The sound of my childhood.

I used to have a cassette of a lot of the songs popular on Children’s Favourites. I’m a pink toothbrush, Little White Bull, Nellie the Elephant, etc.

Must look for a CD of the same!

Apart from that, the Listen With Mother tune really takes me back. ‘Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin.’

'Ella sings Cole Porter. Paint your Waggon, Whistle down the Wind, Nat King Cole, April Love, Free as Air, Salad Days, and many more.' Happy happy days when my parents were young and I was a child!

We always had listen with mother on the radio while mum did her ironing, and I was allowed a quarter of an apple.
Heady delights!

As a child,after hearing all the lyrics for the first time, it was Puff The Magic Dragon that brought me to tears.. I refused to listen to the end after I realised poor old Puff had been used & then fogotton, at least that’s how my little self interpreted it.
Later, Bobby Goldsborough singing Summer, The First Time, filled my inquisitive mind with wonder. I didn’t fully understand til life gave me experience, but I remember thinking that it was sensually beautiful.
Also the lovelorn lament, Sealed With A Kiss- Hywell Bennett.... and the tragedy songs such as Tell Laura I love Her.
Sounds like I was a miserable kid, but I did like happy funny songs too!
If I had to choose non music tv, or my music centre, I’d chuck the tv out always.
Music has always been my joy to savour alone, or to share with loved ones.
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growstuff, seriously? Pink Floyd as a child? You're young!

I loved that show The Young Ones-

Green alligators, and long necked geese, some humpty back camels and some chimpanzees.

Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as your born - you're never gonna see no unicorns.

I had a sister and brother who were 15 and 14 years older than me. Basically I endured the pop music of the late 40s early 50s. Ruby Murray, Frank Sinatra are about all records I can recall. Two way family favourites on radio.

Two Way Family Favourites
Sing Something Simple
The Archers theme music
My grandad playing our parlour organ and singing hymns on a Sunday evening. We weren't a religious family but as a Welshman he had grown up doing that.
Songs from the music halls and both wars - The Boy in the Gallery, Pack up Your Troubles, Run Rabbit Run etc
My Mum loved Irish music - Irish Eyes, Danny Boy, Galway Bay etc
The Laughing Policeman
Pink/Blue Toothbrush
How Much is That Doggie in the Window
Tulips from Amsterdam
Give Me the Moonlight
Catch a Falling Star, Perry Como
Lots of songs by Val Doonican, Jim Reeves and Ken Dodd - Mum was a fan.
When I later became a Beatles fan I had to play their music when Mum was out or she'd just turn off "that awful rubbish".

rosecarmel I went to see Pink Floyd in concert when I was 15.

This was it.

Oh yes MissA my heart used to drop when Sing Something Simple came on, it was Sunday evening and that meant the weekend was over.

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Songs of the thirties by the dance bands. (HarryRoy. Henry Hall, Ambrose etc.) Deep Purple, Love letters in the Sand, As time goes by, On the Sunny Side of the Street. I remember my mother doing the housework with these tunes on the radio.

Mum, Whose that knocking at the green door, Frankie Vaughan.
Dad, The Lavender is blue dilly dilly.

My parents used to wash the pots together and sing ‘trees where you sit shall fall into a shade’ and ‘we are little black sheep who have lost our way, baa baa baa’. ! They both had good voices and sang in harmony, good memories ❤️

Que Sera Sera
Yellow Rose of Texas
The Man from Laramie
Butterfingers
Stranger in Paradise
As I love you
Kiss me honey honey kiss me

I can only remember lots of classical music in our house and opera in particular Puccini, which I didn't like much as a child but discovered I did as an adult. Then in 1963 The Beatles burst onto the scene and then on both my parents fell in love with their music and most of what came after, it was like going from black and white into technicolour! I seem to remember a lot about '66 and '67, particularly the latter year when "Whiter Shade of Pale" was playing continually in our house, I was about 13 at the time and looking at the posts above, T Rex another favourite group followed on a couple of years later early '70s when Bowie was also emerging. When I left home and in their latter years my parents went back to listening to classical music all the time, but I'd discovered it too by then.

Oh, my mum loved Cleo Laine (sp?)
Nobody else did.

My uncle had a wind-up gramophone on which he would play songs by the great tenor, Beniamion Gigli and records of Scottish songs. On the other side of the country, my granny had a wind-up gramophone which seemed to play nothing but Teddy Bears' Picnic and Hush, hush, hush here comes the bogeyman.

Kathleen Ferrier and especially Blow the Wind Southerly. My mother always cried, which embarrassed me very much when I was 13 or so.

Peter Pears singing The Foggy Foggy Dew, which was considered rather shocking because it mentioned unmarried people going to bed together.

A lot of the songs mentioned by other posters, too. Hymns every day at school, so they were a big part of my life. I used to sing round the house all the time - my grandfather called me ‘the Upton nightingale’ ?

I used to listen to Two Way Family favourites whilst having the Sunday roast. Also enjoyed Children's Favourites...Nelly the Elephant, I'm a Pink Toothbrush, The Laughing Policeman etc.

My mother used to love musicals so I knew the songs from South Pacific, The King and I, Seven Brides for Seven brothers, Calamity Jane, Oklahoma! She also liked Edith Piaf.

I went on to listen to Billy Fury, Adam Faith, Marty Wilde, Joe Brown, Lonnie Donegan, Helen Shapiro, and I loved Eddie Cochran. Not so keen on Cliff Richard or Elvis.

What a great thread MrsEggy....we need cheering up at the moment, a few gleams of sunshine ( this is one) on a forum of gloom and doom.?

I remember my grandmother didn't like Doris Day [she's heard about actress's and their 'lifestyle']! so she would be very annoyed when 'Move Over Darling' was played.

GillT57

Oh yes MissA my heart used to drop when Sing Something Simple came on, it was Sunday evening and that meant the weekend was over.

Another heart dropped here when the dreary signature tune came on .....but after that came the top 20!

Oh yes, I remember The Foggy foggy dew!! My uncle (15 years older than me) played the piano and he taught me this song along with Come you not from Newcastle, Waley Waley, Barbara Allen! and others mostly about illicit love, Illegitimate offspring and early death, much to his amusement, my Grandmothers horror and my mother, his sister's irritation!