OK if I chime in? I'm a few years behind you guys but was blessed to be in a household where music was ALWAYS on. I'm the youngest of 4 and my oldest bro is now 55, so he and my middle bro and sis had a lot of great stuff. We had Meet the Beatles (like everyone else) and it goot a lot of play. However, being in a very integrated city (Baltimore) we had tons of R&B and soul stuff. Loads of Motown, Stax and Chicago stuff like Curtis Mayfield. Mom was a die hard Johnny Mathis fan but liked Elvis and a lot of pop, too. Dad was into Sinatra and the TJ Brass. Oldest bro loved the Motown stuff, Creedence, 3 Dog Night, 60's & 70's soul and Kenny Rogers (1st edition). Middle bro was into the Stones, Steppinwolf, Airplane, the Who and later Disco (sigh...). My sis was the Beach Boys fan and intro'd me to Endless Summer...that was IT for me. She loved pop, Hermin's Hermits, Bobby Sherman, etc, but then got into Chicago, B.S. &T, America, Joni Mitchell, Carol King, Croce, and a bunch of other good stuff. We were all in a local marching band as kids, with my sis in the flag corps, so music was everywhere. I very clearly remember my sister and brother going to Beachago and being totally psyched!
As I look back, I'm struck by the diversity of music that we played around the house. Rock, Rock & Roll, MOR pop, R&B, Soul, Latin pop, some jazz, a bit of showtunes. I wonder if that would ever happen today, with the way that music has been segmented and marketed. Motown was "The sound of Young America", not the sound of Young "Black" America. Kids dug Marvin AND Mick, Lou Rawls, Richie Havens AND the Guess Who. Good music was good music....still is. BTW - we had Surf City on single on Liberty and I traded it to my next door neighbor for a Brooks Robinson BB card. He still has the 45. What an idiot I am... On Oct 20, 5:29 pm, Eidem <[email protected]> wrote: > My dad was born in 1930 (and passed in 2003). When he was a kid, he > used to bring his ukulele to school and serenade the kids on the > school bus to and from school. He was even written up in the > Minneapolis paper as "The School Bus Crooner." When he was in high > school, he entered a State band competition and played a trumpet solo > piece on the tuba. He took First Place. He taught me how to play > guitar when I was 7. > > During the course of the 60s, my dad not only got into all kinds of > music, but he also dressed hip. He wore striped bellbottoms, vests > and bead necklaces. He was a cool dude, although he didn't grow his > hair out (he took a lot of shit from his friends for his dress, > though). Other albums he bought during the 60s and after were very > cool. Along with the DC5 and Searchers albums, he also bought all the > Mamas & Papas albums, The First Edition (with Kenny Rogers), the > Broadway cast Hair album, Carpenters, The 5th Dimension, Boz Scaggs, > Nilsson, Bill Medley, Rita Coolidge and Richard (someone left the cake > out in the rain) Harris. He loved Three Dog Night. > > As the 70s went on, I got into harder-edged music, and he went back to > jazz, albeit with more contemporary acts like Maynard Ferguson, Steve > Jordan, Dave Grusin, Tom Scott and others. I did finally turn him > onto the Beach Boys, and he became a big fan of Denny's music, > especially Make It Good and Cuddle Up. > > In early 2002, he underwent open heart surgery and never really > rebounded. The last concert we went to together was Three Dog Night > at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds in Chico in May 2002. It was a great > show, and I'll always remember it as our last together. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Diamond Headz" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/michaellenz?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
