runphilrun said:

vainandy said:

My daddy used to watch the damn Lawrence Welk Show and he also used to watch The Grand Ole Opry. I just didn't stay in the same room with it because it was the dullest shit I had ever heard in my life.

I mean look at this shit. It's better then getting a fleet enema. I remember they had a young guy named Bobby or something who was the youngest and the star dancer. Everybody else was like in theire 40s or 50s, and oh yeah, they even had a token black dude

That is so eloquently,,,,,um,,,,,white

::Takes off my shoe and clear the hell outta here before I get jumped::

Harlepolis said:

runphilrun said:

I mean look at this shit. It's better then getting a fleet enema. I remember they had a young guy named Bobby or something who was the youngest and the star dancer. Everybody else was like in theire 40s or 50s, and oh yeah, they even had a token black dude

That is so eloquently,,,,,um,,,,,white

::Takes off my shoe and clear the hell outta here before I get jumped::

Oh yeah, Bobby was in the Mickey Mouse Club with Annete Funicello. I'm ashamed that I even remember this

runphilrun said:

vainandy said:

My daddy used to watch the damn Lawrence Welk Show and he also used to watch The Grand Ole Opry. I just didn't stay in the same room with it because it was the dullest shit I had ever heard in my life.

I mean look at this shit. It's better then getting a fleet enema. I remember they had a young guy named Bobby or something who was the youngest and the star dancer. Everybody else was like in theire 40s or 50s, and oh yeah, they even had a token black dude

The only thing I remember about that show was an orchestra playing and some damn bubbles flying in the air. My grandmother (my mother's mother) used to watch it sometimes too but only if there was nothing else on. All I remember about it was her talking about Lawrence Welk like a dog for dancing with young women....."Look at that old buzzard dancin' with them young gals. Them heffers must be gettin' paid well to be a'dancin' with that shriveled up old prune".

I liked everything I heard in the first 10 years, whether it was pop, cultural or religious music. By the time I was 12 or 13, I only wanted to listen to "cool music" and suddenly what my parents listened to, which was south asian and central asian music wasn't cool at all to me, but now I appreciate that I was around so much, old and new, cause people in my age group seem so limited with their music and only want the here and now.

Harlepolis said:

runphilrun said:

I mean look at this shit. It's better then getting a fleet enema. I remember they had a young guy named Bobby or something who was the youngest and the star dancer. Everybody else was like in theire 40s or 50s, and oh yeah, they even had a token black dude

That is so eloquently,,,,,um,,,,,white

::Takes off my shoe and clear the hell outta here before I get jumped::

My father, being the racist asshole that he was (and probably still is) only liked classical and country music only. If it was not the lilliest of white, he couldn't stand it. He hated rock music also. He even hated the ground Elvis Presley walked on and said that he turned white music black. I haven't seen or heard from him since 1985 (good riddance to his ass) but I remember when Shitney Houston hit it big I thought about him. I said to myself, "Well, I be damned! Here's some black girl turning black music white. If she wasn't black, he'd love her!".

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My parents were mostly country and western fans so there was a lot of Waylon and Willie in my house. They listened to a lot of Tommy James and the Shondells and CCR. Oh, and my mom loved the Beach Boys. As a kid, I listened along with them and enjoyed it myself. I especially liked listening to my mom's 45's. My mom and I had a deal when traveling that since she liked country music and I liked pop/rock music, we would settle with the oldies station. Not much of a compromise since I truthfully preferred that station anyway.

My parents forced me to listen to a lot of old school Motown, which I still pretty much hate

vainandy said:

My father, being the racist asshole that he was (and probably still is) only liked classical and country music only.

I take it that he doesn't know the the banjo is an African instrument, and some of the old country records had black musicians playing on them. Especially the ones on King Records, and many of the country (or hillbilly as it was called then) tunes on that label were written and/or produced by Henry Glover, who was black.

No forcement! But my dad listened to A LOT of classical and jazz music. My mom and siblings sang and played several instruments. I remember my dad bought me my very first CD: Mariah Carey, MTV unplugged. I was already into Whitney, MJ and Prince and he thought I might also find Mariah interesting. I have been following her ever since.

Who else's dad got them into Mariah?

I got exposed to a lot of older music because they played what they liked, but it was never them making us sit down and listen to anything, and us kids listened to what we wanted. I'm actually grateful to my parents that they played what they were into around us, because I got exposed to a lot of stuff I probably wouldn't have been, otherwise. I always end up feeling sorry for a lot of the younger ones who came up after me who never got exposed to good music - a lot of them think stuff like that 'Like a g6' song is classic material.

My dad usually played a lot of R&B and pop from the 60s and 70s, with some 80s and 90s R&B sprinkled in there - think War; Average White Band; early Doobie Brothers; the O'Jays and the Ohio Players (which I always get mixed up for whatever reason)....some Stevie Wonder, not a lot - stuff like Inner Visions and Songs in the Key of Life...

http://www.youtube.com/wa...m4-eKvv3EM

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For those who remember the stero component set and/or TV being in the living room.....

We listened and watched a whole lot of stuff I'm sure my siblings and I wouldn't have selected or voluntarily chosen. Even so, my mother listened to a lot of classical and pop music... Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms & Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Rosemary Clooney for examples. My dad was a serious dicated jazz head with a lil' blues, country, classical music

thrown in. As I've mentioned here before, Ms. Holiday sounded like a chicken being strangled and trying to sing. I didn't understand my dad's obsession with her music and I questioned his taste in music and his hearing.

