Ten Songs My Mom Loved: Rhythm of My Heart (#9)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86993)
United States
March 29, 2019 8:26am CST
Yesterday I started a "countdown" of sorts, looking at ten rock songs that my mom loved. I started this because yesterday was my mom's birthday. Even though she passed away over 11 years ago she's still part of me. I even taught her how to like some rock and roll! Case in point, this next song.
#9: Rhythm of My Heart - Rod Stewart
Okay, I didn't introduce her to this one. I'm not a big Rod the Bod fan, but I do like this song.
Mom, on the other hand, loved it. She heard it on a TV program and asked me about it. As she had no rhythm or sense of lyrics, it took a while to decipher what song she meant. Eventually, though, I found it and bought the 45 for her. (I even made her a mix tape that I labeled "punk rock.")
Now, even though this is more of a midtempo song and certainly nothing along the lines of "Stay With Me" that Stewart did with Faces, you probably wouldn't take my mom for a Rod Stewart fan. Her generation was more along the lines of Rod Serling. 
I can't say she cared for anything else of Stewart's that I played for her (which wasn't much...I knew she wouldn't be interested in "Hot Legs" 
), but she sure liked this one.
Rhythm of My Heart
Written by Marc Jordan and John Capek
Recorded by Rod Stewart
From Vagabond Heart, 1991
When the ocean meets the sky:
I can't say she cared for anything else of Stewart's that I played for her (which wasn't much...I knew she wouldn't be interested in "Hot Legs" ), but she sure liked this one.
Rhythm of My Heart
Written by Marc Jordan and John Capek
Recorded by Rod Stewart
From Vagabond Heart, 1991
When the ocean meets the sky:
Rod Stewart - Rhythm Of My Heart
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
29 Mar 19
Oh Four Walls, I am so glad you are doing this.
It is really great to know which songs your Mom loved RIP.
This surely is a beautiful one.
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@FourWalls (86993)
• United States
29 Mar 19
Thanks. She loved a lot of the music of her youth (which was mostly country music, such as Eddy Arnold and Jim Reeves), but it was pretty amazing how she'd latch on to things I listened to. A couple of these songs later in the countdown might shock people that some 60ish lady was listening to with her 30ish daughter.
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
29 Mar 19
@FourWalls Very good memories for you of Mom. A great way to honor your Mother too. Amen.
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@FourWalls (86993)
• United States
30 Mar 19
I know what you mean. I only owned one album of his (A Night on the Town), But there are a couple of songs he did that I LOVE.
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@norcal (4889)
• Franklinton, North Carolina
29 Mar 19
Rod the Bod? I'd never heard that one. Whenever I heard that song "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" I'd think "eww, no!" This is a nice one though.
I guess my mom was very unusual. She was a pretty young mom, only 20 years older than me. Also she was widowed young, and she went back to college, so she associated with a younger crowd. She was a bit of a hippy, and introduced me to a lot of music.
I'd be lying in my bed at night, and she'd be playing Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention!
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@FourWalls (86993)
• United States
30 Mar 19
That's what I always thought about "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy": "hell no, Rod! What ever gave you THAT idea???"
That's cool about your mom. I guess the era (my mom went through the Depression and WW II rationing) has a lot to do with that perceived "generation gap" as much as the age.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
29 Mar 19
Isn't it funny when our mums took a fancy to contemporary song?
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@FourWalls (86993)
• United States
29 Mar 19
Yes, it really is. And my mom was far too honest to "try to be cool," so she really liked these things.
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