What love songs did your parents love?
I am running a survey tonight on We’re Related (a family-oriented Facebook application with 17 million monthly users) to find out if people know the love songs their parents loved.
Given our modern obsession with music, I find it interesting that only 7% of the respondents say they do. (See Survey Results)
Come to think of it, I don’t know my parents’ favorite love songs, but now I want to. I do know one song that my in-laws fell in love to 50 years ago while dancing because my wife used it as the sound-track for their 50th anniversary wedding video last year. It was really, really meaningful to have that song play along with all the pictures of them dating and then having a family.
Here are some of the answers I’ve gotten so far tonight:
- Waltz Across Texas, by Ernest Tubb. (YouTube video)
- Always Love You, by Whitney Houston (YouTube video)
- Summertime (YouTube–performed by Billie Holliday)
- All Around the Water Tank, by Jimmy Rogers (YouTube video — “it’s a very old song. My momma’s 84 years old.”)
- He’s a Rebel, by the Crystals (YouTube video)
Do you know the love songs that your parents loved?
If you could run a survey about music and families, what would it be?
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2 Comments on What love songs did your parents love?
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Colin Jensen on
Mon, 24th Aug 2009 3:30 pm
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alza2 on
Tue, 25th Aug 2009 8:28 pm
When my grandmother died and we were discussing what music to play at her funeral, I remember my grandfather saying, “She always loved that son: ‘You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.” That just blew me away because I never thought of that as a song people identified with as contemporary–ever–kind of like when you flip on Garrison Keillor and hear some NPR literati singing “Oh Clementine.”
wouaouuuu ! That’s a great mystery question !
Actually, my parents don’t listen to music… My mom does a little during parties with her friends, but my dad just doesn’t. During their wedding it must have been quite boring…
I guess they both know the Iranian national anthem.
Anyway, know they do hear music, when I go back to their house and put the stereo at the maximum volume as I always used to, there…
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