Is there a singer or band that your parents listened to that you actually like

[steelemagnolia]

My parents listened to The Mamas and the Papas and I really enjoy their music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7KrlDZ5Hkw Monday, Monday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wI6uAOHzvo California Dreamin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqeovolhNSk I Saw Her Again Last Night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ4wGPkjgkY I'll Call Your Name
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5IHHXOXOMk Straight Shooter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3M1xaAb0uI Dedicated to the One I Love


to name a few....

[TZ]

1. Almost all the music I love is what my mom loves

Rolling Stones, Queen, Supertramp, Styx,The Who, Led Zepplin.....

[kineneb]

2. Santana, CCR

[MissMillie]

69. I'm going to see Carlos Santana on Friday

I'm pretty psyched about it.

[Richardo]

3. Nat King Cole

:thumbsup:

[azmouse]

39. His was the best voice ever!

I never get tired of hearing his songs.

[seemunkee]

4. Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass

They were the first concert I ever went to. I must have been ~9 at the time. I was listening to the Rewhipped CD in the car today.

[steelemagnolia]

12. Love "Rise"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ennMD1fPtXA

[Midlodemocrat]

18. Same here. Along with the Brothers Four. Love, love, love them.

[quip]

63. Yup. Along with The New Christy Minstrels, The Kingston Trio, and the Weavers

[DarkTirade]

5. Little band from England.

You may have heard of them... The Beatles. :P

[Droopy]

6. The Beatles and Johnny Cash

They don't like my music at all, though. I like metal and that stuff they call alternative.

[JTG of the PRB]

7. The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Queen, Led Zeppelin, The Who... Lots of them, actually.

My parents have been big rock fans for a long time, and I've become a big rock fan myself.

[Cant trust em]

8. My parents are children of the 60's

their music is the best ever. I don't understand the kids of my generation who blow off their parents music.

[Whoa_Nelly]

9. My parents were born the early part of the 20th C.

Dad--1918
Mom--1921

I grew up listening to swing

And still like to hear these tunes by Glenn Miller Orchestra

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR3K5uB-wMA&feature=related In The Mood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00giGIsauiQ&feature=related Chattanooga Choo Choo

And one of my still all-time favorites as sung by Nat King Cole
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq0XJCJ1Srw Nature Boy

(When I was a kid, my dad, who sang beautifully, would sing this to me anytime I asked)

[steelemagnolia]

16. Those are great songs - I love them all eom

[SalmonChantedEvening]

19. Same here

American Patrol, String of Pearls

Anything by either Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, you name it.

Dad used to play it on Sunday nights when we were on our way home from church.

[Crabby Appleton]

23. Great music - my parents were of that period

love the big band sound like Glenn Miller

and these guys - the Mills Brothers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txGEMeZEUGc

[taterguy]

10. Johnny Cash

[Skittles]

30. oh yes

was a fan as a child; still am

[Reverend_Smitty]

11. My parents were teenagers in the 1970's...

so pretty much everything they like, I like as well. What can I say, I was a child raised on rock and roll! :headbang:

[steelemagnolia]

14. Love the music of the 70's.....those were my "growing up" years eom

[last_texas_dem]

13. Yeah

The majority of the music I like is three or four decades old. In fact, I know and like more music from my parent's generation than they do!

[Call Me Wesley]

15. Yes, quite a few:

Zappa, Pink Floyd, Beatles, everything Jazz, and many more - I still have the whole vinyl collection. ;)

[Joe Chi Minh]

17. One of the great things about the sixties, imo, which reflected the extraordinary

exuberance and imaginativeness of the young people of the day, was the craziness of many of the names of the singers and groups, such as, for example, The Loving Spoonfuls; and also of the words, for example, The Mighty Quinn. But there were a host of others. They seem so humorous, folksy and human.

[LiberalEsto]

20. My mom loved Louis Armstrong

and I do too.

[hellbound-liberal]

21. Since somebody already mentioned The Glenn Miller Orchestra, I'll go with this guy

Benny Goodman-Sing, Sing, Sing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mJ4dpNal_k

You could add Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Judy Garland, Ella Fitzgerald and Doris Day as well. I like them all!

[LeftyMom]

22. My parents actually have pretty good taste in music.

They're pretty much the only boomers I know whose music collections have changed significantly since 1972.

