What albums did your parents have on hand?

[EFerrari]

My mom was a baby when she had me, only 22, and she and her sister and brother used to dance in the livingroom, lol, to these guys:













http://www.coversproject.com/static/thumbs/album/album_frank%20sinatra_my%20way:%20the%20best%20of%20frank%20sinatra.png

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. I'm older than you, and my mom had very square tastes even for her generation

She had albums of 78s (yes, the term album came to be because 78s were in albums of records, each of which contained one song on each side, in paper envelopes)



Titles I remember are Leopold Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Symphony in arrangements of Bach, the Vienna Choir Boys singing Christmas carols, the St. Olaf Choir, the original cast of Song of Norway, and Sir Harry Lauder singing Scottish folksongs. (I don't understand the last one, since she wasn't Scottish.)

[EFerrari]

5. My mom had 78s they brought here from Latin America.

Mostly "rancheras". :)

ETA: WAIT! THE ST OLAF CHOIR?!

[blaze]

2. LOL

There was a time I could probably sing every song from Calypso!!!

I absolutely *loved* that album!! (o/~ Daylight come and me want to go home o/~)

Mom had every album from all the 50s Broadway shows.... Kiss Me Kate... How to Succeed in Business...

Oh, what wonderful memories.

[EFerrari]

6. My mom had soundtracks, too, and I didn't even know they were from

Broadway until I was a teenager! LOL -- I just thought people sang stories. :rofl:

[csziggy]

68. That was what my parents mostly had and we sang along and did little acts

To the songs of "South Pacific," "My Fair Lady," "Oklahoma," and such. What is funny is that I don't remember Mom & Dad ever putting a one of those on themselves - maybe we kids played them enough. Though it could be by the time I remember my Dad was deaf enough that he had lost his appreciation for music.

[oshyposhy]

3. Depending on the level of wine in the bottle, I was treated to

Charles Aznavour

Linda

Neil

Babs


and this one that scared me away from butter


And then when the wine was gone and the whiskey came out

[EFerrari]

8. Did that "Honeysuckle Rose" album feature the hit "On the Bus Too Long!"

lol

It looks like your mom was exactly in between my mom's age and mine. Oh, but NEIL! She took me to see him for my 30th at the San Jose Center for the Arts. Even I had to admit he was an excellent showman!

:)

[oshyposhy]

10. I took my mom to see Neil in '05...we ran smack into him

coming in the hotel door. He was not amused. And he is short. But damn can he sing. My mom has every album...(I might have a couple too!)

[EFerrari]

12. My bro is a sax guy so we knew his horn section for a few years.

I never met him but the guys love working for him. :)

[astral]

57. Hey, this was MY first album

10cents at the salvation army in 1972 or so. My first full-sized record, as I was buying 45's. I fell in love, of course.

[EFerrari]

65. Neil Diamond is his own genre of cool. I notice he was the only one

at The Last Waltz that wasn't primarily a rocker. One of a kind, definitely. :)

[malta blue]

4. I was blessed with

Abbey Road - Beatles
Captain Fantastic & the Brown Dirt Cowboy - Elton John
Deja Vu - CSNY

[EFerrari]

9. Oh man, you WERE blessed!

I got lucky after a while. After forcing me to stop playing the White Album, mom bought her own copy a few years later. Women!

[malta blue]

13. hippie moms....

don't know what happened to her....

*I kid. I kid* she posts here on DU.

[EFerrari]

14. Hippie moms -- my mom was one of those 50s moms that turned.

I could never compete with what she unleashed! :rofl:

[Steely_Dan]

55. You were indeed blessed. n/t

[EndersDame]

7. Bob Dylan ,Neil Young and Enya

My mom has pretty good classic hippy tastes but she did go through a phase after she divorced my dad of Enya and other new age-y bands.

[EFerrari]

11. Dean Martin was my mom's Enya and AA followed not long after.

lol

But it's all good. I don't think she's ever stopped listening.

