Got to listen to Dad tonight

37chief · Aug 24, 2018

A friend of mine wrote a book on our farming community back in the 70's. He made a tape of most of the farmers back then. Then used the information for his book. He copied the tape's to a DVD, and gave me a copy of my dad being interviewed. Dad has been gone over 20 years now. Was great to hear him again. What more can I say? Stan

Buster · Aug 24, 2018

Good memory's! I have my dad on vhs tape talking about his cattle. He's been gone 23 yrs now. Wish I had listened closer to some of the stories he use to tell.

SweetFeet · Aug 24, 2018

Wow, Stan! That is really neat.

Wish I'd asked my parent's if we could've recorded some of their memories before they passed. Alas, I did not.

kcm.MN · Aug 24, 2018

37Chief, that truly put a smile on my face.

I have an old recording from my dad, from back when I was a wee lad. He used to practice his guitar and would record it with his state-of-the-art cassette recorder. One song always stands out in my mind - this one song where he played one part, then rewound the tape and recorded another part over the first. Unfortunately, his timing was off by a couple of seconds. Sure makes it easier to remember though!

Please make extra copies of your DVD. You don't wanna get caught finding out one day that your only copy got broke, or scratched....or lost!

coshoo · Aug 24, 2018

That's great! and it reminds me, my son interviewed my dad on tape about 20 years ago, a few years before he passed, to get stories for a family history. I'm going to ask him about the tape.

James Howell · Aug 25, 2018

"[b:654c4848f0][i:654c4848f0]What more can I say?[/i:654c4848f0][/b:654c4848f0]"

Priceless!

I have a VCR tape of my dad's 40th class reunion in 1977.

Obviously both he and my mother are on tape.

Thanks for sharing with us.

BAnNC · Aug 25, 2018

Good for You! Too many times we see folks telling stories and talking history and when its over "boy I wish we'd had that on tape"
Too late for that now. We'll miss those stories some day.

tim s · Aug 25, 2018

This is something that we should consider "now"..recording simple stories of our past that don't seem important,,but will be priceless to our children and Grand children years from now. Today's technology will let this happen much easier than it would back then....

Tech 7 · Aug 25, 2018

For sure. At the last birthday party for my Dad one of my older sisters had a recording of the Quartet Dad had sung in during the late 40's. I knew about the quartet but did not know of the recording. It had been put on a flash drive or something, but easily stored and moved.. Some of his stories would have been great, but to his credit in his later years he wrote out a lot of his memoirs

IowaJohn · Aug 25, 2018

My bil's father made a recording of him singing "How great thou art" to be played at his funeral. He did it accopella hope I spelled that right. Anyway it brought most everyone to tears and now the kids, grandkids, great grand kids still have his voice.

grayrider · Aug 25, 2018

That?s priceless, glad you got a copy of that. My Dad has been gone 4-1/2 years now and we have plenty of tapes of him clowning around, playing the piano, drums, harmonica, guitar and singing. He had several jobs in his lifetime and was a professional musician too , just hasn?t been enough time gone by for us to watch them yet, we?re still too tender hearted right now I guess you could say, maybe in a few more years we can cherish those tapes without crying so much.

Got to listen to Dad tonight

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