Rocky - You surely hit the jackpot when you made Elizabeth your bride! Imagine, having your own piano concert every morning and special requests too!
I'm sure there's music in Heaven. It just couldn't be Heaven without it -especially for Frank Howard! The Mills Brothers, the Dorseys, Helen O'Connell, the GREAT Glenn Miller, Bing Crosby, the beautiful Alice Faye... I can still see the expression on my Dad's face while he was listening to all those wonderful recordings.
He always used to say things to my mother like: "Helen! Listen to THIS great number by Paul Whiteman's orchestra!"
I always wondered why he referred to the songs as "numbers". Was it from the numbers on the hit parade I wonder?
So much great music! To me, Glenn Miller has to the best of all. That sound can never be duplicated & that music just lifts you up - String Of Pearls, American Patrol, Pennsylvania 6-5000 etc. There will never be music like that again.
Bing Crosby's White Christmas makes me use a whole wad of kleenex every time I hear it. It always makes me think of my father. Other songs like Harry James' "Sleepy Lagoon" make me laugh because he'd play it a million times
and I'd say: "Oh Daddy! PULEEZE! NOT 'Sleepy Lagoon" again!!"
Yup! Got to be pianos and whole orchestras in Heaven! My Dad is surely begging Alice Faye for an encore of "You'll Never Know" and my mother is rolling her eyes at him!
If I'm fortunate enough to get there - I fully expect my Dad to greet me with a rendition of Amapola or "You Are My Sunshine".
mary ann
Elizabeths' favorite was "GREEN EYES", on account of mine. are that. What can I say. Rocky
"THOSE COOL AND LYMPID GREEN EYES" M-1 THAT SONG ON THELIST??