[abq e streeter]

15. all classical with 3 or 4 exceptions: Danny Kaye, Theodore Bikel and amazingly ,Alice's Restaurant

which was of course, later on...might have been one or two more non-classical, I think an Yma Sumac...

[EFerrari]

16. I think Mom has some Strauss sitting around but he was the Bobby Sherman of his day.

And iirc, it was this one:

[Danmel]

17. The Barry Sisters

Tzena, Tzena, Tzena!

[EFerrari]

29. These ladies? I had to look them up.

:)

[Danmel]

51. Indeed- Claire and Myrna Barry

My Dad, who passed away two years ago, yesterday, was from Poland and he spoke Yiddish, as did my mom, who was the child of POlish-Jewish immigrants- we listed to a lot of Yiddish music.

The Barry Sisters were from the Bronx. My dad, who had a great singing voice and loved to sing, also like to listen to Mario Lanza and Italian music, both operatic and of the "That's Amore" genre.

Maybe it's because he settled in Brooklyn after being liberated from the concentration camps and of course, in the 50s and 60s in many parts of Brooklyn, if you eren't jewish, you were Italian.

[musette_sf]

72. oh dear G-d

my mother had a Barry Sisters LP too...

mom was BIG on Vaughn Monroe too. also Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass and Roger Williams.

and who can forget "101 Strings"?

[EFerrari]

73. 101 Strings! Oh, no.

:rofl:

I think they did all the Dylan for Muzak!

[bigwillq]

18. My parents sold all of their albums

they weren't huge music freaks, as far as buying music. We did have Thriller, though.

[EFerrari]

19. LOL. You just made me do an inventory. If one of my kids posted to this thread

he's say Jefferson Starship, and Stones and Steve Miller but also Jim Croce, The Brandenburg Concertos and a ton of swing -- Sachmo, Count Basie, Bob Crosby, like that. :crazy:

[bigwillq]

20. I totally misread this post.

I thought they meant now, like as in today! My parents did have some..Mostly stuff we liked, Tina Turner, Madonna, Earth, Wind and Fire, Gladys Knight, those are some of the ones I can recall.

[EFerrari]

21. I was surprised that I could find so many of the actual album covers.

Like this one, I forgot about her:



I think the number she's doing is "Shakin' the Blues Away". Junk we keep in our heads. :)

[ChoralScholar]

22. Well, we only had a few

Kenny Rogers' "The Gambler" on 8-track
something by Kenny Loggins on 8-track
Johnny Hortons' "The Battle of New Orleans" on 8-track
something by Alabama on 8-track

And I remember finding a Jonathan Winters record in the closet once.

[EFerrari]

25. Ha! We had Loggins & Messina at our crash pad!

I don't think 8 tracks existed yet or maybe, they were just too expensive. lol

[XemaSab]

23. Here are a few:

The Beatles, Pete Seeger, Leonard Cohen, Willie Nelson, and a bunch of folks I'm not too into. :P

[EFerrari]

26. I confessed to Doris Day! And look what she had for holiday music:

lol

[Heidi]

24. My parents' taste in music very much influenced my own, I'd say.

There was always music in our home. My dad introduced me to The Beatles, Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, John Prine, Bonnie Raitt and a whole bunch of others that I still enjoy today. Probably the first my parents' albums I listened to was "Rubber Soul." My parents and I are not much alike, but they do have excellent taste in music.

