5 Great Songs to Listen to for Father’s Day

Happy Father’s Day!

Today, August 14, we celebrate Father’s Day – and there’s nothing better than celebrating this moment with some of the gems of the music industry.

From Beyoncé to Luther Vandross, we’ve curated a list separating five great songs to listen to today and featuring one of the most important people in our lives.

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Bruce Springsteen is undoubtedly one of the most important names in music and even today he continues to work on new content that delights his fans around the world. However, it was in 1982 that Springsteen demonstrated a passionate vulnerability with the release of the acclaimed ‘Nebraska’ album – the structure of which includes the touching ‘My Father’s House’. The folk ballad, punctuated by heartbreaking vocals and guitar and harmonica notes, recounts his memories with his father, who suffered from mental health issues and is honored in a tragic and moving tale.

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“DADDY DON’T PREACH”, Madonna

From the album ‘True Blue’, “Papa Don’t Preach” is one of the most famous songs of the queen of pop Madonna. Released in 1986, the song revolves around a young girl who becomes pregnant and refuses to have an abortion, having a candid conversation with her father and acknowledging that she needs him to pursue the choice she has made. The song is swept away by numerous references to Latin music, which would accompany Madonna at various points in her career, and plunges into a spectacular dance-pop that remains in popular memory to this day.

“MY FATHER’S EYES”, Eric Clapton

“My Father’s Eyes” is one of the most touching titles of Eric Clapton’s career. Signed by the artist himself, who was also in charge of production alongside Simon Climie, the story is inspired by the fact that Clapton never knew the country – as he died of leukemia in 1985. In his autobiography, ‘Eric Clapton: The Autobiography’, the singer recounts that “in the song, I tried to portray the parallel between looking into my son’s eyes and my father’s eyes, which I don’t never knew, through our blood connection. The track received Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the Grammy Awards.

“Dance with My Father” is one of the most touching songs of the century and brings out the best in Luther Vandross – in fact, Vandross himself once considered the track the best written and produced of his career. Also written by Richard Marx, the song is based on a personal experience and pays tribute to his father, who died of complications from diabetes when Luther was only eight years old. In the unfolding plot, the singer-songwriter recalls the fact that his father loved to dance with his mother – and in recognition, the iteration won awards for song of the year and best male R&B vocal performance at the Grammy Awards.

“DADDY LESSONS”, Beyoncé

Beyoncé has established herself as one of the greatest artists of all time on the music scene – and although she once wrote a song for her father on his debut album, it wasn’t until ‘Lemonade’ that this relationship was further explored. With “Daddy Lessons,” Queen B raises expectations for her own sound, starting with early jazz to cultivate fertile ground for the insurrection of a Texas country that praises, as the title says, the lessons that her father taught her: “he told me not to cry; my father said “pull”, repeating the refrain over and over to find the strength to continue; all this included in a paradoxically nostalgic and modernized scope.

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