Music Choices/and how my tastes have changed

Thought it about time I did another blog post.

Music is important in everyone’s life and a lot of our memories are tied up in the music we hear and remember. So I am going to tailback down memories and just ramble on.

Growing up there was always music in the background. I remember the radio always being on.” Family favourites” on a Sunday lunchtime and “Sing Something Simple” around teatime and later on the Top 20. Mum always listened to The Archers.

I remember my Dad listening to Irish protest songs…The Wearing of the Green”??…that type of thing and Mum liked the crooners and very early Rock and roll. I was 11 in 1960 and in senior school became possessed with Billy Fury and was enthralled to see him on the cinema screen in a movie called “Play it Cool”.I also remember seeing “Summer Holiday ” and “Hard Days Night” at the same little cinema called the picture House in Horden.

Left school in 1964…….a Beatles fan….who wasn’t?.Loved all the sixties bands and gradually leaned towards folk music and was a huge fan of Donovan…loved listening to Joan Baez, finding also that I was beginning to lean toward country music and discovering all the story songs and love country music to this day….all the real oldies…Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, Tammy Wynette, Billie Jo Spears to name a few.

As the years went by and I grew older I started to listen to stuff that I would not have listened to a few years earlier. Loved people like Dean Martin and even Frank Sinatra. Loved listening to Pan Pipes and Native American Music, and nowadays people like George Ezra and also some jazz

The only music I really cannot “take” to is rap and heavy metal.

As hubby is 8 years older than me he was into Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran and of course Elvis…….who I have always thought a beautiful man with a beautiful voice….someone who will never be replaced.

People who know me will be wondering why I have not mentioned David Essex…I decided to leave the best until last. Another beautiful man with a beautiful voice.

there are many more singers……male and female that I admire…..Debbie Harry and Helen Shapiro I like and opera singers like Russell Watson, Pavarotti. I’m sorry if I have not mentioned your favourites. Take Care readers.