[EFerrari]

27. That's cool, Heidi, John Prine and Bonnie Raitt.

I didn't hear most of those guys until I married a musician. He had great taste in music and wide ranging, too. My nose was always in a book until then and all my mom's stuff was sort of not interesting to me. One of my uncles loved swing, though. We used to stay up late listening to it, wired out of our minds on strong coffee. lol

[Heidi]

33. Isn't it great, though, to be among people who appreciate the arts,

even when their tastes are different from our own? I feel very, very lucky to have had a lot of creative people in my life these past 46 years. :)

Good morning, EFerrari! :hug:

[EFerrari]

35. Good morning, Heidi! Yes, I've been lucky that way, too.

There wasn't always a lot of money to buy stuff but we always had a piano and my grandmother would play for us which led us kids to believe that playing an instrument was a good idea. She also wrote, so ditto. Mom herself was so young, she loved pretty clothes and glamorous women in movies and all kinds of music but mostly dance music. I still remember all her dresses and those big, dance length petticoats.




Radio was huge, then, too. And I'm not sure that I didn't hear the Beatles on the radio before I saw them on television.

[Heidi]

36. EDITED!

I see from the link that that is, indeed, Annette Funicello; there was a time (long before my teenage years) when young performers were a lot more grand and elegant. :hi:

[EFerrari]

39. LOL! Yeah, that's Annette. I never realized this, but my mom dressed

JUST like her when she went out on dates! :hi:

[TrogL]

28. Montovani strings, sappy piano music

Something I think called "concert under the stars" a horrible abomination of taking famous piano concertos (eg. Rachmaninov C# minor) and adding orchestra.

[EFerrari]

30. Sounds like elevator music?

:)

[omega minimo]

31. Everybody's parents had Andy Williams!!!!

:rofl:

[EFerrari]

32. And his twin, Perry Como. Between them, they kept the British wool industry going.

lol

[EvilAL]

34. Country & Western

All the greats from that genre I guess.
Cash, Nelson, Kristofferson, Pride, Jones, Jennings, Twitty, Williams, Lynn, Tucker, Parton......
Multiple albums on vinyl and 8-track. That's all they listened to.

[Heidi]

37. Yep.

I grew up in Oklahoma, and many of these artists were also part of my parents' record collection. I had the biggest crush of Kristofferson. :swoon:

[EvilAL]

41. In 25 years on DU

when a similar thread comes up my kids are gonna be saying.. Fuckin SLAYER!!! That's all he listened to, fuckin SLAYER!!

[EFerrari]

43. LOL. I commuted with my younger son for a while and he manned the radio.

After a few months, we were buying the same music. There's still some Smashing Pumpkins and Foo Fighters around here somewhere, maybe Presidents of the United States of America. :rofl:

[EvilAL]

48. With their 2-string, 1-string

no-string guitars.

[EvilAL]

45. What I do admire about it

is that they'd record each others tunes and stuff.. you wanna do a version of my tune?? here ya go.. that was it.. It wasn't a big fuckin music machine, they helped each other out and had fun.

[Heidi]

46. That's very cool, isn't it?

I sense that Merle, Willie, Waylon and a bunch of those guys had authentic friendships and true admiration for one another.

[EvilAL]

49. They surely did

and it showed through their collaborations and song sharing. Maybe (probably) the labels had something to do with it, but they couldn't stop them. If Conway wanted to record "the silver tongued devil" I'm sure Kris woulda had no problem with it.

[EFerrari]

38. None of those guys at our house. I didn't even really know who they were

until I went to college. Well, maybe Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson and Hank Williams -- especially Johnny Cash. Didn't he have his own show in the 70s?

ETA: He DID have a teevee show, 69-71.

[Broken_Hero]

40. My mother

had a lot of Marie Osmond, Journey, Sheila Easton, Chicago laying around. My father had Marty Robbins, Beach Boys, Johnny Paycheck, The Richeous Brothers...

[EFerrari]

42. Your dad is a little older than your mum? That's an amazing mix

of artists. Where did you land, petersond?

[Broken_Hero]

44. yeah, they were 14yrs apart

I landed mainly in Heavy Metal/Easy Listening. I like a lot of music though, about the only genre's I'm hesitant about is blues/jazz.

I listen to everything between Fear Factory, to Celine Dion, to the Doors, to Johnny Paycheck, Ricky Nelson, to Alison Krauss, to Nirvana. And everything in between. :D

[EFerrari]

47. Heavy metal / Easy LIstening!

lol

Is that like Country Western Reggae?

