What music did your parents listen to at home when you were growing up ? Did any of it rub off on you ?

[WildRosie]

My M&D were both born in the 1930s which might explain their rather conservative, middle-of-the-road musical tastes. They didn't have any Mantovani or Ray Conniff albums - they were perhaps a little too young for those - but they did have a fair few James Last albums. Also, stuff like John Denver, Jack Jones, Don McLean, Carpenters, Perry Como, Johnny Mathis , Tony Christie and Neil Diamond. They had at least one Ray Charles album too which, for them, was a little more hip! Quite a lot of classical orchestral and operatic albums too, mainly from the 'These You Have Loved' series presented by Richard Baker. No 'Your Hundred Best Tunes' that I recall.

Much of the foregoing, plus whatever was on the radio and Top Of The Pops, formed the soundtrack to my youth. I have both vinyl and CD albums from many of these artists, e.g. Jack Jones, James Last and Perry Como - I confess! No Mantovani or Ray Conniff though. Nor Bert Kaempfert. Easily obtained at any charity shop but I'd need a paper bag for my head first.

@WildRosie - Karen Carpenter had the most divine voice - so strong, yet ethereal and emotional and it tugged at your heart strings. Even now, when I hear 'Merry Christmas Darling' I always burst into tears!

Beatles, Eagles, Paul Simon, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Steeleye Span. I still listen to a lot of it.

Try listening to Boom Radio. It plays music for baby boomers, so those born between 1946 and 1964. I've heard many songs that I haven't heard for 30 or more years.

I have surprised myself by knowing the words.

I was born in early 1960s and parents in the 1920s.

Happy memories are triggered via this radio station.

DM loves the Beatles, so that would be on a lot when we were kids, along with Rolling Stones, Simon and Garfunkel, Carpenters, Fleetwood Mac. I listen to most of their stuff, and when i was a teenager loved Jimi Hendrix, and would regularly steal her LP (old!). Dad was into country and western which isn’t my thing, but The Devil Went Down to Georgia always makes me smile and think of him.

My kids get subjected to Beastie Boys, Fleetwood Mac, Nirvana, and a whole range of stuff from my childhood and teenage years in the 90s. DS1 moons about a lot of it, he prefers Aviici and similar. DS2 has a love of the Prodigy!

My dad listened to a lot of Fleetwood Mac in the car. I love Fleetwood Mac, they're my favourite band. I even named dd Stevie, after Stevie Nicks.

Beatles, Pink Floyd and Dire Straits.

Yes, definitely rubbed off! I still like all of them.

My parents were both born in the early fifties.

Queen and it definitely rubbed off I love them.

Mine didn't listen to anything, I have only just thought about that after reading this thread. I'm in my 40s and love 70s music which would have been my parents late teen-early 20s music (which is when they had me)

My parents were born in the mid 1920s. They liked big band music. Glenn Miller, the Andrew Sisters, wartime songs. I used to take mum to concerts and still know all the words.

Patsy Cline
Elvis
Beatles
Dean Martin
Frank Sinatra
I know EVERY word to EVERY song patsy cline ever recorded 😂

Mine had Simon and Garfunkel, the Carpenters, John Denver, Neil Diamond - all of which I liked. Glen Campbell, Dr Hook and the Beatles, not so fussed on. Mum liked musicals and had LPs of Oklahoma! Porgy and Bess, Carousel and others. Also Frank Sinatra and Elvis. I couldn't care less about them. She also had a lot of old 78s? Glen Miller and his band.

Dad liked a lot of old Blues stuff - Leadbelly and Muddy Waters.

Writing this, I'm actually quite impressed at how wide ranging their tastes were. They played a lot of music at home.

Mum's taste in music was like nails down a chalkboard to me, both my parents were born late 50's.
Dad liked Rat Pack, Frank Sinatra, plus some other late 70's stuff etc some of those rubbed off on me but they don't make it on to my Spotify.

I however have influenced my DD, I love Adele's music and that features heavily on DD's Spotify 😁 much to DH's annoyance

I have very fond memories of my parent’s music. Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Dire Straits, Fleetwood Mac, Steve Winwood, Simon & Garfunkel, Elton John, Nanci Griffiths, Tracey Chapman were all regularly played. They loved music and there was rarely a time when music wasn’t playing in our house. They also loved a dance. My dad died when I was 23 and listening to his music is a happy way to remember him.

