Childhood Songs I downloaded for Matthew

So I have been singing crazy songs I remember from my childhood and Jay and I are laughing half the time b/c these songs are either silly as all hell, made-up probably from my grandfather and probably not real songs, or songs I don't remember all the words so I make up lyrics...so thought I would share the playlist I put together for  Matthew...so you can laugh, steal, reminesce, whatever...

So the first song I have been singing usually when Matthew is in the nude before and after a bath/shower is "My toot-toot." Only a true Southern Louisiana person would recognize this Classic by Rocking Sydney...It has a very french/Zydeco feel and a token french word thrown in...I use to have the Record and play this over and over again...Mamere (My dad's mother, cajun for grandmother) use to have it on cassette and would play it for us grandkids as she drove us around big Ville Platte...Jay cracks up when I sing it and it just fits for singing when Matthew is in his "birthday suit"

So my dad loved Hank Williams Sr. and had this cassette that we listened to on all sorts of family vacations...so of course I know lots of Hank songs by heart...but 2 make the playlist...first is "Jambayala" b/c of mention of "the Fontenot's" and since Matthew is 1/2 Fontenot, he has to learn a song that mentions the name...second is "Hey Good Lookin" b/c I just love this song...almost put the song about the Wooden Indian but decided that 2 Hank songs is probably a good start....

Now the next is another good song for in the bath-tub and reminds me of 2 dance recitals with Mrs. Sharon's School of Dance, it is Bobby Darin's "Splish Splash." Like I mentioned, I did 2 dance recitals to this song and part of the dance experience at Mrs. Sharon's dance academy was to sing songs...almost put the Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini which was another dance song but decided too many dance songs might lead to me dancing around...

Ok, so my grandparents on the Fontenot side grew up speaking Cajun French, so thought I should put on a classic french song so Frere Jacque is on there which was somewhat tough to find a singing version b/c it appears to be a very popular piano and instrumental song on many lullaby albums, but I found one that will do.

The next is for my Grandparents on my Mother's side, the Dimiterchiks...Grandma and Granddad lived in Gretna which was the West Bank of NOLA and every year we would go spend time over the summer with them and they always took us to the Audubon Zoo, which is really my favorite zoo prior to Katrina...not sure if it still an awesome zoo but one day I will take Matthew there...it was here I saw those white alligators from little hachtlings all through their growth to full adulthood...wonder if any survived the Katrina debacle and still reside in the zoo??? So this song is also classic NOLA...."Audubon Zoo." Now I only found 3 versions and 2 were live recordings...while they don't quite sing and go like Jay and I both remember, we chose one to give Matthew the "ax for you" experience.

Jay's request was for Kasey and the Sunshine band's "Boogie Shoes"...this song reminds me of cotton picker days (which was a singing group I was apart of in HS associated with the Ville Platte Cotton Festival, no I didn't actually pick cotton) which will do since the "boll weevil" song that I learned as a cotton picker is not recorded...Just like Brittany, Chadwick, and Victoria Soileau who I use to babysit loved this song, Matthew also seems to like it alot...

Another song that is an ode to my dad and his cassette tape collections is "Yackety Yak" mainly for that line "don't talk back" b/c I want to start Matthew early on the proper way to behave is to not talk back to his mother :0

Now some other odd songs are from O'Brother soundtrack: Don't leave nothing but the baby (The go to sleep little baby song)...for some reason Jay and I have been singing this song to Matthew since day one to get him to go to sleep...doesn't really work but it is soothing and allows for us to easily say "got to sleep little Matthew" or "Go to sleep baby Matthew."

Another song I put on there was of course "Somewhere over the Rainbow" both the Judy Garland one from the Wizard of Oz soundtrack and the Hawaiian version by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole which I absolutely love and it includes "What a wonderful world" mixed in there.

Of course some Mary Poppins songs: "Feed the Birds" and "Stay Awake" b/c I just love Mary Poppins and Julie Andrews

So of course we will add more as we go but that is the start to a Matthew playlist...I am open to suggestions so feel free to leave me some in the FB comments or the blogger comments.

In other news, I have a tri tomorrow...just excited to be racing again and the fun of doing something...
Also, we got an offer on the G-vegas duplex that we accepted so keep your fingers crossed that Sept 12th gets here and it all does through....looks like 2 trips to G-vegas in our future, the weekend of Sept 10th-11th to start clearing out the stuff still left in our duplex and the following weekend for more clearing out stuff and Lake Kristi TriGreenville Sept 17th