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In another thread, mechi mentioned her parents' musical listening prefs, and it got me wondering:

What type of music were your folks into ? We've had several discussions on what our spouse/ SO/ partner listens to, but I think a great generational glipmse could be had by some parental music. What do you say?

Mine: my mum was into the "cooler" music--Rolling Stones (esp. the early stuff), Led Zep, CSNY, Yardbirds, Three Dog Night, etc. My Pop, a real audiophile, was into more folksy-tinged and Oldies Pop: Kingston Trio, Slim Whitman, Beatles, old country, & Oldies stuff. My mum always joked the early Beatles were too goody-goody and my Pop joked back that the Stones were dirty. Oh yeah, and they both love Willie Nelson.

My parents are both into stuff like the Beatles, the Everly Brothers and Elvis Presley. Seperately, my father is huge into Spanish folk music like Trio Los Panchos for example. My mother's into more folky artists too like Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins and Simon & Garfunkel. Both have had an impact in my musical tastes and it's nice to share an admiration of these artists with them. Now if only I could get them into New Order or the Pet Shop Boys.....[:p][:D]

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OK, I have my mother here right now. She, her brothers and sisters jived to all sorts of stuff including:

Cliff Richardson
Jim Reeves
Pat Boone
The Merry Men
Buddy Holly
Harry Belafonte
Miriam Makeba

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My Dad liked the standard late 50's to mid-60's oldies format with a particular affinity for Lloyd Price. I grew up basically listening to the same stuff (it was always on) so I wound up having an extensive knowledge of early R-n-R.

My Mom liked anything current(including New Wave as it was happening). Also all the top 40 stuff up 'till about 1999 when she more or less dropped out of listening to music altogether.

They divorced (obviously!) when I was about 4 and my father later remerried. His 2nd wife seemed to have a lot of Bobby Goldsboro and Olivia Newton John records (he married younger..the sly devil).

My mom doesn't listen to music of any kind. Her left eardrum was busted at an early age, and it scarred, so music on any kind of stereo system always irritated her. My dad (when mom wasn't around) would listen to Sha Na Na, Tom Jones, Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, Beach Boys, Dick Dale, Jan & Dean, The Righteous Brothers, Neil Diamond (ugh...), Henry Mancini, Sinatra, Dean Martin, Elvis Presley, Louie Armstrong, too many to mention.(I got my appreciation for movie soundtrack music from him). My musical tastes at home were mostly influenced by my sister. She was into Earth Wind & Fire and all forms of disco (good and bad) and a lot of punk. My oldest brother listened mostly to shit(corporate rock), with an occasional new wave record (he liked Falco and The Thompson Twins), and my other brother was into weird ass asian music (well, he is vietnamese by birth) and Electric Light Orchestra. My best friend growing up listened mostly to funk music (Parliament, Zapp), so that rubbed off too.

"Never give a sucker an even break, or smarten up a chump" W.C. Fields

My mother grew up in the 50's, so she was very into all the old rock stuff - Elvis, Everly Brothers, Chuck Berry, Platters & Fats Domino. They were also into Hank Williams, Johnny Cash & alot of the slicker country stuff - Eddy Arnold, Jim Reeves & Patsy Cline. My father seemed to like Dean Martin & Patti Page (the singing rage! [8D]) quite a bit.
Then the 70's hit, and my mom was totally into Tom Jones for a while, then took on Barry Manilow. Quite a jump...

My parents were--and still are--country music fans. They listened to crap like Alabama, Barbara Mandrell, etc. My first ever record, that I played on my little red and white record player, was by Ronnie Milsap.

On day, when I was in the fifth grade, my mom came home with Culture Club's "Karma Chameleon" record. To this day, I don't know what possessed her to buy such a thing, but I'm glad she did. It completely changed everything for me. [:)]

My mom also had Blondie's "Heart of Glass." That record also made its way from under her stereo to mine [:)]

My parents weren't Beatles fans, and they sure as heck didn't like anything like the Stones or Led Zepplin. Other than country, they were/are huge Elvis fans.

To this day, I don't care much for country music and I can't stand Elvis.

Father - Opera
Mother - Big Band

Herb Alpert (I must have spent hours staring at the cover of the Whipped Cream and Other Delights album)
Boots Randolph
Sergio Mendes
Bob Newhart comedy LPs

Both my parents came from the poodle skirt & leather jacket era. They both enjoy "oldies" (50's & 60's rock) & it's what me & my sisters had to grow up listening to.
They missed being "hippies" by just a few years...[:p]

I guess my folks are bit older than everybody elses here. Their teenage years were the late 1930s and early 40s, so Big Band is really <I>their[/i] music. They look at Rock'N'Roll with the same kind of disdain we have for Hip-Hop and Rap. [:I]

My father doesn't really listen to much music, but my mother enjoys Big Band and Classical.

[quote][i]Originally posted by buffalochipz[/i]
<br>Herb Alpert (I must have spent hours staring at the cover of the Whipped Cream and Other Delights album)
Boots Randolph
Sergio Mendes
Bob Newhart comedy LPs
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Yes, I remember the Herb Alpert cover well [:D]. Along with Herb and Mr. Mendes, my parents loved stuff like Johnny Mathis, Vicki Carr, Bobby Darin ..... about the closest they got to liking anything released in the 70's was the occasional Carpenters album.

But I will give them tons of credit. They never once objected to anything I'd bring home and even used to drive me the 140 miles roundtrip to the nearest "big" city just so I could buy punk records. I'll have to ask my Dad if he still remembers the lyrics to "Kill The Poor". [:D]

My dad was the one who always listened to music when I grew up. He loves all the 50 and early 60's rock and roll. The Diamonds, Lil' Darlin was a favorite of my moms. Dad also listend to Johnny Cash A LOT. Along with some big band stuff.
Dad always had the oldies station on the radio or an album on the turntable when I was growing up. He still listens to music very loudly I might add. Sometimes when I pull up to the house and he is working in the garage, I scare the shit out of him because he can't hear me come up the driveway. [:D]
And he finally got a new car with a cd player so he can listen to his music in the car now, since there are no decent stations left in New York.

My parents=What was on the radio,cause they were not into music and they sure as hell would,nt buy music.

I'm old therefore my parents were all kinds of old. My father was obsessed with Al Jolson (who?). My sister and I were subjected to hearing his "Swanny" records -- corny beyond belief, not too mention not very PC either. I just never "got" Jolson but then I was several generations removed from his heyday.

One day a couple of years ago I was home sick watching Turner Classic Movies. Tthey aired Jolson in "Rose of Washington Square." I was amazed to see how ell his performing talent translated to film, much more so than listening to Dad's old LPs. I can understand why Jolson's performance in "The Jazz Singer" contributed so much to putting the nail in the coffin of silent film.

DayGloJo

Country. And polkas. Blech. Even though my parents were in high school in the 1950's, the rock and roll revolution completely passed them by (they lived on farms in the midwest). To this day I absolutely detest country music. But I will dance the occasional polka with my dad at a wedding or other suitably schmaltzy midwestern occasion.

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