What music did your parents listen to?

[Amaya]

Off the top of my head ... My mother was endlessly listening to James Brown, Ray Charles,
Chuck Berry, Big Brother&the Holding Company,The Allman Brothers, Cream, John Prine, and the Beatles.

What did you grow up with?

[BlackVelvetElvis]

1. Elvis Presley, Perry Como, Johnny Mathis.

They came of age in the early 50's.

[Not_Giving_Up]

2. Oh this is fun!

I knew every word to "Love Potion No. 9" by the age of four, and also jammed to Squeeze Box (The Who) when I had no idea what it meant. Then my mom went Kenny Rogers crazy.

[Shredr]

3. Linda Rondstadt, Beatles, The Stones

[livinginphotographs]

4. The Beatles, Grateful Dead, Jimmy Buffett.

Coincidentally, I hate all of that now. :shrug:

[CornField]

5. Mom = Big Band Dad = Texas Playboys

Dad loved his records (most of them 33s) and would sing along with the old bluegrass tunes.

Mom had sung professionally on the radio when she was younger. She was also a jitterbug champion. :)

[PartyPooper]

6. Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, et al.

:eyes: (Just Kidding!)

:D

:hi:

[miss_kitty]

7. Big band stuff, Jazz, Sinatra

and classical.

As I was growing up, mom got into Taj Mahal, BB King, Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone, The Beatles and The Who. Also Spirit, Cream, James Gang and CCR. Those are some I remember. I had David Peel and the Lower East side and she liked that, which was way funky-'The Pope Smokes Dope' and 'Saran Wrap (For People Who Like Being Close Cheaply!). And the soundtrack to 'Hair.' And she liked Burt Bacharach and Herb Alpert.

They both dug Peggy Lee, Henry Mancini, Billy Rose and Showtunes. Jackie Gleason. Errol Garner. Cab Callaway. Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland. The Kingston Trio, The Smothers Brothers.

[bobthedrummer]

8. Real Country& Western-Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzell, Johnny Cash,

Patsy Cline, Kitty Wells, Marvin Rainwater, George Jones...

[jojo54]

9. Damn, I feel OLD

I grew up with some of these bands that your parents listened to. My Mom was the only one who listened to music and she liked Eddie Arnold and Tony Bennett. Every once in a while us kids would catch them jitterbugging to one of the big bands when we were supposed to be in bed!

[miss_kitty]

16. My parents were a wee bit too old for the jitterbug, or that was their era

I'm thinkin my dad was not much of a dancer at any rate. If that makes ya feel younger.

[maveric]

10. Jazz, Big Band, Frank Sinatra, Burl Ives, Kingston Trio.

And soundtracks from broadway plays.

[tigereye]

11. show tunes, classical, Catholic church music

then they bought us some Beatles albums...

[guitar man]

12. Dad was old school country

Mom was Big Band and Jazz.

[MrModerate]

13. Broadway musicals, classical, comedy albums n/t

[SmileyBoy]

14. Mom: Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, the early Beatles...

Simon and Garfunkel.

Mom was tone deaf. She would basically listen to folk music. Dad was a lot cooler, though. he listened to Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Santana, etc.

[mitchum]

15. Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline...

Fats Domino, George Jones, Patsy Cline, Little Richard, Willie Nelson...

Damn! They had pretty good taste :)

[MrSlayer]

17. Motown, Disco and other crap.

The only cool stuff was Little Richard, The Stones and The Beatles. I found my own way into the good music and even got them into some of it.

[u4ic]

18. My dad loved bluegrass, Hank Williams, Hank Snow

while my mum would listen to just about anything except She's Come Undone by the Guess Who. My two older sisters, knowing she didn't like that song, locked her in a room and played it over and over again. She came out of that experience HATING it.

[Pale Blue Dot]

19. My dad has 5000 45's

He used to play them in alphebetical order, by artist, over and over again. His favorite group was/is The Four Seasons.

[d_b]

20. early 80's MTV

[RPM]

21. David Bowie, Beatles, Who, Stones, and various reggae

n/t

[RevolutionaryActs]

22. All the good stuff? hehe

:)

[Amaya]

26. The early years was all the good stuff

in the later years my mom had a music meltdown... I was force to endure Neil Diamond, The Bee Gees, and Kenny Loggins. The list could go on, but it hurts my brain
:)

[Canuckistanian]

23. Percussive Pineapples

By Lani Royal and the Diamond Head Band. I still remember the cover of that album.

[Dookus]

24. crap

Tom Jones, Engelbert Humperdinck, Perry Como....

[Wapsie B]

25. Lawrence Welk, Guy Lombardo

and Polka music.

[vi5]

27. I wonder how my music will affect my kid?

I'm 35 and I have a 3 year old daughter but I still listen to pretty extreme stuff. Metal, punk, hardcore, grind, etc. I listen to positively normal and mellow stuff as well. But it will be interest to see if my kid has any interest at all in music let alone what she'll make of what I listen to. Where does a kid go to rebel when his/her dad has not only the collected works of Morbid Angel, Napalm Death, and Econochrist, but also Abba and Barry Manilow?

[deadparrot]

28. The Eagles, Dan Fogelberg, Jimmy Buffett, Billy Joel...

[ProfessorGAC]

29. Drastically Different

My dad was into swing and cool jazz. (He loved Benny Goodman and his big band, and was a giant fan of Wes Montgomery, Stan Getz and Tal Farlow.)

My mom was the Doris Day, Dinah Shore, musicals type of music listener.

Fortunately, i took after my dad and listened to his jazz, until i heard bop and hard bop. Then, i told my dad, "Sorry, but this is way cooler. This is what i want to play." But, he started me in a good direction!
The Professor

[johnnie]

30. I thank them now

Mom - Dion, Bill Haley, Elvis, The Platters, Little Richard, Paul Anka, Neil Diamond, Herb Albert and soundtracks like, Jesus Christ Superstar, West Side Story and Hair. She did stay up to date as time went on in that same vein of music.
Dad - Hungarian gypsy, Mexican Mariachi, Greek folk music. He listened to some classical which wasn't my favorite. He also listened to a lot of old Country Western like Hank Sr., Hank Snow, Eddie Arnold, Tex Ritter, Jim Reeves and Johnny Cash.
My whole family were music freaks and because half of us played something, we would have a few good family jam sessions (my mom on tamborine..lol). My father and I occasionally still play. He is a good chromatic harmonica player and accordion player.

[terrya]

31. Mom loved..and still loves Mario Lanza. Dad was into big band music. n/t

[Squeech]

32. Classical music and show tunes

My favorites as a kid were: Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, Beethoven's 6th (I know it's considered a minor work, but it's really attractive to a kid), Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherezade, plus the shows West Side Story and Threepenny Opera. Of course that was the weirdest stuff available-- I could never get too excited about Sound of Music or Chopin.

I had older cousins that liked folk and hootenanny music, and then the Beatles came out when I was 10, and I started devouring music voraciously. The really interesting part was when I first got to hear Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention's Absolutely Free, and some of the incidental melodies hidden within were tunes I already knew from the classical arena (Stravinsky & Holst's Planets).

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[Patiod]

34. Perry Como, Mitch Miller, big band music

My older brother was my big musical influence - The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, David Bowie