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August 19, 2012 11:20:40am |
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Music Your Parents Listened To When You Were A Child |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHq87F2fS-sE- My father was the music man in our house and his tastes tended to be (southern)rock-pop. What music I remember from this era was a lot of Allman Brothers, Derek and the Dominos, MTB, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, GD (not the crazy stuff), Pink Floyd, Elton John, Steely Dan and The Moody Blues. I'm sure I'm missing a bunch.
The song I picked reminded me of a summer party my parents gave. They let me come outside and hang out. I remember the smell of the grass and the song above. And how truly happy I was, as only a child can be.
This post was modified by micah6vs8 on 2012-08-19 18:20:40
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Dancin'Deb |
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August 19, 2012 04:31:13pm |
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it is truly a miracle that I came out of my house with any taste in music at all, never mind that I love the Grateful Dead...
In my house growing up it was Barry Manilow and Kenny Rogers...wow, that hurt to even type it...
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August 19, 2012 05:19:11pm |
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I think I was probably well nourished.
From my mom it started out with 78s of Goodman, Basie, Ellington, Satchmo, Four Freshmen, Beethoven, etc.
When the 45s and LPs came along it was Mancini, Shearing, more Basie, Ella, Sinatra, Tijuana Brass, Brasil 66, Baja Marimba Band, more Beethoven, Dick Hyman Trio, Vince Guaraldi Trio, Nat King Cole, Ray Charles, Ramsey Lewis, Korla Pandit, and on and on.
My Dad got me started on Johnny Cash, Roger Miller, Everly Brothers and a few others. Plus we would always watch Ozzie & Harriet to see what Ricky would sing that week.
And, yes, (gasp!) there was Lawrence Welk on Saturday nights with Chicken Delight delivered.
And some late nights my mom would get really ripped and play Mantovani records pretty loud.
They were in their 50s and 60s when the psychedelic era started (both were at the '67 Mt. Tam Fantasy Fair and saw the Doors and the 5th Dimension) and it wasn't much of a hurdle for them like it was for some of my friends' parents.
All the kids would hang out at our house on weekends so they could listen to stuff they weren't allowed to at their homes, and even intelligently discuss the Beatles, James Brown, and the Jefferson Airplane with my mom, who years later still danced to Scarlet Begonias in her 70s before her arthritis got too severe.
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August 20, 2012 06:05:04am |
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Your experience is closest to mine. My folks loved music and instilled this love in all 9 of their kids. Now that we're all in our 50s and 60s (boomers for sure) at least 7 of us play instruments, sing in choirs and one bro still plays drums in a rock band.
My dad loved the Big Band stuff the best; but during the 50s he liked Al Hirt and Herb Alpert a lot. His tastes changed and he went classical - especially the big orchestral stuff - Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Beethoven and later he evolved to Mahler. My mother loved Broadway show tunes. In order to get us all to bed between 8 and 9 every evening, they put on music to quiet us down. During the week, usually classical; on weekends it was Broadway. He installed speakers in the upper floor so we could hear it. At first, my parents freaked out over rock 'n roll, but soon came to realize how mainstream the Beatles were (at first) and generally we were allowed to listen, at least until my mother mis-heard the lyrics to "happiness is a warm gun".
I was at my parents' house recently... they are now in their late 80s. Their record collection is stupendous. About 6 feet of shelf is 78s, another 12-18 feet of LPs. Precious stuff. I'm deeply grateful to my folks for passing on their love of music in all forms.
I marvel again at the diverse influences demonstrated in this thread, how it all "melds into one" that makes us all uniquely Deadheads.
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August 19, 2012 03:47:46pm |
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For me, my dad listened to a lot of stones and my mom was into Elvis and the early Beatles up to srg peppers so I had a decent foundation, I used to play the shit out of meet the Beatles and the stones 1st album, but after that it was what we call classis rock today and my mom put on the crappy am radio stations! I have a friend though that his dad used to tape reel to reel of the old wbcn in Boston when that station was really good in the late 60's and early 70's and the stuff they would play, man anything shit from live dead, jigsaw puzzle by the stones. It just seemed like and probably was whatever the dj liked at the time, and I would go over his house a lot and the both of us would listen to those reel to reel, man he had a collection!
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August 19, 2012 10:40:33am |
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There were many types of music played in the house as I was growing up. The artists I remember, that I still enjoy today, were Johnny Mathis, hank Williams, Sr., Sam Cooke, early Elvis and Johnny Cash.
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August 19, 2012 11:05:58am |
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The only ones they ever put on were Camelot soundtrack (ie, Burton, etc; not the movie), Dave Brubeck (EBay homegrown product of which they were proud), and Oscar Peterson. And Tom Lehrer. I have those five albums of theirs and that's it. They didn't buy a "current" music album post 1960.
