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Post by callipygias on Dec 28, 2010 21:08:49 GMT -5
Any fond or not so fond memories of your parents' music when you were growing up?
I just saw Freddy Fender on The Dukes of Hazzard. It'd been over 30 years since I'd heard that distinctive voice, and as soon as I did it took me back. Freddy seemed like a good guy. On the other hand, thinking about this brought back memories of Love Will Keep Us Together, which seemed to play in an endless loop. Not just at home but wherever they dragged me.
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Post by solgroupie on Dec 29, 2010 17:32:31 GMT -5
my parents were a big influence on me, musically speaking. i grew up listening to elvis because my mom used to be a screaming teenaged elvis fan. they both loved the statler brothers, which they passed on to me and my sister. they listened to frank sinatra, the oak ridge boys, anne murray, conway twitty and some of the pop and rock my sister listened to. when we went on road trips we always took our elvis and statler brother 8 tracks - all four of us sang along every single word. i have the statler brothers greatest hits now on cd, but i can still remember the precise moment in the songs where the 8 track would change tracks and made that - cha-chunk sound.
i also got my love of big band music from my dad. he got an 8 track of some of glen miller's best and we loved it - i still do.
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Post by mrcleveland on Dec 29, 2010 19:58:10 GMT -5
My parents are eclectic. Since my dad's a musician, he tries to find a band/musician that HAS talent, and besides music from Jimi Hendrix, The Who, and The Beatles to name a few, he would listen to these new musicians....
And my mom would listen to Classical, Steely Dan, Todd Rundgren, and Slade!
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Post by Captain Hygiene on Dec 30, 2010 9:47:44 GMT -5
Oldies, which I hated until I realized I liked some of the artists. Now it's generally some form of country. :X I've somehow been to a taping of their former TV show in Nashville, and to their hometown museum, without actually liking them.
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Post by Harpsiccord on Jan 1, 2011 16:36:10 GMT -5
It's the recency effect for me. During the fall, I got the urge, inexplicably, to download a bunch of Al Green. Didn't realize it was because my mom would play it in the car sometimes. Then there was her 70's mixed tape which gave me my love for that era in music, something difficult to explain to my peers while I was high school. I was quite happy at the time that I didn't care for their modern music.
Oh, yeah... guess my mother's music turned me into a grumpy "kids these days!" 60 year old when I was 16. But I liked that.
Most recently, I've discovered that the biggest parental influence on my musical taste was not! influenced by music, but by talk radio. Did anyone else grow up with nearly non-stop NPR? If so, and if you still like it to this day, then have I got something to show you!
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Jan 2, 2011 18:04:41 GMT -5
The Doobie Brothers, Linda Rondstadt, Barbara Streisand, Cat Stevens, and, inexplicably, Jerry Reed.
Actually, they got heavily into the soft jazz and new age thing of the late 80s and early 90s. That actually led me into some interesting directions once I started following paths backward to read jazz and forward to more experimental stuff that came out of the early Windham Hill type stuff. And some of it I'll admit I still like, although it may be dated: George Winston, William Ackerman, Ray Lynch, to name a few.
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Post by inlovewithcrow on Jan 6, 2011 12:10:36 GMT -5
I'm really, really, terribly old, so my parents listened to big bands, Glen Miller, Tommy Dorsey and the like. Also, they had LPs of stuff like Mitch Miller Andy Williams, Ferante and Teicher (can't believe I came up with those names that easily--must be a good memory day) and Roger Williams (a pianist), and soundtrack albums from musicals like South Pacific.