I would not say forced but I heard that live EW&F 1976 release so many times that I know every single note of every instrument and vocal by heart.(8 track tape)

Loved it but damn......

as a kid, I used to worry about long roadtrips with my parents as most of what they played was the music of Fairuz & the Rahbani brothers, which turned out to be only some of my favorite muisc ever. I owe them big time for it.

MickyDolenz said:

vainandy said:

My father, being the racist asshole that he was (and probably still is) only liked classical and country music only.

I take it that he doesn't know the the banjo is an African instrument, and some of the old country records had black musicians playing on them. Especially the ones on King Records, and many of the country (or hillbilly as it was called then) tunes on that label were written and/or produced by Henry Glover, who was black.

Hey, we're talking about a racist here. Since when has a racist taken the time to think or learn anything about the race that they hate? I'm sure all he knew was it didn't have that extreme "black" rhythm that R&B had which influenced folks like Elvis and brought it into the mainstream white world in the form of rock and roll.

But country music does have some rhythm and swing to it though. I mean, it's far from the stuffy classical, easy listening, or whatever you want to call it. Blues to me, sounds like a black version of country music and I've always wondered which came first, country or blues. Kinda like the old chicken or the egg question. Watching movies like "Roots" and seeing Fidler playing music for the master and the other white folks to dance to, sounded like country music to me. So was he playing their music for them to enjoy or was he playing his music (blues) for them to enjoy. And when the slaves "jumped the broom", the same music they were enjoying was the same music their master was enjoying earlier. To me, a lot of blues and country sounds like black and white versions of each other but someone like my father would never notice something like that or would want to notice something like that. Someone like that just knows that country is a predominately white genre of music that has more rhythm than other white music such as classical (however, they don't think about where rhythm comes from) and that most blacks don't listen to it and that a huge part of the country fanbase is racist. Someone like him just feels more at home with it because just looking at the surface of it, it looks like a "whites only" genre of music unless you dig deeper into it. I mean, we're talking about a man here that used to brag that when he was a teenager, he caught a little black boy drinking from the "whites only" water fountain and he beat his ass. People with that warped way of thinking don't think deep enough to wonder if any black folks were involved in country music.

runphilrun said:

vainandy said:

My daddy used to watch the damn Lawrence Welk Show and he also used to watch The Grand Ole Opry. I just didn't stay in the same room with it because it was the dullest shit I had ever heard in my life.

I mean look at this shit. It's better then getting a fleet enema. I remember they had a young guy named Bobby or something who was the youngest and the star dancer. Everybody else was like in theire 40s or 50s, and oh yeah, they even had a token black dude

That show has to be the whitest varity show ever to broadcast on television in American history. Even with the token black dude, that shit is still pure Wonder Bread. Hell, that show might have been even whiter than "Hee Haw." Anyone remember that show...Believe it or not, I had relatives in the south that would tune in every week.

Musicslave said:

That show has to be the whitest varity show ever to broadcast on television in American history. Even with the token black dude, that shit is still pure Wonder Bread. Hell, that show might have been even whiter than "Hee Haw." Anyone remember that show...Believe it or not, I had relatives in the south that would tune in every week.

http://prince.org/msg/8/354708

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MickyDolenz said:

Musicslave said:

That show has to be the whitest varity show ever to broadcast on television in American history. Even with the token black dude, that shit is still pure Wonder Bread. Hell, that show might have been even whiter than "Hee Haw." Anyone remember that show...Believe it or not, I had relatives in the south that would tune in every week.

http://prince.org/msg/8/354708

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Thanks!

I didn't mean "force" so much as "what did they listen to that you couldn't get away from, whether you liked it or not"

Here's another Lawrence Welk clip, with a song I remember on the radio - Georgy Girl. I love it.

In the car in the 70s, I heard a lot of calypso. Before I had a walkman, I could not escape. I can't listen to any calypso/soca to this day.

A lot of disco, house, and post-disco since my mom is a clubber. Also, Motown and lots of old r&b as well as Enya and Simply Red.

Needless to say that I liked listening to it so it's all good. Though...I also grew up with gospel and hearing those people all screaming used to bug the shit out of me.

runphilrun said:

Harlepolis said:

That is so eloquently,,,,,um,,,,,white

::Takes off my shoe and clear the hell outta here before I get jumped::

Oh yeah, Bobby was in the Mickey Mouse Club with Annete Funicello. I'm ashamed that I even remember this

A little Autotune'll make it sound better.

I grew up listening to a lot of Country music a la Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton, Connie Francis, Tanya Tucker, Anne Murray and on the Pop side, Helen Reddy on the part of my mother. She also played alot of Top 40 stuff and of course, Motown. My father, on the other hand was the Bluegrass king, so by the time I got to high school, I was buyin' up all the Funk & R&B shit that was out there (SOME Disco stuff too) but heavily into Gladys, Natalie, Minnie, Evelyn (King), Teena and Melba. By the time I graduated from high school, I knew I was destined to listen to R&B, Funk, Jazz Vocals and Quiet Storm formats. That's always been the music that's really ever reached me. Evelyn "Champagne" King always held a special place in my heart. I loved the lowness of her voice. It always blew me away!