My Daddy sang this song to me everyday and then as we danced on my wedding day he sang it to me again. Today I listen to this song and pray that my Daddy will make it through his cancer surgery. So today this song will get me through the day. 💖💖
My wife passed away just before Thanksgiving 2022. But just a few days before she could sing through her bi-pap mask. It was high pitched and hard to hear her, but we made out what she was singing -- this song. I never remember hearing her sing it before, but on this occasion it was angelic in message and passion. So sweet.. I pray I'll never forget. Thank you Donna Fargo.❤
This was my friends favorite song. I was. 110 miles away from him. When he got sick. His daughter called me. I was singing this to him on the phone. While he passed away. It's a song I hope will be forever remembered by all county music lovers
Yes music is a gift from God. He asked me to write The Book of Nicholas for HIM in 2003/04. I did not know that it would be a book about the future of where i live. So that i could show Him on paper he disguised himself as a happy clown and introduced me to this song. He is my funny face and makes me laugh even during a lot of pain. He also loves Jim reeves and Elvis and dolly as well as many others
I met my husband in 1970, we got together in 1974. Heard this song shortly after and my husband used to sing along with it and called me his Funny Face. He is now 86 and I am 92. I never forgot the song or the fact that the lovely Donna Fargo sang it. Now, to hear it again after so many years is such a joy! I cannot get through without crying when I hear it and sing along.
I met my husband when this song was popular and he used to sing to me and always called me Funny Face through the years after, Today is our anniversary and I am listening to the song alone , because now he is in Heaven. How I miss him today and everyday.
Good Afternoon! This song is devoted to my love. Mr Daniel Stewart Grayson. If you are listening darling this song is you. It been 18 years seen you Left this world. To this day. I forever devoted to you my darling! Marlene Toledo Grayson
This song was my mom & dads song. He passed away in 2001. My 88 yr old mother has dementia & can't remember most things & has a really hard time holding on to happiness. When I play this song for her she lights up & gets a smile on her face & starts tapping her feet & singing. It brings tears of happiness to my eyes. Thank you for posting & giving us a beautiful moment together.
As a baby my mom used to sing this song to me. She introduced it to me when I was a teen and called me her funny face. I recently moved 2000 miles away from her and she sent me this link as I listened to it I cried because it will always remind me of my mom. I love you mama, I will always be your funny face! 🥰🙏😢❤️
Oh my lord she is still with us, I feel so bad. I think I mixed her up with Annette Funicello who also has MS and passed a few years back. Sorry for the misinformation, so glad to see she is alive and well.
My mommy would sing this to me 😭 she passed away when I was 3yrs old. When aunt told me she sang this song to me made me cry because I always loved country music...
My dad sang this song to me ever since I was young and almost died due to a swing accident , I hear this song now and it brings tears to my eye since I lost my dad in 2009
I met a very special young man in 1971, when this song came out he would sing it to me and tell me he loved me. I married someone else in 1974 and I always wonder what my life would have been like if I had married him instead. He died in 2009, and I dream about him pretty often, especially when I'm going through tough times. I like to think he is still near me and I am still his funny face. Maybe we will be together in another life. ❤
My Momma use to call the local radio station and have them play this for me every morning while my sibs got ready for school. I had it played at her memorial and danced with my two granddaughters while it played.
I'm a 31 year old man I know country music from the 20s, 30s 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and the 90s back then country singers when they wrote their songs it had so much meaning you can always understand every words to the song it put a smile on my face just to hear good old country music which is the best
every time we go on a long road trip, my daughter and I always sing this song to kill the boredom. she was 8 then, now 25. we still sing when together.
YES, it has a very special meaning to me too as I almost married a guy named -FUQUA BACK IN 1973 IN OCALA , FLORIDA & I ENDED UP MARRYING A FUQUA OUT HERE IN ARIZONA IN 2010 THAT I HAVE KNOWN FOR 45 YEARS BUT I BACKED OUT OF THE ONE IN FLORIDA - THANK GOD & THIS SONG REMINDS ME OF HIM FOR SURE
This song brings me to tears my mom listened to this song when I was a little girl. Me and my mom would sing this together. She passed away 6 years ago from a heart attack 💔 😢. She was only 60 years old she fought cancer aswell .And 2 months after she had passed away my step dad passed he raised me since I was 2 years old my mom married him.This song has so many memories of my life as a child .I know they are listening to this song as I tell my story. I lost my baby brother he was only 34 years old 2 years in July he will be gone 💔 😢. I know they are all together up there 🙏 and definitely looking down upon us.I almost lost mylife aswell to a brain aneurysm ruptured in September of 2023 my mom was with me there in the hospital that day ,because in the hospital the floor I was on was7th floor and my room number was18 my mom's birthday was 07/18 if that doesn't say that your loved ones are by your side always .I am just speechless. God spared mylife my mom was there to get me through this tragedy that day.GodBless to everyone and stay close and happy because u just never know when it's your last day here with your loved ones.
