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[Roobs321]

of all the acts my parents loved and introduced to me (e.g. Cranberries, Eagles, CCR, Dire Straits, Fleetwood Mac, Cat Stevens, Eric Clapton, Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, Cold Chisel, Forrest Gump/Big Chill soundtracks, etc.) these are the compilations I listened to the most, at least a hundred times, often on the family pc whilst looking at screensavers or playing games or whatnot




as a teen I had to spend a couple hours each week folding & bundling pamphlets in prep for delivery, whilst doing so I used to endlessly listen to comps like these on my stereo for years

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

I'm going to have to do this in instalments.

My earliest memories were listening to our old 78’s. My favourites were “In a Monastery Garden" by whistling Ronnie Ronaldi and “Peter and the Wolf”.

The Peter and the Wolf song by Disney can be seen on YouTube but they prevent it being linked here. Money!

As I got older listening to the radio introduced me to the incomparable Sam Cooke, one of my biggest influences. Other songs I remember before my transistor radio days were, My Old Man’s A Dustman” and “My Boomerang Won’t Come Back” which were the sort of songs a 9 year old could easily remember the lyrics to and sing along. After a number of convincing arguments and a great deal of nagging, at Christmas 1961 I got a transistor radio. 1962 was a terrific year for music and really accelerated my music education.

Some of the songs were:

The Wanderer, West of the Wall, Alley Cat, I Can't Stop Loving You, Working for the Man, Can't Help Falling in Love, Chip Chip, I’ve Been Everywhere, I Remember You, Telstar, West of the Wall, Multiplication, Stranger On The Shore, The Twist, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Big Girls Don’t Cry, Surfin’ Safari and Green Onions to name a few. Telstar was my favourite and the very first song I ever had a discussion about with another kid.

A few years ago I got a series of CD’s with hits from 1962.

I became an Elvis fan around this time mainly because of my Gran. Every time I stayed with her over school holidays we went to see an Elvis film. Looking back, I think she had a thing for Elvis and I’ve probably seen every Elvis movie.

Two years later my little brother got a record player for Christmas and we were in business. We both spent a lot of the money we earned from our paper rounds on records. Singles to begin with and then albums after my parents gave my brother Sgt Peppers. Plenty of good stuff to listen to and apart from the Beatles there was, The Spencer Davis Group, Them, The Byrds, The Kinks, The Rolling stones, The Who and then along came Jimi Hendrix.

About this time I was allowed to go to the local dances all around the place. Q Club and Opus East were my favourites, although there were plenty to choose from. The local scout hall, where some of my friends played in a band, Box Hill Town Hall, Keepout and That’s Life. On my way to That’s Life, Gerry Humphries got on the train at Camberwell and we travelled all the way together to Windsor Station and walked across to That’s Life where I saw him on stage with The Loved Ones shortly after. Later on I went to Sebastions, Thumpin’ Tum (where behind a couch I was sitting on, came some strange noises. When I looked over the back of the couch, there was a couple having sex!!!), Catcher and Berties.

I really feel sad for the young kids of today and their lack of access to live music. For most of them it’s school bands at lunchtime or fork out big money to see a concert.

I saw all these bands and many more as a teenager:
The Groop, The Groove, Max Merritt, Billy Thorpe, Normie Rowe, Ray Brown and the Whispers, The Loved Ones, Masters Apprentices, Johnny Young, The Twilights, The Vibrants, Chain with Wendy Saddington, The Party Machine, The Ram Jam Big Band, Somebody’s Image, MPD Ltd, Bobby and Laurie, The Wild Cherries and Pat and Olivia (Pat Carroll and Olivia Newton-John) are just some of the people I remember seeing, but there were literally hundreds more.

 

[Fossie 32]

I'm going to have to do this in instalments.

My earliest memories were listening to our old 78’s. My favourites were “In a Monastery Garden" by whistling Ronnie Ronaldi and “Peter and the Wolf”.

The Peter and the Wolf song by Disney can be seen on YouTube but they prevent it being linked here. Money!

As I got older listening to the radio introduced me to the incomparable Sam Cooke, one of my biggest influences. Other songs I remember before my transistor radio days were, My Old Man’s A Dustman” and “My Boomerang Won’t Come Back” which were the sort of songs a 9 year old could easily remember the lyrics to and sing along. After a number of convincing arguments and a great deal of nagging, at Christmas 1961 I got a transistor radio. 1962 was a terrific year for music and really accelerated my music education.

