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Apr 11, 2024 · Father's Day is the perfect time to show Dad a little extra appreciation, whether it be in the form of a thoughtful quote, DIY card, home-cooked meal, or custom playlist filled with only the best...
- Sophie Caldwell
- Associate Lifestyle Reporter
- Eric Clapton – My Father’s Eyes
- Brandi Carlile – Carried Me with You
- Reba McEntire – The Greatest Man I Never Knew
- John Mayer – Daughters
- The Game – Like Father, Like Son
- Beyoncé Featuring Dixie Chicks – Daddy Lessons
- Miley & Billy Ray Cyrus – I Learned from You
- Bill Withers – I’m Her Daddy
- Will Smith – Just The Two of Us
- Brad Paisley – He Didn’T Have to Be
No one has gracefully mined personal tragedy quite like Eric Clapton. In this song, about the father he never met, Clapton attempts to understand the loss of his own son through the feelings of loss he experienced upon learning of his father’s death in 1985. It’s a song that can put even the most estranged father-child relationships in perspective.
Onwardis the epitome of father-son Disney movies and its theme song fittingly makes listeners choke back tears. The lyrics speak about not taking your family’s love for granted and accepting love even when you feel that you don’t deserve it.
File this alongside Harry Chapin’s “Cats in the Cradle” as one of the saddest father-child songs about unfinished business. In this case, there’s a missing connection between father and daughter (or son, since writer Richard Leigh has said he was writing about his own dad). The father lives behind a wall that never breaks down. After his death, the...
John Mayer didn’t have a daughter when he wrote this song, and some might quibble with the sentiments of its opening verse: If his girlfriend’s father had taken better care of her, maybe she’d be treating Mayer better. But the song’s basic message is hard to argue with: Be good to your kids and they’ll have better lives. It proved universal enough ...
The Game’s impending fatherhood was a crucial part of the narrative for his first album, The Documentary. Coming in at the disc’s end, the birth scene is a glimpse of salvation, as he arrives at the hospital fresh from a shoot-out and makes the wish that “you’ll turn out better than me.” Ten years later he recorded a sequel track; now he had a seco...
One of the least sentimental songs on this list, this Lemonadetrack allows Beyoncé to play the Western hero, and to throw some more musical elements into an already diverse album, including the New Orleans horns in the intro. Daddy raises the singer to be a tough gunslinger when the bad guys come around, but this probably shouldn’t be taken as a pr...
Miley recorded this song back in her Hannah Montanadays, so there’s nothing but positivity in this arena-ready song about the strength you take from a supportive parent. Bringing in Billy Ray gives the song some extra meaning, as their father-daughter exchanges point out that fathers take strength from their kids as well.
Bill Withers’ debut album spawned the classic “Ain’t No Sunshine,” and there was definitely no sunshine in this deep cut either. Over an ominous funk backdrop (with taut Stephen Stills guitar), the singer tracks down Lucy, an ex he hasn’t seen in six years, and wonders if Lucy’s daughter even knows that the singer is her dad. There’s no resolution ...
Bill Withers actually wrote a much more upbeat fatherhood song, though he didn’t know it at the time. It took rapper, entertainer, and all-around nice guy Will Smith to turn Withers’ love ballad into a salute to the joys of fatherhood. In just four verses, Smith makes a pretty good case for himself as a world-class dad, with a steady hand for disci...
There’s a very short list of songs in praise of stepfathers. In fact, we can only think of two: The Winstons’ 60s soul hit “Color Him Father” and Brad Paisley’s second country hit from 1999. This one begins with a flashback, in which the new dad gets a thumbs-up for not running away when he learns his dinner date is a single mom. The payoff comes a...
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- Luther Vandross - 'Dance With My Father' Luther Vandross - Dance With My Father. The Story of... 'Dance With My Father' A proper tearjerker. Luther wrote 'Dance with My Father' with Richard Marx, based on his own personal experience.
- Cat Stevens - 'Father and Son' Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Father & Son. The Story of... 'Father And Son' by Cat Stevens. This song follows a conversation between a father not understanding his son’s desire to break away, and the son who knows that it is time for him to seek his own path.
- Mike and the Mechanics - 'The Living Years' Mike + The Mechanics - The Living Years (Official Video) The Story of... 'The Living Years' This emotional song is written from the perspective of a son who has a conflicted relationship with his dad.
- James Blunt - 'Monsters' James Blunt - Monsters (Official Music Video) Following the release of James Blunt's album Once Upon a Mind, the singer shared the heartbreaking news that his father, Charles Blount, was battling stage four chronic kidney disease.
- Madonna: Papa Don’t Preach (1986) Most of the best Father’s Day songs are passionately written, which is usually why they’re capable of resonating down the decades.
- Mike + The Mechanics: The Living Years (1988) Tempestuous relationships between fathers and sons can sometimes provide the catalyst for the best Father’s Day songs.
- Tori Amos: Winter (1992) One of the most nakedly personal of all the songs on her intimate and widely acclaimed debut album, Little Earthquakes, the luminescent Winter is a tribute to not just the one, but the two father figures in Tori Amos’ life.
- Eric Clapton: My Father’s Eyes (1998) It’s often the case that songwriters pay tribute to the father figures who have played a vital role in raising them, but Eric Clapton never knew his real father, Edward Fryer, who died of leukaemia in 1985.
Jun 10, 2024 · Put together a playlist with these Father's Day songs as a sweet gift to Dad. They include classic rock hits and top pop songs so 2024 is the best one yet.
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Jun 15, 2024 · Looking for Father's Day songs? Here are the 77 best songs about fathers and songs for dads to make the best playlist for Father's Day 2024.
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Jun 2, 2021 · From Luther Vandross's "Dance With My Father" to Beyoncé's "Daddy Lessons," here are the best father's day songs of all time to play for dad.
