Lovely memories here, and interesting realization about the comfort of the familiar. Your original musical home sounds very similar to the one our kids grew up in. I have fine memories of our two youngest kids, with guitars (pretending), enthusiastically mis-singing a duet of Nanci's Trouble in the Fields. "You be the mule, I"ll be the COW...." :) Lots of Nanci, Carole King, Lightfoot, Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Eagles. And also great memories of wild dance parties to Rolling Stones, J. Geils, Mitch Rider & the Detroit Wheels. Thanks for evoking these memories!
Great story. Our 31-yo son recently thanked us for exposing him to all types of music 😊. When I was a kid, my Dad fed us a steady diet of The Beatles and my Mom was more into Elvis, Tom Jones & Engelbert. I really love the 60’s & early 70’s music too (I have a Golden Oldies playlist on Spotify) and you know I love my country music! My parents played “albums” and us kids knew all the words (and still do for the most part)! They have both passed away and all those old songs bring back such special memories. I’ve been known to hear an old song and just start crying. I think I miss my younger days. 😢
Great insights! I think music has kept pace with the fast food world by having so many songs at our fingertips instantaneously - like anything, seems like a blessing and a curse. Our family was discussing how our kids have NEVER listened to an album from beginning to end to really experience it as a creative work but instead just bounce around at leisure from song to song, artist to artist, and genre to genre...We are hoping to bring back entire album listening in our home!
Lovely memories here, and interesting realization about the comfort of the familiar. Your original musical home sounds very similar to the one our kids grew up in. I have fine memories of our two youngest kids, with guitars (pretending), enthusiastically mis-singing a duet of Nanci's Trouble in the Fields. "You be the mule, I"ll be the COW...." :) Lots of Nanci, Carole King, Lightfoot, Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Eagles. And also great memories of wild dance parties to Rolling Stones, J. Geils, Mitch Rider & the Detroit Wheels. Thanks for evoking these memories!
Great story. Our 31-yo son recently thanked us for exposing him to all types of music 😊. When I was a kid, my Dad fed us a steady diet of The Beatles and my Mom was more into Elvis, Tom Jones & Engelbert. I really love the 60’s & early 70’s music too (I have a Golden Oldies playlist on Spotify) and you know I love my country music! My parents played “albums” and us kids knew all the words (and still do for the most part)! They have both passed away and all those old songs bring back such special memories. I’ve been known to hear an old song and just start crying. I think I miss my younger days. 😢
Great insights! I think music has kept pace with the fast food world by having so many songs at our fingertips instantaneously - like anything, seems like a blessing and a curse. Our family was discussing how our kids have NEVER listened to an album from beginning to end to really experience it as a creative work but instead just bounce around at leisure from song to song, artist to artist, and genre to genre...We are hoping to bring back entire album listening in our home!