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One for my baby
Posted by minibreakfast on 15 January 2012 - 7:49pm.
Jay Z has just recorded a song about his new daughter Blue Ivy. It's not his best work, but as a rush job by an ecstatic new father it's quite sweet.
What other artists have written songs about their newborns? Apart from Stevie's Isn't She Lovely, Bowie's Kooks and Lauryn Hill's To Zion, what else can we think of?
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A double
From the younger Gallagher - the infamous 'Little James' and the excellent 'Born on a Different Cloud'
Before Top Gun
I seem to recall Kenny Loggins did quite a nice song with Jim Messina called Danny's Song.........
Ben Folds
wrote Still Fighting It for his son Louis (from Rocking The Suburbs album):
And one for his daughter Gracie, (from Songs For Silverman LP)
Phil Lynott
Sarah
Ben Folds - Gracie
i wondered about ages ... so had a quick google
i think Sarah (Lynott) was born in December '78 which now makes her 33 ... and (well-kent pop fact ahoy) her maternal granddad was Leslie Crowther
RT
According to the biography Strange Affair Richard Thompson wrote End of the Rainbow for his daughter Kamilla, who is herself featured on the CD with the new issue of Word. When the 'little horror' was old enough to understand the song she was understandably put out, and RT wrote King of Bohemia in response. (All of this is from memory, but I'm pretty sure it's as written.)
(End of the Rainbow)
(King of Bohemia)
Joni's
Little Green always gets me.
Father And Daughter
by Paul Simon. Which was released not long after the birth of my own and affected me deeply
So you'll always know
As long as one and one is two
There could never be a father
Who loved his daughter more than I love you
I don't know if Jackson Browne wrote it for his progeny but The Only Child puts me in mind of my boy and my younger self too. I love the lines
Boy of mine
As your fortune comes to carry you down the line
And you watch as the changes unfold
And you sort among the stories you've been told
If some pieces of the picture are hard to find
And the answers to your questions are hard to hold
Take good care of your mother...
There's always
the ever popular wedding classic "Rufus is a Tit Man" by Loudon Wainwright III. I can't think of any more off the top of my head.
Chris Martin named his son, born 2006, after a live track they released in 2003, but I don't think that's the right way round somehow.
Would that be
"I Bloom Blaum" then?!?!?
Feeling 'shy' about this one.......
Kid Creole and his Cocoanuts 'Annie I'm Not Your Daddy!'
I may have missed the point on this thread......;)
This one just gets me
Divine Comedy - Charmed Life
...then the song takes flight - I always well up at that bit. (From around 3.40 in the clip.)
surely,
the best by a mile...
Angie
Angie by The Stones. It was usually said that Keith Richards wrote this about his new daughter. However, his autobiography now says its infact Heroin. Keith has famously never let the truth get in the way of a good story...