The Soundtrack To Your Childhood

[Cail]

Mom and dad listened to John Denver, Cat Stevens, Jim Croce, Barry Manilow, and Neil Diamond. I was lucky enough to be taken to a Neil Diamond concert in probably '77 or '78. The guy was freaking amazing.

Frampton Comes Alive was the first album I bought with my own money.

[Sunbaneglasses]

I can't believe that I left Fleetwood Mac and Neil Diamond off of the list. To be fair "Hot August Nights" was the only Neil Diamond album that my parents had, but my dad played the hell out of it.

[mrsnull]

I am blessed that my mother loves music. In the 60s and 70s we always had a nice stereo and she belonged to a record club. I grew up listening to everything from Big Bands to 40s and 50s easy listening and country like Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Kitty Wells, Hank Williams to the 1960s easy listening of Andy Williams, Johnny Mathis or Perry Como and country of Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Jim Reeves etc. She'd buy instrumentals like Boots Randolph, Herb Alpert and Floyd Cramer and old-time Christian music like George Beverly Shea and The Chuckwagon Gang. She also loved buying records so that her kids would listen like the Beach Boys, the Beatles, Three Dog Night, the Monkees. We also had classical music. She loved buying those records! And if she didn't have a record on, she had on the radio.
Out of them all, the music that takes me right back to that time is Floyd Cramer.

[deer of the dawn]

My parents had Hot August Night as well, and a very diverse collection.

Beatles
Dylan
Led Zep
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Joan Baez
Joni Mitchell
John Denver
Pete Seeger
Peter. Paul & Mary
Moody Blues (Nights in White Satin was a favorite)
Rolling Stones
Procol Harum
Show tunes

My Mom had a Tom Jones record, but that was her personal thing. ("It's not un-u-su-al to be loved by anyone...")

They made sure we had some records too, I remember we played the crap out of The Jungle Book Soundtrack and Danny Kaye records. As we got older, David Cassidy, Bobby Sherman, and the Monkees.

[Lord Zombiac]

My parents had Hot August Night as well, and a very diverse collection.

Beatles
Dylan
Led Zep
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Joan Baez
Joni Mitchell
John Denver
Pete Seeger
Peter. Paul & Mary
Moody Blues (Nights in White Satin was a favorite)
Rolling Stones
Procol Harum
Show tunes

My Mom had a Tom Jones record, but that was her personal thing. ("It's not un-u-su-al to be loved by anyone...")

They made sure we had some records too, I remember we played the crap out of The Jungle Book Soundtrack and Danny Kaye records. As we got older, David Cassidy, Bobby Sherman, and the Monkees.

If I had chosen to sing "Nights in white satin" when I was a finalist for the local karaoke contest I could have gone to Roswell and won state.
you might enjoy this though...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbMgAsasJhM

[Obi-Wan Nihilo]

Trying to picture all my parent's albums:

Beatles "Abbey Road"
Doobie Brothers
Bob Dylan "Slow Train Comin'"
Steve Winwood "Arc of a Diver"
Joe Walsh
Bread
Leo Sayer
Leon Russell
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Andre Crouch
George Benson
The Police "Synchronicity"
Hall & Oates "Private Eyes"
a bunch of 45s from the '60s including "Surfin' Bird" by the Trashmen, "Little Sister" by Elvis Presley, "Put Your Head on My Shoulder" by Paul Anka, "The Beat Goes On" by Sonny & Cher, and "Wooly Bully" by Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs.