What are your songs?
On Shaka Mitchell’s substack, he asked two questions “What song you love that most people wouldn’t expect from you and “what song would you want to be remembered by?”
Shaka is a Nashville based attorney and advocate for education reform. He is a senior fellow for the American Federation for Children. He and I served together on the Tennessee State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
That got me thinking. The first song that I recall falling in love with was Ruby and the Romantics “Our day will come.” I was struggling to survive my first quarter at Georgia and my girlfriend back in Atlanta said it was “our song.” The first album I ever bought was John Lewis’ “Wonderful world of jazz” recorded in 1960. Today I still play both “Our day will come” and that album of Lewis’ which had personnel different from his Modern Jazz Quartet. My other half for the past 31 years would insist on a Keb Mo song. At a concert, she actually asked him to sing one for me. And he did.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u7Q6m5tHws&list=RD7u7Q6m5tHws&start_radio=1
So what song would most people not expect from me? It would be Kane Brown’s “Homesick” – and I am not a country fan.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukHikH_10CA&list=RDukHikH_10CA&start_radio=1
What song would I like to be remembered by? I listen to jazz, R&B, blues and classical solo piano. It is tough for me to pick but it is got to be Teddy Pendergrass’ “My Father’s Child.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sUwnjBhNKc&list=RD2sUwnjBhNKc&start_radio=1
What about you? What are your songs?
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