I love this song my mom was a singer any country band she had a chance to go sing with Johnny Mathis but she gave it up because she had four little toddlers at home today and didn't want to raise us on the road your song was one of the first song she ever taught us and we sang it and saying it and saying it until we get it perfect and to this day I love that song it has so much deep meaning to me it just is so wonderful it's a beautiful song it means a lot of different things to a lot of different people but most of all I sing that song to my mom because that's how I felt about my mom
@@jeffgilbert4013 same here Jeff ~ I remember as a child in the house, mama listening to the oldies (to me back then), Jim Reeves, Conway Twitty, Charlie Pride, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, to name a few
The first time i heard this song was when my daughter was born, and her lung colasped and the doctors were operating on her. She was a premie 7 months, weigh 3 lbs 3 oz. And when her lung colasped went down to 2 lbs. This song gave me comfort i sang it to her in her incubator. She now has a baby of her own. Love this song
That was a wonderful journey, beautiful solos too, so magically woven together. Years has past but it still feels like it's the very first time I am hearing the song. It's nice to meet you. If you don't mind Susan I would love us to be friends. I understand that we don't know each Other before now but one thing I believe is that it takes only a minute to accept friendship and that's why I have asked us to accept my request of friendship. It would be an honor, I'm looking forward to a good friendship between us. May I ask where you are from?
My grandmother sang this to me as I fell asleep as a child. She’d stroke my forehead and sing this and I’d feel a sense of love and safety come over me. My eyelids would grow heavy and I’d be asleep in no time.
My mom used to sing this song to me all the time. I miss her so much. When I want to ugly cry I play this song. I do smile a little bit. I always be her funny face. Thanks for letting me share. I guess alot of people have songs like that.
This song made me fall in love with Donna Fargo , I played this song over and over again and now it's seared in my heart\ and mind forever . THANKS DONNA !
A #5 hit for Donna Fargo in January 1973. It went to #1 on the Country & Western charts and the Canadian C&W charts. It went to #5 on the Adult Contemporary charts, #2 in Australia, #12 in New Zealand, and #17 in Canada. We say goodbye to 1972 and are in 1973. What will the music scene be like in the new year? Stay tuned.
wow you have done your homework why hasn't somebody commented on your comment way way before now now that's a lot of love in your heart for music and for this special song God bless you for doing all your double checking and knowing exactly what's going on with this song and the music peace and love to you and your family
My favorite part of this song is that I wish I had a wooden heart and a sawdust mind then your memory wouldn't come are hurting me all the time . This is what you feel when you are mentally bothered by your family. THANKS TO THE FAMILY THAT HAS SEEK THESE FEELINGS THAT I WASN'T LOOKING FOR.
I love this song so much I was a preteen when this song came out can I sing it all the time we had a little pizza joint where kids can go up to age 18 and sing and I did this song every single Friday night everybody loved it and Rose Garden I was born and raised on country but I also love poker and a little bit of rock and roll but I was basically raised with country I think the reason that I cleaned the country is because it's true feelings that come from the heart there's not too many country western songs that are canned music because country western music comes from the heart and soul it's a sadness and the happiness and the joy that we once felt or that we're feeling that's what comes through in our music so God bless everybody who sings country music but God bless everybody else who doesn't just as well cuz I love all music all music makes me happy
This kind of country died out in the 90's. A prime example of the earlier era would be Barbara Mandrell. She chose to retire rather than cave to demands of record producers that she completely revamp her entire act. Marty Stuart still manages to hang on as a survivor of that earlier era, but there aren't many like him anymore.
I totally agree with you.That new country music is crap.
7 лет назад
Joseph Burke...Real country music seemed to have imploded in the early 90's along with everything else like car designs,clothing,movies and especially rock n roll.
Ashley Bell - kids today (backbone of the entertainment industry, or at least advertisers think so, just research why Longmire was cancelled) are conditioned for fast and loud. doesn't need to make sense. has to change rapidly or their attention span is done...:(
This was my Mamas song for me. Since I was a baby she had called me her little Funny Face. It was a life long thing that became my most dear and precious memory of her. So strange the night of her service she called me on the phone and when I answered I heard her say in the happiest voice from her I had heard in a long time, " Hello, Funny face! How are ya? " I swear, in the dream I laughed out loud in relief and some sort of half hysterical mingled grief and joy. She was alright. My Mama was alright and she knew her little Funny face needed that call, needed to hear her say that this one last time. Music is the single most beautiful gift ever bestowed upon humanity. It survives and transcends even death to comfort and to heal, to touch places in the heart that only it can. Mostly, though, music is alive, always.
