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Borderstone · 05-15-2003, 04:29 PM

Funny,I was thinking of something like this last night (Wed.) Well,if I remember back to as far as my mind will go,I know that up until about the age of 11,I really only listened to my parents and Grandmother's music. My earliest influences were my "Gram's" (that's what we called her) victrola 78's. For those of you under the age of 30 those are heavy wax records that played just a little faster than vinyl 45rpm's. I don't recall the names of the artists but one song was called,"Who's that knockin' at my door?" and the other was,"Deese,Doze and Dem" (these,those and them.) There were a lot more and I;m sure some of them were from the 19 teens and 1920's! (They're all gone now,as well as the victrola.) Both she and my parents shared mostly the same tastes,Frank Sinatra-Bing Crosby-The Andrews Sisters-Glenn Miller-Tommy Dorsey-Johnnie Ray and others that were on the more "square" side. My parents were teens in the Mid-1950's and they were only slightly less the record buying hounds that I am. I listened to their 45's of Elvis,Buddy Holly,Dale Hawkins,Jerry Lee Lewis,Fats Domino,Little Richard etc.. They even had 1 or 2 Beatles songs,which is surprising considering they were over 25 at the time of,"All You Need Is Love" and "Yellow Submarine"!

Fortunatley,when my parents were younger,they weren't a "drag",as was the term then. Finally,when I was old enough to buy my own,I pretty much dove into as much as I could (while staying away from more offensive stuff,which later was not so offensive.) I couldn't possibly go into LP names either because along with some of my parents records and the one's I've bought since...it would take at least 7 or 8 different threads to make the entire list,so I wont even attempt a partial one. One thing we do know though,Gordon is the only artist,besides Mariah Carey,that I have each and every LP (Cass. & CD) that they put out. I have many favorites and many influences which I guess in a group of followers would make me toatally an outsider. ..and of course,I like it that way.

It's been the B! I'll catch ya on the flipside of Sundown!

05-15-2003, 04:29 PM	#13
Borderstone Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Phoenix,Arizona -America Posts: 4,427	Funny,I was thinking of something like this last night (Wed.) Well,if I remember back to as far as my mind will go,I know that up until about the age of 11,I really only listened to my parents and Grandmother's music. My earliest influences were my "Gram's" (that's what we called her) victrola 78's. For those of you under the age of 30 those are heavy wax records that played just a little faster than vinyl 45rpm's. I don't recall the names of the artists but one song was called,"Who's that knockin' at my door?" and the other was,"Deese,Doze and Dem" (these,those and them.) There were a lot more and I;m sure some of them were from the 19 teens and 1920's! (They're all gone now,as well as the victrola.) Both she and my parents shared mostly the same tastes,Frank Sinatra-Bing Crosby-The Andrews Sisters-Glenn Miller-Tommy Dorsey-Johnnie Ray and others that were on the more "square" side. My parents were teens in the Mid-1950's and they were only slightly less the record buying hounds that I am. I listened to their 45's of Elvis,Buddy Holly,Dale Hawkins,Jerry Lee Lewis,Fats Domino,Little Richard etc.. They even had 1 or 2 Beatles songs,which is surprising considering they were over 25 at the time of,"All You Need Is Love" and "Yellow Submarine"! Fortunatley,when my parents were younger,they weren't a "drag",as was the term then. Finally,when I was old enough to buy my own,I pretty much dove into as much as I could (while staying away from more offensive stuff,which later was not so offensive.) I couldn't possibly go into LP names either because along with some of my parents records and the one's I've bought since...it would take at least 7 or 8 different threads to make the entire list,so I wont even attempt a partial one. One thing we do know though,Gordon is the only artist,besides Mariah Carey,that I have each and every LP (Cass. & CD) that they put out. I have many favorites and many influences which I guess in a group of followers would make me toatally an outsider. ..and of course,I like it that way. It's been the B! I'll catch ya on the flipside of Sundown!