Doug Posted August 22, 2014 Report Share Posted August 22, 2014 That looks like a 63 or 64 Chevy. YES< that is exactly the kind of seat. Wyyy heck, I believe the divorce rate would go down if only we had cars with a bench seat in the front again. Just add head rests and seat belts. OK, Yall learn the words and tune to Battle of New Orleans by Johnny Horton, Sink the Bizmark and other Johnny Horton songs, Kaw Liga by Charlie Pride or Hank Williams, Wolverton Mountain by Clyde King I think?, My Baby Loves Western Movies, Indian Love Song or When I'm Calling You out of some old movie, and other goofy silly American songs, but then I had grade school kids around for those, but it would do the teens good too. After all, they will be mothers one day. Henry the 8th by Hermans Hermits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy W Posted August 22, 2014 Report Share Posted August 22, 2014 That looks like a 63 or 64 Chevy. YES< that is exactly the kind of seat. Wyyy heck, I believe the divorce rate would go down if only we had cars with a bench seat in the front again. Just add head rests and seat belts. OK, Yall learn the words and tune to Battle of New Orleans by Johnny Horton, Sink the Bizmark and other Johnny Horton songs, Kaw Liga by Charlie Pride or Hank Williams, Wolverton Mountain by Clyde King I think?, My Baby Loves Western Movies, Indian Love Song or When I'm Calling You out of some old movie, and other goofy silly American songs, but then I had grade school kids around for those, but it would do the teens good too. After all, they will be mothers one day. Henry the 8th by Hermans Hermits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joecy Posted August 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2014 Great song, Doug!Thanks for the video, Dan! my 14-yr-old loved this song, played again and again and again when she visit. my 7-yr-old loved to sign along. After awhile, the song stuck in my head, can't shake it off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsap seui Posted August 22, 2014 Report Share Posted August 22, 2014 Some great songs you sung with your kids Douggie. My daughter and I were often on the road together, from the time she was only one we'd take six hour trips from Maryland down to NC, besides the fact of the 55 miles one way trip we took on my visit weekends until I became a single parent to her at age 4. At the earlier ages it was her gurgling and laughing in the Corvette's bucket seat beside me while I sang in my Gawd awful can't carry a note in a 55 gallon drum voice. When she got to ages 2,3, 4, and 5 we would sing lil' kid tunes and other songs from the radio. Our favorite song that we sang so many times was this lil' diddy... diddy dum diddy do. Besides the singing on the trips I gave her math problems to figure out in those early years. She loved the math stuff and would ask me to give her problems for hours. Maybe she didn't want me to sing???? LOL Wenyan, FZ, and I drove 5 hours up to Viagra Falls a few weeks back....not a long trip but we looked at the scenery, talked, they took turns sleeping, I sang a little to them until the order came from the little BIG boss for me to shut up, and we listened to Chinese music Fengqi had put onto his MP3 player. A real joy to hear them sing those songs. I don't know, Wenyan and I never seem to run out of things to talk about while driving. We both like to point out the great scenery to each other as well, and when we listen to AMerican rock stations there is always a Journey song that comes on that we can sing to and remember both their concert and how important their music was to us during the long government forced wait. LOL Ya learn to make lemonade when lemons are forced down your throat. Rawknee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherineli Posted August 22, 2014 Report Share Posted August 22, 2014 Yeah! I like these songs too, Joecy! Thanks to Randy, Rawknee and Doug! I first heard and loved the song in the movie "Ghost" but I've never had a chance to listen to the complete song. So good to have this small dream come true. Joecy, I bet you took much food with you on the way camping but you didn't eat them, instead, you went to some restaurant to eat. Is that so? That was me who went camping. So I don't understand it seems American people only bring food caming but don't eat. They still love to patronize restaurant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted August 23, 2014 Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 Wow Rawknee! Just this afternoon on the way back from taking the pooch to the vet Salina and I were singing Do Wah Diddy Diddy. Amazing. Now that is one great song to sing with kids. I remember back living in Miami. I drove the church van with a load of kids to a Marlin's game. All the way back the kids were singing Do Wah Diddy Diddy at the top of their lungs. We got more than a few stares sitting in line at toll booths on the Florida Turnpike Extension that skirts the west end of town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsap seui Posted August 23, 2014 Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 Yaowsuh....that is a great song to sing with kids. Ahrial loved to sing it with me....and back then it got played a lot on the radio. Dang Mick, we shore seem to do a lot of the same things. Eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amberjack1234 Posted August 23, 2014 Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 (edited) Yeah, I love these old songs. We have collected over 1000 of them and Chinese songs as well. Larry Edited August 23, 2014 by amberjack1234 (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joecy Posted August 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 Wonderful song, Rawknee! I'm so embarrassed that I didn't know this is your name. I searched the urban dictionary... Did you really give math problems to the kid while driving??? I'm wondering what kind of math problems the kid would kept asking. Do know that Chinese are big on math. But I hate math! