Help - I have become my father!!

I can clearly remember hoovering the stairs, singing along to Status Quo and turning to see my son.
He shook his head stating "what is that...down down?!!", he was around 13 at the time.

It’s not music to me at all if I can’t sing or hum it! My mother was also a fan of Sing Something Simple, but I did finally manage to get her to like some Beatles songs, although her favourite was the Four Tops Reach Out I’ll be There. I still love it because it reminds me so much of her.

I have Planet Rock on all day every day & if I end up in a Care Home hope to carry on rocking with my head set on as cannot stand anything other than Rock & Metal & Blues!

As a child all my parents listened to was classical music. I in turn have introduced my daughter to my classical music inc Led Zeppelin, Bowie, Beatles, Blur (NOT Oasis!), Queen, Rolling Stones..... She is 22 now and has great taste in music, with no rap in sight

We were wireless people. A large wooden construction full of valves that Dad had to change occasionally. The dial on the front had exotic sounding names like Hilversum for instance. Tuning it was an art that you had to learn. It had a lovely tone though.
We listened to the home service and the light programme most of the time, but Dad was a classical music fan, so the third programme was often on too.
I am listening to my Echo device at the moment, Alexa is playing me a selection of Italian songs which I am enjoying.

Blossoming, I'm with you! I hope to be sitting in my chair in the care home rocking along to the likes of the Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, Green Day, My Chemical Romance etc etc. I love listening to new music today too - and a whole host of different genres, yes, including rap. My musical taste is nothing if not eclectic.

Blossoming, I'm with you! I hope to be sitting in my chair in the care home rocking it out to the likes of the Foos, Linkin Park, Green Day etc. I love listening to what's new today as well - and different genres too, including rap. My musical taste is nothing if not eclectic!

In my car we have Shriek-a-long-a-Plant....

Loved the radiogram: ours had a deep warm woody sort of bass (if that’s even a thing) and we’d “stack” singles on the deck.

My dad liked traditional jazz, and I grew up with that, as well as softer jazz such as Ella Fitzgerald and Cleo Laine. My mum was the Sing Something Simple fan.

I think that the generational divide was greater then, as was the demarcation between different groups of young people that depended so much on what sort of music you liked.

My children and I share a lot of favourites, and they were much more eclectic in what they liked when teenagers - apart from my daughter's 'emo' phase, they listened to all sorts of things.

The first gramophones used metal discs. Shellac came later.

No, I can’t really remember the machine itself, only that the records were tin.

Sara1954
I had no idea there was such a thing.

Something we have to look at is the 2,000+ cd’s in the loft.
I stopped counting at that figure when we last moved.

My great aunt and uncle had a record player of sorts, the records were tin and my cousin and I were allowed to play with them.
It was a god awful racket.

Sara1954
Did your father play records on the radiogram ?

when i was a child, an old man up the road gave us some very old records one was called....'Aint it grand to be blimming well dead'.

I never bought a record, I don’t think I’ve ever really bought a record, I never had a record player.
My dad had a radiogram thing, was it called that??? anyway, we wouldn’t have been allowed to use it.
The first ever record I ever owned was ‘Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy’ bought by my boyfriend, now husband.

My parents were born in 1923 but we never had any Gracie Fields or Max Bygraves, although my dad knew him.
They were big party people where I was the DJ winding up the gramophone and putting on the records.
All of the music was the latest from America. I remember going with my mum to buy Rock around the clock where you were given the record to take into a little booth to listen to.

Sing something simple as time goes by. Was always on m6 Dads car radio on Sunday as we all drove back from a lovely day in Llandudno. Oh happy memories.
P.s. I love TRex. It’s on my. car playlist. Jeepster is a favourite ?

To be fair a friends man wanting to be more than friends is the basis of a lot of songs since way back, if you dont like that you would have to get rid of the entire country and western genre just for starters.

I’d think people would be surprised at the meaning of some lyrics from the 70’s and 80’s, not so innocent for a sing along in hindsight!

My dad was also a fan of Gracie Fields, if I never hear her voice again it will be too soon!

Our honeymoon was a last minute coach trip to Llandudno - we’d coppered up and realised we could (just) afford to go away after all. Everyone else on the coach was at least as old as I am now and the constant musical accompaniment for the whole week was SingalongaMax. Half the coach party were hard of hearing and kept asking for it to be turned up.

I look forward in my turn to driving young people slowly mad with SingalongaDireStraits on a loop.

Trisha57

Do you remember the "SingalongaMax" LPs by Max Bygraves? I often wonder if, when I'm mouldering in a care home somewhere, they will start a "SingalongaT.Rex" sing-song to keep us all entertained!

I reckon they will, maybe some Queen hits as well! My mum is in a care home, she was born in 1932 but hates all the war time songs they sing there! As she was 13 when the war ended, I doubt that she was a fan of them first time around! In fact I cannot remember her ever listening to music or the radio when I lived at home yet the home insist on having background music on for most of the day - do “ that bloody noise” as she calls it!