Mama Knows Best

2009 version begins at :30

Sorry about the video quality on this one (music begins at :26)

We're nuthin' if not ecumenical around here, and note Tom Jones's excellent pronunciation with the soft Y sound, almost "eedisheh" with only a hint of the consonant, instead of the more commonly anglicized hard consonant Y of "yiddishe." He is a serious music scholar, though his choice of material has not always shown it.

h/t Walter Effross for the first few clips.

Comments

[Robin Larkin]

Nice selection of songs about mother. Here are some more:

Percy Sledge, Take Time to Know Her:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCiMbFtnLfs

Beatles, Let It Be:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDYfEBY9NM4&list=RDQDYfEBY9NM4&start_radio=1

Stones, Mother's Little Helper:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-ahSGQ0CcA

Hank Williams, I Deramed about mama Last Night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8IbONEmHPQ&list=RDL8IbONEmHPQ&index=1

Merle Haggard, Sing Me Back Home:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-ofzciulJU

[Robin Larkin]

Forgot these:

Elvis, That's Alright, Mama:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmopYuF4BzY

From Down Under: Slim Dusty, Somebody's Mother:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_CexUgiQZc

From Ireland, Dennis Day, Mother Macree:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLQT6O3y7sg

[anon]

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