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Purely hypothetical, obvs
If James Hathaway were going to play/sing a song to entertain/distract/soothe a very young child (old enough to learn/sing/repeat/ask about any lyrics he includes), what would he play and/or sing?
For those not familiar with Hathaway and his demonstrated musical preferences:
1. He's an English guy--from Oxfordshire, educated at Cambridge, nearly became a Catholic priest but wound up a cop--born in the late 70s or so. He's about 30 at the time the hypothetical situation is taking place.
2. The hypothetical situation is taking place a few years ago. Any music from 2009 to the present is off limits, much as I would love to have him singing Lady Gaga.
3. He plays guitar in a group that does "world music with elements of jazz, rock, and medieval madrigals".
4. He went to a world music festival wearing a RUN DMC t-shirt. Uh. IDEK.
5. Given the opportunity he turns off Wagner and puts on "The Boys Are Back in Town" at Lewis's place.
6. He plays a 1948 Gibson L5 PE Guitar with a honey-blond finish and a Charlie Christian pickup, and has collected the autographs of several famous guitarists whose names I (shamefully, I am sure) don't recognize: Martin Taylor, Dave Cliff, Phil Lee, Pat Metheny, Russell Malone....
For those not familiar with Hathaway and his demonstrated musical preferences:
1. He's an English guy--from Oxfordshire, educated at Cambridge, nearly became a Catholic priest but wound up a cop--born in the late 70s or so. He's about 30 at the time the hypothetical situation is taking place.
2. The hypothetical situation is taking place a few years ago. Any music from 2009 to the present is off limits, much as I would love to have him singing Lady Gaga.
3. He plays guitar in a group that does "world music with elements of jazz, rock, and medieval madrigals".
4. He went to a world music festival wearing a RUN DMC t-shirt. Uh. IDEK.
5. Given the opportunity he turns off Wagner and puts on "The Boys Are Back in Town" at Lewis's place.
6. He plays a 1948 Gibson L5 PE Guitar with a honey-blond finish and a Charlie Christian pickup, and has collected the autographs of several famous guitarists whose names I (shamefully, I am sure) don't recognize: Martin Taylor, Dave Cliff, Phil Lee, Pat Metheny, Russell Malone....
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Also, I've known a LOT of families who use Beatles songs for singing babies to sleep. Better "Here Comes the Sun" than "Rockabye Baby", you know? So they're kind of my default suggestion? OTOH, he's so iconoclastic sometimes that I can also see a case for him sneering at the Beatles as being rather too much the done thing. On the 3rd hand, I can see him saying, "Well it was good enough for my mum to sing to me when I was your age!"
Okay, NOW I want to go and catch up on my viewing! (I'm in mid-series 3 right now.)
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Do catch up! There's a lot of awesomeness to come in later season three, to say nothing of four and five!
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I was going to say maybe Nick Drake, but then I saw the bit about said child repeating lyrics and thought, well, maybe not. (Nothing wrong with the lyrics to Pink Moon, per se, but if she's a curious child—and who isn't at that age?—she might well wonder what it means and he'd have no answer).
In a similar vein, how about Donovan? Ballad of Geraldine is a good one... Neither of those two would be ones James had grown up with, necessarily—a little before his time—but given his interest in music that falls (shall we say) out of the norm for his generation, I wouldn't be at all surprised if he knew them.
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(Though: no pressure, d!)
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Clearly!
And I'm soooo glad you included Drake. I confess, as soon as I started thinking about it I got all excited, and then when I wrote it up in this comment I just got so caught up in the idea that it's now my head canon. So. Yay Hathaway playing Nick Drake on his guitar = love.
(ALSO MIDNIGHT ADDICTION YES.)
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(MIDNIGHT ADDICTION IS COMPULSORY.)
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Unfortunately, I have no idea what he'd sing. I went through everything I love from the time he (and I, same age) was impressionable, but none of it is suitable for singing to children. XD
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I don't know ... is there something by Fela Kuti? Or Sun Ra?
Or, in a totally different vein, old Chicago (Saturday in the Park)
Or maybe Santana. Or Robbie Williams. (I think random is good in this instance; it seems all the other musical references are deliberately designed to foil any attempts to categorize him musically.)
(Tiny Dancer?)
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