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Records your parents listened to that you enjoyed(Please share)
- Thread starter FunkHead
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I had sold all my bass gear and was struggling as a new father & newlywed as many before me. My mom bought me a Fender Jazz bass & amp knowing I needed them to stay sane. That was 34 years ago and I have played almost every day since then...except for only weekends when I drove trucks for 11 years.
Yeah! Joe Jackson was/is great.
I can't tell what video you linked (it says unavailable here).
This one still sounds as good as it ever did.
I think I still have the 45 single. They were still releasing them in the early 80s.
Mom liked Perry Como and all the crooners. But the album I immediately thought of was this one lol.
She had all the Elvis albums.
Dad just listened to Country am radio.
This was the 60's.
I still have the Bald Bill Hagan lp.
She had all the Elvis albums.
Dad just listened to Country am radio.
This was the 60's.
I still have the Bald Bill Hagan lp.
Hi-Fi - Stan Kenton
The Thundering Herds - Woody Herman
Live at the Palladium - Les Brown
Man with a Horn, Round Bout Midnight, Sketches of Spain - Miles
MJQ, Brubeck, Kai Winding & JJ Johnson, Gerry Mulligan
Mingus x 5, and Ah Um
Live at Carnagie Hall - Harry Belafonte
Genius Hits the Road - Ray Charles
Kingston Trio, At Large, at the Hungry i
After Feb 9, 1964 (I was 8) thje Hi-Fi pretty much gave way to rock, so as a fam we grew along with all of that.
After I moved out and later in the late '80s my Dad turned me on to SRV Double Trouble, Emmy Lou Harris, solo Fogerty, Willie.
The Thundering Herds - Woody Herman
Live at the Palladium - Les Brown
Man with a Horn, Round Bout Midnight, Sketches of Spain - Miles
MJQ, Brubeck, Kai Winding & JJ Johnson, Gerry Mulligan
Mingus x 5, and Ah Um
Live at Carnagie Hall - Harry Belafonte
Genius Hits the Road - Ray Charles
Kingston Trio, At Large, at the Hungry i
After Feb 9, 1964 (I was 8) thje Hi-Fi pretty much gave way to rock, so as a fam we grew along with all of that.
After I moved out and later in the late '80s my Dad turned me on to SRV Double Trouble, Emmy Lou Harris, solo Fogerty, Willie.
That tune wound up #5 on the Billboard Top 100 list in '62 as well. (Written in 1958)
Remember this commercial ?
I'd totally forgotten until I just watched it again.
Triggered a recall of the "greasy kid stuff" ad for Vitalis.
Another song, from a 1967, that also made the Top 40.
(Hey, these are technically legit, because mom and dad owned the TVs.)
Looking at these, 1967 might as well be a different world, things have changed so much.
And...looking at that avatar (I think that's what they're called), I remembered the name of the guy who did Spy V. Spy: Sergio Aragones. The guy is still working! (I just looked it up.)
Even taking the stripper aspect out of it, that is one great musical piece!
That beat!
Them horns!
Yeah, but that stuff is downright dangerous, the way it sticks in your brain.Even taking the stripper aspect out of it, that is one great musical piece!
That beat!
David Rose: one of the most dangerous guys of all.
Brain science has actually studied it - his stuff is located in that center, brighter node.
Right next to Nelson Riddle, Theme from Route 66.
Holiday for Strings...once/first heard, age three months, in the crib, and it's in there forever.
Nothing you can do about it, no matter how much you try.
Electroshock, prefrontal lobotomy...forget it, won't work.
I tried. All I could do was see June Cleaver pulling something out of the oven for a week.
But this one helps innoculate from the worst effects.
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That should be titled, "Generic 1950s-1960s Family TV Show Theme Music."
Yeah, it's pretty much the Platonic Ideal from which all the others devolved.
The sound track to shiny appliances, and moms in dresses with aprons over them.
Wasn't such a bad era all in all.
Maybe I'm old, but it's hard for me to get used to the idea of moms with tattoos.
Pops was totally into Mantovani, Percy Faith, Theme Music etc... back then it was called Beautiful Music, I've heard it called MOR (middle of the road), I've heard it called Torch, or Mood... he even had this one album of beautiful music that was done in Hawaiian style and often in the distance you could hear thunder... it was pretty chill, but I liked listening to it. Pops was an audiophile and had the HiFi to prove it! It really sounded good on that and he played all it day long. I still dig listening to HiFi...eventually he upgraded to a homebrew tube stereo... pops was pretty good friends with one of the engineers over at the Conrad Johnson shop in Merrifield Virginia and he built a chassis around their design. He and two other engineer buddies Henry Morgan and George Bromfield all made replica Conrad Johnson amplifiers... those three dudes could make anything electronic and wow it was amazing.
My first bass amp was a Wurlitzer jukebox amp he turned into a project and it sounded awesome!
