Happy Mother's Day y'all. In honor of Mother's Day, post some of your mother's favorite songs. These were some of my mother's favorites.....

your mom was cool....my mom didnt buy a single CD or in her case a vinyl in her life

Damn it sure puts a lot of things in perspective, Andy

My momma loves Miki Howard *pregnant pause*

And Phyllis Hyman SO....

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That's a sample.

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@Andy, you beat me to the Manhattans. My mama LOVED them boys. She saw them live when they came to NC.

Great topic.

My mom loved any and everything by Earth, Wind and Fire, plus Sarah Vaughn, John Coltrane and Billy Eckstine...those were her favorites.

Anything by Sam Cooke & Johnnie Taylor. She also likes The Temptations, Tyrone Davis, Aretha Franklin, Joe Simon, Al Green, Teddy Pendergrass, Whitney Houston, Freddie Jackson, The Spinners, Lionel Richie, James Brown. Stuff on Stax, Motown, Backbeat records. Mostly 1960's R&B/soul.

Anything by and nothing but Michael Jackson...sadly.

I don't really know because she died when I was 5. I do know that she was a big Rolling Stones fan though.

She likes so many but of them all it is David Ruffin and the Temptations. Per her, there is/was no other that can blow like him.

LightOfArt said:

your mom was cool....my mom didnt buy a single CD or in her case a vinyl in her life

My mother never bought much music of her own. She had a few records and 8 Track tapes but she never really went out and bought a lot of the music that she liked for herself. I bought a ton of music though and kept it all over at my grandmother's house (my father was extremely racist....my mother had lots of black men on the side that he didn't know about but that's another thread altogether ). Whenever she wanted some music of her own, she would go over to my grandmother's house and thumb through my records and pick out some songs that she liked and I would record them onto an 8 Track tape that she could listen to in her car or on the console stereo at home when the bastard wasn't home.

Harlepolis said:

Damn it sure puts a lot of things in perspective, Andy

Kinda shoots the hell out of the "everyone's parents didn't like the music of their children's era" arguement when it comes to today's music sucking doesn't it?

My mother was a teenager of the 1960s and she loved some Supremes, Elvis, Chubby Checker, Little Richard, Percy Sledge, etc. of her teenage years and of the 1950s of her childhood years. When the 1970s came along, she moved right along with them. She was loving a lot of country of the 1970s and early 1980s (me and my siblings finally got her out of that damn country phase ) and she also liked a lot of the pop of the 1970s and a lot of the disco of the late 1970s. She just moved right along with the times. In the early 1980s, she liked a lot of blues and a lot of the current R&B of the time as well as country. She liked some funk. She didn't know what funk was but she liked some of it even though she didn't know the official term of what she was listening to. I remember her asking me several times "What's funk" when she would hear me talking about it. She liked some of the same stuff I liked but she wasn't nearly as deep into as I was. She didn't get all deep down into the Bill Summers and Summers Heat, Con Funk Shun, Barkays, type stuff like I did, however, that was the type of stuff that was playing in the "juke joints" she was going to at the time (which by the way were all folks her age). The early 1980s were a very different time than what came later.

When the 1990s came along and shit hop took over, there was a local station that played nothing but blues by then and damn near everyone from her generation in this area switched over to it and tuned out all the current R&B of that era. She got deeper into the local blues of the 1990s on up until she died in 2007 and I went totally underground into the gay house scene which was actually just continuing on with my disco roots.

Timmy84 said:

@Andy, you beat me to the Manhattans. My mama LOVED them boys. She saw them live when they came to NC.

Oh, my mother absolutely loved "Kiss And Say Goodbye". She used to play that one over and over. And the other Manhattans song I posted "Turn Out The Stars", she had me to record it off the radio for her when it came out in 2001. She had called the DJ and he said he would play it and when she asked me to turn on the radio and record it for her, I started bitching because I didn't want to sit through something that was going to bore the hell out of me. I had seen too many old groups making new songs in the 1990s and 2000s that were absolutely horrible but when I heard "Turn Out The Stars", I was shocked because it actually sounded great. It didn't even sound like it was recorded in 2001. If it did, I would have hated it.

vainandy said:

Timmy84 said:

@Andy, you beat me to the Manhattans. My mama LOVED them boys. She saw them live when they came to NC.

Oh, my mother absolutely loved "Kiss And Say Goodbye". She used to play that one over and over. And the other Manhattans song I posted "Turn Out The Stars", she had me to record it off the radio for her when it came out in 2001. She had called the DJ and he said he would play it and when she asked me to turn on the radio and record it for her, I started bitching because I didn't want to sit through something that was going to bore the hell out of me. I had seen too many old groups making new songs in the 1990s and 2000s that were absolutely horrible but when I heard "Turn Out The Stars", I was shocked because it actually sounded great. It didn't even sound like it was recorded in 2001. If it did, I would have hated it.

My mom hasn't heard their last few records, it's the 1970s and early '80s for her. She's not even aware they did any more shit after that and I'm not about to tell her that. Besides it's too late to tell her that anyways since it's been 10 years since that song.

vainandy, you're mom has some good taste in music. My mom was never that much into music. Now if you ask this question on Father's Day we'll be here all night. But one song I do remember my mom liking was "Lovin' You" by Minnie Riperton. She used to sing it to me when I was about 2 or 3. I have it on an old Kmart cassette tape. She would sing the "do do do do do do"...and I would sing the "ahhhhhhh".....

What a cool thread. My mom digs...

My mother played that one Whitney Houston disc alot when it came out - the one with "Your Love is My Love" on it.

She really liked Fantasia's album too.