What were some of the songs the people who raised you would sing around the house as you were growing up?
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Cassandra the Crusader
ANSWERS: 39
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Mo Town
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In translation from Russian: "Crimson bells" "Little birch" "Captain"
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Vaudeville, my grandfather and great uncle were vaudevillians, I grew up with their old songs.
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Kookaburra ! ( sits in the old gum tree-e; eating all the gumdrops he can see-e . . .) and The Mamas and The Papas' songs and Bobbie Gentry's songs
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I grew up listening to my mother sing all the time .. one song was "Old Bill Baily" .... I ended up preforming it in school in the sixth grade and got a standing ovation ....
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"Mairzy Doats"
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paradise by the dashboard light by meatloaf god that song brings memories
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At my aunt's house (where I spent most days), it was Charley Pride and Boots Randolph:
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You are my Sunshine
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"You're Nobody 'til Somebody Loves You" "That's Amore" "Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime" "My Way" "Come Fly With Me" "Fulsom Prison Blues"
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any Beatle song
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My maternal grandmother used to sing old Japanese folk songs around the house, and my paternal grandmother old Chinese folk songs. I grew up quite folksy as a result. Lol.
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Oh my gosh! They were soooooo many. I'm talking about from gospel music, jazz, blue, R & B, etc. My father, a church pastor, favorite was "Let God Abide"; that's a church song. My mother's fav was "A Change Is Gonna Come" by Sam Cooke. Those church songs used to get on my nerves, lol.
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You Are My Sunshine. My mother used to sing that all the time. Thanks for the memory :)
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I don't know the name of it but i remember my granddaddy singing something along the lines of "...a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck a barrel and a heap and i'm talking in my sleep" really odd
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running wih the devil by Van Halen, but Im not evil beleve me?
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My dad was always listening to and singing Elvis My mam used to sing things like "you fill up my senses" "Ive got a brand new pair of rollerskates" Anything by blondie too
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My Grandma used to sing "Shine on Harvest Moon", while cooking dinner, as Grandpa would play it on the piano. My mother was always singing, "Barbara Ann" and "Lolly Pop", both songs from the 50's.
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I am not sure much singing was going on as I was growing up... But now with my daughter I sing everything... That was how she learned her home telephone number (though a song, I made up) For my pipsqueek... it helped her remember it. Thaks for the question.
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oh dont know all the names my mom used to sing an old hyme that statrted "Jesus shines a light.....you in your wee/small corner and i in mine" or summit and one man and his dog went to mow, went to mow a meadow. What a nice question Thanks for rekindling a fond memory
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Just stardard childrens songs: "Yank My Doodle, It's a Dandy" "Old McDonald had a horse, and a cow, and a sheep and a pig and......" "She'll be cumming around the mountain"
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My Dad always sings.... Jim Croce - Bad, Bad Leroy Brown -and- My Mom always sings.... Meat Loaf - Hot summer Night
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My mom had a horrible monotone singing voice ... poor soul ... but she used to sing anyway! She would sing "You are My Sunshine" ... at least that's what we thought it was!! :)
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Merle Haggard songs, one i remember is "Mama Tried" and Waylon Jennings
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Songs are prohibited! lol
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I grew up with lots of classical music and French songs, mostly from Edith Piaf ("Non, je ne regrette rien" and "La vie en rose")and Charles Aznavour ("Hier encore" and " La Boheme") and Yves Montand ("Les Feuilles Mortes"
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I remember: I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover Hot Diggity, Dog Diggity
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My mom said that singing was for the damned, and that I would go to Hell if I did. Actually, no... Au clair de la lune, mon ami Pierrot...I forgot the rest.
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My mom would sing this song - it makes me sad thinking about it - she was such a good person
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My Mom used to sing 'Cryin' by Aerosmith ALL The time!
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Well, when I was skipping school & my brother didn't know I was there, he would sing "disco duck" all day while he blared it on the record player..
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little rabbit fufu hopping through the Forrest picking up field mice and BOPPING them on the head.
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My friends dad dances around the house singing about "if you want my body and you think i'm sexy girl you got to let me know" I'm pretty sure its by Rodd Stewart (sp?)
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I could not spell them, the few I vaguely remember (I sure as h*ll do not remember the titles), if my life depended on it. They were in Rromanes. I know that my father sang some done by Romica Pucaneau.
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i dont know if it had a name, but get me something to record it and ill sing you it (^_^)
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My mom would play Beatles songs on the piano for us.Singing was discouraged ;)
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My parents were both excellent singers - too bad their children didn't inherit this quality! Some songs I remember are: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" "O Sole Mio" "Some Enchanted Evening" "I Got Sixpence" "High Hopes" "Frere Jacque" "Barges" "Climb Every Mountain"
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Begin the Beguine and Remember the Red River Valley were one's I remember well. My folks were from the old, old days.
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Jingle bells..Christmas Songs.
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