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Can't believe I forgot to mention Billy Joel!
Definitely John Denver & Kenny Rogers for me too (The Gambler!)
Your lists are stirring up memories 
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3ringcircus wrote:
.... Kenny Rogers for me too (The Gambler!)
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The Gambler! Every single time I hear that song it brings up two memories. The first was junior year of high school. A bunch of us were working on a homecoming float, and someone hummed a little of "The Gambler." Everyone just started singing the whole song- It was one of my favorite memories of high school!
The other was when we went to see Kenny Rogers, in Branson. Outside of his gorgeous venue, there were camera guys waiting as people came in for the concert. They cornered nearly every person and asked us to sing a bit of The Gambler. During one of the breaks in the show, they played The Gambler, putting together bits of everyone's rendition. It was really neat. 
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Top 3 from my childhood:
James Taylor
Simon and Garfunkle
Carly Simon
Yes, my mom was a hippee,how can you tell? 
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We really didn't listen to music at home in my childhood . . . all I can remember are story albums and Free to Be You and Me. Oh, my parents did have a Joan Baez album that I used to listen to over and over and over and over and over.
I started listening to the radio at 10 or 11, and it changed my life. Formative music from that time:
CCR
Doobie Brothers
Fleetwood Mac
Styx
Started listening to album-rock station at 13, so this was the soundtrack of my teenaged years:
Jackson Browne
Warren Zevon
Bruce Springsteen (Darkness on the Edge of Town remains one of my favorite albums of all time)
Jethro Tull
Crosby, Stills, & Nash
Kansas
Led Zepplin
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Erica, this is totally awesome!!!!
MaryM wrote:
Fun idea, Erica!
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Where are Mary and Angie to validate my list????? I need validation before someone asks me who ELO and BTO are!!  |
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Oh, I totally know your list, Jen! Though I would likely not include all the country artists as country is a more recent addition to our musical repertoire. I loved Anne Murray though...
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ROTFL!!!! ELO & BTO are RAD!!!
From my childhood via my hip and happening parents:
1. Sly and the Family Stone
2. All Green
3. Carly Simon
And check out BREAD!!!! That's hilarious!
At Devin's wedding, we played Dance to the Music and it was a HUGE hit...3 generations dancing to Sly - seriously, I cry thinking about what a gift my parents gave to us! And Devin and Michael danced to Let's Stay Together...whether times are good or bad or happy or sad... happy tears overflowing!
We didn't play Carly Simon or BREAD
As for me as a teen...all the rock that has already been mentioned! All other genres came later for me.
Check out my blog post from last year this time about Bruce Springsteen. I'm just very grateful that music is a big part of my life and have handed that onto my kids. Popular music of all genres is such cultural glue!
Erica, I totally get your quesion! Devin is already handing down stuff from her grandparents music, and mine & Dave's. And our kids have brought fantastic music to us! Oh dear Lord there is GREAT music playing right now.
Oh, did anyone mention Tom Petty? My kids have been to his concert :)
And here's more on music from one of my favorite 4Real topics (2009!) Purchasing Greatest Hits.
Rock on,
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SallyT wrote:
. . all I can remember are story albums and Free to Be You and Me......
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"Free To Be You And Me"! We got a new music teacher in 5th grade, and she played that album over and over and over. I don't remember what the songs were, now, but I know we sang them over and over and over. 
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Stacy in MI
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Oh my goodness Erica!!
Depeche Mode 
I was a semi-fan in high school because my friends were, but I didn't understand how bad the lyrics were! (I still don't actually  )
So when our oldest was 2 or 3 and the local Shell gas stations were offering tickets to the Depeche Mode concert here if you fill up your tank xxx times, we went and took several friends with us, along with our daughter. Since it was a free concert, we sat on the grass on blankets. I thought hey, FAMILY concert since many brought kids.
And then YIKES! It happened: my very first smell of pot.  I didn't even know what it was, hubby and friends had to tell me. People around us were smoking it, and probably doing other things too. Talk about lost innocence!! So yeah, there's my Depeche Mode story. The inverted cross was kinda unsettling too, though I didn't understand that one either until much later when I got into apologetics, etc. 
We laugh about it now though.
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Stef! I know what you mean!
We are pretty discerning now about what we listen to and sometimes I will look up lyrics if I can't understand them. Obviously, I did not do that way back then. I don't think I even want to know what all those songs were really about.
One time we were studying listening to music and not at all conscious of the words to the songs. I clearly, like it was yesterday, remember my mom coming in and being so upset because the song was Annie Lennox's S** Crimes. Much later, did I become more discerning about lyrics or if an artist was way out there or consistently has/had immoral lyrics.
That said, we all listen to lots and lots of music of all genres. I asked my 16 year old what she thought she might list in 30 years when asked this question and she named Owl City right away but then had trouble with anything else. I think because we listen to so much.
I am tickled that this was such a fun thread for you all.
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Oh, yes, Free to Be You and Me......sigh......
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Well, I've been pondering this fun thread and realize my answers are so different! I really wasn't introduced to pop music until I graduated from high school. We had lots of music on at home, but from records. I have bands and vocalists I enjoyed, but they weren't the "foundation"
Influential for me:
Broadway and movie musicals, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Lowe, etc.
Gershwin
Classical Music, some piano soloists like Van Cliburn
Glenn Miller and other Big Bands
Bing Crosby
Louis Armstrong
Herp Albert and the Tijuana Brass
Mario Lanza
and the Carpenters, Chad Mitchell Trio.
My mother did listen to folk music like Peter, Paul and Mary, but didn't play the recordings at home, but more singing it herself.
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Thanks for posting, first Jenn, so that I can not feel so lonely
I grew up Protestant and was in choir from a very young age, so church music and hymns were what I heard most, though, we didn't play recordings at home.
