Feel free to mention, discuss or link to some of your favorite mom-related songs, or just any songs that remind you of a special mother or grandmother (since no one really knows when National Grandparents Day is anyway [except me now, via Wikipedia – it’s the first Sunday after Labor Day. Woo!]).
Here are a few of mine:
Doc Watson, “Mama Don’t Allow No Music”
Performed by the most awesomely disobedient instrumental ensemble ever (though Watson probably overdubbed half of the instruments himself).
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-ODoOHoNyQ
Iris DeMent with Matraca Berg, “Mama’s Opry”
This mama is significantly more tolerant of music.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnrYhyC6OAE
Taylor Swift, “The Best Day”
The favorite potshot of many who dislike Taylor Swift is that she’s a spoiled, talentless rich kid who probably doesn’t even write her own songs. If that’s the case, someone managed one heck of a cover-up with this song, which captures with humble gratitude and a distinctly young perspective the little, unextravagant ways a mother can inspire and restore her children.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4_6eQm7RTQ
And of course:
Jamie O’Neal, “Somebody’s Hero”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_uMQTw7v2g
A personal favorite of mine – “Mama He’s Crazy” by The Judds:
http://youtu.be/LLsT0wtNGGk
Rebecca Lynn Howard -No One Will Ever Love Me comes to mind, it’s on youtube.
I’ll suggest Elizabeth Cook’s ‘Mama You Wanted To Be A Singer Too’.
Elvis Presley–“Mama Liked The Roses” (the B-side for “The Wonder Of You”, which reached #9 on the Hot 100 in June 1970)
“Mother, The Queen of My Heart” an old Jimmie ROadgers classic that the great Stonewall Jackson revived as an album cut in 1968
Shenandoah – Mama Knows
Hal Ketchum – Mama Knows the Highway
and a few that mention dad too:
Lisa Brokop & Hal Ketchum – Please Keep Mom and Dad in Love
Collin Raye & Melissa Manchester – A Mother and Father’s Prayer
Here are a few of mine:Doc Watson,