Andy's 60's Music International Mail From UK, Canada, India, Malaysia, Singapore: "It's You Who've Rekindled My Feelings!"

"Didn’t we all break out and join in the final giggles and laughs with the singer? I’m chuckling to myself already!" says reader Sonny from Canada.

7 Letters From UK, Canada, India, Malaysia, Singapore:

1. Hi Andy and everyone,

I was looking for this song and decided to Google. Listened to it as a child and stayed in my memory till now. Since dad gave away all his records and record player, never heard it again. 

Thanks, Andy, for posting. Rekindled memories. No one knew how much I had missed listening to this song.

Fauziah

2. Dear Andy,

I make innumerable attempts - all in vain - to desist from getting tender-hearted and teary-eyed, whenever I play this glorious song. I end up listening to it on a loop and brimming with climaxing emotions.
Thank you very much, Andy, this time it's you who've rekindled my feelings!

Muradi.

3. Hello Andy,

Wow. I just happened to look for this song when reminiscing of my childhood years spent in Singapore. What a coincidence to find this uploaded by a sixties kid from right there!! Thank you very much Andy for the shared memories.

As a toddler, this song would play on a continuous loop and was the sweetest memory that I cherish to this day. Didn't we all break out and join in the final giggles and laugh with the singer!! I'm chuckling to myself already!! 

Sonny (Canada) 

Papa and mama dance the Cha Cha .

4. Rohit D'Almeida says:

When I was like 4 years old, I heard this song for the first time. (I'm 35 now). Coming from a family of singers, at that time, I thought this was sung by my uncle, Uncle James, and my cousin Lara. 

We live in the suburbs of Mumbai, India. The audio cassette was brought by my uncle from the gulf. And so was the audio cassette recorder/player. We sang and recorded several songs back then. 

It brings back such good memories. The lyrics are so beautiful. I'd love to go back in time and just dwell in that time in a loop forever. I guess heaven must be like that and much more! 

Thanks Andy.

5. Fiona says:

I was brought up in Singapore, and this song was the first I remember my parents playing - there was a 'B' side, but I am not sure what it was. We moved back to UK in the early Sixties, and I have never found anyone else who remembers it. The fact you have placed it as Singapore 60's make sense to me - I have now downloaded it and it brings back happy memories of childhood. Thank you <3

6. Vineet Gupta says:

Thank you for posting this song. I've grown up on this, and God knows since when i was looking for it. It is a wonderful song to be played to kids. I play it for my son now. Thank you once again. 

7. M.B. Salke says:

I live in Pune, Maharashtra, India. I grew up with this song. It is a very beautiful song which I always remembered. I was very happy to find it and hear it after so many years, nearly 40 years. This song brings fond memories of my childhood. Thank you so much. 

And the song?

'Papa He Loves Mama': 

Donald Peers and Janet Osborne. 

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The little boy and girl who love to see their grand papa and mama! Singapore 60s teenagers used to cha, cha, cha to this song when it was played during T-Dances.

Images: Google and AI generated.

Comments are welcome.

60s Music Singapore: Some September Sentiments, Songs: John Keats And Drones?

Peaceful rainy September on the streets in Singapore. Now's who's playing with those flying machines in other countries, while candles and joss sticks illuminate the Chinatown skies. A significant season for Singapore indeed.

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An Anonymous Comment... and Mine:

True, true. It is a very wet September so far; it's raining now and gets heavier too. The Heavens crying its eyes out at the state of the world, a world with hardly any peace, where newly invented drones fill the skies to destroy.

911 - a number known to all Americans, and the world. The Emergency services number. 911 will be seared in the memory of the world.

Every season has its beauty. Autumn, or Fall, is resplendent in fiery colours. It is also harvesting season, when Mother Earth offers puny Man her rich larder to tide over the lean Winter. 

In this New World, it is Time for Thanksgiving, an occasion many considered as important, if not more, as Christmas. At American and Canadian universities, Fall is when term begins afresh, time for Orientation and Homecoming, when the blaze of academic life and enquiring minds are stoked anew.

John Keats in Ole' England in 1795, because

the digitalized folks have only awakened

from their slumber in 1975.

In the Old World, we can't help but remember John Keats' "Ode to Autumn".

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless, With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core...

So, in Asiatic Singapore, we get the brown branches and green leaves bowing under the weight of the thunderstorm. Expect more rain this September 2025. And are we expecting the school holiday, Teachers' Day, Prophet Muhammed's Birthday, Little India's Deepavali Light-up, the Hungry Ghost, Mooncake or Mid-Autumn Festival too? Better check them out.

The preference for decorative lanterns in 

downtown September Singapore is obvious.

Let's fill our skies with the pops of yesteryear:

Maybe September, Tony Bennett.

Come September, Bobby Darin.

September Morn, Neil Diamond.

September In The Rain, Sarah Vaughn.

September When I First Met You, Barry White.

September Of My Years, Frank Sinatra.

Try To Remember, Brothers Four.

There are other singers too.

'Try To Remember' [Campfire 14].

The Brothers Four.

YouTube Video by: Mark Pearson Music.

Video was suggested by good friend, 

Chew Hee Hong who wrote about

Skeeter Davis. Click below to read:

.: "Skeeter Davis Was A Friend." Unassuming HH Chew Tributes International 60s Singer.

Whoops! Forgot the umbrella!

Comments are welcome.

[Anonymous, Comment Page on 13 September 2020 wrote; and I added some.]

You Belong To Me: Jo Stafford: 'Live' With Pyramids, Sunrise, Old Algiers, Souvenirs, Silver Plane, Jungle

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Jo Stafford: 'You Belong To Me'

YouTube Video from: Larry Hinze

Scroll down slowly and checkout 

the pictures as you listen to the song.

