Then we started brainstorming and coming up with candidates to fill the list, and of course the whole first wave of songs we found sucked, but after a while we started digging out others, and we were like, “Hey, this one is not that bad.” So, to make a long story short, here it is, our ten songs about fathers that don’t suck too much. hey pachuco - royal crown revue jumpin jack - bbvdd mr. what i like about you - the romantics should i stay or should i go - clash i like it like that - latin allstars.
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Still, when my editora (who’s Mexican but, for the record, never said any of the work I submitted was “padre,” and never called me papi either) contacted me with the idea of doing a top ten for Fathers Day, and my obvious first reaction was: “but father-songs by definition suck!” variety song list dance / disco / top 40 / new wave 80’s loveshack - b-52s get this party started - pink. Eddie was a down-and-out punk musician from southern California who had grown tired of the hair band s and the soon-to-break-out grunge.
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The band formed in 1989, the direct brainchild of Eddie Nichols. And of course, that negative image of fatherhood I had started changing when cool friends of mine started to become papis themselves. It all started with The Mask, though, and the song in that scene was Hey, Pachuco and the band was Royal Crown Revue. Of course, what fathers in general represented to me was very much an extrapolation of my experience with my own authoritarian father. I’d tell my Mexican friends, “No, don’t say my song is padre! To me that means it’s conservative, boring, lame… that’s like, to me, everything fathers represent.”
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I remember it used to strike me as odd that in Mexican slang they’d use the word “padre” as synonym of “cool,” because in my rebellious eternally-adolescent worldview there was nothing more uncool than a dad. Retro-swingers the Royal Crown Revue comprised vocalist Eddie Nichols, guitarist James Achor, bassist Veikko Lepisto, tenor saxophonist Mando Dorame, baritone saxophonist Bill Ungerman, trumpeter Scott Steen and drummer Daniel Glass. Answer (1 of 4): Harbor Lights by Pat Boone He’ll Have To Go by Jim Reeves High Noon by Connie Francis Honey by Bobby Goldsboro Have a Good Time by Sue Thompson Hurtin’ Inside by the Dave Clark Five Homeward Bound by Petula Clark Hey Jude, Help, and Hello, Goodbye all t.