My
mother died last month, after a lengthy battle with cancer. That event is mostly beyond the scope of this blog, but in my eulogy I mentioned the 1954 hit "
Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite" by
The Spaniels. When I was young, she used to sing this song to me when it was time for me to go to bed. It wasn't until much later in life, presumably I was an adult, that I realized this song was an actual song from her youth and not a song that she made up to shepherd me into bedtime. It's a perfectly fine
doo-wop song, but for me it will always be associated with my mother and my childhood bedtime.
The Spaniels - "Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite".
