My Dad was a Brook Benton/Jim Reeves fan. And songs like "roses are red" by Jim Reeves and "Someday" by Brook Benton was forever on our stereo on a Sunday afternoon.

What artists were played in your household as part of your childhood.?

My dad was a big Marvin Gaye fan and the "What's Going On" album would be played on the regular...

My mom is a big M.J. fan, so all I basically heard or remember in my younger years are Billy Jean, Thriller, and the whole Bad album. My fav. song i liked to hear was the "Speed Demon" song, plus it always sounded like he was sneezing in the beginning of the song i.e. (chu, chu...) you get me?

Then after I started walking, my parents would sit me in front of the tv to keep me occupied....the channel was either on "The Price is Right" or MTV, this is where I remember hearing/looking at the early vids of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears; "Carribean Queen" by Billy Ocean; "I'm Only Human" by ummmm, shucks i forgot the name of the group, but they were british.

Too many to name.....a bunch of funk, classic R&B, soul artists. Otis Redding,James Brown,Gap Band, Earth Wind and Fire etc.....pretty much any similar artist. My dad was pretty much strictly motown,funk,soul. My mom would listen to all of that, but loved Sade, Luther Vandross, some light rock like Phil Collins's solo stuff. She liked The Eagles too.

My parents were strictly 60s and 50s people so all the music they listen to were from those eras. I thought peeps like Brook Benton and Percy Sledge were naff at the time, but now I have come to appreciate those artists and I think Brook Benton is very underrated. He was as good if not better than Nat King Cole.

My dad was really into jazz/fusion during the 70s and 80s--Bob James, Spyro Gyra, Earl Klugh, David Sanborn, Tom Scott, etc. He played those records a lot--and totally turned me off to that genre.

The type of music I heard the most though was calypso. My family being from the Caribbean, they played that to death. Now I can't stand calypso.

great topic ... i dont remember too many ... but SIMON AND GARFUNKEL were one he would play every once in a while ... i still love the harmonies today and i am a fan of Paul Simon ... too

i remember Herb Albert - that jazz buy who had a lil girl covered in whip cream on the cover ... he he ... such a perv album cover for the day ...

Johnny Cash - many albums of this guy ... especialy remember folsom prison blues

and of course -- the Kingston Trio ...

Being the son of a Pentecostal Minister, It was nothing but Gospel music. They played a lot of Andre Crouch, and Walter Hawkins & The Love Alive Choir. Secular music was banned, so I had to go to friends houses to listen to those sinful Prince albums

curtis' Superfly
AWB
Brass Construction *my uncle was in the band
BT express
Harold melvin and the blue notes
Too much reggae 4 my taste & a ton of
James Brown

prettymansson said:

I had to put up with alot of vomitrocious music. Well not all of it was bad, but hey it is what it is. Here's a cross-section:

Abba
Alabama
Atlantic Starr "Always"
Beatles (+ John Lennon, Wings)
Big Chill soundtrack
Blondie Best Of
Alice Cooper
Cream (+ Eric Clapton)
Chris De Burgh
Crystal Gayle
Deep Purple
Elton John
Grease soundtrack
The Guess Who
Led Zeppelin
Louise Tucker "Midnight Blue"
Meat Loaf
Melissa Manchester
Olivia Newton-John
Oak Ridge Boys
Queen
Eddie Rabbit
Linda Rondstadt
Suzi Quattro
Dan Seals "Bop"
Sylvia "Snapshot"
Tina Turner Private Dancer
Village People
The Who

and we played the SHIT out of one K-Tel compilation called Hitline:

1. Burton Cummings - Break It To Them Gently
2. Kenny Loggins - This Is It
3. Nick Lowe - Cruel To Be Kind
4. Ian Gomm - Hold On
5. Anita Ward - Ring My Bell
6. Susan Jacks - All The Tea In China
7. Doug And The Slugs - Too Bad
8. Cheap Trick - Dream Police
9. Journey - Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'
10. Earth, Wind & Fire/Emotions - Boogie Wonderland
11. Meat Loaf - Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad
12. Chrlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down To Georgia
13. Blondie - Heart Of Glass
14. Robert John - Sad Eyes
15. Dr Hook - When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman
16. Al Stewart - Time Passages
17. Melissa Manchester - Pretty Girls
18. Dionne Warwick - I'll Never Love This Way Again
19. The Knack - My Sharona
20. Blondie - One Way Or Another
21. The Babys - Back On My Feet Again
22. Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker
23. Little River Band - Lonesome Loser
24. Raydio - You Can't Change That

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My dad was definitely a music snob - he would never listen to anything as common as pop music. Almost solely classical with a smattering of old jazz and showtunes.