We had a landlady that worked in the front part of our building during the day. She used to go nuts because we'd change up our music on her three or four times a day. She should have raised the rent for the aggravation. :)

[Forkboy]

50. A ton of stuff. My father always had music playing. It's where my love for it comes from.

His fave was Neil Diamond and Chicago, but he had tons of stuff, from Elvis to Hendrix. I went over his house one day a few years back, and when I knocked on the door I could hear Metallica's Master of Puppets playing inside. He was 64 at the time. Got to love it. :)

[EFerrari]

58. That's amazing.

:)

[MilesColtrane]

52. I was forbidden from using the phonograph.

They were afraid I was going to break it, but I was sneaky used it to listen whenever I could.

Lots of Herb Alpert & Sergio Mendes
Some Joan Baez
Soundtracks from "The Alamo" and "Oklahoma".
Some big band, Glen Miller, Xavier Cugat
Some dixieland
The 1812 overture and some Beethoven
A 'greatest hits' of opera arias
A couple of comedy albums, Cosby, Alan Sherman, Bob Newhart

[MineralMan]

53. Albums? My parents had a big stack of 78s.

There was a combination radio/record player in the living room. I remember being 5 years old and listening to radio shows like "Fibber McGee and Molly," and those records.

Then, in 1951, they bought their first television set, and I don't believe that radio/phono was ever turned on again.

[EFerrari]

59. I remember a few years where the family sat around and talked

or listened to music instead of watching TV -- very early, late 50s memories. That was pretty much gone after 1963 or so -- although, when they'd come to see our grandmother, we'd still sit around a big table most Sunday nights with music on. Damn, I miss that.

[MineralMan]

83. I remember that the TV was off during dinner, which was a

family affair, 7 days a week. It was about an hour-long deal, and there was a roundtable discussion of the days events, high points and low, and advice and comfort was served, along with my mother's excellent meals.

That continued throughout my entire time at home, and was very important, now that I look back on it. After dinner, my sister and I had the clean-up detail, with mom and dad and my 5-year-younger brother staying at the table and continuing the evening chatter.

That dinner-time ritual was the time when events were announced, permissions were asked, and so on. It was the family's time to communicate as a group.

1950 through 1963, when I left home for college and life.

[EFerrari]

87. My mom was divorced and we lived with my grandmother

and one, sometimes two uncles until about '62. When the guys got married, dinnertime went to hell and I remember Mom working through that hour and me eating on real, honest to God, TV trays in front of the tube.

They were all immigrants and worked more hours than they didn't in those days, anyway. There was an added wrinkle, too, because they came from a privileged class and coming here, not only was the culture and the language new but they had to deal with things like food prep and laundry. My poor Grandma, she tried so hard but she couldn't cook a meal to save her life and yet, she did for twenty years every night after she came here. Oh, the rice disasters, the leathery tongue that could bounce like a football, the poor canned peas that never had a chance! Maybe THAT'S why dinnertime was quietly disappeared after a while and stayed that way until I learned how to cook. :)

[MineralMan]

93. I remember that mom decided to try those Swanson TV dinners,

shortly after they came out. Fried Chicken, they were. We kids liked 'em just fine, but my father put his foot down, and that was the end of those.

Oddly enough, I took an interest in cooking in high school and my mom taught me. She was a master family cook and very inventive.

As it turned out, neither of my wives could cook, so I've been cooking daily for over 35 years now. I still enjoy it, and still use many of the tricks my mom taught me. She didn't use cookbooks, and taught me the proportions for the basic preparations, from making a roux to cake bakery and the best pie crusts on the planet.

She taught me how to season food by thinking about how I wanted it to taste, then using my nose to select spices and other seasonings to get the result I wanted.

