What Were Your Parents’ Favorite Songs?
A Mother’s Day / Father’s Day Rate-A-Record Challenge
We all have our favorite songs — the music that inspired us and in large part made us who we are. Your parents or other family members / acquaintances of a previous generation had their favorites as well.
Many of my mother’s and father’s most enjoyed selections have become earworms for me — playing and replaying in the vast jukebox of my memory. Here are four. I’m curious how others who don’t share that heritage react to these songs, so I’m creating a Rate-A-Record entry. Because of my advanced age, these entries won’t be familiar to most listeners. If you’d like to share your reactions here, please include observations / reflections.
My Father’s Music
My rural Alabama father grew up listening to early broadcasts (including from the Grand Ole Opry) on his uncle’s radio in the 1920’s-30’s. Two of his favorite artists are now considered to be among the founders of country music — the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers. He would often sing / hum the following songs, sometimes with his own fanciful lyrics.
Worried Man Blues
Many early songs now considered country have “blues” in the title, and the spirit of the songs is consistent with the tragic pessimism…