Ferante and Teicher:
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Post by pablo on Jan 6, 2011 12:45:04 GMT -5
my father used to like Dean Martin and Bing Crosby and he would imitate singing like them into a reel to reel tape recorder and then play it for my mother. but what I remember listening to that he would play on records is Jimmy Rogers-the specific songs I remember hearing were [glow=red,2,300]Honeycomb, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine[/glow] and [glow=red,2,300]Bimbombey[/glow]
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Post by CBG on Jan 6, 2011 18:12:35 GMT -5
I'm really, really, terribly old, so my parents listened to big bands, Glen Miller, Tommy Dorsey and the like. Also, they had LPs of stuff like Mitch Miller Andy Williams, Ferante and Teicher (can't believe I came up with those names that easily--must be a good memory day) and Roger Williams (a pianist), and soundtrack albums from musicals like South Pacific. All of the above...and Elvis, Neil Diamond, America, Kasey Kasem's Top 40 EVERY Sunday, Johnny Rivers, Herb Alpert, Jim Croce, Everly Bros, Mac Davis, Barry Manilow, Perry Como, Tom Jones, Englebert Humperdink, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bobby Goldsboro, Glen Campbell...
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Post by Mighty Jack on Jan 7, 2011 7:18:12 GMT -5
My mother loved Elvis and later Tom Jones. My mother saw Elvis live, and she always talks about how she could have met him, Her father was one of the cops who was standing outside his dressing room... He said Elvis was very polite and said "sir" when addressing him. He said he'd sign an autograph for his daughter, but he (my grandfather) couldn't track her down.
Tom Jones had a short lived TV show that we always had to watch. He always had his shirt unbuttoned down to his chest and women would scream and throw underwear at him. My brother once thought it was funny to go grab some of his own underwear and throw it at the TV.
Dad liked Johnny Horton and Johnny Cash but wasn't a big listener of music (But he loved to laugh, so he's probably the reason we had all those comedy albums from the 60s in our house)
We also had Tommy Roe's greatest hits in the house. Mom had a good voice, so I remember her and all of us kids singing Dizzy at the top of our lungs.
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Post by Shep on Jan 8, 2011 4:43:14 GMT -5
Any fond or not so fond memories of your parents' music when you were growing up? My father listened to the Oldies stations all the time when I was growing up. Beatles, old Rolling Stones, Motown, Phil Spector "wall of sound," etc. I still love a lot of that music.
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Post by hulkzilla3k on Jan 10, 2011 19:51:59 GMT -5
I'm an OLDGUY My parents liked Big Band/Swing and some Country (their favorite show was HEE HAW) Me, I'm still spreading the Classic Rock Vibe Love the Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Who, Ramones, The Clash, Stooges, early Chicago
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Post by Trumpy's Magic Snout on Jan 11, 2011 22:46:16 GMT -5
My parents were like chalk and cheese in so many ways but music was the ultimate example.
My Mum's taste was all the coolest 60's bands you care to mention (Beatles, Stones, Who, Kinks, Zombies etc.) and she can boast to having seen all of them live back in the day as well. She now likes stuff like Radiohead, Flaming Lips, and even a bit of Aphex Twin.
My Dad liked Jim Reeves.
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Post by siamesesin on Jan 12, 2011 10:45:09 GMT -5
Dad was really into Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Sabbath, Skynyrd. I liked all of them as a kid and still think they're okay. He was into Danzig and Suicidal Tendencies and Metallica after I took him to a show with them, although he wasn't into the pit. He was also BIG into Weird Al, but I never got that. ;D
Mom would listen to a lot of the 80's stuff and like it, so I was perfectly happy with that. More pop-leaning regardless of era. On the other hand, she's big into REO Speedwagon and Fleetwood Mac and CCR, and I loathe them. I did take her to see Stevie Nicks as a birthday present, so I'm not completely horrible.
And both liked Queen, and I still do too.
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Post by Mod City on Jan 12, 2011 13:19:23 GMT -5
My dad hasn't listened to popular music since The Four Freshmen were on the charts. No, my mom was the one with more modern musical tastes. She enjoyed music by popular artists since the days of her youth. I chronicled the 45 collection she had kept since she was a teenager in this thread: forrestcrow.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=music&action=display&thread=17379But she continued to listen to the radio and even purchased albums when she could. The ones I remember her liking the most were Steve Winwood, Rod Stewart, Huey Lewis (she always had to turn up Power of Love) and the Traveling Wilburys.
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