Some of the songs were:

The Wanderer, West of the Wall, Alley Cat, I Can't Stop Loving You, Working for the Man, Can't Help Falling in Love, Chip Chip, I’ve Been Everywhere, I Remember You, Telstar, West of the Wall, Multiplication, Stranger On The Shore, The Twist, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Big Girls Don’t Cry, Surfin’ Safari and Green Onions to name a few. Telstar was my favourite and the very first song I ever had a discussion about with another kid.

A few years ago I got a series of CD’s with hits from 1962.

I became an Elvis fan around this time mainly because of my Gran. Every time I stayed with her over school holidays we went to see an Elvis film. Looking back, I think she had a thing for Elvis and I’ve probably seen every Elvis movie.

Two years later my little brother got a record player for Christmas and we were in business. We both spent a lot of the money we earned from our paper rounds on records. Singles to begin with and then albums after my parents gave my brother Sgt Peppers. Plenty of good stuff to listen to and apart from the Beatles there was, The Spencer Davis Group, Them, The Byrds, The Kinks, The Rolling stones, The Who and then along came Jimi Hendrix.

About this time I was allowed to go to the local dances all around the place. Q Club and Opus East were my favourites, although there were plenty to choose from. The local scout hall, where some of my friends played in a band, Box Hill Town Hall, Keepout and That’s Life. On my way to That’s Life, Gerry Humphries got on the train at Camberwell and we travelled all the way together to Windsor Station and walked across to That’s Life where I saw him on stage with The Loved Ones shortly after. Later on I went to Sebastions, Thumpin’ Tum (where behind a couch I was sitting on, came some strange noises. When I looked over the back of the couch, there was a couple having sex!!!), Catcher and Berties.

I really feel sad for the young kids of today and their lack of access to live music. For most of them it’s school bands at lunchtime or fork out big money to see a concert.

I saw all these bands and many more as a teenager:
The Groop, The Groove, Max Merritt, Billy Thorpe, Normie Rowe, Ray Brown and the Whispers, The Loved Ones, Masters Apprentices, Johnny Young, The Twilights, The Vibrants, Chain with Wendy Saddington, The Party Machine, The Ram Jam Big Band, Somebody’s Image, MPD Ltd, Bobby and Laurie, The Wild Cherries and Pat and Olivia (Pat Carroll and Olivia Newton-John) are just some of the people I remember seeing, but there were literally hundreds more.

My Gran liked Ronnie Ronalde too. Looks like I'm a couple of years younger than you but unfortunately I didn't see any of those groups apart from the Groove.
Here's a story about the Party Machine for you.

In early 1967 a local group called the Party Machine was formed by Ross Wilson, who went on to be famous as the singer in Daddy Cool and Mondo Rock. In early 1969 they produced a booklet of their song lyrics, the “Party Machine Songbook” which was given away by Go Set as a gift to their subscribers. When I was sent mine, Mum spotted it, was disturbed by some of the raunchy lyrics being in the hands of her 15 year old son and sent it in to that bastion of wholesomeness, the Truth newspaper. They contacted the vice squad, who raided Go Set’s offices and seized all their copies of the songbook. The group were taken to court over it. I got to chat to Ross online after I think a Mushroom Records Reunion? concert on ABC TV, which he was a part of. I relayed the story and he just said ‘Say g’day to your Mum for me.’


http://www.milesago.com/artists/partymachine.htm
Party Machine’s greatest moment of notoriety came when their songbook famously fell into the clutches of the Victorian Vice Squad during the "Censorsbip Wars" of 1968-69. In early 1969 the band self-published The Party Machine Songbook. Copies of the roneoed books, which sold for 20c, were seized by police, who considered some of the lyrics "unwholesome" and they sought a court order to destroy them.
The interest of the cops focussed on two particularly subversive Ross Wilson songs. Needless to say, one of them was "Virgins"; the other was "Don't It Make You Sick" (a song that Ross admits to being a little emabarrassed about these days), which shamelessly celebrated violent sexual fantasies and "eccentric" behaviours like S&M. When the case went to court the book was reportedly declared to be "obscene and seditious"!

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

My Gran liked Ronnie Ronalde too. Looks like I'm a couple of years younger than you but unfortunately I didn't see any of those groups apart from the Groove.
Here's a story about the Party Machine for you.

