Spitball Army

Happy Father’s Day, whatever that means to you.  …Which is hopefully something profound, as your mere existence validates the acknowledgement of fathering.  My Dad would have scoffed at spending much time pondering such things, preferring to cruise the local harbor looking at boats, or studying the woodpile in the backyard, or downing some ice-cold Coors while listening to Buck Owens and Merle Haggard tapes.  For my part: I don’t live near a harbor, my woodpile is a tiny fraction of the multi-cord firewood collection that Dad had split himself, and I rarely throw back a beer.  But, Buck and Merle…I can do that.

Approximate playing time: 80 minutes.

1. Horace Silver  “Song for My Father”  (1964)
2. Lefty Frizzell  “Mom and Dad’s Waltz”  (1951)
3. Jim Atkins  “I’m a Ding Dong Daddy (from Dumas)”  (1953)
4. Eddie Fisher  “Oh! My Papa”  (1954)
5. Cher  “You Better Sit Down Kids”  (1967)
6. XTC  “Hold Me My Daddy”  (1989)
7. Was (Not Was)  “Dad I’m in Jail”  (1988)
8. Andre Williams & 2 Star Tabernacle  “Jet Black Daddy, Lily White Mama”  (1999)
9. Fire  “Father’s Name Was Dad”  (1967)
10. Buck Owens  “Together Again”  (1964)
11. Merle Haggard  “Mama Tried”  (1968)
12. John Hiatt  “Your Dad Did”  (1987)
13. David Lindley & El Rayo-X  “Papa Was a Rolling Stone”  (1988)
14. E*I*E*I*O  “No Father in the Family”  (1986)
15. The Magnetic Fields  “Papa Was a Rodeo”  (1999)
16. Asylum Street Spankers  “I’m My Own Grandpa”  (2002)
17. Ethel Merman & Jimmy Durante  “A Husband, A Wife”  (1951)
18. Honk  “Oh Daddy”  (1974)
19. Fat Daddy  “Fat Daddy”  (1960s)
20. Jimmy Boyd  “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”  (1952)
21. Elvis Costello  “My Three Sons”  (2008)
22. Citizen Cope  “A Father’s Son”  (2010)
23. Paul Simon  “Father & Daughter”  (2006)

[audio:Fred_FM_playlist_062010.mp3]
Fred FM playlist (20 June 2010)