Grandmas and Vanilla Ice Cream #MusicMovesMe

It's Monday and it's time for music!

Today I am joining up with other  Music Moves Me bloggers,  a group of music loving bloggers who blog about music each Sunday or Monday (or even later in the week). If you have music to share with us, you are most welcome to join! (Music Posts Only-meaning at least one music video, please! Otherwise, your post may be labeled "No Music".)   Our head host is Xmas Dolly, and our co-hosts are Cathy from Curious as a Cathy, joined by the knowledgeable Stacy of Stacy Uncorked and, last but not least, me.

Every other week, we have a theme.  On alternate weeks, we can blog on any music theme we want. This week's theme is from the National Calendar website, either "Gorgeous Grandma Day" or "Vanilla Ice Cream Day." How about some songs celebrating ice cream or grandmas?

I never knew my father's mother.  She passed away some 15 years before I was born.  My father and two of his sisters helped to raise their youngest brother, who was only 10 when his mother died.  Years later, that uncle, who will be turning 100 later this year, told me how grateful he was to my father and sisters for how they became substitute mothers.

I know her only from a picture.

My mother's mother was already in failing health and entered a nursing home when I was seven.  I wish I could have known her better, and my mother then died a handful of years after her mother did.  But, my son was more fortunate.  He knew his father's mother growing up, and into his young adulthood.  It made me very happy to know that.

Now, onto the music.

I'm not big into Broadway but I found this performance of the song "Vanilla Ice Cream" from the play She Loves You, and sung by Laura Benanti, and I was so amused by it. 

Ice cream doesn't have to be vanilla, though.  For example, there is Rocky Road ice cream.  Here's "I Love Rocky Road", from "Weird Al" Yankovic.

Then, there are gorgeous grandmas.

Taylor Swift and a tribute to her grandmother Marjorie Finlay, also a singer, was released in 2020.  Here is "Majorie".

 From 1971, Bill Withers and Grandma's Hands.

Finally, grandmas are more than just grandmas.  As sung on The Muppet Song, John Denver and "Grandma's Feather Bed".

Our world is a better place because of grandmothers and ice cream.

And that's a wrap!

Join me again next week for another episode of Music Moves Me.