Family or Sibling Songs #MusicMovesMe

Once again, we've reached Monday, and it's time for Music Moves Me.  

Who are the members of Music Moves Me ?  We are bloggers who blog about music each Monday. If you have music to share with us, you are most welcome to join!  Just remember our simple rule:  you must include at least one You Tube or Vimeo video or your post may be subject to removal or labeling "NO MUSIC". You are welcome to write about music. too but there must be at least one music video.

So let's get started.

Each month, we have a guest co-host.  The guest co-host for August is Stacy from Stacy Uncorked, Her theme for today is "Family or Sibling songs."

Before I begin to present my selections, I want to pay tribute to singer Trini Lopez, who passed away last week from COVID-19 at the age of 83.  Two songs immediately leapt to my mind.

If I Had a Hammer, co-written by Pete Seeger, was a hit for Lopez, reaching #3 in 1963.

Lemon Tree was a cover of a Will Holt song.  Besides Trini Lopez, this song has been covered by many artists.

I remember both of these songs from my child.  Trini Lopez, RIP.

And now, to our theme.

I don't want to pick any of the "obvious" songs but there are some really good ones out there.  Because I am an only child, and someone who lost her mother not long before I turned 13, I am also going to include a couple of tributes to parents.  My father raised me after my mother died suddenly, and had to put up with my teenaged years on his own.

I am going to start with a song I've had on my blog, but it isso good, it is going to be repeated. 

First, from Mike and the Mechanics, 1989's "The Living Years", about a son's conflicted relationship with his late father, and what he regrets now that he, himself is a father.

Elton John's 1973 hit Daniel is sung by Daniel's younger brother. There seem to be differing interpretations of the song - I would just sit back and watch the reaction at the end of the performance.

Night Ranger and 1983's "Sister Christian".  I saw them in concert several years ago, and this was one of the last songs of their set.  It was worth the wait.  This song is about the songwriter's younger sister Christy, and his feelings that she is growing up too fast.

Finally, as a (maybe strange) change of pace is a song that maybe is more about vampires than a rejected boy's longing for family.  From The Lost Boys soundtrack, performed by co-author Gerald McMahon, is 1987's Cry Little Sister.  I happen to love this song.

And that's a family wrap!

Join me again next Monday for another episode of Music Moves Me - same time, same place.