My mother would sing to me as a little girl. She named me "Tammy" after the song sung by Debbie Reynolds in the movie of the same name.
She was a DJ on Ases do Atlantico, on the island of Santa Maria in the Azores. She was the first to play the Beatles in the Azores.
She'd sing "Listen, Do You Want To Know a Secret?" and I always eagerly said that I did!!!
She loved American songs, "Button Up Your Overcoat", "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree". Songs from WW1 & II, sung to her by her father. Things to tell a little girl as she is your captive audience.
She'd sing Portuguese songs as well. "Lua, O Lua" which we still sing to this day whenever we see a moon in the sky. I learned MANY years later that it was a Brazilian samba, and not a lullabye-as I had always heard it.
There was another song which she sang to me as we drove home from her sister's house. It was my favorite until I asked her to translate. From then on, I cried when she began the first few words. It is essentially mournful tune about your love going away and the train never coming back. Years later, I heard it Neil Sedaka singing it on an old cassette tape of my roommate's in Manhattan. I was shocked and scarred.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLQdC-3XuEA
And my favorite, "A Moleirinha", which she also sang to my father when he was in the hospital.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n83wrG_OkQw&ebc=ANyPxKr4BfBG9WGSiCjKIL_IwVobDwBOR8FKoA4-f0HGkBrvP4AFUjXAnegpTn_9_upD_oIJMlrDXHBwQd52AC8lwY0W9t1U0A
Here is a recitation of the poem that it comes from, I think.
She was a DJ on Ases do Atlantico, on the island of Santa Maria in the Azores. She was the first to play the Beatles in the Azores.
She'd sing "Listen, Do You Want To Know a Secret?" and I always eagerly said that I did!!!
She loved American songs, "Button Up Your Overcoat", "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree". Songs from WW1 & II, sung to her by her father. Things to tell a little girl as she is your captive audience.
She'd sing Portuguese songs as well. "Lua, O Lua" which we still sing to this day whenever we see a moon in the sky. I learned MANY years later that it was a Brazilian samba, and not a lullabye-as I had always heard it.
There was another song which she sang to me as we drove home from her sister's house. It was my favorite until I asked her to translate. From then on, I cried when she began the first few words. It is essentially mournful tune about your love going away and the train never coming back. Years later, I heard it Neil Sedaka singing it on an old cassette tape of my roommate's in Manhattan. I was shocked and scarred.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLQdC-3XuEA
And my favorite, "A Moleirinha", which she also sang to my father when he was in the hospital.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n83wrG_OkQw&ebc=ANyPxKr4BfBG9WGSiCjKIL_IwVobDwBOR8FKoA4-f0HGkBrvP4AFUjXAnegpTn_9_upD_oIJMlrDXHBwQd52AC8lwY0W9t1U0A
Here is a recitation of the poem that it comes from, I think.
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