Music your parents listened to...

Every Sunday morning my dad played Barbra Streisand loudly - a whole LP's worth!! I love her now and will happily listen to her any time

Not really. My parents aren't big music fans, but they do like classical music and jazz. I still am not much of a classical fan - I *appreciate* its quality, etc., but I'd rather listen to other things when I want to listen to music. I do like jazz, but our tastes are pretty divergent. They prefer big band jazz like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, etc. while I prefer more modern jazz like Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, etc..

I can't think of a single piece that I can hear and it makes me nostalgic for "their" music. They just never listened to music all that much, whereas I listen to music all the time.

My father had a love for music that I'm sure my Grandfather listened to, and period music way before that (we're talking gramophone records here) he LOVED vintage music. All the big bands from the 40's also, among other things.. Imagine listening to that every night LOL! I was the only 13 year old I knew around who knew who Edith Piaf, or Fats Waller were, among others. Painful, it was. Then my mother was into country and Elvis. So I know a few too many of those songs also.

Just to add to the pain, they then became involved in Public/community radio, and guess what they played? Vintage music... not just big band and WWI/II era, but also vintage country, and occasionally Elvis. I was not interested in any of it. My dad eventually founded a community station himself.

Imagine my surprise when not only do I recognize all the music 21 years later, but also actually like a small amount of it, AND then I became President for a term of the Community Radio station!

Not really. My parents were the ones who got me into Elvis, The Beatles, The Animals, The Rolling Stones, Same Cooke, Glen Campbell etc etc....... A girlfriend and I even used to sing along with my dad and his guitar to Roger Miller's "The Moon Is High". Very uncool but gee we had a laugh!

And I remember how cool it when my dad commented on what a great voice Jimmy Barnes or Axl Rose had. It made me feel good that he could appreciate my music as well. 

Although my mum's taste in music is a bit on the daggy side. I remember teasing her about the radio station she always listens to. Well, until I realised that I was singing along to every song! 

My mom used to listen to easy listening - Andy Williams, Perry Como. She did like John Denver, though. I kind of like Andy Williams now.

Dad used to wake us up on Sunday mornings with extremely loud Edie Gorme (love songs in Spanish - why we had that record I have no idea) or Willie Nelson. I can appreciate Willie now.

My dad listen to classical music every night. The wildest he got were musicals. I still love this music

One of my earliest memories is learning how to put records on the record player--and the first song I remember putting on was Fats Domino's Kansas City. I loved it. Otherwise, some of their music I liked; some not so much.

Loved: Roy Orbison, Harry Nilsson, the early R & R Elvis, the Wichita Lineman-era Glen Campbell, Diana Ross & the Supremes, Willie Nelson, CCR, Three Dog Night

Not so much: Tom Jones, Engelbert Humperdinck, Dean Martin

Thanks to my mom, I'll always have a special place in my heart for retro country and Elvis. ♡♡♡

My mom grew up in the 50's, so that's what she listened to.  I didn't hate it, but it certainly wasn't as *cool* as my 80's music, lol.  Of course I love it now.

Funny you should bring this up because the other day I was thinking how I knew a lot of the songs & artists from the 50's because of my mom, but my kids don't know much about music from the 70's & 80's.  Just wondering why that is?

My mom liked country and I never really have, but in my head I can still hear her singing songs like Delta Dawn and Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue. I never come across them, do they still even play those on the radio I wonder?

My parents listened to Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Perry Como and watched Lawrence Welk every Saturday night 
I grew up in the 60s and 70s. Our music ROCKED!! Lol!

I grew up in a house that didn't have a tv for a good portion of my childhood, and the times we did, there were only three channels (I think we didn't have cable.) But music? Oh my, there was music all the time. My mom was really young when she had me, so she was still younger than all my friends parents. 

My mom listened to every kind of music there was-including popular music of the time. I grew up listening to Pink Floyd, going to bluegrass festivals, her friends playing guitar (John Denver,) watching her dance to Handel's Messiah at Christmas while making sugar cookies and singing with her at the top of our lungs to Linda Rhondstat, Lynard Skynard, the Allman Brothers, Jimmy Buffet and the Eagles. When I think about childhood memories, they always have a musical soundtrack.

I do the same, music all the time, and my tastes vary as much as hers. I still listen to the music of my childhood but also love some very current music too. My kids say that my taste isn't eclectic, it's schizophrenic. 

My dad actually met Sinatra at the Sands, my dad was with a group of friends. It was the night Sinatra's mother passed away. After his show, Sinatra came into the bar at the Sands and bought the entire bar a drink, my dad included. My dad said he wasn't going to brush his teeth for a month cause he drank from a glass of vodka that Sinatra bought!

My parents listened to big bands, some late 50's/early 60's folk and some country. My Dad also loved musicals and he had lots of soundtracks from musicals in his record collection. I like a lot of this stuff and, in general, my musical tastes are pretty eclectic.

When my Dad was young, he had his own polka band...so there's that too. The area where I grew up was heavily settled by German and Scandinavian people and it was very common to have polka bands for weddings and other big parties. Up until the time that I was in middle school, there were dance halls around that had these bands as well and my parents and grandparents would go out dancing at those places. And on Sunday mornings, you could tune into the Sunday Morning Polka Party on a local T.V. station. I remember seeing my grandparents on there a few times.

Last weekend, me and my sister had a rummage sale and were open for a half day on Sunday. We were trying to decide what kind of music to play and stumbled upon a radio station playing polkas. It was perfect. So, while I don't really love polka, it's very nostalgic for me and I enjoy hearing it from time to time.