What music did your parents play that rubbed off on you?

My parents weren't big music fans, but when they did listen to music, it was southern gospel. So, I would have to say "none."

 

My parents weren't big music fans, but when they did listen to music, it was southern gospel. So, I would have to say "none."

 

Ha ha someone made the same error I did on another thread

 

Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, CCR, and The Rolling Stones are the main 4 that spring to mind

 

The Ventures, Herb Alpert

 

Mom: Beatles, Martin Denny, show tunes (especially Man of La Mancha) and lots of star-goes-latin albums (Peggy Lee, Dino, Al Martino, etc.)
Dad: Opera, Pop Jazz
Step-Dad: Jug Bands, Hank Snow, Johnny Cash, Beach Boys
I was lucky enough to grow up in a house where there was always music and very eclectic, which I'm sure is why I tend to like just about everything.

 

Nothing thank the heavens. lthough taste ia in the eye of the behokder I can savely say that their taste in music absolutely sucks.

 

Nothing at all. My parents weren't music nuts. In the mid 60s they only had two singles (Acker Bilkand and Kenny Ball). Later on they had a few LPs (Sinatra, Mantovani and Shirley Bassey).

 

Great 1950's Rock N Roll. Even some Tom Jones and Engelbert.

 

Everything.........The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Hollies, Simon & Garfunkel, Gerry & The Pacemakers, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles.

While not all of those acts are to my musical tastes it did unleash a desire to go in search of music. It made me realise that I needed to look further than todays chart music. I have no doubt that if I had not been introduced to my parents music then I would not have found what I listen to today.

 

All classical and wonderful Windham Hill pianist named Liz Story. Like some others my Ma actually picked up some of my stuff, Pink Floyd in particular. It was wonderful late at night to hear her playing the last of Shine On You Diamond on our old upright piano.

 

My dad is Elvis' age, my mom is the age of Ringo and John but they were pretty far removed from Rock and Roll. They did have the US HELP! ablum and a bunch old Hollyridge Strings records. My mom had a half dozen Johnny Cash albums. Later they got Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits and Carole King's Tapestry. My dad worked with Garfunkel's brother in Greenwich Village in the early 60s (non-musical job - I can't recall where exactly). But he was either not immersed in that scene or he's just not telling!

 

Oh, come on....EVERY house in the 60s had Acker Bilk and Kenny Ball's Jazzmen singles. It was the law. I'd put money on the two they had were 'March Of The Siamese Children' and 'Strangers On The Shore'. My copies are in the loft. My parents would throw lightning bolts down at the house if I'd tried to sneak them into a jumble-sale bag.

 

British Invasion artists, funk bands, and disco!

 

I can't remember which Kenny Ball single it was but the Bilk one certainly was 'Strangers On The Shore' (it was "their song").

 

Beatles, Bacharach, Bossa Nova

 

Dad-Beatles, Phil Ochs mostly.
Mom-Laura Nyro.

 

None. I hated all the music my parents listened to which was mostly late 70s rock. My mom was into the Beatles when she was a girl and she sat me down and made me watch Imagine which made me a lifelong fan, so there's that.

 

Sergio Mendes, Carpenters, dodgy late 70s Rod Stewart, Hot August Night, a catalogue of guilty pleasures really.

 

Mom: Lots of Doo-Wop from the late 50s early 60s and Billy Joel!

 

My father used to drive me to school. Most of the time he had either Jim Croce or Gordon Lightfoot in the tape deck. I grew to appreciate both.

 

Dean Martin, and Al Martino. Was reminded of Martino the other day, when re-watching the Godfather (he pretty much plays his own character I think, but had a great voice).

In return they got Led Zep, Creedence, Motown and Stax....

 

Not a specific genre but my mother used to play 4 albums (8 tracks actually!) that are still among my top 3 albums of all time-
Linda Ronstadt-Hasten Down The Wind
Emmylou Harris-Luxury Liner
Olivia Newton-John-Come on Over and If You Love Me, Let Me Know

I can still picture her coming home from work, lighting the candle in the giant brandy snifter looking holder and sliding in the 8 track.

 

Sleep
Cannibal Corpse
Death
Death Angel

 

Some from Dad and some from Mom, but I'm listing them together .....Beatles, Genesis, Billy Joel, Fleetwood Mac, The Moody Blues, Michael Jackson, Boston, Paul Simon....there are others I'm sure but these are some direct artists that I took from my parents. But I also expanded on my own with this as a base so can be partially credited to my parents as well. I've always skewed a bit towards older music rather than the current music I grew up with and that's because I took to my parents music and I didn't find the same quality, to my tastes, in contemporary music growing up. There was some, but not as much as before.