In early 1967 a local group called the Party Machine was formed by Ross Wilson, who went on to be famous as the singer in Daddy Cool and Mondo Rock. In early 1969 they produced a booklet of their song lyrics, the “Party Machine Songbook” which was given away by Go Set as a gift to their subscribers. When I was sent mine, Mum spotted it, was disturbed by some of the raunchy lyrics being in the hands of her 15 year old son and sent it in to that bastion of wholesomeness, the Truth newspaper. They contacted the vice squad, who raided Go Set’s offices and seized all their copies of the songbook. The group were taken to court over it. I got to chat to Ross online after I think a Mushroom Records Reunion? concert on ABC TV, which he was a part of. I relayed the story and he just said ‘Say g’day to your Mum for me.’


http://www.milesago.com/artists/partymachine.htm
Party Machine’s greatest moment of notoriety came when their songbook famously fell into the clutches of the Victorian Vice Squad during the "Censorsbip Wars" of 1968-69. In early 1969 the band self-published The Party Machine Songbook. Copies of the roneoed books, which sold for 20c, were seized by police, who considered some of the lyrics "unwholesome" and they sought a court order to destroy them.
The interest of the cops focussed on two particularly subversive Ross Wilson songs. Needless to say, one of them was "Virgins"; the other was "Don't It Make You Sick" (a song that Ross admits to being a little emabarrassed about these days), which shamelessly celebrated violent sexual fantasies and "eccentric" behaviours like S&M. When the case went to court the book was reportedly declared to be "obscene and seditious"!

I was a big fan of theirs and had previously seen both Ross Wilson and Ross Hannaford in the Pinks Finks and then bought their single Louie, Louie. One of my all time favourites was Mike Rudd who joined The Party Machine. He later sang "Make Your Stash" written by Ross Wilson on Spectrum's first LP, "Spectrum Part 1". I saw Daddy Cool launch their single "Eagle Rock" on the back of a tray truck outside the AMP headquarters in Bourke St during my lunch hour.
I wonder what would have been made of Mike Rudd's, "Confessions of a Psychopathic Cowpoke".


I sure remember the Party Machine furor happening. Now I know the details, thanks.

 

[LeakyValve]

In the above ground cemetery, white bread Perth of the 60's these were the 2 songs that pricked my ears.






And to be honest, this tickled the sprog in me too:

 

[Fossie 32]

I was a big fan of theirs and had previously seen both Ross Wilson and Ross Hannaford in the Pinks Finks and then bought their single Louie, Louie. One of my all time favourites was Mike Rudd who joined The Party Machine. He later sang "Make Your Stash" written by Ross Wilson on Spectrum's first LP, "Spectrum Part 1". I saw Daddy Cool launch their single "Eagle Rock" on the back of a tray truck outside the AMP headquarters in Bourke St during my lunch hour.
I wonder what would have been made of Mike Rudd's, "Confessions of a Psychopathic Cowpoke".


I sure remember the Party Machine furor happening. Now I know the details, thanks.

Love Strange Fantastic Dream Hand Jive on Terminal Buzz is one of my faves too

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

With the advice of a teacher at school I was able to connect up my brothers record player to the old HMV stereo that had been moved into our bedroom and we had a 1000% increase in volume, tone and fidelity. I bought my very first album by Julie Driscoll and together my brother and I bought Vanilla Fudge and then my brother bought the first Steppenwolf album.

A big influence around this time was the song “Peter Gunn”, the only song I ever learnt to play on guitar before I realised that I found it much easier to learn how to play sports and I was much better at them, than playing guitar. Without learning that song I don't believe I would have ever really appreciated the skill and dedication needed to become a musician.

A couple of years later I started work and bought a Kriesler stereo. Pink Floyd’s, “The Dark side of the Moon” came out. It was the most amazing thing I’d ever heard. I frightened the life out of my sleeping brother by turning up the volume and putting on “Time” with all the alarms, gongs, bells etc. He practically jumped out of bed.