My mom? Couldn't carry a tune in a bucket but she loved Vaughn Monroe and from what I understand Vaughn Monroe was "sickly sweet music" and quite the crooner, she absolutely loved his voice.
My job, or chore was to take albums that he had borrowed or checked out of the library and put them on reel to reel.
I gained a lot of musical exposure from listening to those tunes because they were always playing... he worked in an office in the basement doing electronic sales after he retired so the stereo was on all day long.
My first bass amp was a Wurlitzer jukebox amp he turned into a project and it sounded awesome!
My mom? Couldn't carry a tune in a bucket but she loved Vaughn Monroe and from what I understand Vaughn Monroe was "sickly sweet music" and quite the crooner, she absolutely loved his voice.
My job, or chore was to take albums that he had borrowed or checked out of the library and put them on reel to reel.
I gained a lot of musical exposure from listening to those tunes because they were always playing... he worked in an office in the basement doing electronic sales after he retired so the stereo was on all day long.
Tube Hi-Fi. Yep, it was the first thing my dad when he could afford it. He had until long after I moved away. It never hit me until after they moved out of the old place. It was incredible how good those sounded. Yeah, "beautiful music", or sometimes "instrumental classics", the label sections even in places like Tower Records, I got some CD compilations later, Percy Faith, the instrumental groups. There were a couple of radio stations in Seattle that played the music well into the 80s. I joke (too much sometimes), but a lot of that stuff was actually really good, another genre, the way they used the studio, the sounds they got, like the last of the big bands in a certain way. It was reflective of the time, gone away...
I grew up listening to what my dad played on the record player (and by extension the 8 tracks and cassettes of mixed music he made from his record collection). Beatles, Beach Boys, Gary Puckett & the Union Gap, Tommy James & the Shondells, Roy Orbison, The Mamas and the Papas, Paul Mauriat and his orchestra...lots of stuff from the 60s basically.
When I was a kid my grandparents gave me sone old folk albums, Harry Belafonte Live at Carnegie Hall, The Village Stompers, The Kingston Trio, etc. I spent many happy hours listening to those on a “phonograph”.
Dad had a friend who was country so it was Chet Atkins, Roger Miller, Eddie Arnold, Roy Acuff, Hank Williams, etc. He taught me some guitar chords and got me started on this crazy journey.
Mom was more into Jazz so she listened to Carmen McRae, Ramsey Lewis, Billy Eckstine, Barbara Streisand, and of course Herb Alpert.
Then the Beatles happened and that was it for me.
Dad had a friend who was country so it was Chet Atkins, Roger Miller, Eddie Arnold, Roy Acuff, Hank Williams, etc. He taught me some guitar chords and got me started on this crazy journey.
Mom was more into Jazz so she listened to Carmen McRae, Ramsey Lewis, Billy Eckstine, Barbara Streisand, and of course Herb Alpert.
Then the Beatles happened and that was it for me.
The Beatles changed everything, without a doubt.
In another thread: the indelible memory of seeing and hearing that first Capitol release album, Meet The Beatles, 1964, that black and white cover, their four faces, with that haircut, at my cousins' house. My cousins still slicked back their hair like the 1950s DAs, but we were all crazy for that album.
What I didn't know until a few years ago, reading the Philip Norman book Shout!: the connection between the music of our parent's generation, and the Beatles.
Bert Kaempfert, the guy who did Wonderland by Night and That Happy Feeling (my dad had it, I bought it again in the early 80s, still sounds kind of cool), produced one of their first recording sessions done for a label, back when they were still punks in Hamburg.
- "Cry for a Shadow" written by George Harrison and John Lennon:
One of the first bass lines that ever got stuck in my head, Ladi Geisler on a Fender Jazz.
(Dang, you can hear a little oompah flavor in there too...)
In another thread: the indelible memory of seeing and hearing that first Capitol release album, Meet The Beatles, 1964, that black and white cover, their four faces, with that haircut, at my cousins' house. My cousins still slicked back their hair like the 1950s DAs, but we were all crazy for that album.
What I didn't know until a few years ago, reading the Philip Norman book Shout!: the connection between the music of our parent's generation, and the Beatles.
Bert Kaempfert, the guy who did Wonderland by Night and That Happy Feeling (my dad had it, I bought it again in the early 80s, still sounds kind of cool), produced one of their first recording sessions done for a label, back when they were still punks in Hamburg.
- "Cry for a Shadow" written by George Harrison and John Lennon:
One of the first bass lines that ever got stuck in my head, Ladi Geisler on a Fender Jazz.
(Dang, you can hear a little oompah flavor in there too...)
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Some of the cheesy orchestral interlude music on the Moody Blues’ Days Of Future Past reminded me of “Holiday…”.
I like this version better, it explores the darker side behind the facade of that era…