[Alexander]

24. Bob Seger

My parents were at the very concert recorded for his "Live Bullet" album.

Foghat was the opening band.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

25. Uhm, all of them.

I'm a Millennial who listens to 'Boomer music, as well as old school jazz (got some Ellington rolling right now). So I span two generations. :D

[Bennyboy]

26. God no.....

My parents like the swing era and elevator MUZAK. And I will enver be able to get into that past a couple of songs.

[hippywife]

27. Lots of them!

My dad listened to Big Band and my mom to country. Now I didn't like the country and still don't but I have come to appreciate some of the old time country artists.

[InvisibleTouch]

28. Not my parents, but...

...I like a lot of my grandmother's favorite music. She doesn't always like mine, though!

[GOPisEvil]

29. My dad and I both really like Merle Haggard.

[Skittles]

32. Merle :(

I worked with a gal who lived with Townes Van Zandt and his wife and Merle was one of his, er, "guests". Gawd, what a pig.

[GOPisEvil]

40. Merle was a huge mess for a lot of years.

In the last few years he's gotten things together. Sobriety helped.

[Skittles]

46. ooh, back then so was Townes

contributed to his early death, I'm sure :(

[Skittles]

31. Otis Redding

my dad was a huge fan and I grew up listening to Otis. Sadly, my dad was stationed at an airfield in Madison Wisconsin so we were living there when Otis was killed.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

33. There's a lot of fantastic music that came along ahead of us.

Just one, for example: Glen Miller http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00giGIsauiQ

On edit: I shoulda said "The Glen Miller ORCHESTRA"- many fine musicians took part in this one!

[Mike03]

34. Sinatra. My dad loves Sinatra.

My mom loves Dylan.

[July]

44. Oh, the memories.

I think all five of us kids are Sinatra fans just because of Dad. Listened to him with Dad countless times, learned all the words to many songs. And we were 60's/70's critters -- but we still can sing "When I Was Seventeen," "That's Life," and "New York, New York" Sinatra-style!

[BulletproofLandshark]

35. Yeah, lots of them

Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Bad Company are definitely the ones that resonate most with both me and my parents though.

[ornotna]

36. You bet

This is just s couple of them.


Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=DxK-7rZiwWo

Frank Fontaine

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=14LbB1A_nFM

[Cabcere]

37. Several, actually.

:) My parents were born in the mid-50s, so my mom was really into The Beatles as a kid, and of course I really like them too. She also has several Simon & Garfunkel albums, and occasionally listens to James Taylor, and I enjoy the music of both of those artists from time to time...good stuff. :)

My dad is more into Celtic instrumental music, which I also like, but I don't know that he has a preference for any specific artist/band in that genre. :shrug: :hi:

Edited to add that I probably listen to more music from my parents' generation than they did growing up, lol. :P

[RevolutionaryActs]

38. All of them.

To be completely honest, I can't think of one song my mom likes that I don't. Now I can think of newer songs I like that my mom doesn't, but that's besides the point. :P

[lost-in-nj]

41. We used to listen

to the Opera on Saturday while me and Mom cleaned

I love some of the Arias and singers.......
and one or 2 Operas


I listened to their music and liked it....
I remember my Dad saying....

keep an eye on this one.... she is going to go far... her voice is like an instrument....

yeah

he was talking about Barbra Striesand.....


lost

[IzaSparrow]

42. Tears for Fears

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOA4ixV-3jU

[Fire Walk With Me]

43. Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra

[littlebit]

45. My dad got me hooked on

blues music. He is coming to NC in may to take me to a BB King concert for my birthday.

[Firespirit]

47. I'm revealing my age with this, but oh well

Simon and Garfunkel, Bruce Springsteen, Cyndi Lauper, The Cars, Queen.

My dad isn't into music, but my mom is. They were actually born in the 50s, but she kept up with popular music well into her late 30s. :hi:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

48. Loretta Lynn.

My mother worships the woman. And she's not bad. Her songs are kind of catchy.
And Alan Jackson, Brad Paisley, and a few others.
Duckie

[AwakeAtLast]

49. My Dad adores John Prine

I like him, but not as much as my Dad.

