What Music Do You Recall Your PARENTS Listening To?

[arwalden]

My mother would listen to Dionne Warwick all day long. My dad loved Perry Como, Andy Williams, and the Ray Conniff Singers. They both liked Peter Paul and Mary and Herb Alpert (Honk-Honk!)

-- Allen

[trotsky]

1. Both kinds

Country AND western! Hee-Haw on Sunday (?) nights. My dad loved the Statler Brothers most of all.

(Hi, Allen! :hi: Thanks for your contributions on that "other" thread!)

[bif]

2. Herb Albpert and the Tijuana Brass

They came back from a vacation in Mexico and played "A Taste of Honey 24/7 until I seriously considered killing both of them.

[soothsayer]

13. Yup, Herb Alpert and the West Side Story soundtrack

Primarily

But my mom loved The Monkees too, and Neil Diamond and 'raindrops keep falling on my head' and other pop stuff

[AquariDem]

68. My mom had the "Man of La Mancha" soundtrack

And I actually enjoyed hearing it. Sophia Loren's accent did not fit the place/time period.

[arwalden]

5. I Was More Of A Spectator...

... but you were much to scholarly and gentlemanly to actually point out the things that I did. (Even though I did it in a jocular way, it wouldn't have looked right if you had written them.)

OH! I also remember my dad liking Johnny Cash and Kenny Rogers and whoever it was that sang "Trailer For Sale Or Rent".

-- Allen

[trotsky]

16. Rooms to let, 50 cents....

No phone, no pool, no pets
I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah, but..two hours of pushin' broom
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room
I'm a... man of means by no means...
King of the Road!

-- Roger Miller

Johnny Cash, now who DIDN'T like Johnny? I even bought his last album several months ago. I loved the covers of Depeche Mode and Nine Inch Nails.

[kathee]

19. Love Roger Miller

Cash too. All cause of my Mom's love of country. I hated whisperin Bill and Conway Twitty,tho. Pop wise, lots of Tom Jones.( As a woman, I kinda see what all the fuss was about. As a kid, I thought he was dumb.)

Dad loved CCR, Bob Dylan, Lots of Spanish Classical guitar. (was there a famous guy or group that played in the 60s?)

Now I have turned them on to Zepplin, Floyd, and Mom to James Taylor. Sure, they were around back then, but it took them a while to evolve, I guess.

Now, I listen to NIN, STP, Drowning Pool, Linkin Park, and so forth. Heavy and Hard, I say. But, I still love that old stuff once in a while.

[oxymoron]

29. LOL, mine listened to Roger Miller too...

Anyone remember "Dang Me"

"Dang me, Dang me, Gonna take a rope and hang me..."

Also, we had a well worn Ray Coniff Christmas Album.

[arwalden]

32. Oh... Christmas Albums! Bing Crosby, Wayne Newton, Doris Day,

and of course Ray Conniff.

There was also a "Reader's Digest" boxed set of Christmas albums with EVERYONE on it.

-- Allen

[oxymoron]

33. LOL

We had the Readers Digest Christmas Set too! I did a great lip synch to "I Saw Mommie Kissing Santa Claus"!

[arwalden]

36. BTW... Welcome To DU!

I'm mentally flipping through my parent's albums... I believe I recall seeing Barbra Streisand's Christmas Album (but that could be a false memory of someone else's copy).

I remember that my mother would stack about 10 records on the automatic changer so that one would drop on top of the next and play in sequence.

The treble and bass knobs on their stereo had markings for the TYPE of music you were listening to. "Jazz" "Classical" "Modern" etc.

-- Allen

[oxymoron]

38. Thank You!

It's great to be here!

[patdem]

60. A Dorothy Parker fan..you must be one...I am too whom they are

reminising about??? I LOVE Dorothy Parker she is my impression of a REAL woman!!! That is before REAL women were even cool...okay ther's a song

I was country before country was even cool???

[oxymoron]

63. I am a major Dorothy Parker fan.

I just can't get enough. And one of my favs is also probably the most famous.

Resume

Razors pain you; Rivers are damp;
Acid stain you; And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give;
Gas smells awful; You might as well live

[patdem]

64. I have a few ditties to Dorothy...I love that woman...a rhymer..

I wrote this after many hours of reading Dorothy..Did I say I loved that woman???? This of course is no where near her vitriol...but I wrot it anyway...because I LOVE Dorothy Parker!!!

