Let's all share: What music did your parents turn you onto? I mean what bands would you never have chosen for yourself but who ended up being a big influence on your musical tastes? Here's mine:

Dad
Queen (big time)
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Santana
Dire Straits

and less so:
Jerry Lee Lewis
Eagles

Mom
Prince

Grandma
Frank Sinatra

My Father was a radio DJ with an oldies show 4 nearly 20 years, so I got a good musical education from the time I understood what music was. My Mother was in2 more contemporary stuff (which, not 2 date myself, was Disco back then). She also loved R&B and soul. Both were big Beatles fans.

None of this tops the day my Mom came home with a record that she bought 4 me. My Dad thought it was inappropriate and garbage from a "splash in the pan".

The record was "I Wanna Be Your Lover" and all bets were off after that!

MOMS:

Fleetwood Mac
Stevie Knicks
Tina Turner
Pat Benetar
Hall & Oats
Eric Clapton
Bob Marley
Prince
Kiss
Tom Petty
Crystal Lewis (A christian singer with an heavenly voice)



POPS:

El Gran Combo
Fania AllStars
Tito Puente
Tony Croatto
Frankie Ruiz
Sugar hill Gang
The Emotions
Heatwave
Diana Ross


even my older siblings influenced my musical tastes


Older SISTER:


Prince
Micheal Jackson
SOS Band
New Edition
Janet Jackson
Sheila E.
Cherelle
Lisa Lisa & The Cult Jam



Older BROTHERS:


Led Zepplin
Pink Floyd
Rush
The Scorpians
Black Sabbath




as you can see I diverse array of influences.....

Grandparents: Gospel
Mahalia Jackson
Clara Ward
Shirley Caesar
James Cleveland
The Swan Silvertones
The Sensational Nightengales
The Soul Stirrers
The Caravans
The Dixie Hummingbirds
The Mighty Clouds of Joy


Mom: Pop/Vocalists
Marian Anderson
Ella Fitzgerald
Ray Charles
Johnny Mathis
Nat King Cole
Carmen McRae
Sarah Vaughn
Nancy Wilson
The Flamingos
The Platters
Brook Benton
Joe Williams
Cab Calloway

Dad: Jazz
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Duke Ellington
Max Roach
Johnny Smith
Erroll Garner
Dexter Gordon
Clifford Brown
Cannonball Adderley
Dizzy Gillespie
Thelonious Monk
Lee Morgan
Sonny Rollins
Oscar Peterson

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

dad:
the emotions
james brown
rollingstones
mandril
stevie wonder
marvin gaye
minnie ripperton
joni mitchell
donald byrd
roy ayers
parliament
slave
steve arrington
the isleys
the clark sisters
carol king
evelyn champagne king
luther
steely dan
jose feliciano
darryl hall and john oates

mom:
boston
cream
yes
kool and the gang(none of that 80's shit)
heatwave
led zeppelin
the police
war
steve miller
simon and garfunkle
queen
sly and family stone
santana
whoever made inda gada da vida
the beatles
jimi
peter frampton
rod stewart(the classic rod)
todd rundgren

and then their tastes over lap, which is why im a confused child and i'm all over the place. it's weird 'cause both of them grew up in the same place(state way gardens projects in chicago).
[Edited 11/25/04 0:08am]

boriquateddy said:

I forgot I hijacked my dad's Rumours album for a few years as a kid.

theAudience said:

My mom took me to see Ella Fitzgerald, but I was so young and we were sitting so far up it didn't have the influence it should have.

theAudience said:

are you my brother

under mom add:

Ike and Tina
Gladys Knight and the Pips
The Temptations
Stevie Wonder



Add under dad

EWF

Grandparents: Arabic oldies:

Asmahan
Laila Murad
Fairuz
Farid Al-Atrach
Mohammed Abdu

Mom: RnB/Soul:

Marlena Shaw
Chaka Khan
LaVern Baker
Ruth Brown
Jackie Wilson
Aretha Franklin
Marvin Gay
All The Motown artists
Anita Baker
Sade
Luther Vandross
Mel'isa Morgan
Miki Howard
Angela Winbush
Regina Belle
Mother's Finest
Patrice Rushen
Brenda Russell
Deniece Williams
Minnie Riperton

Dad: Jazz/Bluse:

Bessie Smith
Mammy Smith
Ma Rainy
Alberta Hunter
Ida Cox
Ethel Waters
Louis Armestrong
Duke Ellington
Billie Holiday
Sarah Vaughan
Ella
Dinah Washington
Sidney Bechet
Earl Hines
Fats Waller
Willie "The Lion" Smith
James P. Johnson
Art Tatum
Mary Lou Williams
Erroll Garner
Hazel Scott
Lionle Hampton
Teddy Wilson
Bud Powell
Oscar Peterson
Machito
Dizzy Gillespie
Charlie "Bird" Parker
Lester Young
Coleman Hawkins
Ben Webster
Red Novo
Billy Eckstine
Tito Puente
Herbie Hencock
Cecil Taylor
Miles Davis
Coltrane
Sonny Rollins
Louis Jordan
Pete Johnson
Joe Turner
Count Basie
James Rushing
[Edited 11/25/04 11:04am]

Mom:
Prince
James Cleveland
Rick James
Johnnie Taylor
Tina Turner
Dolly Pardon
Crosby Still Nash
Jimi Hindrix
James Brown
The Mighty Cloads of Joy
Chaka Kahn
Evenlyn Chanpayne King
Phyllis Hymen
Rod Steward
Fleetwood Mac
Tom Petty
Micheal Jackson
UB40
Bob Marley & Whalers
The Rolling Stones
Miles Davis
The Stylistics
Natalie Cole
Millie Jackson
Simply Red
Jimmy Reed
John Lee Hooker
Seals & Crofts
Z.Z. Hill
Ko Ko Taylor
Aretha Franklin


Pops[/u]

Miles Davis
Rick James
Frank Sinatra
Lou Raws
Lionel Hampton
Herbie Hancock
George Benson
Sonny Rollins
Stevie Wonder
Marvin Gaye
Chaka Kahn
Nancy Wilson
Sarah Vauhgn
Billie Holiday
Diana Washington
B.B. King
Bobby Blue Bland

[Edited 11/28/04 22:04pm]

My family wasn't really into music. I wish they had been, so many things wouldn't be new & undiscovered to me now But anyway...


DAD: Al Green, Aretha Franklin

MOM: Nancy Wilson

SISTERS: Prince, MJ, Rick James, whatever was on the radio

My parents are not really heavy into music. My mother has two Supremes albums and an Elvis album but never plays them. In the 1970s and early 1980s, she listened to country stations. In the early 1980s, my sisters got her to listening to pop radio. I also got her into some of the R&B at the time. In 1985, our city got it's first blues station and that's what she has been listening to ever since. She likes music but not enough to buy it.

My father (if you want to call him that), listened to country and classical. I don't know what he listens to now because I haven't seen him since 1985 and could care less.

My sisters listened to pop in the 1980s. Now they listen to blues and old pop and R&B.

My brother is the only one, besides myself, that bought music. He was heavy into heavy metal and still is.

My mother keeps my nephews on the weekends and they are very heavy into rap. She buys them CDs but she makes them go in the other room when they want to listen to it because it makes her skin crawl.

I only got a few from my mom:
-Dolly Parton (although this counts tenfold!)
-Kenny Rogers

I got more from my sisters. They BOTH gave me Prince.

My middle sis went thru a teen-punk phas in Junior high. It didn't last for her, but because of this phase I heard many great bands for my first time:
-Violent Femmes
-The Cure
-Depeche Mode
-New Order
-Sex Pistols
-The Smiths

A special shout to my oldest sis. She brought me to the Lovesexy tour AND Rhythm Nation!!

i really didn't get any influences from my mom, since she passed away too soon for me to really figure anything out...but from my dad, the only things he turned me on to was ew & f and the commodores. everything else i got turned on to on my own.

Yeah, it's funny how much my dad's tastes diverge drastically from my own now that I think of it. He's all country rock, bluesy, rockabilly. I'm into classical, punk, new wave, classic rock, heavy metal. But he was always playing guitar in bands and absolutely loves music. I guess he just planted the love of music into my life and then I simply ran with it on my own. Where our tastes overlap, it's a major bond though. Thanks, Dad.

Oh fuck. Both of my parents knew nothing about music. My dad had like these two magnetized tapes at his car that were some b-rate eighties hits collections he had bought from some gas station.

Rhondab said:

That would make UptownDeb your sister!

So, where's Xmas dinner being held this year?

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm