My Daddy Strongest Songs Download
Mina Spartin
When it comes to the main male role model in your life, picking funeral songs may feel like a daunting task. But with the songs above and more out there, the perfect songs for Dad are only a click away.
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There's a litany of great songs about fathers, but in equal measure, there are just as many great songs that fathers have written about their children. Taken from 1980's "Double Fantasy," the critically drubbed album that ended up being Lennon's last full-length released before his murder, this song found new life following the outpouring of grief following his passing, soon turning its parent album into a commercial success and sentimental favorite. As such, a song like "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)", a maudlin ode to his son Sean, was now being viewed as sweet and heartfelt beyond measure, with Lennon's lyrics showing that all he wants to do is comfort his son after a nightmare. Even now, it's hard not to hear this sweet, laid-back pop number and not get a little teary-eyed yourself.
John Mayer's sentimental favorite "Daughters" covers oh so much ground in its short four-minute runtime: supporting a girlfriend, watching how "girls become lovers who turn into mothers," dealing with family walking out, how boys try to soldier on but can't without "warmth from a woman's good, good heart" -- the list goes on. Yet its repeated plea in the chorus, where he sings "fathers, be good to your daughters," is what has resonated for nearly two decades after the fact. Even if some of the lyrics jut out at awkward angles ("On behalf of every man / Looking out for every girl / You are the God and the weight of her world"), there's still a pulsating heart underneath all these expertly placed guitar plucks, making for a daddy-daughter number that continues to radiate warmth all these years later.
A genuine anthem (and worldwide smash) that still trades in ambiguities over three decades since it was first released, this controversial song has the central character pleading to her father about her decision to keep her child with the man she's with right now. "Daddy, daddy, if you could only see / Just how good he's treating me," she wails on the bridge, desperate for her father's approval, even ending the outro by cooing "don't you stop loving me, daddy." Not every father-daughter relationship is easy, and especially with a young pregnancy in the mix, the dynamics and emotions involved can get heated. One of the most psychologically complex chart-toppers of the decade, "Papa Don't Preach" not only proved to be a feminist anthem but also gave certain dads a new perspective on their daughters' struggles.
A beaming, loving ode to a daughter's daddy, what made Loretta Lynn's '70s classic such a striking number was how despite the unabashed praise heaped upon her father, the song still managed to come off as even-handed, with the narrator noting that as a little girl, she was "Not old enough to understand the meaning of depression" and how they lived in a coal-mining town where "education didn't count so much as what you had born in you." Yet all of these asides help in humanizing the grandiose image of her father, one who "never took a handout" and was "just one heck of a man that worked for what he got." When that swinging chorus comes around and Lynn sings about how "in a great big land of freedom / At a time we really need 'em," unfortunately, "they don't make 'em like my daddy anymore." Maybe you haven't heard this song before, but it is a stellar addition to any father-centric playlist.
Released during the Pips' prime when they signed to Soul Records, the acoustic guitar-led "Daddy Could Swear, I Declare" is an honest and funky tune about growing up with a father who was a "heck of a man," and although he couldn't read or write, boy could he swear. With a short temper but a loving demeanor, this sharp song (co-written by Knight herself) simply has the narrator noting how no matter how angry he gets, she only wishes that "The Good Lord will understand / That my daddy is just bein' my dad." It's certainly not the first song one thinks of when opening up the Fathers and Dads Songbook, but it is a sharp, fun gem that deserves a bigger audience.
Of all the songs on this list, it's fair to say that this Gil Scott-Heron album cut, initially appearing on his 1974 collaborative record with Brian Jackson called Winter in America," is not only the least well known but also arguably the best song of the bunch. While it was revised for his 1980 solo effort, "Real Eyes," and dedicated to his daughter Gia Louise, we're suckers for a stripped-down piano-and-voice version featured on the 2014 compilation "Nothing New." Scott-Heron's gruff and earnest voice plays against the breezy, simple jazz chords to create a genuinely sweet, sentimental moment that serves as a sharp contrast to the political rhetoric he is best known for. "Me and your mama had some troubles," he sings to Gia, "There's been a whole lotta things on our minds / But lately when we look at you / We know that we've been wastin' time." When he loops through thetitle over and over again at the song's end, you can hear the warmth pouring out of his voice and it's a beautiful, heart-rendering moment that simply cannot be bettered.