Saturday Nights

When skin was taunt on my frame
my thoughts filled with fortune and fame.

The summers & falls & winters & springs
filled my spirit with joyful things.

The boys that I believed were men
caused me countless misadventure then.

Though too awful to elaborate
I could rest assured I’d have a date.

[ET Awful]

47. My mom loved Roger Miller too . . .

to the point that that's where my screenname for boards like this came from :).

ET Awful came from Eric the Awful (a Roger Miller tune), which is the name I used to use for on-line gaming :)

[Drifter]

50. Oh my god ...

were we separated at birth ?

I have more memories of Hee-Haw than I care to admit. My parents (mostly my father) used to drag me to country western shows (ugh).

Cheers
Drifter

[mitchtv]

3. Mother loved Mario Lanza' Student Prince'

perry Como lawrence Welk. Dad liked Nelson Eddy ragtime things like' bird in a gilded cage' and 'sidewalks of new York'. He was born in '00

[sexybomber]

4. Real classic stuff.

I grew up listening to Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Chicago, all real classic music. Which worked out well since I never got really into the modern rock / nu metal s*** that saturates the airwaves...

[Philostopher]

6. 101 Strings.

Mom, of course. She also liked that Richard Clayderman style piano stuff -- she actually listened to a station in Cincinnati, when I was a kid, that played 24-hour a day easy listening. Muzak, basically.

Dad liked Dixieland. He had a Mickey Finn (Dixieland piano player, not Marc Bolan's percussionist) album my little brother and I loved. He liked instrumental stuff, especially anything that had a jazz influence. Eventually, once all us kids were grown and out of the house, he started listening to Muddy Waters and B.B. King. My brother even had him hip to Jimi Hendrix, before he died.

They used to play one of the Smothers Brothers albums, too, when I was younger. I bought a CD reissue of it for my mother back at Christmas last year -- she loved it. They didn't listen to them for the music, of course, though both the brothers were good guitarists.

Mom and Pop both sang in a gospel group, when they were younger -- my little brother and I used to sing with them, once in a while. Bro' plays in a British blues cover band now. I think he was attending one of those 'modern Christian' churches, but he didn't participate in the music. I'm agnostic, quit attending church when I was in college about twenty years ago. The singing is the only thing I miss about church.

(edit for clarity)

[oxymoron]

28. OMG - 101 Strings

The stuff of nightmares as a child! I remember begging for the Monkees album for my birthday as a little kid and when I excitedly opened my present it was "101 Strings Play The Monkees Greatest Hits".

I still haven't recovered.

By the way, new guy here...hi everyone!

[Nikia]

7. Let's see

Billy Joel, Elton John, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, Harry Chapin, Joni Mitchell, Peter Paul&Mary, Eagles, Bruce Springsteen, Lionel Ritchie, Willie Nelson, the Beatles, the Monkees, and Whitney Houston. I remember them playing these records.

[SiobhanClancy]

8. Vivaldi,Bach,Scarlatti,Purcell,Corelli,Telemann etc

and sometimes Frank Sinatra:)

[elfin]

9. The Mills Brothers

Peter Duchin, Bing Crosby, Broadway musicals, Mitch Miller....

[bluedeminredstate]

10. All kinds

Johnny Cash, Joan Baez, Tommy Makem, The Beatles, Barbra Streisand, and I'm embarassed to mention the trip to Canada with my Mom when Neil Diamond and Wayne Newton were the only thing we listened to. Not even four screaming and booing kids could stop that nightmare!!
Thank God she's over that phase.
:eyes:

[acmavm]

11. Every afternoon when I got home from school my mom had on American

Bandstand with Dick Clark. It was awesome.

[dae]

12. Big Band music of which some is okay and Lawrence Welk which wasn't.

[Booberdawg]

14. Elvis!!!

[VelmaD]

15. My parents were teens in the 1950s

so the pop music they listened to was Elvis and The Beach Boys and Chubbie Checker and that kind of thing.

They also listened to some country music - Johnny Cash, Flatt and Scruggs, Charlie Pride.

My momma is also a big fan of classical music so there was a lot of Bach and Beethoven and Tchiakovsky.

[Pale Blue Dot]

17. My dad had a collection of 3000 45s

(for those of you under 30, a 45 is a round piece of vinyl that had one song on each side).

Anyway, my dad used to play them in alphabetical order by artist. All pop/rock/soul music from the 50s/60s/70s. I credit him with my desire for pop music with good melodies and harmonies, and my English degree for a desire for great lyrics.

[proud patriot]

18. Eagles ..Jimmy.. Doobies..Clapton...Janis

:smoke:

[Wolfman 11]

20. Beethoven, Bob Wills, Willie Nelson, 1950's Oldies

[VelmaD]

22. Bubba, is that you?

:-)

You sure you aren't my little brother in disguise? Sounds a whole lot like my parents' house. :-)

[Wolfman 11]

34. being called Bubba is rather disturbing

[InkAddict]

21. Christian radio 6AM - 8PM daily !

Blinded by the Right

[populistmom]

23. My mom listened to

Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Carly Simon, and unfortunatly went through a Barry Manilow stage for awhile. Plus, she played the piano, so I got to hear lots of Chopin, Debussey, plus a little Duke Ellington and Gershwin on the piano frequently. My dad was never much of a music guy (a small part of their problems I suppose) . He'd keep classical stuff on as background, but could care less about music.

Sarah

[DBoon]

24. Dad - Classical, Mom - Pop

Dad listened to The Classical Station.

Mom was into late '40s big band, and 50's pop (no rock).

Mom's youngest sister was into Elvis, though.

The Beatles were an abomination to them, and it only got worse from that point forward.

[izzie]

25. You must be kidding me.

My mother was wild about Frankie Carle and my father did not let us play the new stuff of the day as he was in the buniess and heard it all day so we had classic stuff at night.We would sometimes have Glenn Miller. I was born in the early 30's.

[mitchum]

26. Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Johnny Cash, Jim Reeves,...

Conway Twitty, Nat King Cole, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Porter and Dolly, Don Rich, Buck Owens, Neville Brothers, George Jones, Little Richard...just the first ones out of my head. My parents listened to a lot of records

[Ellen Forradalom]

27. John Cage, Charles Ives, Stockhausen, Frank Zappa, Sun Ra,

AACM, Mozart, Bartok, Shostakovich, New York Pro Musica, Stravinski, Captain Beefheart, Beethoven, Brahms, Ludoslawski, Erik Satie, Phillip Glass, and that's just the tip of the iceberg....ok, you probably figured both my parents were musicians. My father was a composer and professor of music.

[RandomKoolzip]

44. Wow, I toatally envy you.

I had to wait until I was 12 to hear Captain Beefheart for the first time! My dad hated Zappa nad Beefheart (he was more of a Stones/Blues/ Chuck Berry/ Reggae cat) and although I loved the stuff he loved too, I always pined for some more outre sounds....

[rbnyc]

62. Awesome...

...I never heard of Cage til I went to college. Blew my mind.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

30. i sure would like to RECALL some of their music!

oooo old california pun! are those out of fashion yet? :D

[scarlet_owl]

31. My dad has great taste in music, and it has rubbed off on me.

I grew up listening to Jethro Tull, B.B. King, Frank Zappa, Janis Joplin, and others. My father sang along to TMBG's "Flood" album on our way to Texas. He also likes Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass and lots of jazz. He is the one who introduced me to folk music when I was young. My mother's taste is pretty good, but she does like some stuff that I can't stand, like ELO and Phil Collins.

[HEyHEY]

35. Abba, CCR, Guess WHo, Gordon Lightfoot.

Pointer Sisters.

[carpetbagger]

37. Doo-wop.

They graduated HS in 1957.

[rasputin1952]

39. Bach fugues, ...

interspersed with Gregorian Chants.

The lights were unusaully dim, and we ate at odd hours.

:scared:

[Syncronaut Seven]

40. Joan Baez, Buffy StMarie, Tom Leherer,

Probably didn't have any effect on me whatsoever. Here pidgie pidgie pidgie. :crazy:

[otohara]

41. Harry Belafonte

my mom was in love with Harry

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

42. Mitch Miller

He actually never sang but had a popular television show in the early sixties called "Sing along with Mitch".

