Originally Posted By: 124
Originally Posted By: tony mads usa
Gary ... I remember when my parents couldn't listen to our music too ...
dance grin

You know, that's a funny thing, Tony. My dad was a tenor with the London Welsh Male Voice Choir and, much as he hoped I would follow in his footsteps, he never once tried to discourage my 'different' taste in music.
I used to buy all the old Elvis, Little Richard, Fats Domino records and, he could enjoy those even though they were a universe away from the music he was brought up on.
I think that, after all these years, the main reason that I'm open to all kinds of stuff now is a direct result of his own broadness in music.
Not too many kids lucked out with a dad like mine, I guess.


Actually, I mis-spoke about that and did an injustice to my parents in doing so ... My mom had an excellent voice and was singing for her senior club until two months before she passed at the age of 93 ... Any place she and my father went that had a live band - and ALL the clubs had them back then - my father would somehow get the band to ask her up to sing ... I remember in the early 50's Lou Monte http://www.loumonte.com/ would appear at this night club in Staten Island NY - The Miami Club - and whenever my parents went to see him, he would get my mother up to sing ... my sisters also sang well and with our mom we would sing 3 part back up and a lead singer or 4 part harmony to all the top 40 tunes of the mid - to late 50's _ The Platters, The Teenagers, Little Anthony and the Imperials - everybody ... and of course I did all the Elvis tunes ... I absolutely got my interest in music and the music gene from my mom ... and my dad was a great listener ...
_________________________
t. cool