In a list full of songs about dads and fatherhood, a couple of thematic tropes emerge. The biggest and most obvious one? A dad looking at his child and realizing just how fast their life is going to go by. With "It Won't Be Like This for Long," Darius Rucker trods familiar territory but still nails the landing, each verse catching his daughters at various ages and noting that "this phase is going to fly by," which in turns leads him to want to hold onto every precious moment, even though "at times he'll think she hates him" before he later walks her down the aisle. It's a pitch-perfect sentiment that ended up giving the former Hootie & the Blowfish frontman some real country credentials.
Prominently covered by The Monkees and featured in their psychedelic nonsense of a film "Head," Harry Nilsson's ode to fatherhood starts off as utterly charming before descending into psychologically taxing territory, all while the big wah-wah horns float and scuffle all around this jaunty little pop tune. While the first verse is sweet and paints a picture of a loving family, the second verse has daddy leaving and his mom trying to explain his absence, even as the child at the center of it all "just couldn't understand / Why his father was not a man," and later wishes for his own offspring to have "all that sadness pass him by." Clocking in at barely over two minutes, a lot of ground is covered in this wild pop fantasia, but for some, this may very well be the exact experience they had with their dads.
"Daddy gave me a name / Then he walked away." So goes the beautiful, honest, and immensely catchy alt-rock classic from Everclear, here in their late-'90s commercial prime. Filed with both warm memories and pent-up resentment, Art Alexakis' signature number about an absentee father wraps up all of his mixed feelings into one stellar radio-ready package. "Sometimes you would send me a birthday card with a five-dollar bill / I never understood you then / And I guess I never will," he shouts, making for a daddy issues earworm that has lost none of its bite over two decades later.
The band was originally formed in Ventura, California, in 1989 by leader Scotty Morris. The band was named Big Bad Voodoo Daddy after Scotty Morris met blues guitar legend Albert Collins at one of the latter's concerts. "He signed my poster 'To Scotty, the big bad voodoo daddy'," Morris explains. "I thought it was the coolest name I ever heard on one of the coolest musical nights I ever had. So when it came time to name this band, I didn't really have a choice. I felt like it was handed down to me."[2]He and Kurt Sodergren are the two original members, with the rest of the band joining later. The band has concentrated on the swing of the 1940s and 1950s, continuing to play clubs and lounges to fans across the globe to this day.
After playing in punk and alternative rock bands during the 1980s, including False Confession, part of the Oxnard, California Nardcore scene, Scotty Morris founded Big Bad Voodoo Daddy with Kurt Sodergren.[3] The band launched two CDs, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Watchu' Want for Christmas? under their own label (Big Bad Records) before getting their big break when their songs "You & Me & the Bottle Makes 3 Tonight (Baby)", "I Wan'na Be Like You" and "Go Daddy-O" were featured in the soundtrack of the 1996 comedy-drama Swingers.
They created a new song for the movie The Wild, Big Time Toppin' (Go Man Go), and recorded a song for Disney's Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation Special. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy also performed on the hit television show Dancing with the Stars, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to promote their album How Big Can You Get?: The Music of Cab Calloway, a collection of their renditions of Cab Calloway songs that was released in April 2009.[6] They also have been performing at EPCOT for the annual Food and Wine Festival since 2008.[7][8][9][10][11] They performed at Kahilu Theatre, Waimea Hawaii and while Kurt was there he spoke of going to Scott's house in Ventura and working on a new album beginning February 2019. He also mentioned that the band had played at one of Donald Trump's birthday parties.[4] Their website was updated for their 30th anniversary and mentions new music releases [12]
From hip hop chart toppers like "Daughters" by Nas or "Mockingbird" by Eminem to classic rock jams like "Brown Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison or "She's A Rainbow" by the Rolling Stones, there's a little something for everyone on this list. Country. Blues. Pop. Jazz. Spotify is your oyster. (You can even see our dedicated playlist here.) Some of the 67 best father-daughter songs will have you shedding a tear or two, while others will have you putting on your dancing shoes, but all of them will make you want to run home and hug your dad.
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