My parents were teenagers in the 60s and yes, what they listened to definitely influenced my music choices, although I will listen to absolutely anything. In turn, my dc have acquired my musical taste.

Jim Reeves here too, parents singing along bless 'em
Lots of C&W. Harry Secombe 😞 and classical: remembering 100 best tunes too.
Their taste didn't influence me but their actual love of music did.
But I admit to being influenced by my own kids' taste- Nirvana, Faith no More, Stone Temple Pilots, Mr Bungle, Soundgarden, System of a Down, Foo Fighters
My kids have taught me quite a bit about music but I'll leave DD's music (Little Mix etc) to her 😁😁

Oh I completely left off ABBA, John Denver, Motown, Jackson 5, Mamas & Papas, Queen, Lulu, BeeGees, Elton John, Tom Jones, The Beach Boys (my dads favorite).

Mums radio was always on Capital Gold so I can still sing along to songs like Tell Laura I Love Her by Ray Peterson.

I remember being so embarrassed by my parents musical tastes but it’s definitely shaped me as a musician as I’ve never pigeonholed myself into a genre (except when I was a grungy teen who thought anything that wasn’t rock or metal was shit).

I don't remember any music being played in the house, my mum has radio 4 on from 7am to 6.30pm (unless it's Just a Minute, and then it's stretched to 7pm). My inlaws love music from the 60s and 70s so I've got Simon and Garfunkel, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd from them (got together with DH as young teenagers). I was born late 70s, they are both 1940s.

Mum listened to all sorts, Elvis to Black Sabbath to Enya to Beach Boys, she used to pinch CDs off me and my brother when we were teens. So it's not too surprising that I've ended up with some overlap.

Dad's taste was less my sort of thing growing up, but now we share a love for 1940s swing.

I guess the biggest influence my parents had in my musical taste was to be open minded.

My DP's were both born in the 50's and I was born in 1980. The music I like that they played when I was growing up was the Beatles, Bruce Springstein, Fleetwood Mac, Steeleye Span, Lindisfarne, Robert Palmer, Queen and the Rolling Stones.

I play a lot of Gun's n' Roses, Metallica, Linkin Park, Aerosmith, my kids don't seem keen and call it mum's angry music! There aren't keen on the assorted 80's pop I play either. I did put on some 90's club music the other day and they didn't mind that as much.

I don’t remember any music on in the house at all. If we were in the car my dad was in charge of the radio so it was always crappy AM station playing Irish country music.

We once drove from home in Scotland to St Ives for a holiday. It took 2 days and my dad had a Bette Midler album. It was the only thing we listened to on the way there, and I do mean the only thing! On the way home my brother threw it out the car window somewhere around Bristol.

Great thread!

My parents were born in the late 40s. My mum enjoyed music and I remember her singing a lot around the house but she didn’t often buy or listen to music.

My Dad had lots of vinyl though (and later, cassettes and CDs) covering a range of genres including country, folk, opera, jazz and rock. The music I remember hearing the most was: Nat King Cole, John Denver, Don Williams, The Carpenters, Chrystal Gayle, Elkie Brooks, Queen, Dire Straits, The Rolling Stones, Beatles, Hollies, Huey Lewis and the News. I still listen to many of those now.

A lovely discovery after Dad died was when I took ownership of his car and found there was still an SD card in the car stereo system with compilations of some of Dad’s favourites on there- probably a couple of hundred tracks, including some newer (at the time!) stuff which I didn’t know he liked, like Keane and Shania Twain.

I was born in 78, music was a big thing in our house. Parents played so much stuff, ranged from Frank Zappa, Genesis,The Pogues,U2, The Stone Roses, Pink Floyd, Fairport Convention to name a few. So glad they did.

Oooh yes, how could I forget Simon and Garfunkel? Was introduced to them at a young age.

Dad always had music on growing up in the 1970s....... The Carpenters, Fleetwood Mac, Queen, Abba, Smokey, Bay City Rollers. Still love listening to all of them. He had a Bang and Olufsen record deck and amplifier with huge speakers in the lounge.

My brother has also been a big influence on my music tastes. He was always trying to get me to listen to stuff in my early teens which I didn’t appreciate at the time but which I later came to love like The Stone Roses, The Smiths and Radiohead. They all sounded a bit too heavy and serious to my young teen ears as I was just obsessed with The Carpenters and Kylie at the time 😆