Around this time I became a great fan of Spectrum and the bands they morphed into and saw them at least 100 times over the years. Their final Concert at Dallas Brooks Hall was one of the best concerts I’ve been to. Mike Rudd could really work a crowd. They put out a wonderful live recording of the concert called “Terminal Buzz”. Apart from John Farnham and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at the Melbourne Tennis Centre, it is in my opinion the best Australian live album.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

A couple of years later I moved out and into a shared house with 4 friends. Music was played continuously. I was given a very old, very big, very high quality valve radio by some elderly relatives, low and behold it worked and had a very warm sound. Every night at 10pm, the stereo was turned off and Music to Midnight (an ABC program) was put on the radio. Listening to that program introduced me to a huge range of music I had never heard before.

During this period I went to a HiFi show in Carlton after work and was introduced to the world of high quality music. While there, I listened to the albums, Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel) and I’ve Got the Music in Me (Thelma Houston and the Pressure Cooker). I bought a copy of the Thelma Houston direct to disk album at the show and Bridge Over Troubled Water on my way home. When I listened to them at home, they sounded nowhere near as good. At that moment I made the fateful and expensive decision to buy a HiFi system.

Over the next 6 months I managed to buy an amp, speakers, turntable, tuner and cassette deck. The $1700 was well spent as it gave both me, my house mates and friends a great deal of pleasure. Little did I realise that this hobby would cost me big time over the years. For the next 5 years I bought a new album every week at Readings in Carlton.
Usually, I recorded them using the cassette deck and stored the record away and used the cassette to listen to music. Most of my records bought after my new sound system was purchased, are in pristine condition.

One of the girls in the shared house worked for a record company and I met a lot of musicians and bands over that time who came around to listen to the stereo. Quite a few bought around samples of their albums and songs. Most of them were terrific people, although one who turned up continually was the biggest BS artist I have ever come across. When his little brother got tatts, he really paid out on him, only to get a heap of them a couple of months later. In my opinion a pathological liar, completely full of it, but he did become famous.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Part 5.
With my growing number of records, it started to become a storage problem. So too were cassettes. I used to organise a heap of friends to by blank cassettes, by buying a couple of hundred at a time you could really get the price down. They all took up a lot of space. In the end I made a really good storage system that allowed me the space to store the nearly 1,000 LP’s I had accumulated. Luckily I was able to use the table saw at work during my lunch hour. It took about 6 weeks to make. I could fit the turntable, cassette deck, amp and tuner on top and I still have it 50 years later. I bought storage draws for all the 5 hundred odd tapes I had. Records and tapes are now in storage.

I don’t know if the tapes will survive, they must be getting near the end of their life. The records will become a superannuation adjunct. I’m gobsmacked by the prices being asked for originals of some of my pristine records that are now valued in the hundreds of dollars.

I was introduced to the band Weather Report by a musician friend. I listened through a cassette deck he had, that was modified to change the speed, so he could more easily follow tracks he was learning to play. While he was getting ready, before we left, he put the headphones on me and said listen to this. It was the track “A Remark You Made” from the Weather Report Album – Heavy Weather. I thought it must have been slowed down as I couldn’t believe that a bass could make the sounds I was hearing. I checked the speed dial and it seemed to be correct. My friend confirmed it was correct and I became an instant fan of Jaco Pastorious.

 

[revo333]

the various trends of mid90s radio significantly shaped my present taste, there are many tunes from 1995 awash with place & time memories (e.g. Kiss From a Rose, Let Her Cry, Give Me One Reason, Waterfalls, Mouth, etc.) but these are two that I feel are quietly indispensable to that particular time for me and can mainline the memories and musical development, both are also connected with travel rather than neighborhood.

A great time to listen to the radio, so many hits.

I remember Kiss From a Rose being played all the time along with Regulate by Warren G and about 30 others.

It really did open your mind to different styles and most were easy to find on the one station as well.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Part 6.
Just before my discovery of Jaco Pastorious, a girl I knew asked me if I had any Joni Mitchell albums, I didn’t, but a while later while browsing in a Ashburton Record shop I came across a Joni Mitchell album, Hejira, playing bass on it was Jaco Pastorious. I bought it and then became a Joni Mitchell fan. I have around over 70 albums featuring Jaco and every one of Joni’s albums.

Around this time CD’s started to become popular, so I bought one and started buying CD’s. Again it ended up as a storage problem. I made some storage boxes and just continued making them as my CD collection expanded. I wasn’t listening to much as I now had a family and really the only chance I had to listen to music was in the car, or using my cassette Walkman while doing gardening, mowing the lawn or washing dishes.

In 1987 Jaco was beaten to death by a bouncer and I completely lost interest in music for a while.

I didn’t really listen to much music at all, but my musician mate gave me a cassette with an album on either side. Tears for Fears – Sowing the Seeds of Love and John Lee Hooker -The Healer. Completely different styles of music, but after listening to them I realised just how much I was missing music.

Tears For Fears – Women in Chains with Oleta Adams


John Lee Hooker - The Healer

 

[TimZoo]

Another one of our first records

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Written by the great Graham Gouldman,writer of many hits for The Yardbirds & later of 10CC

 

[Fossie 32]

I'm going to have to do this in instalments.

My earliest memories were listening to our old 78’s. My favourites were “In a Monastery Garden" by whistling Ronnie Ronaldi and “Peter and the Wolf”.

The Peter and the Wolf song by Disney can be seen on YouTube but they prevent it being linked here. Money!

As I got older listening to the radio introduced me to the incomparable Sam Cooke, one of my biggest influences. Other songs I remember before my transistor radio days were, My Old Man’s A Dustman” and “My Boomerang Won’t Come Back” which were the sort of songs a 9 year old could easily remember the lyrics to and sing along. After a number of convincing arguments and a great deal of nagging, at Christmas 1961 I got a transistor radio. 1962 was a terrific year for music and really accelerated my music education.

Some of the songs were:

The Wanderer, West of the Wall, Alley Cat, I Can't Stop Loving You, Working for the Man, Can't Help Falling in Love, Chip Chip, I’ve Been Everywhere, I Remember You, Telstar, West of the Wall, Multiplication, Stranger On The Shore, The Twist, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Big Girls Don’t Cry, Surfin’ Safari and Green Onions to name a few. Telstar was my favourite and the very first song I ever had a discussion about with another kid.

A few years ago I got a series of CD’s with hits from 1962.

I became an Elvis fan around this time mainly because of my Gran. Every time I stayed with her over school holidays we went to see an Elvis film. Looking back, I think she had a thing for Elvis and I’ve probably seen every Elvis movie.

Two years later my little brother got a record player for Christmas and we were in business. We both spent a lot of the money we earned from our paper rounds on records. Singles to begin with and then albums after my parents gave my brother Sgt Peppers. Plenty of good stuff to listen to and apart from the Beatles there was, The Spencer Davis Group, Them, The Byrds, The Kinks, The Rolling stones, The Who and then along came Jimi Hendrix.

About this time I was allowed to go to the local dances all around the place. Q Club and Opus East were my favourites, although there were plenty to choose from. The local scout hall, where some of my friends played in a band, Box Hill Town Hall, Keepout and That’s Life. On my way to That’s Life, Gerry Humphries got on the train at Camberwell and we travelled all the way together to Windsor Station and walked across to That’s Life where I saw him on stage with The Loved Ones shortly after. Later on I went to Sebastions, Thumpin’ Tum (where behind a couch I was sitting on, came some strange noises. When I looked over the back of the couch, there was a couple having sex!!!), Catcher and Berties.

I really feel sad for the young kids of today and their lack of access to live music. For most of them it’s school bands at lunchtime or fork out big money to see a concert.

I saw all these bands and many more as a teenager:
The Groop, The Groove, Max Merritt, Billy Thorpe, Normie Rowe, Ray Brown and the Whispers, The Loved Ones, Masters Apprentices, Johnny Young, The Twilights, The Vibrants, Chain with Wendy Saddington, The Party Machine, The Ram Jam Big Band, Somebody’s Image, MPD Ltd, Bobby and Laurie, The Wild Cherries and Pat and Olivia (Pat Carroll and Olivia Newton-John) are just some of the people I remember seeing, but there were literally hundreds more.

I’d be interested to hear what other music your grandparents and parents liked everyone. I’m thinking of doing a program on our community radio station combining pre 60s music with snippets of history

 

[Gough]

I’d be interested to hear what other music your grandparents and parents liked everyone. I’m thinking of doing a program on our community radio station combining pre 60s music with snippets of history

I was watching some Dad's Army the other day and listening to the old war time tunes that they play in the background you can hear where Paul McCartney got his ear for a pop song from.

 

[Fossie 32]

I was watching some Dad's Army the other day and listening to the old war time tunes that they play in the background you can hear where Paul McCartney got his ear for a pop song from.

For sure

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

I’d be interested to hear what other music your grandparents and parents liked everyone. I’m thinking of doing a program on our community radio station combining pre 60s music with snippets of history

RECORDS MY MUM HAD

Bing Crosby – A White Christmas

The Andrews Sisters – Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

Glenn Miller – Chatanooga Choo Choo

Glenn Miller - Pennsylvania 6-5000

Benny Goodman – Lets Dance

Big Bill Broonzy – Key To The Highway

Doris Day - Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee

Edvard Greig – Peer Gynt

Mendelssohn - Fingal's Cave

Oscar Levant - Rhapsody in Blue

Ravel – Bolero

Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters – Don’t Fence Me In

Gene Autry – Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer

Vera Lynn – There’ll be Bluebirds over, the White Cliff of Dover

These are ones I remember. There were about 40 records in all, but I can't check as my father gave them away!

My grandparents only ever had a radio. In fact when my grandmother passed away in 1971, she didn't have a hot water system and relied on a wood stove for hot water. She still did all the clothes in her copper with a hand operated wringer mounted on the concrete tubs. I do remember listening to the Goons and Yes, What? Yes, What? was an Australian Radio Comedy series about a a teacher and his class of students, made in the 30' and 40's and repeated for a really long time. It was my favourite program.
There a quite a few episodes of Yes, What? on YouTube.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Part 6.
It was now the 90’s with the internet and the MP3. I spent a year downloading all the old songs from my childhood at 128K.

I liked the fact that I could potentially store all my music collection on a hard drive. No space taken up.

I ripped all my CD’s as 320K or FLAC, as well as my 3 brothers and sisters collections and all my friends and relatives CD’s. Through my musician mate I was able to get his collection and all his many musician friends CD’s in exchange for everything I had ripped at the time. Musicians generally have great collections as all their purchases are tax deductible. It took me about 2 years in all, but in the end I had a collection of over 9,000 albums.

I even spent a couple of years digitising albums I had that weren’t available on CD. I did all my spectrum albums and the Melbourne New Orleans Jazz Band record collection of another musician friend. I spent hours removing background hiss and clicks and pops until they sounded terrific. I gave a copy of the Melbourne New Orleans Jazz Band tracks to the “Little Aussie Album” website, but because I hadn’t scanned the covers be hasn’t put it on his website. However, he did ask if he could put one track on YouTube from a 1962 song “Blackbottom Stomp”. Have a listen and tell me if you think it came out alright.

Unfortunately, you will have to copy and paste the link below into YouTube as it isn't allowed to be played here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZZHXKsKG0I&list=RDqZZHXKsKG0I&start_radio=1

Player not found

Today I have more than 22,000 albums with a couple of hard drive backups that are about the size of a paperback book. If they were records or CD’s I would need another room to store them. I now have a Sony Walkman with 256G of storage and it sounds sensational

I have finally come to grips with my HiFi money infatuation and have built my own amp and speakers. I am always pleased when people ask me what make are they and when I tell them I made them, they always go up for a close look and say they look like bought ones. In this side of things I am finished.

 

[LeakyValve]

RECORDS MY MUM HAD

Bing Crosby – A White Christmas

The Andrews Sisters – Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

Glenn Miller – Chatanooga Choo Choo

Glenn Miller - Pennsylvania 6-5000

Benny Goodman – Lets Dance

Big Bill Broonzy – Key To The Highway

Doris Day - Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee

Edvard Greig – Peer Gynt

Mendelssohn - Fingal's Cave

Oscar Levant - Rhapsody in Blue

Ravel – Bolero

Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters – Don’t Fence Me In

Gene Autry – Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer

Vera Lynn – There’ll be Bluebirds over, the White Cliff of Dover

These are ones I remember. There were about 40 records in all, but I can't check as my father gave them away!

Wish I had your mum Cliff.

Was subjected to watching on one of these beauties the "Black and White Minstrel Show" and seemingly endless versions of Gordon Boyd droning through "Don't Fence Me In".



To be fair, the old man had a penchant for Rachmaninoff and his piano bangers but I was way too young to get it.
And it was the days of the cheap turntable/speaker unit combine so it was not a stellar audio experience.

