albums that belonged to your parents that you listened to when you were a kid

powderfinger · #1 06-22-2011, 12:42 PM

So yeah, before you were old enough to buy records/tapes/cds, you probably listened to your parents music. As a kid, what were your favorite "parent records" to listen to.

Mine: all vinvyl

The Spinners (forget the title)
I used to love the song "Rubberband Man" when I was a kid. It might well have been my favorite song back then. I had some slick dance moves as a 7 yr old.

The 4 Tops- collection
For some reason I used to love jumping on the bed, and running around the livingroom to "Reach Out, Ill Be There" and "Sugar Pie Honeybunch". Still love the Tops, actually. Always reminds me of childhood.

The Beach Boys- Mixed Tape the old man made
I can still remember my dad taking me to school in his Camaro playing "Help Me Rhonda". I think it was his favorite BB song.

Whoever sang the song "Blue Moon".
My dad had this Doo Wop mixed tape. My dad used to sing the "dag and dag ding blue moon parts" with my brother and I, like we were a barbershop trio or something. Great memories.

Anyone else?

hdracer · #2 06-22-2011, 12:43 PM

Sorry, when I was a kid my parents did not have "albums" They had 78's

Journey55 · #3 06-22-2011, 12:46 PM

I listened to America and The Guess Who

WyrdoBass · #4 06-22-2011, 12:51 PM

I'm young, so these were all CD's...

Heaven and Hell- Black Sabbath
Machine Head- Deep Purple
Another One from the Road- Lynyrd Skynyrd
Van Halen's debut album (...I used to love "Running with the Devil"!

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electracoyote · #5 06-22-2011, 12:53 PM

My parents introduced me to the wonderful world of the audiophile. They had one of those big console stereo systems, the kind that was a big piece of wood furniture with stereo speakers on either end, an AM-FM tuner and a turntable on the inside, and a big coffin lid.

Their LP collection included lots of classic country, Buck, Merle, Porter, Dolly, Waylon, The Glasers, Johnny Cash, etc. That was my first introduction to music. Shortly thereafter Mom bought Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits LP. I was stunned. It was the most beautiful, amazing thing I had ever heard. Around the time The Beatles hit, after I watched their first live television performance on The Ed Sullivan show, my parents started letting me spend allowance money on my own 45 and 33 1/3 RPM vinyl. Then they got me a portable record player of my own.

So, as much as they worried and scoffed over my musical aspirations, they are directly to blame. I always thought that was pretty damn ironic.

Phalex · #6 06-22-2011, 12:53 PM

Herb Alpert
Benny Goodman
Dorsey Bros
Chuck Mangione
Getz/Gilberto
Ella Fitzgerald
Duke Ellington
Maynard Ferguson
Isaac Hayes

My old man played Sax and Clarinet in a big band back in the early '40s. He has fantastic taste in music as far as I'm concerned.

SanPedroYeti · #7 06-22-2011, 12:55 PM

Three are burned into my head:

1) The Doors first album, over and over again. I especially remember hearing it late a night while my dad and uncle drank wine and played chess by candlelight.

2) John Coltrane - My Favorite Things. Still one of my favorite "comfort sounds."

3) The Beatles greatest hits with the blue cover (as opposed to the red one, which we didn't have) and the guys looking down from the stairwell - contained "later" Beatles cuts.

Good memories.

diehard70 · #8 06-22-2011, 12:56 PM

From Dad: Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Mills Bros., Benny Goodmans Orchestra.

From Mom: Fleetwood Mac, Hall & Oates, James Taylor, Motown stuff, too.

It's hard to believe my parents are almost the same age.

But I was exposed to a lot of great music back then. From Big/Swing bands and Crooners to Pop/Rock and Soul and everything in between (and I still enjoy it ALL).

EDIT: I picked up the trumpet at age 9 and listened to LOTS of Dizzy, Herb Alpert, Chuck Mangione, Al Hirt, Chet Baker and Maynard Furgeson (sp?) In the late '70s early '80s, too. (traded my trumpet in '08 for a new bass) -Dann

MrGotBass · #9 06-22-2011, 12:58 PM

My favorite of my dad's CDs (I'm 19) was AC/DC's The Razor's Edge

I still remember being 4 or 5 years old and he popped that CD into the big stereo in the front room. "Thunderstruck" was the first song on the album. I had no idea what exactly I was listening to, but I knew that it had so much power, and that it was the greatest thing I had ever heard.

AC/DC is still my favorite band, and Thunderstruck is still my favorite song

dubist · #10 06-22-2011, 12:58 PM

Otis Redding - sitting on the dock
Nina Simone - 3 albums
Bob Dylan- highway 61

ShredderMaximus · #11 06-22-2011, 01:00 PM

My dad had the Sublime self titled album, all the post Black album Metallica albums up to S&M, AC/DC, Van Halen, and Green Day albums like Nimrod and Dookie. Also the Wallflowers "Bringing Down The Horse" was a great album that sill holds a special spot too, just like all the others.

Those were great to grow up on, though his extended stints of Moody Blues and Hootie and the Blowfish were maddening.

pasta4lnch · #12 06-22-2011, 01:00 PM

the only album my parents had when I was a kid that I liked was Simon and Garfunkel live in Central Park. I made them listen to it soo much in the car that my dad gave it to me (probably just wanted it out of the car

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zachoff · #13 06-22-2011, 01:01 PM

The Who - Who's Next?
Neil Young - Harvest
Skynyrd - Pronounced...
Joe Walsh - So What
Dead - Skeletons from the Closet
CSNY - Deja Vu
Elton John - Madman..
Emmylou Harris - Luxury Liner

Tons more, but these are probably the most-played... All we ever did as kids was listen to my parent's records until we all got Walkmans. We lived in the country and had 3 blurry TV stations when the rabbit ears were working until I was 14.

JMac4strngr · #14 06-22-2011, 01:01 PM

Here We go..... My fav's from My elders albums are as follows:
Pink Floyd- The Wall (Used to jump up and down in the back seat of My Mom's Gremlin sing'n "We dont need no education")

The Who- Who's next (Allways loved the way it sounded, didn't realize at the time the what I was dig'n was the badass bass lines)

Black Sabbath- Paranoid (Iron Man.)

Waylon Jennings- Waylon's greatest hits (The Duke's of Hazzard song)

The Clash- London Calling
I am sure there are more, but that is what comes to mind at the minute....

BOOURNS · #15 06-22-2011, 01:02 PM

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts "I love rock an roll". So awesome! Still spins often on my record player. Mom is a elementary school teacher and so straight laced, I have no idea what this album was doing in our house. Im sure listening to songs like "love is pain" and "youre to possesive" only shaped my childhood for the better....

LSquared · #16 06-22-2011, 01:03 PM

I'll second Phalex's Herb Alpert (& The Tijuana Brass, of course). And a lot of classical... We're talking mid/late 60's here, so we're talking vinyl. But I used to love playing their old 78's, too. Things like "Hernando's Hideaway", "Tenderly", Rosemary Clooney..... pre-rock n roll.

I'm still a big fan of all of it, and inherited most of the records.

KenHR · #17 06-22-2011, 01:05 PM

My parents weren't huge music fans, but when I was very young they used to play records and reel-to-reel tapes a lot when we had a stereo in the living room. I know they had a decent-sized collection, but the ones that stand out:

* Lots of Elvis (esp. Aloha from Hawaii).

* Ditto Reprise-era Sinatra.

* Johnny Cash's Live at Folsom Prison got played a ton.

* A Buddy Holly hits collection called Buddy Holly Lives.

* Dave Brubeck's Take Five.

* An American Bandstand collection of early rock'n'roll hits, a four record set, IIRC.

Funny thing is, I loved all of that stuff as a kid, then hated it until my late teens, when I went back to loving it all again (and still do).

My older brothers' record and tape collections also had a huge impact on my tastes.

TombassCaton · #18 06-22-2011, 01:07 PM

-A load of Pat Metheny and John Scofield albums
-The Beatles - Rubber Soul
-Lightning Seeds - Joltification and Dizzy Heights
-Oasis - Definately Maybe and Whats the story morning glory

i was born in 1993

mtonbass · #19 06-22-2011, 01:10 PM

Dad was into country. I appreciate it more now than I did then. Especially the so-called "outlaw" guys.

Mom: Elvis, Herb Albert, Santana (Abraxas) ... she was cool. We shared music up until she passed at a too young 64.

geoff_in_nc · #20 06-22-2011, 01:10 PM

Nancy Sinatra - I don't remember the album, just that it had "These Boots Were Made For Walkin'"
Herb Alpert -- Whipped Creme and Other Delights... awesome album as I recall

Don't laugh!
Fiddler On The Roof OST.
I loved (still love) singing the line "Eef aye verr a reech mon... yeibel deeble deible, deible deible deeble deible dooo" (or however it goes. LOL)