I Want My Daddy's Records

[hekawi]

started waxing nostalgic the other day for the records my parents played on the old Zenith console



through the miracle of I-Tunes, i downloaded a bunch of memories and put together a mix cd of songs i heard throughout my childhood. a pretty good cross section of the late 50's early/mid 60's if i do say so myself...mostly country with some pop and instrumentals of the time:

1 Buck Owens-Tiger By The Tail
2 Jimmie Rodgers-Honeycomb
3 Arthur Smith-Guitar Boogie (Arthur was a local celeb, had his own TV show)
4 Bobby Bare-Detroit City
5 Herb Alpert-A Taste Of Honey
6 Eddie Arnold-Make The World Go Away
7 Dean Martin-Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime (we always watched his show)
8 Chet Atkins-Yankee Doodle Dixie
9 Buck Owens-Buckaroo
10 Ernest Tubb-Walking The Floor Over You (my grandmother's favorite, we had the record too)
11 Elvis Presley-Crying In The Chapel (my parents preferred gospel Elvis)
12 Chet Atkins-Yakety Axe (we had Boots Randolph's sax version as well)
13 Don Gibson-Oh Lonesome Me
14 Elvis Presley-Peace In The Valley
15 Englebert Humperdinck-Please Release Me (the record that kept Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields from reaching #1)
16 Floyd Cramer-Last Date
17 Hank Snow-I'm Movin' On
18 Herb Alpert-This Guy's In Love With You
19 Jimmie Dean-Big Bad John
20 Johnny Cash-Daddy Sang Bass
21 Johnny Horton-Battle Of New Orleans (i think this was my first favorite record)
22 Porter Waggoner-Green Green Grass Of Home (we watched Porter's show each week)
23 Ray Price-For The Good Times
24 Roger Miller-King Of The Road
25 Sergio Mendes & The Brazil 66-The Look Of Love
26 Everly Brothers-All I Have To Do Is Dream
27 Chet Atkins-Mr Sandman (dad liked Chet's version of the Chordettes classic)

So, what did your Mom & Dad listen to? what music was playing in your house when you were a kid?

[Parma_TeleMon]

Big band - Dorsey, Miller and their ilk, and the classic crooners like Bing and Frankie.

[Jimmyspaz]

My dad was a fiddle player, so we had a lot of "old time music" in our house. Don Messer's Jubilee every week on TV, Circle Eight Ranch (our local country TV show) too, Hank Williams, Hank Thompson, Hank Snow (there were a LOT of Hanks then) Kitty Wells, Patsy Cline, all the usual early fifties country acts. I shared a room with my big brother, the radio was always on Alan Freed. I got to hear the early R 'n' R as it happened. Who else remembers "Crazy, Man, Crazy" by Bill Haley? We didn't have a lot of records, mostly just the radio,,,,,,,,,

[brookdalebill]

My dad had pretty diverse musical tastes.
He was a violinist/fiddler too.
He had Nathan Milstein, Jascha Heifitz, Itzhak Perlman, Fritz Kreisler, Howdy Forrester, Joan Baez, The Kingston Trio, Buck Owens, and Charlie Pride records.
My mom liked show tunes, My Fair Lady, Carousel, Oklahoma, ect.
All great stuff.
They were very encouraging of my budding musicianship.
I feel grateful and fortunate.

[BAW4742]

That's a nice list you got going there Hek. Didn't your dad like Patsy Cline? I could see"Walkin' After Midnight" sitting right in that list somewhere.

[hekawi]

Originally Posted by BAW4742

That's a nice list you got going there Hek. Didn't your dad like Patsy Cline? I could see"Walkin' After Midnight" sitting right in that list somewhere.

yep. i already see i'm gonna have to have a "volume 2" and Patsy'll be on that one

[celtobilly]

My folks' tastes were pretty typical of their generation, I think. Strictly late '50's mainstream, really. Sinatra's Songs for Swingin' Lovers, some Dixieland jazz (God bless 'em for hipping me to Jack Teagarden!), the Broadway Cast Album of My Fair Lady, and a couple "folk" records, Kingston Trio's first and Harry Belafonte's Calypso album. Fun stuff.

[Post Toastie]

I remember Prez Prado getting some play.

[elihu]

Cool thread Hekawi...


I wore out two by the Ventures..."Telstar and Let's Go". I also wore out "Gunfighter Ballads" by Marty Robbins and "Going Places" by Herb Alpert and the TB.


My father was big into country and bluegrass. He had everything Hank Williams Sr. and Roy Acuff ever done. He liked Flatt and Scruggs but his favorite was a dobro player who sometimes recorded with Roy called "Bashful Brother Oswald".

[DuncanAngus]

My Dad was from Louisiana, Mom from Boston so some weird music back then. Dad had gotten into folk so there were New Christy Minstrals, Weavers, Peter, Paul & Mary. He still had the old Hank and Patsy Cline records as well.

The one record I remember most was Meet The Beatles, something my Mom had picked up. My brother and I (6 & 7) couldn't read, but we knew the Beatles album because it had the old Capitol Records label on the disc. We played it constantly, knew all the words and sang em. One day, I remember putting what I thought was the album on and it was Johnny Mathis (Capitol sticker on the disc as well) and my brother and I just howled with laughter when old Johnny launched into "Chances Are" when were were expecting the Fab 4. Hey, we couldn't read and the label looked right!!!

[hekawi]

Originally Posted by elihu

Cool thread Hekawi...


I wore out two by the Ventures..."Telstar and Let's Go". I also wore out "Gunfighter Ballads" by Marty Robbins and "Going Places" by Herb Alpert and the TB.


My father was big into country and bluegrass. He had everything Hank Williams Sr. and Roy Acuff ever done. He liked Flatt and Scruggs but his favorite was a dobro player who sometimes recorded with Roy called "Bashful Brother Oswald".

Man, Brother Oswald could make you cry with that dobro. He's all over the "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" album

[Frontier9]

Had a buddy when I was growing up whose mother loved Herb Alpert. I grew to love all that Tijuana Brass stuff.

[momotrucker]

my dad didn't like country...when i got interested in later years i asked him
and he said it was all 'tombstones & heartaches'...and i said, 'yeh, that's why i love it!'...still love you dad...AND i love the sandford and son episode this thread was named after..............................

[hekawi]

Originally Posted by momotrucker

.AND i love the sandford and son episode this thread was named after..............................

here ya go...

part one


part two


part three

[Teleblooz]

We immigrated from Germany in 1964, so my parents' record collection over time was pretty evenly split between American & German music. My Dad liked the popular singers of the day, from Roger Miller to Dean Martin (for some reason he intensely disliked Sinatra), and would mostly listen to the radio in the car and in his man-cave in the garage. I was riding with him the first time I heard "The Thrill Is Gone". From Mom I learned an appreciation of Classical, Operas, and Operettas (thanks Mom!) - her tastes were a little more sophisticated. But they both liked German Pop and Folk (think Oompah) music.

After dad died in the 80s Mom finally got a modern stereo which, unfortunately for her, didn't include a turntable, so I inherited all their vinyl and was charged with the task of transferring the choice bits to cassette. I still have it all and still listen to it on occasion.

[Birdmankustomz]

My parents gave me their record collections, awesome stuff like Ratt, Van Halen, Rush, Motley Crue, Dio, and many more! (I like that stuff though)

[e-merlin]

Great Sanford and Son reference, Hekawi.

We had lots of stuff laying around. My dad was a fiddler, so we had some Chubby Wise and Ray Price and the Cherokee Cowboys. Also Hank Snow. 40s Country and Western Swing. Wynn Stewart. Dad loved steel guitar, too, so we had some of those guys...

We also had some Herb Alpert, the Platters, gosh, lots of stuff in probably less than a 100 album collection...

No Western, though. Neither dad nor mom was into that.

[Brad Pittiful]

i can remember them watching lawrence welk and what ever other performers who got TV shows...like deano...im sure i didnt watch much cause i was prolly playing with my toys...i remember my dad being a patti page fan and my mom liking typical stuff of the day like everyone else said...but the main thing i remember is christmas music and watching the stars christmas specials...to this day the nat king cole johnny mathis perry como andy williams type music reminds me of christmas

[Stubee]

started waxing nostalgic the other day for the records my parents played on the old Zenith console

Lots of great songs in that list, thanks for putting it together.

When I was a kid I was nuts about "Mack the Knife" and my parents would play it with friends over so I'd sing along or whatever I did back then. "The Battle of New Orleans" was a big hit with my friends.

My mom was a huge Tom Jones fan so I heard plenty of his stuff as an older lad. I think she about swooned to his voice.

Had one of those old consoles in my basement for years until I finally unloaded it. Was my grandparents, a Zenith, and sounded great.

Fun thread, Hekawi.

[elihu]

Originally Posted by hekawi

Man, Brother Oswald could make you cry with that dobro. He's all over the "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" album

I've been meaning to get that recording for 10 years. I know Maybelle is on it too.


Regarding Herb Alpert and the Ventures...I think the reason they were popular is because they organized their instrumentals like a singer would. You know, they got a good tone, played a verse then a chorus then a verse without a lot of improvising. It was all about the melody/song. Maybe us lead players could learn something from this?