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Patsy
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rusty wrote:
They absolutely influenced me. My parents had Fats Domino, Bo Diddly, assorted big band, Jimmy Reed, Lena Horne, etc.
Once, when I was about 5 or 6, I had been left with a babysitter while my parents went to a dance. Probably at the Boat Club at Eagle Mountain Lake.
I woke up to some stuff going on around 2 or 3 in the morning. I walked in the den and there were about 25 people dancing and an all black (this was about 1961-62) blues band set up in the corner just wailing. It could've BEEN Jimmy Reed for all I know, he use to play in FW all the time. I didn't realize until much later just how hip my parents must have been.
Every night we went to sleep to Daddy playing his records over and over and over. Sometimes he would play the opening to a song 20 times. Friends would call and he would have them listen to a new song that had just come out. Daddy never met a stranger so we had many musician friends that would call us before they got to town to make sure they had a homecooked meal or a boat to go fishing on. One time someone's bus broke down and Daddy helped them get to Abilene with a rented U-Haul for instruments and our cars.
I have pictures of Mother and Daddy with everyone in the country music business back in 50s through the 70s. Young, new song writers would sit with Mother while Daddy schmoozed -- Roger Miller, Jimmie Webb, Kriss Kristoferson, Freddy Weller, Willie and from Fort Worth to Nashville.
Yes - Daddy's music influenced me and my brother -- incredibly.
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jellowrestling
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My dad liked the Kingston Trio, but mostly I remember being bored senseless by the Easy Listening he always had on the radio. However, my uncles were younger (dad was oldest of six boys), and they listened to the Beatles, jazz, Santana, Chicago, all kinds of cool stuff. Two of them went to SMU while I was growing up (we lived right by the campus), and one lived a block away.
My dad also liked frickin' Donnie and Marie. I would go to my room and put on Jeff Beck "Truth" to cleanse myself.
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Patsy
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jellowrestling wrote:
My dad also liked frickin' Donnie and Marie. I would go to my room and put on Jeff Beck "Truth" to cleanse myself.
I wore "Truth" and "Beckola" out -
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jellowrestling
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Patsy wrote: jellowrestling wrote:
My dad also liked frickin' Donnie and Marie. I would go to my room and put on Jeff Beck "Truth" to cleanse myself.
I wore "Truth" and "Beckola" out -
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ZELDA
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I remember being about four, and my Dad brought home a Bing Crosby record, called "Sams song" He played it over and over, till I knew every word, then we would sing it together. Its going round in my head now, I still remember the words.
My Mum loved Englebert Humperdink. She found it hard to believe, that when he was starting out, (as Gerry Dorsey) a couple of clubs I frequented, paid him off, and told him not to bother performing, as no one had turned up to listen.
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Will
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Terry Dorsey, Glenn Miller, The Mills Brothers, Kate Smith, Johnny Cash, Ernest Tubb, Chet Atkins, Boxcar Willie, Pete Fontain, Al Hurt, A Buncha Others I Can't Remember.
My First Album Was Rodger Miller. My Second Was "This Is Soul" With All The Greats, Ray Price, Aretha Franklin, Sam And Dave Etc. My Third Album Was Jimi Hendrix, "Are You Experienced?" I Never Had But Several Albums. Didn't Really Get Into Buy'n Um Till I Was In My Late Teens Or Early Twenties.
I've Played Rock And Roll, C&W And Jazz. I Prefer R&R 
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Patsy wrote: rusty wrote:
They absolutely influenced me. My parents had Fats Domino, Bo Diddly, assorted big band, Jimmy Reed, Lena Horne, etc.
Once, when I was about 5 or 6, I had been left with a babysitter while my parents went to a dance. Probably at the Boat Club at Eagle Mountain Lake.
I woke up to some stuff going on around 2 or 3 in the morning. I walked in the den and there were about 25 people dancing and an all black (this was about 1961-62) blues band set up in the corner just wailing. It could've BEEN Jimmy Reed for all I know, he use to play in FW all the time. I didn't realize until much later just how hip my parents must have been.
Every night we went to sleep to Daddy playing his records over and over and over. Sometimes he would play the opening to a song 20 times. Friends would call and he would have them listen to a new song that had just come out. Daddy never met a stranger so we had many musician friends that would call us before they got to town to make sure they had a homecooked meal or a boat to go fishing on. One time someone's bus broke down and Daddy helped them get to Abilene with a rented U-Haul for instruments and our cars.
I have pictures of Mother and Daddy with everyone in the country music business back in 50s through the 70s. Young, new song writers would sit with Mother while Daddy schmoozed -- Roger Miller, Jimmie Webb, Kriss Kristoferson, Freddy Weller, Willie and from Fort Worth to Nashville.
Yes - Daddy's music influenced me and my brother -- incredibly. patsy, LOVE jimmie webb...many songs, but one of my favorites is macarthur park...most people hate that song, i love it...it's a song about love and life...
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rusty
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jrg8 wrote: Patsy wrote: rusty wrote:
They absolutely influenced me. My parents had Fats Domino, Bo Diddly, assorted big band, Jimmy Reed, Lena Horne, etc.
Once, when I was about 5 or 6, I had been left with a babysitter while my parents went to a dance. Probably at the Boat Club at Eagle Mountain Lake.
I woke up to some stuff going on around 2 or 3 in the morning. I walked in the den and there were about 25 people dancing and an all black (this was about 1961-62) blues band set up in the corner just wailing. It could've BEEN Jimmy Reed for all I know, he use to play in FW all the time. I didn't realize until much later just how hip my parents must have been.
