Greetings from Laurel Canyon!
Daddy / Hold me / It seems so very dark tonight / And day
Daddy / I can’t sleep / I need you to come and sing to me / That the stars up in the sky / Will shine down gently on the two of us tonight / And soon enough it will be light / We’ll hold on tightly to each other, you and I / And I won’t cry
I’m calling today “Kenny’s day.” Four years ago to the day, my dad passed in Vegas. Losing my dad has been a mind-blowing experience. Please know it wasn’t a tragedy.
He passed as peacefully as Kenny could on an absolutely beautify day in the Las Vegas desert. An infamous stock broker and gambler, he died with likely not more than a few hundred dollars to his name. I can see him shrug and smiling at me saying, “I left it all on the table.”
Kenny was rad. After he divorced mom, we had many cool drug and alcohol induced adventures. The most musical of which was stumbling into a front row table to see Frank Sinatra in Vegas.
In between songs, Frank often looked down at the two of us, chatting to us with a wink. When he closed with “New York, New York” we were bawling with joy. As I am writing this.
“Got you Under My Skin,” dad.
Here’s some music.
Idelic Single of the Week: Ed Harcourt – A Ghost Walked Through Me
xx
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