See the pyramids along the Nile

Watch the sunrise on a tropic isle.

Just remember darling, all the while

You belong to me.

See the market place in old Algiers.

Send me photographs and souvenirs.

Just remember when a dream appears

You belong to me.

I'll be so alone without you

Maybe you be lonesome too, and blue

Fly the ocean in a silver plane

See the jungle when it's wet with rain.

Just remember till you're home again

You belong to me.

The song was originally written by Pee Wee King, Chilton Price, and Redd Stewart and recorded by American singer Jo Stafford in 1952. It became a number one hit on the US and UK charts and Stafford became a pop star. Famed in the 40s and 50s she was American, involved in pops, jazz and standards. 

It has also been covered by many singers like Bob Dylan, Tori Amos, the Duprees, Bette Midler and even Ringo Star. The song has appeared on nearly two dozen movie sound tracks.

I was only 12 years old when I heard this song and singing it even today, 70 years later. She came about the same time as Patti Page, Doris Day and later Connie Francis, another two of my favourite lady singers from those days of yore.

Doris Day and Connie Francis: pop singers

from the 50s and 60s.

The cover by Patti Page is also just as popular.

'You belong to me,' sung by Tori Amos, is heard 

in the background in this movie, called, 

'Mona Lisa Smile,' [2003] with Julia Roberts.

YouTube Video by: gazaguy.

Images: Google. 

Singapore Floods: Dylan: Early Morning Rain

Orchard Road 1960's

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8.1.18 (8 January 2018) News Flash:

This morning there was a deluge and a few areas in Singapore was flooded. Bedok, Eunos and Paya Lebar were some of the affected areas.

But it's an auspicious day, so I thought I would just sound a paragraph about what had happened this morning. What's a little rain and being a little wet if you get that 4D number 8118 (fart yart yart fart) as it's read in Cantonese dialect and means, Good Luck, Everyday Good Luck?

I never buy 4D lotteries but this rare combination of early morning rain, heavy flooding, stalled vehicles and water in buses is definitely unique. No need to go looking for vehicle number plates. Good luck readers; spare me some if you win...
😊 Showers of blessings!

Peter Chan, 70s music man and current businessman, sent me some pictures of floods in Singapore. Here's one (image above) that occurred at Orchard Road in the 60's. No, it wasn't the first time the recent flood devastation happened at glamorous Orchard because since recorded statistics there had been floods on our island since the 1950's onwards.

So why is a 60's music blog discussing floods you ask. While looking at Peter's photographs and reading the papers about the recent deluge, I remember a late 50's song about "rising waters" by Johnny Cash and managed to retrieve it from a website called, starcasm.net It's got that unique Cash beat that our Man In Black specialized in.

Johnny Cash Sleeve Cover

The singer who had never feared "death, darkness and such apocalyptic things as floods" had put on vinyl, Five Feet High and Rising for his 1959 concept album Songs of Our Soil. Much like his gallows countdown 25 Minutes To Go, this song is an "hourglass ballad, measuring time with the rising waters of the Mississippi River flood of 1937." From historical data, waters from the massive river rose 15 feet above flood stage after 21 consecutive days of rain.

There are many C/W songs about floods and the more popular ones are When It Rains It Pours by Merle Haggard, High Water by Bob Dylan, Rainy Day Blues by Willie Nelson and Steady As The Rain by Dolly Parton.

 A flooded street in Singapore 2010.

So to all Singapore music lyricists today, writing ditties about our achievements on this beautiful, sunny island can be a little cliched, so why not write about our recent floods at our most celebrated shopping street? Might make it to the Top 10 Singapore Song Chart, if there's any.

Image 1: Peter Chan Collections.
Image 2: Johnny Cash from Google.

Songs about Rain and Floods:

Singing in the Rain - Gene Kelly
After the Rain - John Coltrain
All I Needed Was The Rain - Elvis Presley
Ain't No Sunshine - Jose Feliciano

Black Summer Rain - Eric Clapton
Coloured Rain - Eric Burdon n The Animals
Early Morning Rain - Bob Dylan
Fool In The Rain - Led Zeppelin

8th January 2018 (from Straits Times, Singapore)

Riders On The Storm - The Doors
Money for Floods - Joan Baez
Down in The Floods - Blood, Sweat and Tears
Texas Flood - Willie Nelson

High Water - Bob Dylan
Have you ever seen the rain? - CCR
Here Comes The Flood - Peter Gabriel.
When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin

Just a taste of the floods. Carry on to contribute if you can.

8th January 2018 Bus Stop.

Disclaimer:

There is no intention of making fun of the people involved in the rain and floods that have affected these areas in Singapore. Water-logged vehicles, wet commuters, pedestrians and hospitalised individuals suffer much during these inclement weather conditions. It's always looking for the silver lining that's important.

Original article: Andy Lim.
Images: Google and The Straits Times Press.

60 years later today - 10 of November 2021.

Image: https://www.edf.org/climate/why-fighting-climate-change-so-urgent

Haiti Tragedy - Donations From Singapore

(1) Send cheques to: Singapore Red Cross at 15 Penang Lane, Singapore, 238486. Include name, contact details and "EARTHQUAKE HAITI" on the back of your cheque.

(2) Walk-In Donations: Cash or Cheque donations at the Singapore Red Cross as above (near Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station), Mon To Fri - 9am to 9pm. Sat/Sun: 9am to 1pm.

Information: Straits Times Press, Singapore (18.01.2010).