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This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. Their father, David Hardee, died of COVID in March of 2021.Ĭopyright © 2022 NPR. THREE DOG NIGHT: (Singing) Joy to the world, all the boys and girls.įADEL: Danielle Hardee and Katherine Alexander. And he could totally charm a room and was very, very charismatic and just kind of captured that spirit of happiness and life. The cloistered walks terminate in two lookouts, one facing towards Windsor, and the other towards London Airport at Heathrow. from COVID-19 since the pandemic hit this country and the world just over a year. On the crest of Coopers Hill, overlooking the Thames, a square tower dominates a cloister, in the centre of which rests the Stone of Remembrance. Songs Of Remembrance: 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' Ma Over 600,000 people have died in the U.S.
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So it kind of became this just running joke of the family.ĭAVID HARDEE: (Vocalizing "Jimmy Crack Corn" on kazoo). The design of the Runnymede Memorial is original and striking. Somewhere along the line, he developed an affinity for kazoos, and so kazoos became a fun, wacky kind of tradition for our family, whether it was Christmas with the kazoos playing "Silent Night" or if we'd bring somebody home, like a fiancé, we - everybody would greet him with kazoos. HUTTON: (Singing) I'm a high night flier and a rainbow rider, a straight-shooting son of a gun.ĪLEXANDER: My dad was just so much fun to be around - you know, worked hard and played hard. He had a small practice that he built from the ground up. You get a lot of mornings where you wake up, and there's that little moment before.

HUTTON: (Singing) Singin' joy to the world, all the boys and girls, now. So I think of all the memories that we got to have, and I was lucky that I had a second chance to make with her. David Belanger, 71: Barbra Streisand's 'Songbird' : Songs Of Remembrance Belanger's daughter remembers hanging out with her father for 'patio party times,' when they'd play music of every genre. Songs Of Remembrance Friends and family of COVID-19 victims. HARDEE: That song always reminds me of him because he would just bebop around the house and love to sing, and so he would just belt out, Jeremiah was a bullfrog. Jeff Kopet, 74: Dire Straits' 'Brothers In Arms' : Songs Of Remembrance The father loved the message within the 1985 Mark Knopfler hit. HARDEE: One of my father's favorite songs was "Joy To The World" by Three Dog Night.ĭANNY HUTTON: (Singing) Jeremiah was a bullfrog, was a good friend of mine. (SOUNDBITE OF THREE DOG NIGHT SONG, "JOY TO THE WORLD") KATHERINE ALEXANDER: I'm Katherine Alexander.ĭANIELLE HARDEE: I'm Danielle Hardee.
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Our series Songs of Remembrance includes two sisters from Nashville who share stories about their father. And we're doing that through the music they loved. Though he could no longer retell the stories of his youth, I hope the music unlocked a place in his mind where he was as young as the nights when we danced the Lindy.NPR is remembering some of the 1 million people lost to COVID in the U.S.


I asked if he remembered the song, and he smiled as he nodded quietly. The next day I sat beside my father's bed as he ate Chips Ahoy cookies - his favorite - and we listened to "In the Mood." I noticed his foot begin to tap and his head start bopping to the swinging rhythm. I reminded him that he ran track at New Utrecht High School, that he had been a successful lawyer and that he was a long-time Boy Scout camp master.ĭuring those final years, I caught a PBS program that explained how people with Alzheimer's disease are more alert after hearing music from their youth. Nonetheless, we talked to him about his former passions in hopes that these topics would stimulate his brain and bring back my father for even just a moment. During the last of his 95 years, he lost the ability to clearly communicate with our family. Many decades later, my father developed dementia. Everyone laughed and cheered until the song ended, and my father put on his hat to leave. They swung, dipped, and danced around the room as the record played.
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My older sister, who loves to dance, asked to be taught the steps and was promptly greeted by our father's outstretched hand. Worship Songs about Remembering Download chord charts, piano sheets, lyrics, vocal sheets, choral arrangements, orchestrations, multitracks on the theme of remembrance. Before heading out, my dad would play Glenn Miller's "In the Mood," and we danced the Lindy in the living room.
