A Barger father's day mix CD

Written by Al Barger
Published June 15, 2003

My old man ain't right. Howard Barger's messed up enough to spawn the likes of me. In recognition and celebration of that, I whipped him up a little father's day CD.

FATHER'S DAY 2003 MIX

"Boy Named Sue" - Johnny Cash
"Daddy Was an Old Time Preacher Man" - Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton
"Psycho Dad #4" - Al Bundy
"Get a Haircut, Dad" - Austin Lounge Lizards
"Dad, I'm in Jail" - Was (Not Was)
"Give Dad a Hug" - Dr Evil
"Don't Jump Off the Roof, Dad" - Homer and Jethro
"Homecoming" - Tom T Hall
"Daddy's Girl" - Red Sovine
"Father and Daughter" - Paul Simon
"That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine" - Everly Brothers
"I Dug My Daddy's Grave" - Ferlin Husky
"Daddy Won't Be Home Anymore" - Dolly Parton
"A Letter to Daddy" - Jim Ed Brown
"My Son Calls Another Man Daddy" - Hank Williams, Sr.
"Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast" - Wayne Newton
"Don't Cry Daddy" - Elvis Presley
"Fool to Cry" - Rolling Stones
"Cat's in the Cradle" - Johnny Cash
"So Long Dad" - Randy Newman
"Daddy Did His Best" - Dolly Parton
"My Dad's Gone Crazy" - Eminem
"Papa Was a Rolling Stone" - Temptations
"Papa Don't Take No Mess, Pt 1" - James Brown

By way of getting a head start on next year, I'm looking for help getting an mp3 of Baby Jane's signature song "I'm Writing a Letter to Daddy" from the Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? movie. Anyone? [Howard really digs when I get down on one knee and sing him a verse of this, "I'm writing a letter to Daddy/ It's postmarked to heaven above..."]

Unreformed hawkish Hoosier hillbilly and sometimes candidate Al Barger runs the still squeezin' down the psychodelic Kentucky moonshine at MoreThings.com, what with the paranoid religious visions and the Pentacostal music and visions of God and anarchy running amok and such. Somebody oughta call the cops to report his out of control freedom of conscience. Till they come to take him away somewhere where he can't hurt anyone else, you can check out his weekly column of NEW ALBUM RELEASES.
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#1 — June 16, 2003 @ 16:30PM — Murphy [URL]

Your dad likes all those songs? Or are you just giving them to him anyway?

#2 — June 16, 2003 @ 19:56PM — Al Barger [URL]

Combo- I knew he liked some of the songs. "A Boy Named Sue" and "Homecoming" and the Hank most obviously for a 67 year old Kentuckian. The Everly Brothers rate high on his list, though I'd never quizzed him on this particular song. He'd also been bragging on the Paul Simon song. I knew he liked the JB.

Any kind of country comedy thing has a fair chance with him. Homer and Jethro could also actually play. Hayseed Dixie goes good with him, and of course Kinky Friedman. Further afield, he's a big Spike Jones fan.

Some of them I wasn't sure he'd heard or not but figured he would dig. Surprisingly, he claimed never to have heard "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone".

He has only a marginal understanding of the Rolling Stones. I've been playing him Stones "country" music, particularly "Sweet Virginia". He had never noticed "Fool to Cry" and gave him another penumbra of understanding the band.

The Wayne Newton was there for camp value, yet we'd both agree that it's really a pretty good song- even if it is somewhat on the hokey side. The thing that turned out most campy for us was "I Dug My Daddy's Grave". You would not believe how far over the top that one is. It's not available commercially as best I can tell.

The only thing that really totally bombed out with him was the Randy Newman. I myself will admit that this isn't Newman's best.

The X Factor here was the Eminem. However, I came in last week to find him listening to "The Real Slim Shady" after he wandered into it on one of my mp3 mix CDs. I'm pleased to note that he actively denounced the Eminem repeatedly in my presence to other people in the last 24 hours- the kind of denunciation intended to label something as taboo, so that you'll know to make a special point of listening to it.

#3 — July 25, 2004 @ 13:14PM — franco

can someone please send me
Daddy Won't Be Home Anymore" - Dolly Parton
I'm desperately trying to finish a cd and can't download this anywhere.....

franco. uk

#4 — November 7, 2006 @ 17:58PM — Nadya Rossi

You offered to let me e-mail this website to another person, in this case, my sister. I copied the 4 letters perfectly and kept repeating the process over and over. I can't imagine what the problem is. I was never able to send the website as promised. No personal attack intended. I am just questioning what went wrong. A response deeply appreciated.

#5 — November 8, 2006 @ 10:03AM — Phillip Winn [URL]

I just tested this and it worked for me. I recommend refreshing the "Email this" page so that you get a different set of four letters, and try again.

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