I remember only three exchanges between my elder brother and my father. One remains hidden, but the other two concern music.
The first was the appearance of Simon and Garfunkel on The Andy Williams Show in April 1968, where the latter contributed his easy-listening stylings to a version of Scarborough Fair.
The second was about the relative merits of the different versions of Don McCleanâs song, And I Love You So, by McClean himself and the one released in 1973 by another of the cosy sweater brigade, Perry Como.
Both men liked music; my father favoured (and could do a passable impression of) crooners in the tradition of Bing Crosby, while my brother loved contemporary English and American popular music in (almost) all its styles and formats.