but my all time favorite, that I grew up with my dad singing/reading out loud, not a song exactly but a book; but it came with a little yellow-vinyl 45rpm record that we played on our Fisher-Price record player - "a house, a house, a very special house, hooie hee hah! Hooie hee hah!"
Ruth Krauss "A Very Special House" (illustrated by Maurice Sendak)
Youtube has many singers setting this book to their own melodies, but I haven't found OUR adored late-60s early-70s version yet...
I considered Madness and now I forget why I didn't put it on the list but I love that song! For some reason I always heard it on the radio together with Once In A Lifetime so I thought Madness and the Talking Heads were somehow inextricably linked.
Madness - "Our House" of course!! Heteronormative, tradwife-ironing-dad's shirt,1983 at its best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwIe_sjKeAY
but my all time favorite, that I grew up with my dad singing/reading out loud, not a song exactly but a book; but it came with a little yellow-vinyl 45rpm record that we played on our Fisher-Price record player - "a house, a house, a very special house, hooie hee hah! Hooie hee hah!"
Ruth Krauss "A Very Special House" (illustrated by Maurice Sendak)
Youtube has many singers setting this book to their own melodies, but I haven't found OUR adored late-60s early-70s version yet...
I considered Madness and now I forget why I didn't put it on the list but I love that song! For some reason I always heard it on the radio together with Once In A Lifetime so I thought Madness and the Talking Heads were somehow inextricably linked.