We really don't agree on much else as far as musical taste goes. He sometimes listens to Spanish Flamenco! Um, not my cup of tea. ;)

[AwakeAtLast]

50. Self-delete - double posted!

Sorry! :blush:

[Forkboy]

51. Neil Diamond, Three Dog Night, Johnny Cash....

I'm sure there are others. My father is a big music guy, and I know it's where my love of music originated. He always had music playing, though during his disco days I would have preferred he didn't. :puke:

I went to his house one day last summer and when I knocked I heard Master Of Puppets blaring from inside. Not many 72 years olds get into that stuff. :)

[KitchenWitch]

52. My mom is a rocker...

I love her taste in music.

My dad... not so much.

[Withywindle]

53. Too many to count!

My dad likes the Kinks, Rolling Stones, Captain Beefheart, the Clash, the Ramones, the Pogues, the Mekons, Nick Cave, the Fall, the Cramps, Buddy Holly, Hasil Adkins, Thelonius Monk...he's 64 but he never generationally "froze", he keeps up - we trade stuff all the time.

My mom is really into Middle Eastern and South Asian music - everything from bhangra to gamelan. She travels and we trade stuff too. Just last fall she burned me a CD of amazing Sufi music from Turkey.

They both like classical and opera. Mom also has a soft spot for Ronnie James Dio.

I had to go to pretty extreme stuff (for the time, when I was a kid in the 80s) if I wanted to "rebel." They never warmed up much to Sonic Youth or Diamanda Galas, thank god. :D Except for RJD, metal would usually clear the house too except my dad started to like Motorhead. The albums I left behind when I went to college, he swiped.

[elleng]

54. Well, as I'm apparently your parent's age,

I have to agree!

MY parents, on the other hand, well, that's another story!

[stratomagi]

55. Unfortunately since they didn't grow up here and I did

our music tastes are way off. I could never get into Romanian folk music. Blech. I remember growing up my mom liked ABBA and Blondie. From their era I like things like Hendrix and Zepplin and Floyd which they were never into.

[enigmatic]

56. Sinatra

Only the 50's Saloon Singer version, though:

[clyrc]

57. Etta James

I stole my dad's Etta James record when I left Oklahoma. It's scratchy but still sounds pretty good.

[Lady Freedom]

58. Boston and Fleetwood Mac

[kwassa]

59. Most of them. They had great taste in jazz and classical music.

My father thought music went all to hell when it was electrified. He liked older jazz as well as the stuff he grew up with, also.

[distantearlywarning]

60. John Denver.

I associate his music with a very happy childhood, and am sentimental about it to this day.

[annonymous]

61. My father was a big Johnny Cash fan

My father had many faults but his taste in music was not one of them. He also liked Simon & Garfunkle and the Kingston Trio.

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

62. Tony Bennett.

I've grown to appreciate him more over the years. 81 years old, and he can still wow a crowd!

[Broken_Hero]

64. Yes,

Mom's music:

Sheena Easton
Journey
Chicago
Air Supply
Celine Dion
Garth Brooks

Dads Music:
The Doors
The Mama's and the Papa's
Herman and the Hermits
Del Shannon
Drifters
Johnny Paycheck(yeah, its corny, but I like it)
The Rightchous Brothers
The Kingsman


To name a few that is...I was a lot more partial to my fathers music, which was a lot of 50's/60's rock...my mom's side, not so much, but some of it was okay. My mother really liked Marie Osmond and Dolly Parton, but they never really grown on me, not that I hate their music.

[Ava]

65. most, my parents have good taste in music

mom and jeremy(my stepdad) both have good taste in music. although there is some that i dislike(like kc and the sunshine band.. blech) i generally like the same music as them. CCR, Blondie, ACDC, rolling stones, jimi hendrix, the beatles, the kinks, and the who just to name a few. most of their favorites that i like were before their time too though(such as the beatles and the kinks).

[dembotoz]

66. glenn Miller and duke ellington

in small amounts....

[Blue_Tires]

67. Motown, baby!

[KamaAina]

68. Quite a few, actually

luckily for me, Mom listened to the Stones, Beatles, Creedence, etc.

[MissMillie]

70. Nat King Cole... before Natalie polluted his work

:thumbsup:

[michreject]

71. Jim Reeves, Hank Locklin and Conway Twitty

That's some good stuff. Bought them on CD.

[Felix Mala]

72. I'm the Mamas/Papas fan in my family and I'm only 48.

My dad turned me on to Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline at a young age.

[elehhhhna]

73. Johnny CASH! But I hated him when I was a kid...then he grew on me.