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joecy Posted August 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 Larry, I'm very interested with the Chinese songs you enjoy, can you share some of the names? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joecy Posted August 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 Catherine, no we didn't go to restaurants at all! First night camping, we had hot dog and ramen noodle(方便面). We have a tiny gas stove, boiled some water to make the noodle. Gosh, it was good to drink something hot and salty! 2nd night, we rent a lake front cabin, we switched the ramen noddle to paste+tomato sauce. Oh it's good to cook on a modern stove! 3nd night, we were supposed to leave. But all the food we brought from grocery store couldn't fit into out stomach! How I wished we had that much to eat on the 1st night!!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amberjack1234 Posted August 24, 2014 Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 (edited) Larry, I'm very interested with the Chinese songs you enjoy, can you share some of the names? Joecy, this is one of my favorite Chinese song. Liren downloaded all the Chinese songs so she may have changed some of the names. I hope that you recognize it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTxe7BLX1ps Larry Edited August 24, 2014 by amberjack1234 (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsap seui Posted August 24, 2014 Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 Wonderful song, Rawknee! I'm so embarrassed that I didn't know this is your name. I searched the urban dictionary... Did you really give math problems to the kid while driving??? I'm wondering what kind of math problems the kid would kept asking. Do know that Chinese are big on math. But I hate math! Joecy, that song is a very easy one to sing with children..."the do wah diddie didde dee diddy do" chorus is easy to remember and is a good example of the "hook" that musicians often use to get their songs accepted. In this case the hook, and the storyline, made it a perfect song for parents to sing with their kids. When I first started taking my daughter to NC she was one year old. I'd talk for hours to her, play some music and sing with it to her...and pull of the road to change her diapers. While she couldn't talk with me she would laugh and gurgle...in between the bottles of formula I had for her. She pretty much grew up on the road with me. Once she started talking we would do games like counting large trucks, etc,....I remember her words "Big truck daddy" when she would see another one for her count. The road trips between Maryland and NC, Baltimore to Pennsylvania, and Baltimore 50 miles west to my home and to my parents home, now that I look back at it really gave us a lot of one on one contact in those early years. No cartoons on TV or her playing with toys....strictly one on one talking and playing word and "car" games with no outside distractions.. Once Ahrial got into kindergarten at age 4 we started doing math problems. Starting off with simple addition problems leading up to addition problems where you had three of four or more lines to be added sitting on top of each other. She would do one problem, I'd check her answer and then she would want another problem....on and on for as long as an hour and a half at a time before she tired of it. Once she was in first grade we got into simple fractions and multiple and division problems. Rawknee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joecy Posted August 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 (edited) Joecy, this is one of my favorite Chinese song. Liren downloaded all the Chinese songs so she may have changed some of the names. I hope that you recognize it. Larry It's beautiful! Funny that I never liked it when I was in China, cause the song is too popular! But now, hearing the familiar tune , the street view of China just came back. Thanks for digging that out, Larry. Does Liren speak Cantonese? Edited August 28, 2014 by Joecy (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joecy Posted August 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 Joecy, that song is a very easy one to sing with children..."the do wah diddie didde dee diddy do" chorus is easy to remember and is a good example of the "hook" that musicians often use to get their songs accepted. In this case the hook, and the storyline, made it a perfect song for parents to sing with their kids. When I first started taking my daughter to NC she was one year old. I'd talk for hours to her, play some music and sing with it to her...and pull of the road to change her diapers. While she couldn't talk with me she would laugh and gurgle...in between the bottles of formula I had for her. She pretty much grew up on the road with me. Once she started talking we would do games like counting large trucks, etc,....I remember her words "Big truck daddy" when she would see another one for her count. The road trips between Maryland and NC, Baltimore to Pennsylvania, and Baltimore 50 miles west to my home and to my parents home, now that I look back at it really gave us a lot of one on one contact in those early years. No cartoons on TV or her playing with toys....strictly one on one talking and playing word and "car" games with no outside distractions.. Once Ahrial got into kindergarten at age 4 we started doing math problems. Starting off with simple addition problems leading up to addition problems where you had three of four or more lines to be added sitting on top of each other. She would do one problem, I'd check her answer and then she would want another problem....on and on for as long as an hour and a half at a time before she tired of it. Once she was in first grade we got into simple fractions and multiple and division problems. Rawknee Counting big truck sounds fun! I would do that! Such a wonderful time to be focus on your kid. Rawknee, you are a good daddy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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