Song of Your Fathers?

[Peasie]

Do you have a father or father-figure who sang to you as a child? What do you remember him singing?

My father fancied himself a singer. He liked to sing "Scarlet Ribbons" to his daughters. We were like "Lawd, Daddy, not dat old song again. "

[RichD]

my daughter likes my singing

[Peasie]

my daughter likes my singing

What do you sing to her?

Did your dad sing?

[RichD]

What do you sing to her?

Did your dad sing?

i sing 70's r & b

Isley brothers

Stylistics

my father was a reciter.... The lady of the lake and stuff like that.

[seemiyah]

My father loves to sing and serenades me all the time on the phone...he loves Johnny Mathis. This is my favorite JM song

Chances Are

[Peasie]

That's so sweet what a great daddy

[Wahalla]

The only person who sang better than my father was Paul Robeson.... He had that deep rich voice....He sang infrequently....Robeson, Louis Armstrong,mento...Ernie Smith, festival songs....

He also kept reciting that Boy stood on the Burning deck... and told me that I should be like that.. I think that was the first timeI wonanargumetn with him when I pointed out the boy was an idiot....

I have a singing voice like miles davis, itsounds like it is from a cut throat... got kicked out of chrior after being forced in it at school..offered chalk to soften it. It was not improved by the trauma my throat has suffered over the years..... However this does nto prevent me from singing to the chagrin of my children and I have like nuff Jamaican country people an almost endless supply of songs!.... hwever they like it when they are ill

[Peasie]

You know something? You and RichD made me remember that my father, barely formerly educated in rural St. James, loved the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Aside from invoices, bills, etc. that was the only thing I remember my father reading.

For some we loved, the loveliest and best
That from His rolling vintage Time has pressed,
Have drunk their glass a round or two before,
And one by one crept silently to rest

But helpless pieces in the game He plays
Upon this chequer-board of Nights and Days
He hither and thither moves, and checks ... and slays
Then one by one, back in the Closet lays

"The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it."

Wasn't this same "moving finger" quote that DJ Don Topping used at the end of his shows?

our Jamaican fathers

[Emperah]

The Artist Turban X send me this few weeks ago

[Peasie]

The Artist Turban X send me this few weeks ago

Nice sentiments

I love to hear father stories and you write nice things bout yuh fadda an madda I hope you raid your father's record collection again and play his music on the air

[Wahalla]

and here is what my ole man use to sing this banned song. ... It was banned after it had some air play, i beleive the ban was during the 76 stat of emergency and Manley et al thought it was anti goverment ..... in 76

[Wahalla]

But this was what was my fathers forte... better than Robeson at times... He sang it the front part slower than Robeson, so when I hear Robeson sing it it sounds kind of weird t to me... I think he heard Robeson sing it in Madrid during the spanish civil war.... He sang it " I got to keep on fighting" .. I know he never sang it often but I recall weeding grass, breaking marle with him, chopping cane and he sang it... Later in my times of trouble when I was scared of death, and pissing my self in fear I sang it....

[Peasie]

and here is what my ole man use to sing this banned song. ... It was banned after it had some air play, i beleive the ban was during the 76 stat of emergency and Manley et al thought it was anti goverment ..... in 76

You know, this is the first time I am hearing about this. I must have been drinking the Koolaid in 1976

Nice memory of your father

What songs do you sing to your children?

[CeaBee]

Daddy never used to really sing... but him used to play a lot of music round the house

I hear this one today (reggae version)


"I have a sad story to tell youIt may hurt your feelings a bitLast night when I walked into my bathroomI stepped in a big pile of ...shhhhh . . . aving cream,be nice and clean. . . .Shave ev'ry day and you'll always look keen."



daddy also used to play a whole lot of pluto tingderton and ernie smith?...

[MsExced]

daddy used to play a lot of ernie smith too (it must be a duppy or a gunman i never stop to see)