What kind of tunes did/do your parents listen to?

[Oeditpus Rex]

I've got "Sing Along with Mitch" crap in my head, a remnant of my disturbed childhood.



Damned grown-ups. They call this music?? :grr:

[ghostsofgiants]

1. Well my dad's favourite band is probably The Eagles.

Or Blue Rodeo.

But he listens to some decent stuff as well. He's a big Neil Young fan.

My mom isn't a bi music fan in general so she just listens to boring lame stuff that I don't even know.

[Darth_Kitten]

11. I love the Eagles.......

:shrug:

[ghostsofgiants]

14. I don't, haha.

[GOPisEvil]

2. Both types. Country AND Western.

Actually, that is mostly my dad. My mom listened to easy listening crapola. At least my dad and I have some music we like. Merle and Johnny for a couple. My mom does like some country, like Dwight Yoakam, so she isn't all bad.

[flvegan]

3. Sinatra and Mottola

I also can't help but think of my dad every time I turn on the Weather Channel. That adult easy listening stuff.

Also, a good amount of classical.

[LeftyMom]

4. Dad listens to the local rock station, Mom likes current rock, the stuff she grew up with, and

Country. I have no idea where the last bit comes from, she's from San Leandro. :eyes:

[InkAddict]

5. Last I checked Mommy dearest listened to

church hymns 24/7;the only song my dad ever taught me was "The Whiffenpoo Song." He was born and lived in MA as a boy and fancied that he went to Yale cause the Army sent him there for signal corp training during WWII, a New England stoic not impressed w/music. Neither could stand rock & roll. (lost) Sheep x 2, baaaa, baaaa, baaaa

[evlbstrd]

6. Soul, R&B, Rock.

Early sixties.

[suninvited]

7. My mother loved

Neil Diamond.

We would listen to him all day on Saturday while we cleaned house. She was his number 1 fan.

[LaurenG]

8. OK but you're not gonna like it

Ray Coniff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8Gy8MaGN6s

Hollywood Musicals soundtrack albums including:

"My Fair Lady"
"Blue Hawaii"
"Funny Girl"
"Singing in the Rain"

My parents were born in the 20's and my mom's dad was a local orchestra leader so she was raised with all kinds of 40's music which she had us listen to.

[Jade Fox]

9. Mom: Gershwin, Rachmaninoff, opera. West Side Story...

and other musicals, all of which I still like today.

Dad: marching band music. Blech!!

[TZ]

10. I like my mom's music

Led Zepplin, Queen, Styx, Eagles...classic rock basically. Now my Dad..Platters, John Denver, Show Tunes..

[skygazer]

12. My dad listened/listens to country music

Plays the guitar and sings. I grew up with the oldies - Hank Williams, Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash. My mom liked stuff like Robert Goulet.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

13. Same stuff I listen to: 60s and 70s "classic rock" stuff.

My dad's even a 'Deadhead, which is hilarious considering he went to business school and barely knows who Shakespeare is. :D

I also listen to classic jazz, which is what my mom calls "my father's music" and scorns. Hahahahaaha 'Boomers...

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

16. My mom was a huge fan of Frank Sinatra.

I remember in the early 1960's with her doing laundry down in the basement with the stereo on and listening to Ole Blue Eyes, Tony Bennett, Andy Williams, etc. Good memories and good music.

[abq e streeter]

15. Strictly classical, although a little folk music ( on the classical station on Sat. nights)

and if it was WFMT ( Chicago) it must be OK, plus as good liberals, they appreciated the old union songs etc., even if it wasn't their thing musically. ( much of the family were socialists in the 30's; moderated their views as they got older, but proud to say not a single one of em ever turned republican---moderate Democrat was as far right as anyone ever got).

[Blue_In_AK]

17. My parents used to listen to Mantovani

and things like the Jackie Gleason orchestra. They were very "old school." A lot of classical stuff, too. They never understood the music I liked, even as far back as 1957. Huge generational difference there.


I should add that way, way back, though, before my mother died when we still lived on the farm, it was country music all the way, Ernest Tubb, Hank Snow, Hank Williams. I think the classical music came with my new mother.

[Lorien]

18. The Beatles, Cat Stevens, Harry Nilsson, Pink Floyd, Jazz, Classical

a bit of bluegrass...mostly the same kind of stuff I listen to now, so there aren't any conflicts there. :-)

[Bennyboy]

19. My Parents hated music......

So funny that this thread is here cuz I was just talking aobut this. I remember my dad, who hates music of all types, was moved four times in his life by music. Once was at a church gathering and a kid played "the Beverly Hillbillies theme" on the banjo. He loved that. Then he was amazed by the "Dueling Banjos" from Deliverance (his very favorite movie). Another was the bobby Goldboro song "Honey". The only album I ever recall them buying. then they went on a cruise in the seventies and he was all about "My Way" because the ship's entertainer did it all the time.

But listen to music? no way.
Go to a concert? no way.

Totally the opposite of myself.

[stuntcat]

26. "Honey"

Whenever that comes up at random on my computer I end up crying my eyes out by the end of it :cry: I mean tears streaming, it's so corny.
I'm glad you overcame the indifference to music, it's about the best thing people ever made I think.

[Catshrink]

20. Lawrence Welk

I think Dad watched the reruns right up until he died.

[stuntcat]

27. I watched some last week on youtube or somewhere

I used to see it a lot when I was little but trying to watch it now.. it's WEIRDER than I remember :wow:

[Lil Missy]

21. Elvis, Herb Alpert, Perry Como, Sinatra

[Forkboy]

22. Neil Diamond, Chicago, Three Dog Night, Simon and Garfunkel.

My father has always had music in his life, and I know that's where my love of it comes from.

[Ahpook]

23. My parents listened to some decent music, actually:)

But, when my dad got on a bender it was Freddy Fender the rest of the evening:)

[QMPMom]

24. 100% country music for my parents. It was torture.

When I was home in February for Dad's funeral, there was a Kitty Wells cassette tape in his truck player.

[stuntcat]

25. Elvis and the Beatles and lots of country music

My dad was a radio DJ and a musician so we ALWAYS had music playing :headbang:

My mom loves music too but she listens to New Age, which I can't bear.

[Adsos Letter]

28. Oh yeah...

"Sing Along with Mitch"

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass

Marty Robbins "Gunfighter Ballads"

And..."The KRAK Korral of Country Hits" on KRAK AM out of Sacramento...try getting away with that name nowadays...