Every night we went to sleep to Daddy playing his records over and over and over. Sometimes he would play the opening to a song 20 times. Friends would call and he would have them listen to a new song that had just come out. Daddy never met a stranger so we had many musician friends that would call us before they got to town to make sure they had a homecooked meal or a boat to go fishing on. One time someone's bus broke down and Daddy helped them get to Abilene with a rented U-Haul for instruments and our cars.
I have pictures of Mother and Daddy with everyone in the country music business back in 50s through the 70s. Young, new song writers would sit with Mother while Daddy schmoozed -- Roger Miller, Jimmie Webb, Kriss Kristoferson, Freddy Weller, Willie and from Fort Worth to Nashville.
Yes - Daddy's music influenced me and my brother -- incredibly. patsy, LOVE jimmie webb...many songs, but one of my favorites is macarthur park...most people hate that song, i love it...it's a song about love and life...
+1. I love Macarthur Park. That's one of the songs that I'll turn up the radio a bit when it comes on. People rag on the lyrics, but look at some of the lyrics of the other songs we liked. Come Together comes to mind. Not to mention I Am The Walrus - goo goo ga joob. There were a lot that didn't make much sense.
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ZELDA
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rusty wrote: jrg8 wrote: Patsy wrote: rusty wrote:
They absolutely influenced me. My parents had Fats Domino, Bo Diddly, assorted big band, Jimmy Reed, Lena Horne, etc.
Once, when I was about 5 or 6, I had been left with a babysitter while my parents went to a dance. Probably at the Boat Club at Eagle Mountain Lake.
I woke up to some stuff going on around 2 or 3 in the morning. I walked in the den and there were about 25 people dancing and an all black (this was about 1961-62) blues band set up in the corner just wailing. It could've BEEN Jimmy Reed for all I know, he use to play in FW all the time. I didn't realize until much later just how hip my parents must have been.
Every night we went to sleep to Daddy playing his records over and over and over. Sometimes he would play the opening to a song 20 times. Friends would call and he would have them listen to a new song that had just come out. Daddy never met a stranger so we had many musician friends that would call us before they got to town to make sure they had a homecooked meal or a boat to go fishing on. One time someone's bus broke down and Daddy helped them get to Abilene with a rented U-Haul for instruments and our cars.
I have pictures of Mother and Daddy with everyone in the country music business back in 50s through the 70s. Young, new song writers would sit with Mother while Daddy schmoozed -- Roger Miller, Jimmie Webb, Kriss Kristoferson, Freddy Weller, Willie and from Fort Worth to Nashville.
Yes - Daddy's music influenced me and my brother -- incredibly. patsy, LOVE jimmie webb...many songs, but one of my favorites is macarthur park...most people hate that song, i love it...it's a song about love and life...
+1. I love Macarthur Park. That's one of the songs that I'll turn up the radio a bit when it comes on. People rag on the lyrics, but look at some of the lyrics of the other songs we liked. Come Together comes to mind. Not to mention I Am The Walrus - goo goo ga joob. There were a lot that didn't make much sense.
+2.
I never understood the lyricks, but I understood the passion. Great song.
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We had a 78 of a song called "Roll Me Over." We didn't get the inuendo when we were kids, but I'm surprised my parents weren't uncomfortable with our listening to it.
Perhaps I'm scarred for life and need to sue.
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Texie
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tennis gal wrote: Al Hirt, Herb Alpert and the TJB, Mitch Miller, Ferrante and Teicher
My mom belonged to the Columbia Record Club, and she got a new album in the mail every month. It was so exciting to see what she got.....much more exciting than the Reader's Digest Condensed Book. LOL!
Oh my gosh, so did mine! hahahahaaa! I loved to see what we would get in the mail. She also had the 5th Dimension, Simon and Garfunkle, The Association, Gary Puckett and the Union Gap. Roger Williams as well.
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Scarlett~NC
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my parents were pretty much into Country Music
Red Foley
Hank Williams
Hank Snow
Kitty Wells
Johnny Cash
Ray Price
then there was Elvis, Everly Brothers
I don't think that I am as big of fan of Country as they were
I did like Elvis and the Everly Brothers
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ZELDA
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BigTex wrote: We had a 78 of a song called "Roll Me Over." We didn't get the inuendo when we were kids, but I'm surprised my parents weren't uncomfortable with our listening to it.
Perhaps I'm scarred for life and need to sue.
I remember that song too. The following lyricks, which I can still remember, were even more risque than the title. I remember it was the sort of song, that would be sung by innocent looking middle aged people, with a permament smile on their faces.
(no wonder)
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Nat King Cole and Harry Belfonte could be heard on the big ol' hifi in our house. And my dad liked western (cowboy) music. I don't know who it was.
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andywhite.net
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LPs my folks played included classical music, Sousa marches, and Herb Alpert.
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Comedy albums were a big player in our house. The First Family (Vaughn Meader), Jose Jimenez, Andy Griffith (by the seventh grade I had memorized and could recite What It Was Was Football). I contributed Bill Cosby, Smothers Brothers and Stan Freberg (but nobody else in the family got Stan Freberg).
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Allen wrote: Zephyr wrote: What, exactly, is an "Englebert"?
Not sure, but I think penicillin cures it.
naw....Englebert won't kill ya. But you gotta look out for Humperdink. 
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Texie
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Mom also had a Percy Faith album. Can't recall the name but it had the music from "A Summer Place" on it. And of couse Henry Mancini.
My dad, on the other hand, loved classical music and Sousa music. We listened to that as well.
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