Music: formative years (edited)

[Old TexMex]

I accidently stumbled across my past (while going to the john in the middle of the night) and recognized an old LP by the Kingston Trio. As I listened to it I'm wonderin' why so much of what they sang about became a part of my own life.
Any of y'all have that sort of flashback?

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[P&R Fan]

I grew up (OK, got older, never really grew up) listening to the Kingston Trio. Dad had a bunch of their albums. My favorite song of theirs was MTA.
Never understood why Charlie's Wife, when she handed him the sandwich every day as the train sped by, didn't just put a nickle in it so the poor guy could get off.
Jim

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

Heart ("Crazy on You","Magic Man","Barracuda", "Dog and the Butterfly") Fleetwood Mac ("Gold Dust Woman", "The Chain", "Gypsy","Rhiannon","Second Hand News") summed up my early years, now it is more like Pink Floyd especially the songs Time, Wish You Were Here, Intersteller Overdrive and The Wall album.

 

[Old TexMex]

I grew up (OK, got older, never really grew up) listening to the Kingston Trio. Dad had a bunch of their albums. My favorite song of theirs was MTA.
Never understood why Charlie's Wife, when she handed him the sandwich every day as the train sped by, didn't just put a nickle in it so the poor guy could get off.
Jim

Jim,
Are you not married??

 

[Peak53]

Who was that ...?

this band counted the most for me over the years, from 1969 to the last time I saw them in 2012

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Wasn't that big a fan of the folkies, but I was married to one, have heard them all many times.
Probably the one that applies to me is Leaving on a Jet Plane - Peter, Paul and Mary.
Written by Henry John Deutschendorf the younger.

 

[Old TexMex]

It was just a bit odd, because I hadn't thought about it in forever. But, somethin' jogged my memory and I had perfect recall of being six years old, and listening to my older sister playing that first record.
Funny thing is, I went to Mexico (on my own) before I was 16, went to sea in the Merchant Marine, and I'm still basically doing the same thing (with a little fine tuning, you understand) near 60 years later.
I think the Kingston Trio rooned my life.

 

[jag312]

Up until my sophomore year in high school, my music was rock & roll. Beatles, Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, Jan & Dean.

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Then at a beach party in Santa Cruz, another student brought a banjo and started singing folk songs. That's when I got into banjos and folk music, This was probably the most influential song.

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And then, much to my shame, came disco. My girlfriend and I would hit the discos almost every night. One night we were thrown out of a club. They weren't sure what we were doing on the dance floor, but they were sure it wasn't dancing. Then later there was the fist fight when some drunk tried to cut in.

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And now it is back to rock & roll, folk music and bluegrass.

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And now it is time for Maggots in the Sheep Hide

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[rwsmith]

50's and 60's

I grew up on 50s and 60s music, pop, folk, gospel, old and 'new' (at the time) country, some symphonic. concertos and novelties like classics played on Honky-Tonk piano. And yes, "Tom Dooley" were all in there as they were what my Dad listened to. Every time we drove over the Cooper River Bridge with the 'Seabreeze Hotel' beneath it, he'd always start singing, "I'm In The Jail House Now". Bugs Bunny gave me a lot of my education, especially in Rossini. (Welcome to my shop. Let me shave your mop.)

My much older sister had a lot of 45 pop tunes from back then and Brothers Four and The Wayfarers came into my world. She also had "Meet the Beatles" which was a life changing event.

We started getting into 'our' music. The Beach Boys, Dave Clark Five, Herman's Hermits. Everybody was playing the electric guitar. "House of the Rising Sun", "Satisfaction", "Wipeout" and "Louis Louis" I was a big Monkees fan for a while and I still think some of their songs were very good, even if they did just add vocals.

I took piano lessons and got more into classics. I owned a number of classical records for my income. (paper route) Jim Nabors was big at the time and I learned a lot of the songs (standards) he did.

Then my older brother took over with The Doors (I was awed by the 'darkness' I'd never heard before), The Ventures, Cream some 60's soul like "Say a Little Prayer" and Al Green.

Along came 'Psychedelic' music and everything else associated with it.

