That's good taste in music.
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What Defined "Your Parent's Music"?
- Thread starter thenetwork
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For a record that big you could use the vintage toy record player called the "Sound Wagon" They made them in the form of a VW buss and they drove around the record playing as the moved around the record.
Sound Wagon record player
Sound Wagon record player
Why am I not surprised you would say that?
For what it's worth, though, I like this stuff too. Here's some of my favorite selections (@michael hagerty, @K.M. Richards laugh if you must):
Perry Como - Round And Round*, Magic Moments, Catch A Falling Star
Patty Page - Allegheny Moon*, Tennessee Waltz, Old Cape Cod*, Just A Simple Melody, Go On Home
Percy Faith - Theme from "A Summer Place"*, Delicado**, Ascot Gavotte***
Ray Conniff - Happiness Is, The Most Beautiful Girl (I like Charlie Rich's original too)
*I have these on the original 45
**I have it on a 78
***I have a copy of Percy Faith's "My Fair Lady" soundtrack album
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I was being (truthfully) nebulous for maximum "WTF," because that induces clicks.
Jack Handy's Deep Thoughts has the answer:
"I'd launch this record on the Voyager 3 spacecraft. Then when the aliens captured it, they'd think, ``We'd better not invade their planet. These people are GIANTS and would squash us like ants!" Then they'd fly in the opposite direction, and leave us the hell alone."
You have some of my favorites from these artists on the lists I sent you.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
No laughing here. The first station I worked at was totally MOR and Big Band when I arrived and had transitioned to a Contemporary MOR by the time I left four years later.
I played most of those songs at some time during my stint there. My two favorites on that list are "Magic Moments" and "Delicato".
When I was 11, my parents told me, ‘’Don ‘t change the dial on the kitchen radio.‘’ It was set for KFAC classical for Dad and Grandma, or KMPC for Mom. Inexpensive A.M. radios often had dials with numbers that were either few or improperly placed. They got tired of my fiddling around with it, searching for rocker stations. Then they got me a little transistor for my 12th birthday, and i was off and running with KRLA and the other rockers.
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My dad really didn't listen to music much. He liked Big Band stuff and some country. My mom was into Herb Alpert, Elvis, and then lot of country in her later years. If put on some upbeat rock n roll mom would say who is that I like that lol. She liked Lynyrd Skynyrd, and her and dad liked Charlie Daniels now that I think about it
You want his record collection? Where were you a decade ago? After he died it sat around in totes in my basement while I repeatedly failed to either sell it or give it away. You might find most of it at Half Price Books.
The reason I complain so much about what I don't have is that it costs money to have an actual collection.