I can't recall my mother ever listening to anything other than public radio.

i heard a lot of different stuff growing up. here's a sample:

the beatles (my mom ruined the beatles for me. every freakin' sunday there was breakfast with the beatles followed by brunch with the beatles. seriously. every sunday)
the stones
gladys knight
aretha
supremes
donna summer
blondie
the cars
cyndi lauper
madonna
luther vandross
rem

my mom listened to everything. 50's to current stuff. my dad, on the other hand, was forever listening to kyw newsradio.

sallysassalot said:

Was it one album over and over?

CinisterCee said:

oh no. it was, like, every single beatles song ever recorded played from about 7am until about 2pm on the local radio station. breakfast with the beatles aired from about 7-11 and at 11 brunch with the beatles started. my mom is a huge beatles fan. her collection is about 5 times the size of my prince stash...and that's pretty large.

sallysassalot said:

that's impressive! at least there was some variation.

sallysassalot said:

Ha, my parents had exactly one Beatles record--the Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band Soundtrack.

For the longest time the only version of "Come Together" I knew was Aerosmith's. Same goes for the Bee Gees' cover of the title song.

CinisterCee said:

my mom is a pretty cool lady. i started going to concerts when i was about 6 or 7 and, while she wasn't thrilled with the idea, she let my dad take me to some rad shows. mostly because her parents would have never let her go to woodstock (or any other concerts for that matter) and i think she didn't want me to miss out. guilt is good!

My Dad, thanks to him I always heard:

Dire Straits
Metallica
Gloria Estefan
Beatles
Hall & Oates
Lionel Richie
Mark Knophler (solo)
Led Zeppelin
Joan Osborne

badujunkie said:

Them too.

My Mom loved all kinds of music, especially bebop and gospel but we heard everything growing up.

John Coltrane ( they were friends)
Billie Holiday
Sarah Vaughn
Billy Eckstine
Brook Benton
Harry Belafonte
Charlie (Yardbird) Parker
Dizzie Gillespie
Earth Wind & Fire
Ojays
Curtis Mayfield
Temptations
Four Tops
Aretha Franklin
Wilson Pickett
James Brown


On Sundays we couldn't play the "devil's music" because of my Grandmother. She played...

James Cleveland
Mahalia Jackson
Dixie Hummingbirds
Highway QCs
The Five Blind Boys
The Harmonizing Four

Sometimes when Mom was in a certain mood we would get Mozart, Tchaikovsky or Beethoven. I tell ya, she was something else... she even loved Tupac!

LOTS of beatles
LOTS of hendrix
LOTS of zappa

that was pretty much it.

my mom did also go through a little '70s phase where she listened to a lot of gerry rafferty, village people and meco on her 8-track player in the car, but we don't like to talk about those days.

Al Green, James Brown Ummm thas all I remember!! Sad isn't it?

They didn't play anything...
Me and my bro listened to all kinds of stuff. We both got into MJ first and then later on we started diggin' P. Nowadays my bro listens to metal.

Anx said:

My Dad had one Beatles album, the one where they were crossing the Zebra crossing, but he never played it. It was all Brook Benton, JIm reeves, Percy Sledge and a little of bit of James Brown and Ray Charles.

My mother on the other hand was into everything from Elvis to Motown to Abba. When Michael's OTW album came out I remember her pounding the cassava to "Don't Stop Till you Get enough". One of my fondest memories of my mum.
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Air Supply
Kenny Rogers
Bee Gees
Elton John
Whitney Houston
lots and lots of oldies.