Despite the viruses
Here is to you all, dear followers, from the shelter of my home against the coronavirus pandemic outside, hoping you are also safe while we all stay in our own forced house confinements.
I want to thank your praises for my music, especially for my song “Daddy blue“, posted here, which has some curiosities that maybe you should know:
I wrote “Daddy blue“ two years ago as a follow-up story line to 1971’s worldwide hit “Mamy blue“ by the Spanish band The Pop Tops. “Mamy blue“ told the grief of a young wanderlust man who had left his mother‘s house but returned some years later, broke and in pain, and finds his mom isn’t there anymore. My “Daddy blue“ tells of Mamy blue’s supposed-to-be husband who would have left her when their son, whom I call Joe in my song, still was a child. Younger Joe’s brother is the narrative voice in my song, asking his dad to come back home as mama has forgiven him, and his elder brother Joe to tell him the real reason for his leave from the mother’s house “at (the age of) 21“.
I think “Daddy blue“, enrooted in the previous “Mamy blue”, has what it takes to become even a novel or a movie... Some months ago I offered “Daddy blue“ to The Pop Tops’ Trinidadian lead singer Phil Trim, still musically active. Even I played a joke by asking him, since there were now both Mamy and Daddy Blue, how their two sons are called. He had no idea, and then I said: “That’s plain: The Blues Brothers”.
Despite the joke (or maybe because of it), Phil refused to do the song anyway. Thus, I‘ve come to post it here on N1M.
Be careful with viruses, dear followers, and enjoy being at home!