# Help me find some tribute songs for fathers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 17, 2005, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-tribute-songs-for-fathers/290582 "2005-02-17T18:57:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-tribute-songs-for-fathers/290582/21 "2005-02-18T17:46:33Z")
> [@TheInterruptingCow](#): > > Dan Fogelberg - “The Leader of the Band”. Might be too topical, and it’s aldo pretty schmalzy. That’s the song that immediately came to my mind. It _is_ kind of schmaltzy, but it’s the song I’ve always thought I might want to perform/have played at my own father’s funeral: he and I are both musicians, and though he was never a bandleader he has led various choirs nearly his entire life. No lyrics are ever going to fit someone else’s circumstances precisely – I’m a girl, I haven’t spent my life trying to be like him (quite the opposite, actually), etc. – but the message of being connected to him through music is quite accurate, and some of the lyrics are amazingly appropriate. > [@Kat](#): > > How about Daddy’s Hands by Holly Dunn? That is one of the creepiest songs _ever_. :eek: > [@ivylass](#): > > Celine Dion’s _Because You Loved Me_ (I think that’s it) doesn’t specifically mention fathers, but it does talk about “Holding me up when I couldn’t reach” and “You were my voice when I couldn’t speak.” I always thought that would be a nice Father/Daughter wedding dance song. My cousin used that song for the father/daughter dance at her wedding. It was very cool, and surprisingly touching. 🙂 One of my cousin’s best friends is a great singer, and used a karaoke background to sing to: no one had to worry about bringing in a band for just one song (they had a DJ), and the singer was able to modify the lyrics a little so that they clearly referred to “dad” instead of “boyfriend/husband.” It worked beautifully. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-tribute-songs-for-fathers/290582/22 "2005-02-18T18:04:34Z")
One of the best songs about a dad that I’ve heard is “1432 Franklin Pike Circle Hero” by Bobby Russell. I wish I could tell you where to find it, but I have no idea whether it’s ever been reissued on CD. Almost everything else has, so it must be out there on a compilation somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-tribute-songs-for-fathers/290582/23 "2005-02-18T18:04:41Z")
“Ordinary Man” by Bill Miller > **[10+ Best Online Guitar Lessons - \[Top Websites that Truly Work in 2021 \] -](https://www.guitarrepairbench.com/best-online-guitar-lessons/)** > > Learning to play guitar is difficult. Finding the best online guitar lessons and guitar courses that will train you become a great guitarist and jam with your friends is even harder. There are so many different options to choose from, how are you... It’s more about a husband than a father, but I still think it works. “My Old Man” by Steve Goodman. don’t have a link handy, but it’s out there on the net somewhere. I can barely listen to this one; I always tear up. Dave Mallett also plays and sings “My Old Man” This page has a listing of (mostly folk) songs relating to fathers: [http://nwfolk.com/songlists/fathers.html](http://nwfolk.com/songlists/fathers.html) ---
**Author:** ![Othersider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cab0a1/32.png) [@Othersider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Othersider)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-tribute-songs-for-fathers/290582/24 "2005-02-18T20:18:25Z")
> [@Reloy3](#): > > I’m a little surprised, I have just shy of 15,000 MP3’s (all legally obtained as part of a DJ service I used to belong to), and I could find more songs about loving fast food than about parental love. I’m sure its significant/Fruedian somehow. That’s disturbing, but not all that surprising. I’ll bet many of them were fairly mainstream pop or top 40-type stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Reloy3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Reloy3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reloy3)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-tribute-songs-for-fathers/290582/25 "2005-02-18T20:57:03Z")
> [@Othersider](#): > > That’s disturbing, but not all that surprising. I’ll bet many of them were fairly mainstream pop or top 40-type stuff. Yes, mostly, because that (and country) are the most requested at high school dances and wedding receptions. I should say, though, in my own defense, that my own tastes are a little more ecclectic. ---
**Author:** ![Othersider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cab0a1/32.png) [@Othersider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Othersider)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-tribute-songs-for-fathers/290582/26 "2005-02-18T22:56:51Z")
> [@Reloy3](#): > > Yes, mostly, because that (and country) are the most requested at high school dances and wedding receptions. You have my sympathy. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-tribute-songs-for-fathers/290582/27 "2005-02-18T23:17:51Z")
“The End” by the Doors. What? ---
**Author:** ![Boldface\_Type](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@Boldface\_Type](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boldface_Type)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-tribute-songs-for-fathers/290582/28 "2005-02-18T23:58:27Z")
Song for My Father - Horace Silver ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-tribute-songs-for-fathers/290582/29 "2005-02-19T01:03:48Z")
How about a song for both parents? Squeezebox [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-some-tribute-songs-for-fathers/290582.md?page=1)