Watch the father-son duo singing a duet in the car
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Simon McDermott’s father, Ted McDermott was a singer and was known as “The Songaminute Man”.
Ted used to sing at clubs in the UK and continued to sing even after he started working at a factory.
A few years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and started forgetting things and even forgot his son, Simon.
Simon took the help of the Alzheimer’s Society who has a telephone helpline to give advice to the families of Alzheimer’s patients.
Simon got his father back with the help of the Alzheimer’s Society and to give them back something in return, he began singing with his father and started filming to raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Society.
Simon shares the duet to raise funds for the society and has already raised £57,097 while his initial goat was £1,000.
Simon said about the Alzheimer’s Society: “Without them, we would have had very little idea or support about how to deal with even the basics of Dad’s condition.”
He said about his father’s condition: “The more Alzheimer’s kicked in, the more Dad became violent – both physically and verbally – it was incredibly difficult to manage. And terrifying at times.”
“However, now when we’ve got him singing again he’s back in the room. It’s these moments that we treasure.”
He added: “The plan is to share as much of Dad’s singing as we can and hopefully it will help raise money to fund the work of the Alzheimer’s Society – more specifically to go towards paying for a person at the end of the phone line to help other people like us.”
Recently, Simon shared heartwarming footage of his dad singing with him during a car ride.
The heartwarming video instantly went viral and people loved his dad’s singing skills.