Nonetheless, mom loved Tom Jones, Englehumperdincky, etc.,etc., via radio.
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August 19, 2012 05:09:50am |
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Oh boy. This is fun. Clearly your parents played what MY parents called "crazy teenage music." Which I was told was a communist plot. Like tennis shoes. (It took me many years to realize they were probably being funny. I thought they meant it. But I do think they were semi-serious.)
You want "traveling music"? My family had the great distinction of going to San Francisco in the Summer of Love (for a convention; what else?) during which the fun included a Tour of the Hippies. Yes, Haight Ashbury from a bus.
So this is what folks who went on those tours used to have on the car radio then. It's "The Other 60s."
I thought this one was pretty:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brN5KYgvvzwand this was incredibly glamorous, all about how exciting it was to be a modern grown-up city girl ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHNGvEdTwBQ... and that this was about same gypsies in a cavern:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KODZtjOIPgJanis Joplin was definitely NOT on the radio stations they listened to. I actually "sneak listened" to rock after I got my own radio, I think in 2nd grade, waiting until the folks were out of the house before turning on any of that Crazy Teenage Communist Plot music! (Like Janis.)
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August 19, 2012 05:50:00am |
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A tour of the hippies? I bet that was fun. "Which ones are the men?" was probably often heard on those buses.
My parents also had the Petula Clark album with Downtown so it wasn't all Janis.
I think my father was into the louder stuff. He also had an 8-track in his office and kept a second copy of Pearl there, but he only played it after hours. I think he understood that it wasn't the best way to build a practice. Or did he? I am now remembering that the little chairs he had in the kids area of the waiting room were plush green mushrooms. Gonna have to ask mom about this.
Here is another artist that could be heard coming from the phonograph. Actually this one is also kind of cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vp6CsgncKw
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August 19, 2012 08:51:30am |
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I love the guy on the floor ! Herer is a both corny, epicly great vid from a tv special of the time . Slightly different version of "Taste of Honey".
My friends girlfriend saw this and her reaction was "what a stud !".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_KDPUTyDyQIn a lot of way this as quintessentially the perfect 60's song as any . The real 60's, the one we actually lived in, was much more this, than hippies, LSD, or the Beatles . When people mention the 60's , they usually are thinking 68-69 .
We had an 8 track of the "South of the Border" album .
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August 19, 2012 06:01:01am |
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Exactly. What my mom always said around hippies was, "I'd like to cut their hair and give them a bath!" So I'd smile in order to let the hippies know I liked them. (I didn't want them to feel bad.) And the best part: being warned not to eat ANY sugar cubes in San Francisco, as a result of which, we (brother and I) gobbled down all the sugar cubes in the hotel. Somehow nothing exciting was in the sugar cubes at the Fairmont.
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August 19, 2012 08:29:56am |
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I feel old ! My parents (still here at 91, and 86) were from the Big Band Era.. My mother like Classical and Opera, and my dad's hippest albums were that first Kingston Trio album and, in a wild hair, the Fat's Domino album with "Blueberry Hill". I used to think all that mainstream 60's music was lame, but now days I might rather listen to the Sandpipers than Janis ! Seriously, even the "lame" music from the era was pretty good .
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August 19, 2012 07:11:44am |
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oh man, I feel old. Your parent's music was the music *I* listened to when a kid. My first rock concert was Grateful Dead, 12-26-69.....
My parents were into Ferrante & Teicher (really bad easy listening piano music), early Elvis, and mainstream country music.
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August 19, 2012 04:49:26pm |
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Sinatra
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August 19, 2012 06:50:41am |
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My mother listened to Polka music on the Doug Pledger Show on AM Radio - KNBC in the 50's & 60's
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August 19, 2012 06:52:00am |
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My parents werent big music fans but my mom did have a small collection of 45s and some 72s if you remember them.
Some how I quickly figured out that the ones I really liked we're Elvis, chuck berry and Buddy Holly
Favorite 45 was "Not fade away" and it's flip side of "oh boy" which was my favorite song
Really dig the couple versions Garcia / Wier did of "oh boy"
Really take me back be sitting I front of that little box scratching all my moms records
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August 19, 2012 09:42:38am |
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Cosmic just reminded me about the Sunday afternoon "Happy Bernie's polka party" my parents played on the radio. Every Sunday
Roll out thr barrel .......
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August 19, 2012 07:28:39am |
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loved this album and the band. And MTB live often included some nice long jam tunes. Didn't think about the connection with Grateful Dead back then, but now I see lots of connections....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHq87F2fS-sThis post was modified by gmcgill on 2012-08-19 14:27:09
This post was modified by gmcgill on 2012-08-19 14:27:47
This post was modified by gmcgill on 2012-08-19 14:28:39
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