Yesterday I really enjoyed reading Laurie's Musings. She wrote about her eclectic taste in music; how she grew up influenced by music from many generations. That's the way it was for me, too. Personally I think everyone should at least be exposed to lots of types and generations of music. You never know what you might have missed out on otherwise.
I am the youngest of seven, born in 1966. My parents were in their forties when I was born. My oldest sister was 18. The sister closest to me in age was 6. So I grew up listening to music from my parents' generation -- music of the thirties and forties, including big band music, The Andrew's Sisters, Bing Crosby, Gene Autry and Tex Ritter, and the list could go on........
But then I was also exposed to music from the fifties -- Elvis (although none of my siblings were huge Elvis fans my one and only sister-in-law was!), Fats Domino, Bill Haley and the Comets, The Sons of the Pioneers, Sonny James and that list could go on; music from the sixties -- The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, The Hollies, The Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul and Mary, etc...........; then I was growing up in the seventies and eighties and liked a broad spectrum of music then, too. I listen to a lot of the groups my 15 year old listens to, and sometimes it freaks out his friends!
I can remember an old victrola that my Dad had that played the old cylindar records. I can't remember what we listened to on it, though. I think some of them were recordings from old radio shows. I remember a line from one of them that went: "I'll meet you at the train station. If you get there first, draw a line in the dirt. If I get there first, I'll rub it out!" He also had a lot of old 78 records. I remember one that he had that had polka music on it. He taught me and my oldest niece (only three years younger than me) how to polka and we would dance around the living room to it.
I like most old country and western music and some new country; I like Bluegrass, folk, big band, show tunes, some blues, some classical, some jazz, old rock and roll, classic seventies rock, eighties music (especially from my high school years!), and quite a bit of nineties and contemporary music. I guess the only music I don't really care for is most hip hop (rap) music. If it's clean and catchy, then I can handle it. But so much of it isn't clean, and I really don't like the hip hop lifestyle.
Oh well, just thought I'd share my eclectic taste in music as well. Thank you Laurie. You made me think of some artists and songs that I hadn't thought of in awhile.
