Every night is a music night

Thanks, appreciate it.
We didn’t have much in common with each other apart from our love of Sunderland and music.

 

I had nothing in common with my Dad, he was a terrible man who fightened us all ...

... still loved him, buried him and miss him.

He was a product of the mines, WW2 and extreme poverty.

I'm sure he didn't want to be the man he was.

Hopefully you'll have people, this week, telling you something about your Dad you never knew, I did.

 

https://www.facebook.com/1000447173...SZ2YsPuzqozB5PYG8HndM2SmKz4etMHt5LHl/?app=fbl

 

Heaven help us ...

... only one response to that.

You don't know what you've got til it's gone.

 

Would you believe 1972

 

I like it when things come full circle in music and this really touched me. I first heard these girls, First Aid Kit, last year and will be seeing them in Edinburgh this August.

This song is about Emmylou Harris and the video is the girls performing the song in her presence. I like to imagine she's pleased to see new artists carrying on while she knows she won't be able to much longer.

 

Funny you should say that but I messaged my cousin on FB about the programe 10 pound poms on bbc1 the other week as my aunt and uncle and my cousins emigrated in the 50s over there. My dad wanted to go with them but my mam wouldn't leave her mother at the time so in time I may have been born in aus. So we're were chatting about the programme and if it represented them truthfully and he told me that my dad used to send them the papers over for years especially the sports sections that I didn't know about

 

That's wonderful mate, great to hear.

When we first moved to our Mansfield pit village, Mam had the Sunday Post sent down ...

... after we'd all read it through it would go on a tour of the entire village until it turned to dust

 

Just listening to Rory live Rockpalast 1977.. enjoying a Singleton

 

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lhYgaM_z4j2fJ3d4_iUpg7B5N-zEoAtH4&playnext=1&index=1

 

Good band. Lots of good songs, this is probably my favourite

 

My favourite rendition of a classic

And the accoustic version

 

For whatever reason that put me in mind of this song.

Perhaps it's the melody and very clever lyrics ...

... or just that it's good music.

It's best listened to with the lyrics imo ...

He came from somewhere back in her long ago
The sentimental fool don't see
Trying hard to recreate what had yet to be created
Once in her life, she musters a smile for his nostalgic tale
Never coming near what he wanted to say
Only to realize it never really was

She had a place in his life
He never made her think twice
As he rises to her apology
Anybody else would surely know
He's watching her go

But what a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems to be
Is always better than nothing
Than nothing at all keeps sending him

Somewhere back in her long ago
Where he can still believe there's a place in her life
Someday, somewhere, she will return

She had a place in his life
He never made her think twice
As he rises to her apology
Anybody else would surely know
He's watching her go

But what a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems to be (if love can come and love can go, then why can't love return once more?)
Is always better than nothing
(Who got the power?)
Than nothing at all (oh, now)
What a fool believes he sees (I believe she's never gone away)
No wise man has the power
To reason away (to reason away)
What seems to be (oh, if love can come and love can go, oh, mama)
Is always better than nothing (better than nothing)
Than nothing at all (oh, I believe)

 

Brilliant. One of me Dads favorite songs and artists. What a voice Michael McDonald has.

 

Love the Doobie Brothers, Michael McDonald is some singer

 

And one that would be voted off the X-factor in seconds.

 

I'd listened to this track, a dozen times, on a CD mix someone gave to me, and assumed it was an old black fella from the sixties ...

... turned out to be Willie Nelson's lad