

7 O'Clock News / Silent Night - Simon and Garfunkel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgYFXCUEL4Y A few weeks ago, my daughter Hattie asked me to find the best recording of Silent Night. We...


Little Donkey - Nina and Frederik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qudi6JqE-M Every Christmas, when I was a child in Bahrain, my father and I would drive the five miles or...


All Together Now - the Farm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRgtzZ-mOQo It's that time of year, time for a few choice yuletide tunes. And this is amongst the best,...


If - Joni Mitchell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBuqy9oLISA Another of my father's ski-ing companions from that first trip to Zermatt was the Englishman...


Down in the River to Pray - Alison Krauss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkWn69VBslw My father was a strange man. He was brought up by Plymouth Brethren women. The Plymouth...


Tell Mama - Etta James
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bwZSEtoUVU One time Simon and I were out in the desert just behind my house when Glenn Walker, the much...


Back on the Chain Gang - the Pretenders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK3uf5V0pDA Awali was a place of three distinct inhabited areas: Upper Camp, and the two zones of Lower...


Divers - Joanna Newsom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48xlgXqQKLA My mother was born in 1917 in Wanstead, Essex. She was one of seven brothers and sisters, but...


I Enjoy being a Girl - Nancy Kwan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=watyC_r76pE One of my fellow students at Awali School told me the sad story of his parents' break-up and...


Mrs Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter - Herman's Hermits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA1uknS9JgM I had an American friend in those days, Dougie, and even he was not immune to the "British...

