Happy Birthday Dad! I Love You

Just felt like sharing this today, in part because I have always been partial to the band Bread.

And to be honest I love the look, feel, and fuller and richer sound of vinyl spinning. Always have, since childhood.

For years my parents put up with me just grabbing the record wherever, plopping it onto the turntable, and attempting (not always successfully) to have the needle land at the beginning, particularly if it was on my kiddie record player with the needle that weighed a ton.

But more important than all that is the song itself. For years I assumed that the idea behind Everything I Own represented singer-songwriter David Gates's intense feelings for a ladylove, or perhaps regretting her loss.

Not so.

It is in fact a song about his love for and relationship with his father.

So as my own father Paul turns 70 today I want to say Happy Birthday Dad. I love you very much.

This song's for you.

Your son,

Mike