I remember one time, hosting an Indian couple with my ex-wife. I decided that I'd see about making something that would be familiar, but unique, so I did a curry of rabbit. I'd eaten a lot of Indian food, but never really cooked it. Never mind. I went to the market and sniffed some stuff until I had the combination I wanted for the meal. It was a big hit, with the woman telling me that it reminded her of the food she ate as a child and made her nostalgic.

I love food. Guests for dinner always means I create a new dish. I've only failed a few times.

[EFerrari]

96. I love food, too, and that led me to not divorce my first mother in law.

She never measured anything but somehow found the patience to teach me how to boil water and we went from there.

She had that great Women's Day Encyclopedia of Cookery, 12 vols. of EVERYTHING in it.



It's been 30 years but now I never measure anything, either. It's possible to order soup at a restaurant and figure it out to replicate at home. Funny, the way things happen. Lady was great fun and she never laughed at me, not even when my first attempts at a loaf of bread resembled an old tennis shoe sole. lol

[miss_american_pie]

54. Trippy dippy hippie music

from her time living in San Francisco in the seventies.

:hi:

[EFerrari]

61. That was a great time for music here!

:hi:

[Gormy Cuss]

56. Harry Belafonte, Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman,

lots of other swing, jazz, and classical plus a bunch of comedy artists including Bill Cosby, Alan Sherman and
Rusty Warren (:bounce: :bounce:)

[EFerrari]

62. We didn't have any English language stuff except this memorial:

until I was old enough to buy them.

[musette_sf]

75. zomg we had that one too

i think they bought it at the Woolworth's record dept.

[EFerrari]

78. I think there was a 45 of just his Inaugural Address but that may be a fake memory.

Mom and my grandma had JFK stuff all over the place. Photographs, records, books. Mom even bought that paperback of the Warren Commission Report but I doubt she read it.

[musette_sf]

79. the Catholic Connection, i'm guessing?

geez, i remember on Sundays after Mass, all the old Irish blue-hairs would stand outside gabbing, "oh, Jack, he was such a saint", then after June '68 the revised version, "oh, Jack, oh, Bobby, they were such saints".

[EFerrari]

81. Partly. But my mom is a liberal and her mom was a socialist

so it was probably more political than anything. In that first campaign, Grandma used to say Richard Nixon had the face of an assassin.

[EFerrari]

84. There was a 45! Check it out:

Kennedy, John. The voice of President John F Kenndy, a memorial record. None. AA Records. 1961. 0 pps. record. First edition. Softcover. fine copy with no dust jacket. Very unique item of Kennedy memorabilia. The paper sleeve contains: A "Golden Record" 45 rpm original price 29cents. FF-766A " The Voice of President John F. Kennedy" Highlights from his Nomination Acceptance Speech & The Inaugural address, The Oath of Office." "A Memorial Record" The cover shows a head & shoulders photo of the young Kennedy, on one side at the top through part of the title there is a red crayon marking, the reverse side is the same information without the red mark. Overall the piece is very good condition, below the photo "Wide World Photos" "Printed in USA" The record itself is in VERY GOOD condition, may have been played 1 x. The yellow label states "Voice of President John F. Kennedy" "1. Highlight of Nomination Acceptance Speech July 15, 1960" "2. The Oath of Office January 20, 1961" "Narrator, Alexander Scourby Made in USA by AA. Records Inc. Distributed by Affiliated Publishers Division of Pocket books, Inc." The other side."Voice of President John F. Kennedy" "3. Highlightsof the Inaugural Address Washington, D. C. January 20, 1961." We have never seen another one, a wonderful piece of Kennedy memorabilia. Political presidential memorabilia $40.00

http://www.librarybooksales.org/library-list-2002070313383946.html

[Gormy Cuss]

95. What's odd is that I lived in an Irish-American, Roman Catholic neighborhood and I never saw that.

You'd think that every other house would have had one.

