Sunday, January 27, 2013

Daddy's Records

Charlotte Gainsbourg  AnOther

Daddy's Records
the old 78's
The Ink Spots and Satchmo and Goodman
the heady weight
of being old enough.

Treasuring them 
as her daddy must
shuffling through the stacks and ages
the blues, and jazz 
and big band tunes.

All other music
she would call her own
would ultimately be measured
and for a long time found wanting
against the songs of her father.

J. Binford-Bell
January 2013


Thank you Tess Kincaid

12 comments:

  1. "The heady weight of being old enough." Ah, yes. I could tell you about that weight. {-)

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  2. "All other music
    she would call her own
    would ultimately be measured
    and for a long time found wanting
    against the songs of her father."
    I remember my parents not too happy with my rock and roll!

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  3. for you Daddy's records, but i'm a grandma now, they were my records, in my time

    not alone

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  4. Cool. I liked your poem but I got lost in the map you posted. Not that far from Roswell. :D

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    1. Far north part of the state just 26 miles as the crow flies from the Colorado border.

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  5. Lovely tribute...I still have a few of my own...

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  6. So true that fathers always saw our tastes as wanting. Do you know how many times I heard the question 'you call that music?' in our house when I was into my thing???

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    1. John, George, Paul and Ringo were very inventive, musically. Thereafter it was back to 3-chord crap, mostly.

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  7. Nothing matches the melody of a good father. Sweet.

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  8. oh i could remember how my father will play his different music in different time of the day...

    love this...

    JJRod'z

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  9. This is a really moving piece. I enjoyed it.

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