Oldies

[Vikingstone]

I'm told that many of us on the GB are, well, older. You know, 40's, 50's.

My question to those mentioned above is: did you have a big sister or brother? Did they make you listen to their music which you grew to love and still enjoy to this day?

Where ever you are, please toss in..Cliff Richard and the Shadows et al are welcome.

The first song that comes to mind for me..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AapxXRlsdwA

Thanks. I love to be privy to others memories.

 

[phrodeau]

An older sibling introduced me to Frank Zappa. I think it was the Zoot Allures album.

 

[Vikingstone]

An older sibling introduced me to Frank Zappa. I think it was the Zoot Allures album.

Understood. This will help you feel better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJw0qpqIONQ

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

My brother made my older sisters a stereo console out of used parts and stuff...frankenstereo...and I would sneak upstairs and listen to their records, Elvis, Airplane, Doors, Beatles, and the like, but after 15 minutes or so the belt would heat up and stretch and 45 would become 40, and then 30 and slower and slower. It was maddening.

 

[Vikingstone]

Dusty. Love this song. Love her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJMJSpOQEvk

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Dusty. Love this song. Love her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJMJSpOQEvk

Are you sure you aren't 80?

 

[neci]

*pervs*

 

[Vikingstone]

*pervs*

...

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Gutless wonder.

 

[Vikingstone]

Close your eyes and let it wash over you...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y-0nWVdBH4

 

[Not Normal]

My brother is 3 1/2 years older than me and STILL hips me to music. We both play, but I make most of my living thorough music, and don't seek out much music that I'm not involved with. As kids he started me love of Cheap Trick. We're both big fans and have seen them a bunch of times.

More recently he got me into the New Pornographers and the Hold Steady.

 

[Sinny]

When I was getting into music, my oldest sister hated the music I liked. Depeche Mode, Flock of Seagulls, the usual gender fluid bands of the 80s. She introduced me to a bunch of late 70s rock that I still love. Rush, Queen, Floyd. She loved Rod Stewart, too, but I try and forget about that one.

 

[oggbashan]

My brother is older than me.

When I was young he was learning to play the piano, which was almost my first exposure to music. But he was learning with my eldest aunt's collection of piano music - most of that was popular tunes of the 1890s.

Indian Love Lyrics - Pale Hands I Loved Beside The Shalimar
Trees - A Poem Lovely as a Tree
Gendarmes Duet - The Bold Gendarmes
Hiawatha - Onaway! Awake Beloved

and, of course, Gilbert and Sullivan...

A more modern one: Ramona

 

[butters]

having three older sisters and one bedroom we all shared, i never had to buy a record

queen, bowie, simon and garfunkel (bridge over troubled water/the boxer), t rex (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Peo..._They're_Content_to_Wear_Stars_on_Their_Brows), yes, elton john (yellow brick road album), elp, elo....

killer qeen, made a big impresion when i was 15

and

had to wait another year or so before getting my first taste of pink floyd

 

[Not Normal]

having three older sisters and one bedroom we all shared, i never had to buy a record

queen, bowie, simon and garfunkel (bridge over troubled water/the boxer), t rex (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Peo..._They're_Content_to_Wear_Stars_on_Their_Brows), yes, elton john (yellow brick road album), elp, elo....

killer qeen, made a big impresion when i was 15

and

had to wait another year or so before getting my first taste of pink floyd

I have a copy of the multitrack of Killer Queen. I love to sit and just listen to the vocals. Holy Fuck are those guys amazing.

 

[Fata Morgana]

Dusty. Love this song. Love her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJMJSpOQEvk

Dusty is magnificent.

 

[pointless]

my sister got me into david bowie, but i soon found we liked him for very different reasons so i have time really counting that one.

 

[oggbashan]

The first song my uncle taught me:

Muss I Denn

He didn't teach me the rude version he had written, in German, about the Nazis. He was lacking in tact. He sung it, in a Black Forest Youth Hostel in the 1930s, to a group of SA - Nazi Brown Shirts.

He had to run for it...

Marlene Dietrich sung it as well.

Elvis ruined it as Wooden Heart...

 

[torchthebitch]

I am the eldest. I'll start with Helen Shapiro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De0_zZ7qQDA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwGGFo5FDew

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2cG-ed6hw

 

[pink]

Not really my thing except for Patsy Cline. Her songs are wonderful.

 

[gravyrug]

I'm the eldest, but my dad was program director at a radio station, so he would sometimes bring home promotional copies of records. We had a rather eclectic mix of music at our house. Meet The Beatles was right next to Herb Alpert & the Tiajuana Brass.

 

[MNGuy]

I had an older sister, she listened to The Beatles, The Carpenters, Nazareth, and Bread.

I don't listen to any of those bands.

 

[garbage can]

One of my favorites when I was a teen

Written by Stephan Foster

http://freepages.music.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~edgmon/stbeautiful.htm