What music did your parent(s) listen to when you were a child?

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Mine listened to a lot of soul, R&B, reggae and Motown. Also ELO.

What music did yours listen to?

Gilbert and Sullivan, Val Doonican, Flanders and Swann - but only when not listening to Radio Four. I remember my mum coming into my bedroom and exclaiming in disgust at “POP music!” and both indulged in the popular activity of making scornful remarks at the appearance and sound of the acts on Top of the Pops.

Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr
Louis Armstrong & Count Basie etc
Classical
Military marches
Val Doonican
Kenny Ball & his Jazzmen
Mantovani

You get the idea. How I ended up normal I shall never know 😜

Beatles, Bread, Clifford T ward, John Denver and Petula Clark are the ones I remember

My dad listened exclusively to classical music but had a fondness for Gilbert and Sullivan too.
Anything popular was designated 'random noise'

The same! Only my dad also like brass bands. My parents Did Not Approve when I started listening to pop.

Liked. He also liked. Where's the edit button gone? We asked for one for ages, eventually we got one ... and now it's vanished again.

My dad listened to lots of classical stuff, with a bit of shmoozy bossa nova.
My mum liked Bon Jovi, UB40, Santana, Deep Purple, Simply Red, 90s Grammys compilations, and a bit of new age stuff like Enya.
They both liked Paul Simon, the blues, The Rolling Stones, and very 90s “world music” (South African, Malian, Youssou N’Dour etc).

I loooove MO 🤣 ‘Five Miles Out’, etc. My DSis and I would lie on the floor listening to the whale one and imagining we were in space.

The Famous Choir of Canaries
https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Amazing+Choir+of+Canaries&rlz=1C1ONGR_en-GBGB980GB980&oq=The+Amazing+Choir+of+Canaries+&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigAdIBCTI0MDVqMGoxNagCCLACAfEFvSZmJCzSiJzxBb0mZiQs0oic&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:f760b288,vid:UhyGJ5f9Ks4,st:0

In Eleven more Months and Ten More Days
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They were strange people!

90 percent rock and metal music, mostly from the 70s. Dad was a huge Kate Bush fan, which I inherited, though my mum's love for Bryan Adams and the Lighthouse Family and her therefore playing them AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN in the car still haunt my nightmares.

My Mother had been a member of a well known choir, so she loved any choir music, she was also a keen ballroom dancer, so dance bands featured a lot in her musical choices.
Victor Silvester was a favourite of hers, as was the Semprini Serenade programme, and singers like Vera Lynn. We would often spend the afternoon doing the foxtrot and quickstep accompanied by Victor.
She was also very fond of Gilbert and Sullivan, so we always went to the local G&S Society productions, and we would have impromptu Gilbert and Sullivan concerts at home too.

Classical music; from Bach and Beethoven to Stockhausen and Wagner…..This was all over the house at a loud volume. No caring is it was early in the morning at the weekend and we were hungover tired teens.

I have to say, I wouldn’t be too keen on Stockhausen played loudly if I had a hangover.

Barry Manilow

Lots of Afrobeats at Christmas and special occasions. I remember being woken by the bass!
ABBA
Jimmy Cliff
Donna Summer
Jim Reeves (I couldn’t tell you the name of any of his songs but if you played one I’d probably be able to sing along🤦🏿‍♀️😂)

Nothing. The radio was for my Dad to listen to the horse racing and frothing village idiots on a local radio phone in. They had a second hand radiogram but never bought records. Just some hand me downs like Russ Conway and some Welsh choirs which weren't their taste and never played.

This was my grandads favourite.

My parents listened to mostly 60s stuff. Mod vibes.

My dad in particular was into buddy holly, the kinks and Beatles, dusty Springfield and some later stuff. Stones, Simon and Garfunkel, Albert Hammond. He actually listened to quite varied stuff but mostly 60s.

My mum was a bit more into poppy stuff like Cliff Richard and showaddywaddy and listened to the radio a lot throughout the 80s

My mum listened to Eurythmics, Carly Simon, Carol King, Joan Baez.

My dad liked Paul Simon, early Beautiful South, Queen and Madonna.

One of my early memories is my parents playing I wanna know what love is by Foreigner every night on the record player before we went to bed. Our record player died during Bohemian Rhapsody.

My mum liked Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Van morrison...she listened to their records whilst doing the ironing!

My dad liked classical music but also some classics like 'hands up' which he had on his collection of old 45's.

Johnny Cash, The Spinners (the Folk group), Elvis, The Carpenters, Cliff Richard, Matt Monroe.

Eric Clapton, Simon and Garfunkel, the
Shadows, the Beatles…
also Hooked on Classics 😂 and Classic FM basically 24/7 once it started

My dad has never been much of a music listener. My mum listened to the pop of the 60s/70s, plus some classical and folky stuff like the Incredible String Band. We have similar tastes and by the 80s/90s were listening to very much the same stuff - we used to love the John Peel show. My sister on the other hand grew up with wildly different tastes!

Dad: Eagles, BeeGees, Wishbone Ash, Queen, The Who, Dire Straits, Tubular Bells
Mum: Doris Day, Celine Dion, Dolly Parton, Abba, Fleetwood Mac

I’ll listen to pretty much anything. Except Wishbone Ash 😂 I think there must be some sort of repressed memory attached to them.

Opera

Classical music, or traditional jazz - Chris Barber, Acker Bilk, Kenny Ball. My mum listened to a lot of opera after they divorced though she had been a big Elvis and Stones fan in her younger days.

My dad loved Jazz, Billie Holiday, Julie London, Acker Bilk, etc. My mum loved Willie Nelson

The Beatles and other 60's groups.