Songs for Father's Day

He doesn't get quite the accolades Mom does, but he's certainly been represented in song...

"Oh Mein Papa" - Eddie Fisher
"My Dad" - Paul Petersen
"Color Him Father" - The Winstons
"Your Dad Did" - John Hiatt
"My Father" - Judy Collins
"Adam Raised A Cain" - Bruce Springsteen
"Father And Son" - Cat Stevens
"Cat's In The Cradle" - Harry Chapin
"Dear Dad" - Chuck Berry
"Song For My Father" - Horace Silver
"Daddy" - Sammy Kaye
"Daddy Sang Bass" - Carl Perkins

Any other suggestions for the day?

 

Daddy - Emerson Lake & Palmer (In The Hot Seat)

 

Not too many better than Luther Vandross' new "Dance with my Father".

 

"Papa was a Rolling Stone"...Do you think they meant Mick Jagger?

 

Best one I ever heard

Is the recent tune by Paul Simon. Maybe I'm a sucker for it cause I am an older new dad with a baby girl like him. Still, he really nails it.

Cheers!
Norm

PS: Hiatt's "Your Dad Did" is amazing...

 

Oh Daddy - Adrian Belew

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Leader of the Band--Dan Fogelberg
He Walked on Water--Randy Travis
Oh Father--Madonna
Papa Can You Hear Me--Barbra Streisand
I'm Already There--Lonestar
Living Years--Mike & the Mechanics
Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days)--Judds (Hey, Grandpas are Dads, too! )

 

Father to Son--Queen
Daddy Could Swear, I Declare--Gladys Knight & the Pips
Daddy's Song--Monkees
Morningside--Neil Diamond (beautiful tune!)
Primitive Cool--Mick Jagger (Mick gets all mushy answering his daughter's questions)

 

Daddy's Tune – Jackson Browne
A Boy Named Sue – Johnny Cash

 

Old Man - Neil Young

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Teach Your Children - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (works for both Father's Day and Mother's Day)

 

Re: Best one I ever heard

Agree on both counts!
The Paul Simon track is from the first Wild Thornberrys movie last year. Great song, kinda makes me misty eyed. Simon wrote a beautiful song to his first son years ago. "St. Judy's Comet" was it?

Another touching father song is "Hold Me My Daddy" by XTC.

I think I started a thread just like this last year...

Dan C

PS: Hope you're having a fantastic first daddy's day Norm!

 

Oh yeah. And "Goodnight My Angel (Lullabye)" by Billy Joel writen for his daughter:

"Goodnight my angel, now it's time to dream
And dream how wonderful your life will be
Someday your child may cry, and if you sing this lullabye
Then in your heart, there will always be a part of me
Someday we'll all be gone, but lullabyes go on and on
They never die, that's how you and I will be"

Dan C

 

Reverend Mr. Black by The Kingston Trio.

 

"Papa Don't Take No Mess" - James Brown

"My Father's Gun" and "Son of Your Father" - Elton John

"My Father's House" - Bruce Springsteen

"Had a Dad" - Jane's Addiction

"Papa Don't Preach" - Madonna

"Daddy Wasn't There" - Ming Tea (from Austin Powers Goldmember)

"Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast" - Wayne Newton

"Don't Cry Daddy" - Elvis Presley

"Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car" - U2

Previously mentioned:

"Cats in the Cradle" - Harry Chapin <= a sad one, really

 

Butterfly Kisses--Bob Carlisle
The Men in My Little Girl's Life--Mike Douglas (yes, that Mike Douglas!)

 

Wayne Newton - Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast

 

See The Big Man Cry - Charlie Louvin

 

New York City - Statler Brothers

 

Daddy's Hands-Holly Dunn

 

The song "Pals Forever Dad" from Jim Henry's 1995 disc entitled "Jacksonville" on Signature Sounds.

The entire disc is amazing. Check it out if you like folk/rock like John Prine, Bruce Cockburn, JT, etc.

 

Re: Re: Best one I ever heard

He sure did and that was my choice also! Just wonderful...

 

Daddy Cool - - The Rays ... the great flip of 'Silhouettes' ... apologies if it has already been mentioned, but I didn't see it.

 

McCartney- Put It There
Lennon - Beautiful Boy
Gratefule Dead - I Will Take You Home

 

Daddy Don't Live In That New York City
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Song For My Father (Great Jazz Standard) Ed Biship help me out here, Who wrote that tune??