#atozchallenge: K is For...

Katy – Tom Paxton

It feels a little bit weird to be using someone’s video of their daughter’s photos for this song but I struggled to find a good version of this song and this was the best I could come up with. I mentioned the Tom Paxton tape I had as a child, it had been copied from one from the library and my dad had made a little cover for it with a clip art picture of a teddy bear on it. I honestly thought that this song had been written just for me for years. It took me a long time to find it when I went looking for it again as a teenager, mainly because I’d been spelling Katy as Katie. Even now I know all the words to it.

King of the Doghouse – Francis Rossi

Another one by Francis Rossi, I went through a phase of listening to this album on my way to University every morning when I was commuting. Once I got to Glasgow Central I’d have to hurry down to the Lower Level platforms, then once my train got to Jordanhill there’d be about a ten minute walk up the road; the last bit once I got onto the campus grounds was also a killer, just a slight uphill slope which made my legs ache. Something with a nice quick tempo helped with the journey. Plus the words to this one make me smile.

King of the Road – The Proclaimers

How young do the Proclaimers look in this video?!

Back when I was seventeen The Proclaimers did a Scottish Islands tour, which included a visit to my little island. At the time I knew very few of their songs, but it was too good an experience to miss (we don’t often have things like that on the island). It was a great night with lots of good music but this was one of the best. They did a slightly different version of it live that had a bit of a country sound to it. It’s yet another song that has a lot of happy memories associated with it because it reminds me of the summer when my friend came up to stay from down south.