{"id":3723,"date":"2019-06-15T17:46:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T17:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/06\/15\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-fathers-and-fatherhood\/"},"modified":"2019-06-15T17:46:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T17:46:59","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-fathers-and-fatherhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/06\/15\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-fathers-and-fatherhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Fathers and Fatherhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harry Chapin, Cat's in the Cradle<\/a>. The best song about fatherhood I am aware of. Bond with your son when he's five. Wait till he's 50 and he won't give you the time of day. Harry Chapin was a major talent who died young.  Here is his great Taxi<\/a>. We Boomers are damned lucky to have the greatest popular music soundtrack of any generation.<\/span><\/p>\n

What Happened to Harry Chapin?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Emmylou Harris, To Daddy<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Arizona's own Marty Robbins, That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine<\/a>. The old Gene Autry tune from the '30s. <\/span><\/p>\n

Joan Baez, Daddy, You've Been on My Mind<\/a>. The great Dylan song slightly modified. Not addressed to a literal father, you understand. At :40, the girl depicted is not Joan Baez but Suze Rotolo, Dylan's first New York girlfriend. How do I know that? Because I am a self-certified Dylanologist from way back.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shep and the Limelites, Daddy's Home<\/a>, 1961. Anyone who prefers rap crap to this has a hole in his soul.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rivingtons, Papa Oom Mow Mow<\/a>. Stretching a bit. <\/span><\/p>\n

James Brown, Papa's Got a Brand New Bag<\/a>, 1965<\/span><\/p>\n

Horace Silver, Song for My Father<\/a>, 1964<\/span><\/p>\n

Hank Williams, I'm a Long Gone Daddy<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

No, I am not going to link to Alan Sherman, Hello Mudda, Hello Faddah<\/em>, 1963.<\/span><\/p>\n

Frank Zappa, Hungry Freaks, Daddy<\/a>, 1966<\/span><\/p>\n

Paul Peterson, My Dad<\/a>. To end on a 'wholesome' if schmaltzy note.  <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harry Chapin, Cat's in the Cradle. The best song about fatherhood I am aware of. Bond with your son when he's five. Wait till he's 50 and he won't give you the time of day. Harry Chapin was a major talent who died young.  Here is his great Taxi. We Boomers are damned lucky to have … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Fathers and Fatherhood”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}