 

[Fossie 32]

RECORDS MY MUM HAD

Bing Crosby – A White Christmas

The Andrews Sisters – Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

Glenn Miller – Chatanooga Choo Choo

Glenn Miller - Pennsylvania 6-5000

Benny Goodman – Lets Dance

Big Bill Broonzy – Key To The Highway

Doris Day - Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee

Edvard Greig – Peer Gynt

Mendelssohn - Fingal's Cave

Oscar Levant - Rhapsody in Blue

Ravel – Bolero

Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters – Don’t Fence Me In

Gene Autry – Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer

Vera Lynn – There’ll be Bluebirds over, the White Cliff of Dover

These are ones I remember. There were about 40 records in all, but I can't check as my father gave them away!

My grandparents only ever had a radio. In fact when my grandmother passed away in 1971, she didn't have a hot water system and relied on a wood stove for hot water. She still did all the clothes in her copper with a hand operated wringer mounted on the concrete tubs. I do remember listening to the Goons and Yes, What? Yes, What? was an Australian Radio Comedy series about a a teacher and his class of students, made in the 30' and 40's and repeated for a really long time. It was my favourite program.
There a quite a few episodes of Yes, What? on YouTube.

Ta, sounds pretty similar to my Mum's collection

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Part 7.
These are the Australian Albums that influenced my music education. I have seen the majority of these live at one time or another. I missed out on Tal Wilkenfeld. I had tickets to see her, but Covid shut down everything 5 days before she was to perform. I do remember being really excited to see the Atlantics when I was 15 only to be really disappointed that they had changed their music, it was no longer Surf music, but Rock that sounded like so many other bands.

The Atlantics – Now It’s Stomping Time 1963
Masters Apprentices – Fully Qualified 1965-72
The Loved Ones – Magic Box 1967
Blackfeather – At The Mountains Of Madness 1971
Spectrum – Spectrim Part One 1971
Spectrum – Milesago 1971
Various Artists - Morning Of The Earth 1971
Chain – Towards The Blues 1972
Digby Richards – Harlequin 1972
Spectrum/Murtceps – Terminal Buzz 1973
Ariel – A Strange Fantastic Dream 1973
Galapagos Duck – The Removalists 1974
Skyhooks – Living In The Seventies 1974
Marcia Hines – Marcia Shines - 1974
Ayres Rock – Big Red Rock 1974
Ross Ryan – I Am Pegasus 1974
Max Merritt – A Little Easier 1975
Richard Clapton – Girls On The Avenue 1975
The Dingoes – Five Times The Sun 1977
Little River Band – Diamantina Cocktail 1977
Crossfire – Direct To Disc 1978
ACDC – Highway To Hell 1979
Icehouse – Flowers 1980
ACDC – Back In Black 1980
Cold Chisel – East 1980
Men at Work – Business As Usual 1981
Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons – The Sound Of 1983
John Farnham – Whispering Jack 1986
INXS – Kick 1987
David Hirshfelder - Welcome to the Nightclub of My Mind 1989
Icehouse – Great Southern Land 1989
The Backsliders – Hellbound 1991
Diviynls – Make You Happy 1997
Bachelor Girl – Waiting For The Day 1998
Jim Conway – Jim Conway 2008
Sal Kimber and the Rollin’ Wheel - Sal Kimber and the Rollin’ Wheel 2011
The Backsliders – Starvation Box 2011
Russell Morris – Sharkmouth 2012
Russell Morris – Van Diemans Land 2014
Dan Sultan – Blackbird 2014
Tal Wilkenfeld – Love Remains 2019
The Cruel Sea – Straight into the Sun 2025

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Part 8 and thankfully the last.

International albums that also influenced my music education.