Aside from that, it feels strange, but so much of my musical influence was from television and movies. We didn't listen to lots of records, but we watched Lawrence Welk weekly and watched many movie musicals.
We also recorded the Peter, Paul, and Mary as well as the Victor Borgue specials from PBS and watched those regularly.
When we did listen to records, they were my father's. We all loved Roger Miller, and my mother loved John Denver, The Carpenters, and Simon and Garfunkle, though, we didn't play them as often.
In reading all the responses, I can't help think about what Dr. Mate says in his book *Hold Onto Your Kids* about how, in past cultures, children were oriented vertically and their tastes were mostly formed by their parents and how it is a very modern phenomenon that young people look to each other for what clothes to wear, music to listen to, etc...
Not to make any sweeping judgments or generalizations, but I do wonder how much our early musical tastes say about our relationship with our parents and home life?
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Thanks Jenn,
you summed it up for me. I listened to classical, big band, musicals, folk songs etc. My classmates would ask me about some popular group and I really didn't care (still don't). I dabbled with Christian rock in college but always returned to my tried and true. My parents were older and music was everywhere. I really enjoyed having that connection with them. When I was little (5 or so), a classical piece would come on the radio and I would blurt out what it was. That made my dad so proud
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CrunchyMom wrote:
In reading all the responses, I can't help think about what Dr. Mate says in his book *Hold Onto Your Kids* about how, in past cultures, children were oriented vertically and their tastes were mostly formed by their parents and how it is a very modern phenomenon that young people look to each other for what clothes to wear, music to listen to, etc...
Not to make any sweeping judgments or generalizations, but I do wonder how much our early musical tastes say about our relationship with our parents and home life?
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Lindsay, I knew we were similar. We MADE music -- lots of singing and harmony and rounds at home. Early in my childhood my mother played guitar, and later we all played piano. Most of my musical books are sing-along types.
My parents were very much formed by their parents' choices of music. Neither of them really followed Elvis or the Beatles or other bands. And neither really had a rebellious stage with their families.
I did have a close relationship with my parents, and I enjoyed their music. We all did.
Oh, I did like Neil Diamond and Simon and Garfunkel...I think that was Dad's influence. We did hear a few pop tunes on the way to school when he drove us, but nothing that really formed us.
I did listen to other forms of music as I got older. I was just listening to a "mix" cd of a lot of fun dance music. I was cranking "The Logical Song" and "Breakfast in America" by Supertramp the other day. Love Abba and the BeeGees, for example.
Looking over the pop songs that attract me, it's usually the use of real instruments like piano and brass and/or minor mode and great harmony. I'm not crazy about loud music, and especially electric guitar.
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Oh my goodness!! I can’t believe there is no mention of Earth Wind and Fire!
My mom loved music....pop music. And I’m the oldest, she was 20 when she had me, so I grew up listening to all of the pop music of the 60’s-80’s. I can smell those vinyl records right now. We had stacks and stacks of 45’s and albums.
Disco...Donna Summer ( would be my thought now)--Bee Gee’s, Saturday Night Fever IS the soundtrack of my early grade school years. Wow. I can’t imagine my kids listening to that stuff. We actually did disco dancing in GYM CLASS!
That all being said, we also loved a lot of country (my dad’s influence)...like the Statler Brothers. Anyone else out there able to claim that they saw the Statler Brothers in concert at their free 4th of July festival in Stanton, VA at least THREE times?? Even though we were Hoosiers and drove all night to get there???
I loved Dan Fogelberg, he was one of my favs, along with Genesis.
Peter Gabriel was more in my teen years, and of course, John Mellencamp. (Who I saw as “Johnny Cougar” on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand)
I’m embarrassed to admit that Prince was one of my all time favs from my teen years. I find myself singing along to “Raspberry Beret” during late night grocery runs...and then stop abruptly and think....”Oh....it says THAT??” Wow. I am so shocked at how suggestive it all was then.....but that pales in comparison to what is out there now.
Thanks for the laughs...I see I am in very good company!! 
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Oh my goodness!! I can’t believe there is no mention of Earth Wind and Fire! ....
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I LOVE Earth, Wind, and Fire, but I didn't start listening to them until college. I'd say they were the "soundtrack" of my freshman year!
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Oh, I love Earth, Wind, and Fire, too!
My dad was very musical and sang in our church choir until he had lung cancer, lost one lung, and needed the other for breathing. My mother is tone deaf. She was the one who was there, mostly -- hence . . . not much music in our house!
I did sing in school choirs growing up, but what we sang was . . . variable. I remember a songbook from my late-elementary years from which we sang things like "Little Boxes." (". . . houses made of ticky-tacky . . . " -- I always wondered what, exactly, "ticky-tacky" was, and if my house was made of it). In high-school glee club we sang, again, variable things -- Joni Mitchell's "The Circle Game," but also Schubert and Sibelius -- we sang Sibelius's "Onward, Ye Peoples" at my graduation, and it's still a sentimental favorite of mine.
But in truth, I was a preppy girl who was a rocker chick at heart.
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Oh, and the first concert, of many, that I ever went to was ELO. My best friend and I were 13 and went by ourselves, during a firefighters' and police strike in Memphis . . .
My children marvel at the things I was allowed to do without question. I kind of marvel, too, and can only think that my parents were too innocent to begin to imagine what people were doing all around me at these events. I got very good at passing the joint on down the row . . . I was never remotely tempted to try it. Fortunately I had one good guy-musician friend who was as straitlaced as I was, so we supported each other, and I always felt pretty safe.
Still, man. When I think of the late 70s and early 80s, when I was doing these things, that whole era seems to me such a strange mixture of innocence and depravity. It was an interesting time to grow up, that's for sure. And the music conjures it all back up for me, again and again.
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