@@atruefaith6498 Mama died in 2009. She left me a wealth of great comfort through the music we both loved, laughed, and cried to. If you don't mind I would like to share just one more sweet memory of her. Now, my Mama also had a huge crush on Freddy Fender. Something I realized one night when he performed live on the Midnight Special, or was it Saturday Night Live? I can't remember. No matter, lol, what mattered was how she chose me to yank out of bed at the age of 12 when the magical hour arrived for him to sing, and the light shining from her eyes that matches the little girl excitement in her voice. "Funny Face!" she shouted " Get up baby! You have to watch Freddy Fender with me! Oh! I hope he sings 'Ill Be There Before the Next Teardrop Falls' it's his latest and my favorite!" Wait. What? What was a Freddy Fender and where was he singing? I soon found out. He was amazing. My Mama loved him and his music all of her life. It broke my heart to leave an Eng Lit 2 class one day to tell her of his death. Her eyes filled with tears but as for an old and dear friend. Someone who she turned to for comfort when my Dad had hurt her in some way. When I told her his real name was Baldemar Herrera we both laughed till we cried at that great distinction between names . I would never have realized he was not simply Freddy Fender. Nor she. He would always be Freddy Fender to us. Anyway, that was the day my Mama chose to write me a letter because I had been showing signs of such terrible sadness at her own declining health and she worried for me. We were very very close. In the letter she told me she knew of my sadness but that after she was gone, when I found myself grieving too horribly, being too sad, that I should just think about her dancing in Heaven with Freddy Fender while a heavenly choir played his songs. I sat down and bawled like a damn baby when I read those precious words from the very soul of my wonderful little Mother. What angel in heaven had whispered that perfect response to the agony she knew I was feeling already, and the PAIN I would be in, the level catastrophic, after she passed, to cause her to write that simple little line of thought to bring comfort and solace, just pure spiritual meaning, a connection between her heart and mine? It was absolutely the only thing that she could have said in it's perfection. I never forgot, either, to remember always that my Mama danced in Heaven with Freddy Fender and her Funny Face had the only front row seat. The love between a Mother and her child transcends even death. In my ❤️ heart she lives on. Eternal. Like the almost living presence that music must surely be, so too is the presence felt of the one we loved within the infinite ties of boundless grace and love unending that are the only true characterization of music. I'm so sorry. I had a great need to share something of such importance and meaning to me, something in which I have faith immeasurable. May your days, all, find blessings, and your nights that certain peace of more value than sea coffers of gold.
Never apologize for feeling grief and knowing there is a connection beyond time with your Mom. Thank you for sharing with me. I am Tracey, age 52. I am sincere in my empathy. I think we have much in common. My mother also loved Freddy Fender. Despite not being well-off, we had a console and a stack of records. My Mom made music a priority. Thank you for sharing with me. My Mom died on Dec. 2nd and had pre-bought gifts, so Christmas is always tough. May God bless you and yours!
OMG... I remember waiting for my fathers shift to be over late at night in Kansas City Missouri... I must have been 3-4 at the time... My mom and I waiting in the car and this was playing on the radio... My mom and I would sing this together.... You have no idea the gift that you have given me! Both my parents have passed and this song ... Thank you!! So very much!!
What a Beautiful Lady with a Golden Voice. She was my Very Favorite Singer. I must have had every album she put out. It is so nice to see her LIVE singing my favorite song by her " Funny Face". I miss seeing her and hearing her. She was the best in my books and will always be in my heart
This song was mine and my grandmother's. We listened to it all the time. I was 16 when she passed away after Christmas. Even now when I hear this song I tear up. She was an amazing person. Welcomed you with a warm smile and a hug. Not a single mean bone in her.
My mother abandoned me and my sister the same year this song came out. I still miss her to this day. i guess she had her reasons.I was 10. My sister was 8.
This song made me cry in 1972, because is one of the most tender statement of love, that I've heard.... and now 42 years later, I still thinking the same!
@Bryon Stephens I also look like her and sing like her too but I am also a poet and an aspiring upcoming author to be .What' S Up funny face Byran .Give peace a chance .Sincerely Danica
I wasn't breathing yet , till 73.. but remember it a few years later. My mom played country .. since I was little enough to know what country REALLY is !♡
I well recall this song (back in the day) and liked it, as I did Donna Fargo. I also recall, my late Dad (who loved Country music) calling my pretty mother (his wife) "Funny Face." Erm, it did not go over so well - I am sure Dad meant well, but my mother seemed ready to fling a frying pan, or three, in his general direction.
I remember this song from my childhood, my Momma would listen to it . When I grew up and got married I used to call my wife funny face and introduced her to it and would sing it to her .... I lost her 3 years ago after 20 years of marriage, now when I hear this song it makes me sad but at the same time puts a smile on my face.....I love and miss you Charmin Hassell. R.I.P. Funny face
my neice passed away today and she loved this song she was such an inspiration to all send met she is no longer in pain and for that I'm grateful love you Tash
We lost our mom Aug 11 2016 as well. She sang in a country band when she was young. We sat at her bedside, singing all these old songs that she sand to us as children. This is the first time listening to this song since our childhood. Tears streaming, love swelling. Such beautiful memories attached to these old songs. Love & Light.
My Daddy sang this to me growing up, and than he sang it to me as we danced at my wedding. Now that he has cancer this song has even more meaning then before. God blessed me with a perfect Daddy and a song full of amazing memories. 💖💖💖💖💖💖