[EFerrari]

97. And you know, we'd moved OUT of our Irish Catholic hood

in Daly City and down to Sunnyvale by then. That old neighborhood was SO IRISH that there were people there for whom English was a second language. And as usual, we were the only Latinos. lol

[BlueJazz]

60. Classical and Jazz.

[BuelahWitch]

63. I was raised by a grandmother born in 1911 & a mother nee 1929

So...


(my Noni's favorite)

[EFerrari]

66. Ha! Patsy Cline! Mom listened to her, too. n/t

[JitterbugPerfume]

64. my mom , born in 1918 was from a different era

she had a piano instead of albums, and she would sing and play hymns. As we children grew up we also played our various instruments

Mom loved country music Kiss An Angel Good Morning was played at her funeral and it still brings tears to my eyes when I hear it. She loved Charley Pride and Conway Twitty.

My kids were raised on Bob Dylan , Ray Charles , Al Hirt, Johnny Cash,Willie Nelson ,Janis Joplin and others that I can't recall right now .

[EFerrari]

67. I was surprised to recall so many of the actual album covers

from the late 50s -- until I remembered, they were all in color and television was not yet and it would be a few years before we all sat down with our faces pointed at the tube all night. :)

[tigereye]

69. old musicals, classical and the occasional Beatles album

[hippywife]

70. Lots of stuff like

Dean Martin, Perry Como, Al Hirt, Sergio Mendez, Herb Alpert, etc.

The best ones were these, though:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NFGqfqiGBEQ/SWgIAm0Fj5I/AAAAAAAACUQ/J8rRaRlE7to/s320/Rusty+Warren+in+Orbit.jpg



:rofl:

[EFerrari]

71. LOL! Now, there's some family entertainment, rolling!

Did anyone have Nichols & May? They were so good but I don't know anyone who had them at home. :shrug:

[hippywife]

74. Not that one.

They had other comedy albums but I can't recall them at the moment.

And the Rusty Warren wasn't for our consumption. I only ended up hearing them when they had the rare party and I stayed up and listened when they didn't know.

[timtom]

106. Yep! Got all of 'em.

An Evening With

Improvisations to Music

And that one ("Frieda--if zat woman comes here again: KILL HER!")

[janx]

76. Classical (complete Beethoven included), jazz, two movie soundtracks,

and THIS:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/recsradio/radio/B0000014X6/ref=pd_krex_listen_lm?ie=UTF8&refTagSuffix=lm

:rofl:

I found a CD version and am going to send it to my bro for his 55th birthday! :rofl:

Edited to add pic:

[EFerrari]

77. How cool is that! LOL!

:rofl:

[janx]

80. My father bought a "high fidelity stereo" from a PBS auction

when I was little. That record came with the stereo, I'm guessing because the percussion demonstrated the merits of STEREO. :rofl:

Did you listen to the samples?

[EFerrari]

82. Yeah! They're awesome. We had a "hifi", too.

It came in a big rosewood cabinet and the speeds were 33 1/3, 45 and 78. It wasn't stereo, really, because there was no separation but, my mom was SO proud of that thing.

Music was so hugely important, one of my uncles wired his stereo to every room in his apartment. I don't remember if he did the bathroom, though. Probably! :)

[janx]

85. One of my brothers was heavily into electronics (ham radio, etc.),

and he took his cue from the music we had in the house, both live and recorded. He started building stereos. He had the first "quad" stereo I'd ever heard. I remember listening to the Doobie Brothers on that stereo. It was VERY LOUD.

But YEAH, the cabinet! Definitely! You had to open the cabinet doors to access the speakers and raise the lid to access the radio/turntable, yes?

[EFerrari]

88. Yes, you had to raise the lid to get to the turntable.

That was before most people could afford "components", I guess or maybe, before they were available or something. There was a little bin next to the turn table where you could store 10 or 15 records.

[MilesColtrane]

91. Whooa...

My parents had the same album!

