As the youngest of three siblings and with parents that had distinct musical tastes I had a fat chance of getting my music played at home. So as a result I was influenced by/had to endure…………
With a Dad born in 1921, big band/swing was all the go with Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie and Glenn Miller getting a 78’s run….
My Mum being a lot younger than my Father went through her mung bean era ………Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water was on high rotation, spinning as long as it lasted in the charts (76 weeks)……. i knew that album’s song lyrics as well as I knew my Dr Seuss books at the time, although as a young child I could never get my head around this……
I`m not talking about your pigtails
But I`m talking `bout your sex appeal
Hit the road and I`m gone ah
What`s my number
I wonder how your engine……..Ba ba ba ba
Once my Mum had her run with Baby Driver & Co my brothers took full control of the household’s music…..Brother/Thing number one was into Supertramp Crime of the Century, Linda Ronstadt Simple Dreams, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Joe Cocker, Cat Stevens while Brother/Thing number two was getting off on Slade, T-Rex, Joy Division, The Jam, The Beat, The Specials, The B-52s, Devo, Talking Heads, Blondie.
Many a record was scratched through the race to the turntable, but with such an eclectic mix that’s where my passion for music began.
-Anne C
