“Single Girl, Married Girl”

Just me and Fran on this one. He’s playing his homemade D-18 and I’m playing the O-18. “Single Girl, Married Girl” is the second song the Carters recorded in 1927 and was their first huge hit. The Carters recorded this version on May 8th, 1935 in New York City.

The first time we recorded it, in June 2011, Ben was 14 months now. Now our second son, Pete, is 19 months. We recorded this time with both of them in the room, Pete in his playpen and Ben just hanging out.

At the end of the song Ben asks me to help him find his rocks, and then his calendar–he means calculator, and I don’t know why he wants a calculator–and then says irritably, “Everything that I love and that keeps missing and I can’t find it, I want to find it and put it somewhere i can find it.”

Which is, like, pretty much how I’ve felt my whole life. He’s inherited my housekeeping and organizational skills, I see.