What are Your Inheritance Tracks?

[menotu]

BBC Radio 4 has a weekly programme called Saturday Live where a guest chooses a song that they inherited from their parents (or maybe elder sibling) and one that they would pass on to your children/ next generation.

So, what would be  your Inheritance Tracks?

Some Inheritance Tracks between 2008-2011 (unsure if these are blocked to people outside the UK)

Celebrating the music that special guests cherish and would like to bestow to future generations.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ita/all

The following link lcovers Inheritance Tracks for 2012 and up to 2 March 2013

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/it/all

[joechimp]

Today the day my Guitar Mentor, Alvin Lee, passed away, I could choose no other song than this.

Still relevant lyrics today.

I'd Love to Change the World

Everywhere is freaks and hairies
D***s and f*****s, tell me where is sanity
Tax the rich, feed the poor
Till there are no rich no more

I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you

Population keeps on breeding
Nation bleeding, still more feeding economy
Life is funny, skies are sunny
Bees make honey, who needs money, Monopoly

I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you

World pollution, there's no solution
Institution, electrocution
Just black and white, rich or poor
Them and us, stop the war

I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you

[parnote]

joechimp,

The lyrics to that song are probably even more relevant today than they were when they were written.

[Wildman]

joechimp,

The lyrics to that song are probably even more relevant today than they were when they were written.

+5 

[sammy2fish]

Today the day my Guitar Mentor, Alvin Lee, passed away, I could choose no other song than this.

Still relevant lyrics today.

I'd Love to Change the World

That is a very good song.  Forgot all about it. until now......

BUT, sad to say...  A well-known person of many years ago said... You will always have the poor among you.

[Rudge]

This is an extremely interesting thread that I want to be a part of, but at the same time, don't want to influence the responses.

My grand mother, my mother's mom, (Bigmama) used to sing a song to me while I was falling asleep in her arms.

It was a song she made up so it doesn't have a name but I can tell you, from my memory of it, she could not carry a tune in a bucket.

This brings us to my interest in the thread.

How much "passed along" information is of any value?

Do you pass along songs? Do you pass along fantasies of Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy?   Do you pass along obsolete ideas like "More is better".

Do you label a child as being a certain type of person because his or her parent's passed along a prayer?

Your kids depend on you for a real preparation for the real world.

Pass along songs that you see fit but keep in mind that they must face a real world at some point.

         

[joechimp]

Thanks guys for acknowledging Alvin Lee.

[joechimp]

This is an extremely interesting thread that I want to be a part of, but at the same time, don't want to influence the responses.

My grand mother, my mother's mom, (Bigmama) used to sing a song to me while I was falling asleep in her arms.

It was a song she made up so it doesn't have a name but I can tell you, from my memory of it, she could not carry a tune in a bucket.

This brings us to my interest in the thread.

How much "passed along" information is of any value?

Do you pass along songs? Do you pass along fantasies of Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy?   Do you pass along obsolete ideas like "More is better".

Do you label a child as being a certain type of person because his or her parent's passed along a prayer?

Your kids depend on you for a real preparation for the real world.

Pass along songs that you see fit but keep in mind that they must face a real world at some point.

         

Rudge this is a very good post. There is a lot of meaning in it.
If peoples responses are influenced, so be it.
You make some very important points.
Thank you.

[parnote]

Rudge,

Being a musician, I'm betting you have better ideas than most on how to preserve the "songs" so that they can be preserved and passed forward -- even if it means recording them in YOUR voice ... or having someone who can carry a tune help you with their instrument (their voice).

[joechimp]

Passing on to the next generation music and lyrics that have meaning is quite important.
Children will listen and absorb what is played for them as a child and probably always have that inside them. As they grow older they will gravitate to the music, good or bad, of their generation. It is the way it is.
In some cases as they grow even older the music of their childhood may re emerge to their ears.
The importance of what they hear in their formative years can greatly influence their later years.So go forth and multiply and Teach Your Children Well.

Teach the children well ( with lyrics) - Crosby Stills

[Rudge]

Rudge this is a very good post. There is a lot of meaning in it.
If peoples responses are influenced, so be it.
You make some very important points.
Thank you.

Joe, thanks for acknowledging that the post made some sense to somebody.

I was afraid it would go unnoticed and seen as a senseless rant.     

[joechimp]

It did make sense my friend.

[Yankee]

I still remember the music I heard and liked - folk rock stuff.

Peter & Gordon, Chad & Jeremy, Herman's Hermits, Peter,
Paul & Mary, Mama's and the Papa's,  a few Beatle's songs.

T'was the day of the poet/lyricist/musician.     Music to day is so
abstract, who can hit the highest note type of thing.

No beat, no theme, no rhyme, no crescendo, just plain boring.   

Hey,  Alvin Lee was a good feature musician.    Oops,
forgot Simon & Garfunkel and Glenn Campbell.

Oh well, streaming oldies but goodies then.

[Crow]

joechimp,

The lyrics to that song are probably even more relevant today than they were when they were written.

+1

One of my all time favorites, it shows the ideals and helplessness feelings of a big part of my generation, many of those ideals were lost unfortunately.

I may not be able to change the world but God knows that wherever I work, each day I try to save some lives.