icy Gull]

Yes I know, yet another music thread from me!

Stat - just leave it

Both my parents are no longer with us. I heard this this morning and it brought back the happy memory of my father looking up from his newspaper and asking me words to the effect of WTF is this rubbish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdvnOH060Qg

This song brings a tear to my eye every time I hear it was a big favourite of my mothers.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSsiS-v6_6M

 

[Is it PotG?]

Mum used to love this beaut.

 

[pasty]

Dad was a huge James Last fan, owning some 50 albums (which I got when he passed away).

He is still a bit of a "guilty pleasure" as a former trumpet player myself I love the big band sound.

This was always a favourite, and immediately takes me back to boring Sunday afternoons and dad would "put a record on"

 

[NooBHA]

This was my mother's party piece at New Year parties - Most of my family are all decent singers , except me (totally talentless), although it never stopped me thinking I was as good as the others

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMmtBgMaF5I

 

[HAILSHAM SEAGULL]

Mum and dad always had the light programme on in 60's, Sunday lunchtime before dinner, I thinkit was 2 way family favourites.
Always a Jim Reeves song on the show.
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Some times it was Distant Drums, which was used, with different words in the North Stand to sing at the away fans.
Happy memories

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

My memory is probably of my Dad’s look of wonder/disdain while I was enthusing about artists such as



Or

https://youtu.be/tUqAGoPtfto https://youtu.be/tUqAGoPtfto

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

He usually followed it by saying

If You’re All Right Son I Don’t Want To Be

His reaction was the same if I was going mad about Peter Ward
,

 

[jakarta]

My memory is probably of my Dad’s look of wonder/disdain while I was enthusing about artists such as



Or

https://youtu.be/tUqAGoPtfto https://youtu.be/tUqAGoPtfto

And indeed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYtRp9UNx8Y

Pointing at the TV saying what the bloody hell is THAT?

A rant about National Service usually followed...

 

[Icy Gull]

Sunday lunchtime with Judith Chalmers (?) and two/three/four/five way family favourites and this was fecking on every week (along with Jim Reeves as mentioned above)


BFPO whatever number !

I have a tear in my eye again

Very happy days for me

I wonder if our kids will feel the same when we are gone when they hear Pink Floyd, Jackson Browne, Van Morrison and Neil Young

https://youtu.be/_cEr4CCtllA

 

[GT49er]

Pretty much anything that the Adams Singers used to sing on Sing Something Simple on a Sunday evening. Ah! Nostalgia!

 

[Is it PotG?]

And indeed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYtRp9UNx8Y

I'm sure this was in NO way influenced by

 

[wellquickwoody]

A song which my mother probably never even heard. As we drove away from the hospital after her death it just came on the radio and just fitted. More about me than her, I just wished at that moment that I could have lived up to her straight moral compass that she herself so sought. Now I realise we are all our own people and need not to judge ourselves by others so much.

https://youtu.be/fW3eFT2D2Yk

 

[Barrow Boy]

So many to choose from, but these are a few.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

These two are the first that come to mind for my Dad






Mum isn't much of a music fan.. but I was quite impressed when she asked me to buy this for her, back in the day.

 

[studio150]

My Father was purely classical, operas and ballets, this got played regularly



My Mother loved Hymns and Christmas songs, and would put Christmas songs on at anytime during the year.

 

[Mexican Seagull]

Both mum and dad struggled with all of what I used to listen to in the 60s especialy as my dad loved Mantovani & Val Doonican and what he played on the beautiful wooden record player cabinet he had built....great memories though of around Sunday lunch listening to Round the Horne, we all enjoyed - Rambling Sid Rumpole anyone??

 

[ozzygull]

My mum played this on repeat for what seemed like a year. To be fair, I like some of Leo's songs and when I hear this I am transported back to Lower Bevendean.

This video shows days gone by in Brighton.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Here they are having a right old laugh.


For the old girl.



For the old man



Great thread.

 

[Eric Potts]

Sunday afternoon , Family Favourites .

 

[Eeyore]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE8aU7fXDiI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxzBCknAYn4

One from the day of their marriage and one from the day of my adoption. Both came to mind. I inherited a love of Val Doonican from the albums they had. Not hip but I don't care.