In an interview several years ago with Patsy Stoneman, I asked her about her family’s favorite songs, and she replied, ”When I was growing up, our favorite family song was “Somebody’s Waiting For Me.”  Any time we started playing music, my mama would start playing that song on the fiddle and Daddy would join in on the autoharp and the guitar and all us kids would sit around and sing that song. In fact the song became our theme song when we played Constitution Hall in Washington D.C. in the late 1940’s for television.  The song was about a fellow’s mother back home just waiting for him to return. And all us kids sort of felt that way too. Cause we knew when Mama wasn’t with us that she was home waiting for us and prayin’ for us.”

Pop Stoneman had recorded “There’s Somebody Waiting For Me” for Vocalion Records, in New York City in January 1934.

Doug Davis
Country Music Classics