[rasputin1952]

51. Jeez, Mitch Miller...

I remember him! Follow the bouncing ball! Loved that when I was a kid.

:bounce:

I still can't stand Lawrence Welk though, at least Mitch was fun with the 'sing along' aspect. Welk was just a dud.

:kick:

[RandomKoolzip]

43. A lot of Reggae, Pink Floyd, the Stones, John Lennon, Ray Charles...

My parents raised me right, and I never rebelled. They had great taste in music. One of my earliest memories is the smell of marijuana smoke and the sound of Steely Dan's "Do it Again" on the stereo, as we all shared a smile, a smoke, (weel, I didn't actually smoke, I was only 3 1/2 years old!)and a laugh as a family. We are still very close. A lesson to all soon-to-be-parents: raise your kids hip and they'll turn out smart.

[Ridley Park 704]

45. Broadway musicals, classical, Hawaiian Swing (album), Nat King Cole

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[ET Awful]

46. My dad had the same taste in music as me :)

Ranging from the Who to Eric Burdon to the Grateful Dead, mainly rock from around 65 through 74 or so. He was also a big fan of Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens, Harry Chapin and other singer/songwriter and folkie types.

My mom's a huge Elvis fan, and was more into music from the early 60's and more pop oriented than what my dad liked.

[emad]

48. Both my parents were born at the tail end of the 19th century

but they loved The Beatles - specially Hey Jude!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

78. That's amazing!

My grandparents, born in 1900 and 1903, rarely listened to anything but Lawrence Welk (with a little Jeanette McDonald/Nelson Eddy tucked in here and there). They were so happy that I decided to play the violin, and not "get into all that 'Yeah, Yeah, Yeah' stuff"!

Your parents must have been pretty remarkable to appreciate the milestones that electronics brought to music.

[VermontDem2004]

49. Judas Preist, Iron Maiden, Guns n Roses

just to name a few.

[jzami]

52. frank sinatra

a true american patriot

[VermontDem2004]

56. wow 37 posts?

Never seen a troll get away with that many.

[XNASA]

53. "Wichita Lineman" - Glen Campbell

Johnny Cash Live at Folsom Prison

Herb Alpert - "Whipped Cream and Other Delights"

And musicals. Man how my Mom loved listeding to musicals.

[geniph]

54. Hard-core "hillbilly" music

as we called it when I was a kid - they had variety in their lives, both country AND western. Hank Williams, Tammy Whinette (sic), George Jones, Loretta Lynn, that kind of stuff.

[youngred]

55. Lots of different stuff

Diana Krall, John Denver, Jackson Browne, Sarah McLachlan, Frank Sinatra, Peter, Paul and Mary, Sammy Davis Jr., Natalie Cole,

Classic oldies, Jazz, musicals, and early 90s non-dance music

[kayell]

57. Glen Miller - my mom and Tennesee Ernie Ford - my Dad

16 Tons is permanantly engraved on my brain cells.

[kmla]

58. Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, etc.

Dad was very much into country music.

Mom? She liked a bit more pop music. Aretha, Blood Sweat and Tears, Anne Murray, stuff like that...

[mlawson]

59. Big bands! Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Ziggy Elman...

I was a toddler in the early 50s, but I can remember them playing the old '78s'. They are both recently deceased, and there are some of the old songs that bring back pleasant memories of my parents, but some of them make me very sad.

[rbnyc]

61. Hendrix, Hot Tuna,

Neil Young, Mountain, Fleetwood Mac, Beatles, Byrds, Dylan, Tom Waits, Buddy Holly, Pink Floyd, The Who, Zep, Stones, Doors, Dead, Zappa, Joplin, BBKing, Muddy Waters, Roy Orbison, Elvis.

:)

[TrogL]

65. Andy Williams, Lawrence Welk

that's about as far as it got. They considered Andy Williams reactionary. "popular" music like rock was banned from the household. The first "rock" piece I heard was Pink Floyd's "Money", which probably wrecked my musical appreciation forever.

[supernova]

66. 40s Big Band and Swing

Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, The Mills Brothers, The Ink Spots. Momma especially liked Duke Ellington and Sara Vaughn. Later on, Daddy liked BB Kin and the ever cool Johnny Cash.

I was also raised with an appreciation of bluegrass and gospel.

