Music you and ya Da had/have in common...

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njmackem said:
Got most of my music taste from the old man. He's a classic rock guy who loves Thin Lizzy, Free, Bad Company, Queen (all bands that I like as well)... Not sure there are any bands from my taste that he likes though. I remember my 9th birthday getting A-ha's Take On Me single and he told me they were rubbish and wouldn't last the test of time like the music of his youth.. Got to be honest I was shocked they were around for 20+ years before jacking it in.

Mum's taste is different, she likes Kate Bush, Streisand, Abba and stuff, all of which I can listen to.

Think it was my grandad who was my biggest influence though. He used to be a club singer back in the day and he did all the Sinatra standards and the likes, great voice but it was when he played his organ in the dining room (nee pervy giggles) that I learned so much from him. Rat Pack music, Elvis etc. Even just taking me to footy he would have something old on in the car, have to admit I cannot hear Rita Coolidge's All Time High without thinking about him. Great guy...
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Link the Coolidge track please, I don't know it.

back_to_winning_ways said:
Nat King Cole :cool:
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We played Too Young at my Da's funeral. Kills me Ma.
 


yorkyexile said:
believe it or not i`ve still got the sheet music book that came out at the same time as that. Nee tabs either all proper notes and chords
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With my first guitar I got an Oasis sheet music book no tabs in it, and turned up at my first lesson and said can you teach me this? The teacher couldn't read music and said we can't use this book to learn sorry kid.
 
I must've got my music taste from the milk man or something, because the only band we have had a shared interest in is Oasis, even got to see them together at one point.
 
Thackeray said:
Link the Coolidge track please, I don't know it.


We played Too Young at my Da's funeral. Kills me Ma.
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I wanted Nat King Cole at my Dad's funeral but my Mam wasn't keen so we picked a couple of classical pieces. (it was just around the time that playing your favourite songs was becoming popular and my Mam couldn't quite get her head around it)
At her funeral we played John Denver (Annie's Song) Times had changed a bit by then :)
 
back_to_winning_ways said:
I wanted Nat King Cole at my Dad's funeral but my Mam wasn't keen so we picked a couple of classical pieces. (it was just around the time that playing your favourite songs was becoming popular and my Mam couldn't quite get her head around it)
At her funeral we played John Denver (Annie's Song) Times had changed a bit by then :)
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I don't mind admitting this thread has me in bits. Annie's Song is beautiful.
 
Thackeray said:
I don't mind admitting this thread has me in bits. Annie's Song is beautiful.
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One of her favourite songs. We also had Nimrod by Elgar who's music she also loved.

She used to tell a funny story about Annie's Song.
She was in hospital recovering from an op. not long after it was released and the hospital radio bod came around asking if she would like a song to be played on the radio. She asked for Annie's Song and then waited for it to be played.
Eventually the DJ got to her request but said unfortunately they didn't have the song she had picked so they were going to play an alternative, "Keep your Feet Still Geordie Hinny" :lol:
 
I did a compilation CD for Dad every year at Christmas. Sometimes he’d request a specific song if he’d heard something on the radio that he liked. He invariably played his music in the car.

In 2013 he died. He fell off a stepladder

When me and my brothers were trying to think of music to play at the funeral, I had an idea. We could go to the car and see what music Cd he’d been listening to most recently. So we did. I got in the car, inserted the key, turned the CD player on and the track he’d been playing when he parked the car, after he’d been to the shop to buy a bracket, prior to ascending the stepladder he’d fallen off, whilst trying to affix it, started to play.

It was “I believe I can fly” by R Kelly.

We didn’t play it at the funeral
 
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George Kaplan said:
I did a compilation CD for Dad every year at Christmas. Sometimes he’d request a specific song if he’d heard something on the radio that he liked. He invariably played his music in the car.

In 2013 he died. He fell off a stepladder

When me and my brothers were trying to think of music to play at the funeral, I had an idea. We could go to the car and see what music Cd he’d been listening to most recently. So we did. I got in the car, inserted the key, turned the CD player on and the track he’d been playing when he parked the car, after he’d been to the shop to buy a bracket, prior to ascending the stepladder he’d fallen off, whilst trying to affix it, started to play.

It was “I believe I can fly” by R Kelly.

We didn’t play it at the funeral
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A lovely song, but definitely not appropriate for your poor Dad :(
(funnily enough I just found out this week that R Kelly sang it. I just knew it as the song from Space Jam)
 
back_to_winning_ways said:
A lovely song, but definitely not appropriate for your poor Dad :(
(funnily enough I just found out this week that R Kelly sang it. I just knew it as the song from Space Jam)
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Sorry but it might have been entirely appropriate if he’d had a say in it. He have killed himself laughing if wasn’t already already dead. Me and my brothers were in kinks. It helped to remind us of the ‘good’ daft dad, rather that the daft bit that made him climb a rickety stepladder at 86 after multiple and serious strokes to do a job that somebody else could easily have done for him.

We played ‘The Folks Who Live On The Hill’ by Peggy Lee which was on the same cd. I can’t listen to the damned song now. Too close to home. Too real. Bloody lyric could have been written for Mam and Dad if the songwriter had been familiar with North West County Durham.
 
Me da loved Thin Lizzy and came to see them with me and my mates on the Live and Dangerous tour.
He was head banging in his tweed jacket and crimplene strides:cool:
 
Billy2Sheds said:
Dire straits - will no doubt get some dissent on here but reminds me of getting taken to football on a Sunday
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Same here. Think they're the only CDs I bothered borrowing off him.

He was into punk in his late teens/early 20s. Remember talking to him about some punk box set I'd bought and he comes out with "Can't believe I was into that shite." Think he only got into it for the lasses. He's always been well into Floyd like. I can't get away with them.

Remember having a bass in the house when I was a small kid and I'd get told off for touching it. When we got a bit older he got a payout from work and bought my brother and step brother decent guitars. I got fuck all.

Always been more into my ma's music anyway, so ner.
 
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