Parents music

I was brought up listening to Elvis, Jim Reeves, Slim Whitman and Connie Francis

all i can remember is two way family favourites, on the light programme, sunday mid-day, with a song in my heart.
and workers' playtime, loved that theme.
and there was housewives' choice. can hear it now, the upbeat intro music, so cheerful, so evocative of happier days.
my parents did not have any records, so it was just what happened to be on the wireless.
i'm much the same now.

GreyKnitter

My Dad was a great lover of Glenn Miller and String of Pearls was a def favourite.

Mine too.

I remember my mother liking Jim Reeves and Roy Orbison. And the man downstairs payed Mantovani all the time. I hated it all and started playing endless Beatles songs.

Opera on Saturday mornings played loud with all the windows wide open.Songs from musicals South Pacific ,West Side Story ,Matt Munro and Frank Sinatra.But they liked new music too,my Dad thought Marti Pellow had a great voice he liked the lyrics of Billy Joel and John Martin

.Left us with a love of all genres ,Sunday nights were round the paino with Dad and Granny playing and mum and mys 3 sisters and me singing .Its how we all learned our party pieces

Thanks for that Oopsadaisy - I had forgotten you could lift the arm and play the same record over and over. Our neighbour was a great fan of Jimmy Shand and one Saturday he came at lunch time with a new LP and it was played continuously until early evening!!

My Dad was a great lover of Glenn Miller and String of Pearls was a def favourite.

Spanish Eyes - Al Martino
Louis Armstrong - What a wonderful world
Jim Reeves - I love you because

Three of my mums favourites.

I had Mum playing Jim Reeves, but if I went into our garden our teenage neighbour had lifted the arm off of the Dansette and ‘In Dreams’ by Roy Orbison played non stop on Sundays,
So I sat in the garden.

I remember (and liked) my nana’s music more Jim Reeves, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como etc. - my mum listened to Dusty Springfield songs endlessly. Depressing!

Every.Single.Sunday.

Jim Reeves.

Threepenny opera with Lotta Lenya

Noel Harrison’s “Windmills of your Mind” was often played by my dear mum.