[CO Liberal]

75. Mine, Too

I grew up in NJ, about 40 miles west of NYC. Every once in a while when I was small (mid 1950s), they would haul out the old 78s. Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, the Dorsey Brothers, Spike Jones - all of 'em. My mother saw many of them perform live at the Meadowbrook in Cedar Grove when she was growing up.

Later on (in the '60s), my mother would listen to WNEW-AM (1130, now Bloomburg Business Radio). My father listened to several "elevator music" stations, such as WVNJ, WRFM, and WPAT.

[CBHagman]

67. Mr. Acker Bilk.

I thought everyone's parents had Acker Bilk albums. :-)

They also liked Broadway shows. My stepmother had fairly broad tastes and liked opera, the Beatles, and Simon and Garfunkel.

[AquariDem]

69. Joan Armatrading, Bob Marley, Alix Dobkin

I still get a sentimental wave of nostalgia when listening to any of these artists, especially Joan Armatrading.

[NashVegas]

70. Tom Lehrer

Is it any wonder I'm twisted?

[ikojo]

71. My mom listened to a wide variety of music....

She LOVED Elvis...I also remember her listening to Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass (the album was green I think). She also liked Derek and the Dominoes and Nazareth so go figure....

My mom and dad were divorced when I was very young so I have no idea what my dad liked.

[Norbert]

72. Sing Sing Sing-Benny Goodman at Carnagee Hall '38

After all these years I have to admit that it really rocks.

They were teenagers when big band was in it's prime so we got a very good dose of the Dorseys Krupa, Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw. Their later music included Sinatra, Nat Cole, Rosie, Herb Alpert and Andy Williams. Mom had a thing for Tom Jones, Tony Orlando/Dawn and the TV Sonny and Cher. Dad liked Percy Faith, Ray Conniff and Andre Kostelonez(sp). He blew me away one day when he bought Santana's first album while it was fairly new on the charts.

There was a little classical here and there. My one brother saw to that. Both brothers saw to it that I had a steady diet of Rock music, C&W, folk and R & B.

It was a great house to grow up in.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

73. My dad didn't really listen to music

although he strictly enforced our piano practicing sessions. I can't ever remember him turning on the radio or the stereo to listen to music. However, he would play the piano himself--after a fashion.

My mom listened to whatever was on middle-of-the-road radio. After a lot of stations went to Top 40, she turned her loyalty to a station that advertised itself as "adult radio," i.e. 101 Strings type garbage. During one particularly unfortunate period, she discovered the all-polka station from the German-American town of New Ulm. We were very relieved when, after two weeks, she realized what we had figured out after an hour: all polkas sound the same.

She was never much into jazz or other popular music of her youth (the 1930s and 1940s).

I have no idea why I turned out to be the owner of hundreds of CDs in the classical and world music genres.

[BigDaddyLove]

74. My mother..................

listened to Roberta Flack, Judy Collins and Cat Stevens quite a bit; I didn't really have a father so I can't answer for him.

[FloridaJudy]

76. Dave Brubeck, Charlie Parker, Buddy Holly and Vivaldi

So they *didn't* have embarrassing taste in music! I had to listen to Wagner and Herman's Hermits to get back at them.

Aaarrgghh! The aged parents RUINED my adolescence by forcing me to play to that crap on my stereo!!!

[CanuckAmok]

77. My mom...

...listens to classical, opera, some more accessable Jazz, etc. when she was alone or it was just us. SHe likes classic rock, too, but not so much the English bands--more the Southern Fried Rock veriety, which is odd, since we lived in England during my formative years. Later, when she was dating, things went sour: Charlie Rich, Elvis, Bobby Goldsboro, and (eep!) Kenny Rogers.

My dad was a Rat-Pack wannabe--Mel Torme, Frank Sinatra, Peters and Lee, anything lounge-y.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

79. Mostly classical and show tunes...

very little pop and NOOOOOOoooooooooo rock 'n roll.

My Dad nearly hit the roof when my Mom brought home Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits. He was afraid he'd lose his government job if she listened to "that hippie crap". LOL!

[nini]

80. Louis Prima

I know every song that man ever sang!

[grasswire]

81. ..

My mother preferred opera, my father Spike Jones.

That's the previous generation's version of "a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll."