What Albums Did your Parents Own?

[Sam_Heggy]

Status quo My Da would jump up and down while running around the room singing this awful tripe. When my brother was doing a sound check on saturday my Da came in and demanded some quo its beyond a feckin joke.

[Lim till i die]

My dad has an absolute obsession with Big Band music from the 1920s up to the 1940s, it's all you ever hear in my house.

Real expert on the area.

Definitely the only household I know where Malcolm Laycok on BBC Radio 2 at 10pm of a Sunday night is essential listening.

Now that he has discovered the interweb, I fear I'll never use the home computer again.

[ken foree]

hey it's a nice thread. the beach boys greatest hits were in constant rotation in the car on holidays. their chlorinated harmonies fit the blue-green atlantic off the kerry coast very well in fact. abba and stockton's wing also got heavy play.

[Magicme]

Have a stash of my mums old vinyl singles with stuff like the beatles and stones but in the car as kids we got to listen to Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Charlie Pride and Don Williams mostly. I still sing-a-long to them when I hear them.

My dad was in a showband so we were tortured at home with whatever were the big hits of the time (early 70's).

On the Quo thing, my uber cool older brother used to love them. I always thought they were crap but then I like Wham so who am I to judge. One time we were driving somewhere with my mum and I insisted my Wham tape got played. My brother promptly ejected it from the stereo and threw it out the window and the car behind us made even more ****e of it! He made up for it by buying me a lovely picture of George & Andrew for Christmas though.

[McShels]

My Dad - Johnny McEvoy, Marty Robbins, Del Shannon, Patsy Cline, Kenny Rogers, Wolfe Tones, Dubliners, Paddy Reilly, Makem and Clancy, Frank Sinatra, Bill Hayley.

My Mam - Abba, Dusty Springfield.

But have to thank my folks for introducing me to Elvis and Johnny Cash quality stuff.

[DmanDmythDledge]

My dad has a music collection which contains roughly 2,000 albums, consisting of LPs, tape recordings and CDs. Mainly into all that country stuff, in particular bluegrass.

I can't stand the sh!te...

[deecay]

Without knowing I memorised numourous Johnny Cash songs,dont mind it though

[Macy]

Stones, Beatles, Dylan, Status Quo (vastly underated). Me mam went through a folk spell in college so there was some of that too. They also had one of those LP collections of an LP for each band which had loads of cool stuff on it as well as awful pop rubbish.

No nightmare car journeys with us, never mind the list above, my old man was definitely a radio listener when driving.

[Ash]

Japers, all I can remember from my parents vinyl are Joe Dolan and Big Tom!
Singles were everything and anything.

Think we had a few from The Falcons cos my uncle played with them.
(Not the American ones, more of a Midlands outfit)

[rebs23]

My Da- The Who, The Kinks, The Who and more Who
My Mum - Joe Dolan, Joe Dolan oh and the Nolan Sisters (I think)
Probably explains why we always knew as kids they'd divorce.

[centre mid]

My Dad had loads of Johnny Cash and Elvis, with a bit of Val Doonican throw in for good measure.

My eldest bro got us all into Punk then Ska & Reggae

Totally screwed...

[bellavistaman]

Status quo My Da would jump up and down while running around the room singing this awful tripe. When my brother was doing a sound check on saturday my Da came in and demanded some quo its beyond a feckin joke.

Cool!! Suppose Neish gave him a big lecture too.

[Dublin12]

My Dad's old Vinyl that I used to listen to constantly as a kid consisted of The Beatles, The Who, The Kinks, The Small Faces, The Stones, Elvis, Buddy Holly and loads Ex-Jukebox singles of varying quality. Of My Ma's music the only thing I listened to was Scott Walker and the Walker Brothers.

Hello Son