This weekend we are having my grandfather's 80th birthday party. I am trying to put together a "surprise" slideshow presentation on my computer. I have lots of pictures but wanted to include some music in the background, I wanted some ideas on good songs to use.

I was hoping maybe some of you had some ideas, my range of music isn't that varied.

Here's what I got:

"Daddy's Hands" (mainly with pictures of my grandpa and his daughters, also some with the grandkids)

"Seeing My Father In Me" (mainly with pictures of grandpa and his son)

thats pretty much all I got, but I have 30 minutes worth of photos.

Any help any of you could provide would be much appreciated by not only me, but I'm sure my whole family!

Sorry, I don't think any of these are perfect fits, but might work.

"Shower the People," James Taylor
"The Leader of the Band," Dan Fogelberg
"Circle Game," Joni Mitchell
"He Went To Paris," Jimmy Buffet

Sentimental Journey Les Brown & his Orchestra

I Wanna Know Robert Earl Keen

from The Live Album

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"Who's Your Daddy?" - Toby Keith
"Papa Don't Preach," - Madonna
"Papa Was A Rolling Stone," - The Temptations
"I'm Bummed at My Old Man," - The Beach Boys

Aggie_Spirit and SPO,

thanks for those suggestions. I think those will work. Great songs!

"Father and Son" - Cat Stevens

"That Siver-Haired Daddy Of Mine" - Jim Reeves

"You Are My Sunshine"

"You Are The Sunshine Of My Life' - Stevie Wonder

"My Father" - Judy Collins

"I Believe In You" - Don Williams

I found this website:


http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/pri/spirit/shows/031bibl.html

Gig 'em, FAST FRED '65.

Before the world wide web, village idiots usually stayed in their own village.

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Fast Fred - you are awesome!! You hit the jackpot with that website. I really appreciate it!

My Way - Frank Sinatra

Harvester of Sorrow - Metallica

Grandma got run over by Reindeer

That "grandpa, tell me bout the good ole days" song by the Judds

Put some WILLIE in somewhere. All Tx grandpas love Willie.

So how did it go Blue Collar?

As he's 80, maybe you could find some Gene Autry music. I think he also recorded "You are my sunshine." It's from his era.

That's My Job - Conway Twitty.

The Seed by Cody Chesnutt is a guaranteed crowd pleaser

The slideshow went very good. Even brought a couple of relatives to tears. I am now in the process of burning a bunch of copies as Christmas presents due to a number of requests.

Thanks for all the help, couldn't have done it without some of your suggestions.