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"Grandma's Hands" is a song written by Bill Withers about his grandmother. It was included on his first album Just as I Am (1971), and was released as a single, reaching number 18 on the Best Selling Soul Singles chart and 42 on the Billboard Hot 100. [1] In Canada, it reached No. 37 on the RPM magazine charts.
According to him, he was persuaded to record the song by Brad Paisley. [1] The song caused waves on country radio, for the lyric "I wish country music still got played on country radio." A radio edit was created to edit out the jab towards pop country, and the lyric was replaced with "I wish George Jones still got played on country radio."
It was in this Piercebridge hotel that the author encountered a remarkable clock that inspired the song. The song, told from a grandchild's point of view, is about his grandfather's clock. The clock is purchased on the morning of the grandfather's birth and works perfectly for 90 years, requiring only that it be wound at the end of each week.
Pages in category "Songs about grandparents" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. G.
"I'm My Own Grandpa" (sometimes rendered as "I'm My Own Grandpaw") is a novelty song written by Dwight Latham and Moe Jaffe, performed by Lonzo and Oscar in 1947, about a man who, through an unlikely (but legal) combination of marriages
Fred Waring recorded a greatly expanded suite bookended by the song, Grandma's Thanksgiving, in 1947. The additional material was composed by Harry Simeone with lyrics by Frank Cunkle and recorded for Decca Records' children's line. Grandma's Thanksgiving became a radio tradition on WBEN in Buffalo, New York under host Clint Buehlman. [10]
"Grandpa Told Me So" is a song written by Mark Alan Springer and James Dean Hicks, and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Chesney. It was released in November 1995 as the third and final single from the album All I Need to Know. The song reached number 23 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [1]
The song is played three times in the original live action version of Barney & Friends in the episodes "Caring Means Sharing", "Grandparents Are Grand!", and "Any Way You Slice It". In each episode, Barney leads the kids to a cookie jar, only to discover that all the cookies are gone, to which they launch into the song, each time with Kathy ...