Salutations™!!
Happy Father’s Day (yesterday) to all the fathers, stepfathers, pet fathers, and father figures! You are all equally important. What did you think of the “Father’s Day Songs” Show on Camel City Radio? Let me know.
Here’s the list:
Hour #1
Gone Daddy Gone — Violent Femmes
Child Is Father Of The Man — Beach Boys
Daddy Don’t You Walk So Fast — Wayne Newton (yes, Wayne Newton)
Father of Mine — Everclear
Papa Don’t Preach — Madonna
Papa Loved Mama — Garth Brooks
Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah — Allan Sherman
Had a Dad — Jane’s Addiction
I’m Bugged at My Ol’ Man — Beach Boys (yes, another one)
Papa Was a Rodeo — Magnetic Fields
Somewhere In America, There is a Street Named After My Dad — Was (Not Was)
Father and Daughter — Paul Simon
Don’t Wake Daddy — Tragically Hip
Hour #2
Father Figure — George Michael
I’m a Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas — Louis B Armstrong
Big Poppa — Notorious BIG
Father and Son — Cat Stevens
Papa Can You Hear Me —Barbra Streisand
Oh Daddy — Fleetwood Mac
Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone — The Temptations
Dance With My Father — Luther Vandross
Daddy Sang Bass — Johnny Cash
Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag — James Brown
Mother, Father — Journey
Come to Poppa — Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
I was out of time or I would have played “I’m a Long Gone Daddy” by Hank Williams.
What are your favorite songs with Daddy, Dad, Fathers, Papa, Poppa, Pops, etc.? Let me know.
Until next time, same blog channel at SOME blog time…
Scorp out!
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“But my friends keep telling me to give it up. Saying I’m too young, I oughta live it up. What I need right now is some good advice, please… Papa Don’t Preach.” – “Papa Don’t Preach” (Elliot/Ciccone)