Then my friends were turned on by Led
Zepplin, but I didn't appreciate it at the time. I took a liking to Bluegrass and played guitar with a much older friend of classic type country songs (what I considered the high class stuff)

Then I came into my own with Simon and Garfunkle Jethro Tull, Yes, ELP, Alice Cooper, Deep Purple, Edgar Winter, 'Storytellers' like Harry Chapin. Cat Stephens. The Who's 'Tommy' and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' were big ones. Pink Floyd. I caught up with Led Zepplin and the Rolling Stones. I became a Queen and Bob Dylan fan and Elton John was like a god. I thought the Bee Gees were the only passable disco music.

I then moved into Oratorios and Opera (all kinds, even Wagner) and sacred music. Rennaisance and Baroque. Art Songs. Modern Music Varese, John Cage, Stravinsky, Philip Glass, Carl Orff and avant garde At the same time I expanded into 'World' music. Irish, Scottish, Chinese, Native American, African.

I didn't like much 90's music but I did like Dire Straits, Tom Petty and REM. I discovered blues and found out how much music had been influenced by that genre. Some jazz I really like (and jazz influenced rock). I found out that musicians I inherently liked had combinations of jazz, classical and blues.

Then our son started causing big trouble and I have only been into making CDs for my car of old favorites.

My tastes have been described as 'eclectic' and I don't deny it.

 

[Gamecock]

My oldest brother had Kingston Trio albums. And others. Yes, KT was influential on me, but so were a thousand other artists. 50s and 60s hit music are part of my soul.

 

[jmace57]

this band counted the most for me over the years, from 1969 to the last time I saw them in 2012

Through a series of flukes, I ended up with a set of front row center seats for a Zeppelin concert. One of the great times of my life.

 

[rwsmith]

Just finished.....

this band counted the most for me over the years, from 1969 to the last time I saw them in 2012

I just finished Pete's autobiography.The dude is very introspective and off the stage, quiet and almost a loner. He has a gift. He just sits at the piano and 'noodles' and stuff like 'Tommy' comes out. He revealed a good reason they missed Keith Moon so much. In spite of his antics he followed THEM, leaving them free to improve and create.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

My Wife had all the Folk records, and played them all the time.
Another one I really liked was Judy Collins singing
Going with Him, Someday Soon.
What's not to like When a folky sings a cowboy song?
Written by the great Canadian songwriter Ian Tyson.

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[Old TexMex]

Then a 2nd grade music teacher played us some Marty Robbins, and it took Uncle Sam to make that inspiration happen.
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[venomballistics]

Then a 2nd grade music teacher played us some Marty Robbins, and it took Uncle Sam to make that inspiration happen.
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ever notice how Marty Robins gets shot in almost every song he did.
"Down in the west Texas town of ElPaso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl ....
.... then I got shot"

Man had to have some issues

 

[Gamecock]

Man had to have some issues

Good one!

I can relate. When asked how I want to die, I always say I want to be shot by a jealous husband when I'm 95.

 

[walkin jack]

From the mid '50s through the early '60s I was a teenager. During that time there were 3 separate and distinctly different types or rock n roll. West coast (Beach boys, Jan and Dean, etc); East Coast( Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Frankie Valley, Bobby Rydell, etc); and Mo' Town (all the great doo-wap The Supremes, The Temptations, The Coasters, The Box tops, etc). And with few exceptions, I loved every note of all 3 categories. 'Cept for Bobby Goldsboro, Paul Anka etc)

All of it left lasting impressions on me and evokes precious memories when I hear it even after all these years. It was a magic time in my life and that music can still take me back there for a brief visit when I hear it.

 

[rwsmith]

BTW, if anybody thought my dissertation....

If anybody thought my dissertation was rather lengthy and long winded I spared you a lot of reading by just hitting the high spots.

For many years my life was music and some 'other stuff'.

 

[Tex1001]

Kingston Trio's rendition of "Desert Pete" was a classic. Funny and instructional. KT's version of "Shenandoah" (Across The Wide Missouri) was the best I've ever heard.
If you are the father of a daughter, I defy you to listen to their song "Little One" (Where Are You Going My Little One, Little One?) without puddling up.
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I don't have Alzheimer's- My wife had me tested.

 

[bigolddave]

Got hung up on folk in my teens. Still like to listen to Kingston Trio, Ian and Sylvia, Joan Baez. Went to see Peter, Paul and Mary at the old Gate of Horn in Chicago. Wish so many of the folk singers weren't so far Left. Now it's old country and Southern Gospel.

Going with my daughter to a Gordon Lightfoot concert tonight. As far as I am concerned, he can open with "Edmund Fitzgerald", close with "Edmund Fitzgerald", and stick it in the middle a couple of times.