My friend and new blogger, Lucy, aka Baked Potato Mummy recently wrote a lovely guest post over at SAHMLovingIt.
She shared her inheritance tracks.
Music to be passed down from her parents to her children through her.
I thought it was a lovely post and it got me thinking about the music that is and has been important in my life.
Lucy shared three tracks that she has inherited from her parents and three tracks that she would like her son to have from her.
Following the same format, here are mine.
Paul Anka – Put Your Head On My Shoulder
When we were very young Julie and I used to sing this in the back of the car and we used to act it out. All in hysterics and being foolish and carefree. Such happy memories of travelling across Europe with my parents and my sister with our best mix tape as our travelling soundtrack. Put Your Head on My Shoulder was followed by Neil Sedaka’s Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Oh Carol and Calendar Girls. We loved a bit of Neil Sedaka too!
Connie Francis – Where The Boys Are
I adore Connie Francis. I would like to have gone on Stars In Your Eyes as Connie Francis. Lipstick on Your Collar is a favourite karaoke song and I love Somebody’s Fool. Along with Connie I also love Brenda Lee and Helen Shapiro. Great female vocalists of the 50s and 60s. These are the songs that shaped my childhood and my love of music and singing. This particular song saw me through years of unrequited love!
The Everly Brothers – Devoted to You
The Everly Brothers are just amazing, beautiful harmonies and their songs tell stories, often of love. Devoted to You is a beautiful love song. I still know all the words. I love so many Everly Brothers songs that it is hard to choose just one and I hope that my children will grow to know many and know the importance of this music to me. The music I inherited from my parents.
Darlin’ you can count on me
Till the sun dries up the sea
Until then I’ll always be devoted to youI’ll be yours through endless time
I’ll adore your charms sublime
Guess by now you know that I’m devoted to youI’ll never hurt you, I’ll never lie
I’ll never be untrue
I’ll never give you reason to cry
I’d be unhappy if you were blueThrough the years my love will grow
Like a river it will flow
It can’t die because I’m so devoted to you
Only now some decades on do I truly understand the love that is sung about in this song.
I am devoted to my beautiful husband and my children, all of them.
The next three tracks are ones I would like to pass along to Esther and William. Music I would like to enjoy with them as years go by. I have chosen music that links David and I, and our children.
The White Stripes – Hotel Yorba
I have a very clear memory, and a video somewhere, of David looking at me and singing along to this. It gave me the idea that one day we might just get married and of course we did. And this song was played at our wedding.
Dodgy – One of Those Rivers
This was our first dance at our wedding. When David and I first me we used to drive around the country lanes listening to Dodgy and this song. It became a special song for us and our first dance as husband and wife. A definite track for our children to inherit.
As long as you and I can live happily
then surely all I want is staring back at me
U2 – Elevation
I think that the last track (in this post!!) that I would like our children to inherit would be Elevation by U2. This is the song that David and I had as we left the church as husband and wife. David and I went to see U2 at Wembley and we both love their music. One of my favourite songs by U2 is Grace, which is where Esther’s middle name came from. We also had Vertigo mixed with Dodgy as our first dance at our wedding. A definite band to inherit and hard to choose just one song.
This post has been hard to write actually as there is so much music that I want to pass on to my children, so many songs with such meaning, so many bands and artists that have played a part in my life, so many styles and genres to introduce them too, melodies and lyrics to feed the soul.
In fact, Ghostwriter Mummy, I think that you should reinstate Music I Want My Children To Listen To. I loved joining in with that.
Music makes the world go round, everyone should record and remember the soundtrack of their life and compile it, collate it for the generations that follow.
What would your inheritance tracks be?
Great idea! Will think on this! 🙂
On buzzfeed there was a classical music version of this yesterday, some great stuff but not the tracks I would choose, and it got me wanting to do one of my own. Now I will do a non-classical one too. What a lovely, lovely idea! Love, love, love all these tracks btw!! I listened to U2 non-stop in the run up to my wedding along with a lot of Etta James and Elevation was on my play list at the reception. Funny how different songs take you back to a particular time/place in history in one split second.
Great idea! I should be working but……I’m all over this!!
I love this idea. Was going to put some songs on my site that were
Meaningful now but will think on inheritance tracks! Thanks for keeping my little grey cells working. Xx
My tracks would be:-
Don’t leave me this way-Jimmy Somerville
Simply the best-Tina Turner
When your gone-Avril Lavinge
Need you now-Lady Antebellum
Stay-Rhianna ft. Mikky Ekko
Just to say, I’m 12 and have followed your blog since Matilda died. The blog is so well written! Good luck at the Brit Mums awards. From a twitter follower
Superb, Jennie. I love the Everley Bros. I think Susanne should start doing that linky again too – I organised the badge for that all those moons ago 🙂 It’s still 31st May here but I know it’s 1st June in the UK now…you know what that means? It’s means that this is the month I get to see you again! Yaye! xx
Those first three tracks certainly bring back memories, Jennie! I remember that mix tape well from our holiday in the south of France. I think that tape and Tina Turner’s ’Foreign Affair’ album were all that got played that entire time! 🙂
What a great idea. I grew up listening to Connie Francis, my dad loved her and The Everly Brothers. Stupid Cupid was one of my favourites growing up. I’d have to have a think about what I’d pass on. A really interesting post x
What a lovely idea! Set me thinking about what I would like to pass on to my children. Music is so different now (I sound really old). I now find myself appreciating what my parents would listen to.
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