I can't either, for the most part, but IIRC, on the day Dad finally snapped and ordered me to take that 45 off the turntable, I had played "Bernadette" three or four straight times, it being their latest single and I having just bought the record. We had a similar confrontation over Stevie Wonder's "I Was Made to Love Her." He just didn't get soul music in general.
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What Defined "Your Parent's Music"?
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K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I still play their last crossover hit "When She Was My Girl" as a Forgotten 45 on The Eighties Channel™. And pretty much all of their big hits from the 60's and 70's are in the Urban/Rhythmic AC format I custom designed for another client station.
In an interesting comparison, in the mid and later 60's when I programmed Top 40 in Ecuador, most Supremes songs were hits, but going deeper into the Motown releases we found much more limited acceptance.
On the other hand, when I got to Puerto Rico in 1970, I found that the appeal of Motown and "imitators" was much deeper.
The difference? Nearly 80% of Ecuador's population considers itself to be "mestizo" or a mix of both European and Indigenous, with about 10% being "pure" Indigenous, 5% being Black and about 2% only white.
In Puerto Rico there is an element of Afro-Antillean in a majority of the population and only a trace of Indigenous persons heritage. The "two or more races" or "some other race" Census question gives about 80% of the population in these categories.
This means that there is definitely something for anthropologists to study. Is that difference in taste inherited, is it a product of prevalent culture or what. Sort of like comparing Seattle with Memphis.
Did he complain, “It’s the same old song”?
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
No, but he was probably Standing In The Shadows Of Love when he said that.
Wake Me, Shake Me when this is over, please ...
Interesting topic. I was mostly raised by my Grandma, who was born in 1900. She and my Grandpa adopted my mother, who was born in 1936. By the time I came around in 1956, there were just about 2 generations between my Grandma and me.
Fortunately, the home and car radios were on WOWO most of the time, unless there was a local event on local station WRSW, Warsaw, IN. I say fortunately because WOWO, even though it was the full-service news, info and farm voice, the music it played was top 40...even stuff like the Doors and Jefferson Airplane. The exception was during The Little Red Barn. I don't remember a lot about my Grandmother's musical taste. She had several Hawaiian albums (Martin Denny particularly). I seem to remember Herb Alpert's "Whipped Cream and Other Delights" in the house. My Grandmother did not like seeing all those black faces on her TV, so "Soul Train" was out.
My mother graduated in 1954, and immediately married my bio-father, who I never met. From what I was told, he was a very religious man who "didn't allow no music in here". My mother handed a lort of 45s she had down to me, and I have a special place in my heart with Domenico Modnugo's "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu" which was one of them.
My Mom married my step-dad, and they had a variety of greatest hits albums, some which were sold at tire dealerships. I remember one of them having The Leaves version of "Hey Joe". When my Dad was driving, he listened to country station WMGS, Bowling Green, Ohio.
We moved to Western Ohio when I was 10, still with a strong signal from WOWO but there was a different station being played at the pool--Fun Radio 8 CKLW (shortly after becoming The Big 8). About that time I got my first transistor radio. Mom and Grandma called my music "wang wang". Grandma was on record as hating "Somebody to Love" by Jefferson Airplane. Our family vacation for several years was to a town called Fremont, Michigan, which had a small lake. I was shocked when my parents turned on CKLW somewhere in Michigan and kept it on until it suffered interference from an 810. Maybe it was because it was the strongest station on the dial. They also turned on WLS for awhile on the way back.
In adulthood I had the opportunity to take my (step)dad to see Conway Twitty at an outdoor venue in extreme Northeast Indiana.
I think my Mom would have liked the Music of Your Life format later in life.
Fortunately, the home and car radios were on WOWO most of the time, unless there was a local event on local station WRSW, Warsaw, IN. I say fortunately because WOWO, even though it was the full-service news, info and farm voice, the music it played was top 40...even stuff like the Doors and Jefferson Airplane. The exception was during The Little Red Barn. I don't remember a lot about my Grandmother's musical taste. She had several Hawaiian albums (Martin Denny particularly). I seem to remember Herb Alpert's "Whipped Cream and Other Delights" in the house. My Grandmother did not like seeing all those black faces on her TV, so "Soul Train" was out.
My mother graduated in 1954, and immediately married my bio-father, who I never met. From what I was told, he was a very religious man who "didn't allow no music in here". My mother handed a lort of 45s she had down to me, and I have a special place in my heart with Domenico Modnugo's "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu" which was one of them.
My Mom married my step-dad, and they had a variety of greatest hits albums, some which were sold at tire dealerships. I remember one of them having The Leaves version of "Hey Joe". When my Dad was driving, he listened to country station WMGS, Bowling Green, Ohio.
We moved to Western Ohio when I was 10, still with a strong signal from WOWO but there was a different station being played at the pool--Fun Radio 8 CKLW (shortly after becoming The Big 8). About that time I got my first transistor radio. Mom and Grandma called my music "wang wang". Grandma was on record as hating "Somebody to Love" by Jefferson Airplane. Our family vacation for several years was to a town called Fremont, Michigan, which had a small lake. I was shocked when my parents turned on CKLW somewhere in Michigan and kept it on until it suffered interference from an 810. Maybe it was because it was the strongest station on the dial. They also turned on WLS for awhile on the way back.
In adulthood I had the opportunity to take my (step)dad to see Conway Twitty at an outdoor venue in extreme Northeast Indiana.
I think my Mom would have liked the Music of Your Life format later in life.
We didn't have FM until 1977, or FM in the car until 1983.
I remember listening to country or adult contemporary (before that term existed) in the car when I was really young. I also remember "High Hopes" by Sinatra but don't know what the format of the station was. My father listened to the "Sound of Music" soundtrack album a lot in the late 60s. And he had a collection of classical recordings.
When I was a teenager we always had adult contemporary in the car. My mother had a clock radio which was on an adult contemporary station.
Once we got a stereo which had FM, my father liked beautiful music. Some years after that, my mother didn't want adult contemporary and she would only listen to beautiful music.
I remember listening to country or adult contemporary (before that term existed) in the car when I was really young. I also remember "High Hopes" by Sinatra but don't know what the format of the station was. My father listened to the "Sound of Music" soundtrack album a lot in the late 60s. And he had a collection of classical recordings.
When I was a teenager we always had adult contemporary in the car. My mother had a clock radio which was on an adult contemporary station.
Once we got a stereo which had FM, my father liked beautiful music. Some years after that, my mother didn't want adult contemporary and she would only listen to beautiful music.
From my dad (born in 1945), it was "oldies" from the 50s/60s (K-Earth 101 in the 1980s and 90s). And also smooth jazz (101.7 KXDC in Carmel/Monterey CA in the early 90s).
From my grandparents, it was 40's big bands (like Tommy Dorsey) and the crooner era of the 50s (like Perry Como). Listened to on glorious Stereo 8-Track in their land yacht Cadillac.
From my grandparents, it was 40's big bands (like Tommy Dorsey) and the crooner era of the 50s (like Perry Como). Listened to on glorious Stereo 8-Track in their land yacht Cadillac.
I understand that "High Hopes" was a campaign song for JFK.
This was during the Nixon administration.
No it wasn't. It was when Nixon ran against Kennedy in 1960.
I think chimp was talking about the timeframe when he heard “High Hopes” on whatever station it was.
High Hopes was a hit for Frank Sinatra in 1959, when the movie A Hole in the Head was released. The song was originally from the movie, and was used as a campaign song by JFK a year later. I remember it quite well, since my folks owned the single and played it often at the time.
My mother always had some sort of music playing, usually oldies (especially on the softer side) or folk (she also sang and played guitar a lot, so folk was, and is, very prevalent). She has a pretty big range of likes, but she mainly enjoys oldies and folk. She remembers seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, and didn't care much for it because all she could hear was the audience screaming.
My grandfather liked big band and stuff like Boots Randolph and Eddy Arnold.
On my own, around age 9 or 10, I listened to country (Young Country 93.3, Froggy 92.9), then-new pop (Radio Disney 1310) and, of course, oldies. I settled on the latter after growing kind of tired of the other stuff, and became quite fond of KFRC, KABL (I also enjoyed Big Band and standards, which they played) and whatever others I would discover. Usually, in the car, it was either KFRC, KABL or, ocassionally, KCBS and KGO. Sometimes KDFC (then a big, commercial signal on 102.1) would get blasted (yes, blasted) on a boombox in my mother's bedroom if she was in a bad mood.
My tastes nowadays are more or less the same.
It is a uniquely interesting song.
Interesting.
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So is "Stairway to Heaven." I should have tried that one on him, as he enjoyed both classical music and English traditional music, and "Stairway" drew from both. I'll bet he would have stayed with it until the first notes of that Jimmy Page solo. Then it would have been "TURN OFF THAT CRAP!!!"
Neil Sedaka?!I'm assuming the "Stairway To Heaven" referenced here is the song by Led Zeppelin .....not the Neil Sedaka tune...!!
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