Memories of "POP"

I remember when we would all gather with Pop around the piano and he would play songs like "Yes, We have no Banana's" and we would all sing along. What were the other favorite songs that he played? This was around 1948 to 1953 for me.

Click on the songs below and listen to the 'old days' when Pop was playing piano.

Yes, We Have No Banana's   Five Foot Two

I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover   The Band Played On

The Darktown Strutter's Ball    The Sidewalks Of NY

Don't Fence me In      Good Night Irene

I Want A Girl Just Like the Girl that Married Dear Old Dad  Oh You Beautiful Doll

It's 3 O'clock In The Morning   Let Me Call You Sweetheart 

 I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

Being the 10th child, I only remember his last car. That was a 1951 Nash Ambassador. It was solid green. It seems like we used to fit the whole family in there at once, Mom and Dad and all 14 children. Is that possible? Since I was small, I got to sit on someone's lap, lucky me...

Other cars:
1947 Nash Ambassador - tan colored
1942 Chevy - Green
His 1st car may have been a used Cadillac Lasalle convertible - Black. 

Pop smoked 'El Producto" cigars and the car always smelled cigar smoke. I liked the cigar rings that he would give me.

I always enjoyed the fishing and picnic's on the river entering into Lake Arrowhead. Mom always made ground 'baloney and pickle' and "egg and olive" sandwiches.

Pop and Ben Robair would go out in the boat and fish and Mom would feed us and watch us while we played along the riverbank and nearby woods. That was 'lots of fun for us kids'.

John

Pop's School History

Here is Dad in the center, was he a high achiever? Rev. Proulx in background.