Posted on 06/17/2018 6:16:21 AM PDT by Twotone
Happy Father's Day to you and yours. I miss my dad more as the years go by. He was very sick at the end, and I think it takes a while after death for the final grim stage to fade and for the departed to be restored to memory as they were in their prime. When I was a kid, he liked to sing along to this whenever it came on the radio, even though neither my sister nor I were much like the girl and boy in the song. Which is kind of the point of the number. This essay is adapted from my book A Song For The Season:
I wonder what he'll think of me I guess he'll call me The old man I guess he'll think I can lick Ev'ry other feller's father – Well, I can!
The greatest of all songs about fatherhood was written for the 1945 Broadway hit Carousel. It was Rodgers and Hammerstein's follow-up to Oklahoma! and ever after Dick Rodgers' favorite score. Hard to disagree. Yet, in a show that includes "If I Loved You" and "What's The Use Of Wond'rin'?" and the magnificent "Carousel Waltz" that opens the evening, the "Soliloquy" is still the stand-out: Oscar Hammerstein's meditation on impending fatherhood in all its facets.
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That’s what you call a wordsmith!
The feminazis have made it into Happy “Single” Moms Day
Lost mine in late 1985 to Lung cancer. Between WW2, working in the steel mill, and Cigs, and VA missing the Lung cancer until it was to late, they gave him 6 weeks, he made 3 months. And I still MISS HIM. Just as I do my Mom. And I’m the eldest of 4, at 70 now knowing my time is coming. But I won’t be the first of us 4, my ‘baby brother’ died of a massive heart attack March 2017.
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