I still remember the weird, out-of-tune guitar solo on "In a Persian Market"!

Are you my long lost sister?

[janx]

104. REALLY?!

:rofl:

[Moondog]

86. Don't remember the specific albums, but -

To lift a bit out of a post I just made over in the Peter, Paul & Mary thread -

I was raised by my father, who was an older man. An unredeemed and unrepentant swing era guy, he listened to a mix of classical (what he called long hair music), the big bands (Glenn Miller, the Dorseys, etc), some Rat Pack stuff (Sinatra, Martin), and a chanteuse from the era named Julie London. He also liked Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald.

[EFerrari]

89. My favorite, oldest uncle's list, too. He had and collected original recordings

of great swing. Somehow, he passed that bug to me and we were like ADDICTS when we found something not already in the collection. My uncle has been gone for 13 years and I'm sorry because he would have LOVED iTunes. :)

[Moondog]

90. Satellite radio has its charms too.

[EFerrari]

92. Oh, definitely. I've never had the patience to sort it out

but he would have had it down and been recording from it already. :)

[debbierlus]

94. Some of those look pretty familiar - here are some from under the fish tank cabinet in the sun porch

Johnny Cash (probably everything he had done up to that point)

Marty Robbins El Paso

Roy Clark Greatest Hits (Yesterday When I Was Young)

Dolly Parton

Loretta Lynn

The Christie Minstrels (Green, Green...It's a Lie)

Kenny Rogers (groan)

Tammy Wynette

Neil Diamond

A few polka and dance albums

Connie Francais

Willie Nelson

Olivia Newton John (Have you Never been Mellow)

[EFerrari]

98. Can you find the covers? That's the really amazing part for me.

I remember ALL of them, maybe even more than the music. :hi:

[Call Me Wesley]

99. Strated out to be cool:

Pink Floyd, Beatles, Louis Armstrong, ELO, Jefferson Airplane, Jethro Tull ...

And then, suddenly, came ABBA, Giorgio Moroder, Middle Of The Road and James Last. That's when lost all faith.

[EFerrari]

100. Don't trip, Call Me Wesley. The love of my life liked Adam Ant.

[timtom]

101. I AM your parents!

My parents didn't have records (which would've been 78's).

I was the record collector and still have the first LP my dad bought for me in Dec. 1956.

All those records you have pictured are most familiar to me, as I used to haunt record stores.

In fact, I have a most amazing collection (not much rock,though).

[EFerrari]

103. LOL! Hat tip to you, timtom!

My grandma didn't have records, either. She had sheet music -- in her head.

What was that first LP?

:)

[timtom]

107. An Angel recording

Herbert von Karajan conducting

Nutcracker Suite and Handel's Water Music Suite.

[EFerrari]

108. I don't know who that is. But the Water Music Suite was big at our house.

I played it so much, my youngest son identified *EVERY* classical recording as "the water music". lol

[Nikia]

102. My dad had and probably still has the Beatles, Harry Chapin, and Billy Joel

They seemed to be his major musical influences. He could sing and perform any one of their songs without music.
My father was a rock musician. Lately, he mostly performs music in non profit settings like church and community theater.

[EFerrari]

105. My first husband, same. I learned a lot about music from him.

Harry Chapin, John Prine, so many people.

I think he still plays and am always checking out the folks that played with him and dined with us over the years. :)

[madrchsod]

109. 50`s crooners , country and western, and sarah vaughn

[EFerrari]

111. I bet a lot of people on this thread could fake "Volare".

:)

[organicbiscuit]

110. Louis Armstrong, Roy Clark, Peter Paul & Mary, Uriah Heep

Many others. Quite diverse.

[mix]

112. Carly Simon, No Secrets

[EFerrari]

114. Look at that beautiful girl. I had that album.

Still have all the lyrics somewhere: "We have no secrets / we know each other very well". lol

[Captain Hilts]

113. Martin Denny's Quiet Village. Henry Mancini.