The Beatles - Revolver 1963
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - 1967
Vanilla Fudge - Vanilla Fudge - 1967
The Doors - The Doors - 1967
The Doors - Waiting For The Sun -1968
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks - 1968
Julie Driscoll – Jools (released as OPEN in the UK) - 1968
Deep Purple - In Rock – 1970
Free - All Right Now - 1970
Modern Jazz Quartet – Space – 1970
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water – 1970
Steppenwolf - Monster – 1970
Van Morrison - Moondance - 1970
Various Artists - Music From Free Creek - 1970
Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey - 1971
The Doors - L.A.Woman - 1971
Focus - Moving Waves – 1971
The Edgar Winter Group - They Only Come Out At Night - 1972
Peter Frampton - Wind Of Change - 1972
Donny Hathaway – Live - 1972
Steely Dan-Can't Buy A Thrill-1972
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon – 1973
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions – 1973
The Allman Brothers Band - Brothers And Sisters -1973
Maria Muldaur – Maria Muldaur - 1973
The Carpenters - Now And Then – 1973
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells - 1973
Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard – 1974
Ry Cooder - Paradise and Lunch – 1974
Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale -1974
Country Joe McDonald - Paradise With An Ocean View – 1975
Thelma Houston and the Pressure Cooker – I’ve Got The Music In Me - 1975
Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow – 1975
Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac - 1975
Joni Mitchel-Hejira – 1976
Weather Report - Black Market - 1976
Weather Report - Heavy Weather - 1977
Steely Dan-Aja - 1977
Joni Mitchel-Don Juan's Reckless Daughter-1977
Lee Ritenour - Captain Fingers -1977
Lynrd Skynrd - Street Survivors - 1977
Earl Klugh - Finger Paintings – 1977
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours 1977
George Benson - Weekend in L.A - 1978
Larry Carlton-Larry Carlton - 1978
Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing – 1978
Rickie Lee Jones-Rickie Lee Jones - 1979
Joni Mitchell-Shadows and Light – 1980
Steely Dan-Gaucho – 1980
Steve Winwood - Arc of a Diver - 1980
The Buggles - The Age Of Plastic 1980
Hall & Oates-Private eyes-1981
Donald Fagen-The Nightfly-1982
Phil Collins - No Jacket Required – 1985
Paul Simon - Graceland - 1986
John Lee Hooker -The Healer – 1989
Tears for Fears – Sowing the Seeds of Love - 1989
Van Morrison - Hymns To The Silence - 1991
Sophie B. Hawkins - Tongues And Tails - 1992
Fourplay - Between the Sheets - 1993
Van Morrison - A Night In San Francisco(Live) - 1994
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill - 1995
Rita Coolridge - Out of the Blues - 1996
Eva Cassidy – Songbird - 1998
Eva Cassidy - Live at Blues Alley – 1998
Sade - Lovers Rock - 2000
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me – 2002
John Mayer - Heavier Things – 2003
Lizz Wright – Salt - 2003
K.D. Lang - Hymns of the 49th Parallel - 2004
Diana Krall - The Girl In The Other Room – 2004
Gwyneth Herbert - Bittersweet and Blue – 2004
Lizz Wright - Dreaming Wide Awake - 2005
Donald Fagen-Morph The Cat-2006
John Mayer – Continuum - 2006
Robert Randolph – Colorblind - 2006
Mark Sholtez - Real Street - 2006
Amy Winehouse-Back To Black-2007
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand - 2007
Don Alder - Not a Planet – 2008
Jeff Beck - Emotion And Commotion – 2010
Mark Sholtez - Real Street - 2006
Robert Randolph And The Family Band - Walk This Road - 2010
The Derek Trucks Band-Already Free - 2009
Daryl Hall - Laughing Down Crying - 2011
Hans Theessink & Terry Evans - Delta Time - 2012
Nathan East - Nathan East -2014
Paolo Nutini - Caustic Love - 2014
Imelda May - Life Love Flesh Blood - 2017
Little Steven - Soulfire – 2017
Chris Standring - Sunlight (2018)
Orville Peck – Bronco -2022
Glen Campbell - Glen Campbell Duets Ghost On The Canvas Sessions -2024

My favourite 10 albums are:

1. Fulfillingest First Finale – Stevie Wonder
2. Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd
3. Brothers And Sisters - The Allman Brothers Band
4. Paradise and Lunch - Ry Cooder
5. Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones
6. Live - Donny Hathaway
7. They Only Come Out At Night - The Edgar Winter Group
8. Shadows and Light - Joni Mitchell
9. Heavy Weather - Weather Report
10. Already Free - The Derek Trucks Band

Two people stand out to me.
Van Morrison-Been putting out great stuff since "The Them" with "Gloria" in 1964.
Joni Mitchell is the other. Her musical evolution and song writing skills have me in awe. One of a kind.

I'm not sure any current artists will have their impact and longevity.

 

[Fossie 32]

Part 7.
These are the Australian Albums that influenced my music education. I have seen the majority of these live at one time or another. I missed out on Tal Wilkenfeld. I had tickets to see her, but Covid shut down everything 5 days before she was to perform. I do remember being really excited to see the Atlantics when I was 15 only to be really disappointed that they had changed their music, it was no longer Surf music, but Rock that sounded like so many other bands.

The Atlantics – Now It’s Stomping Time 1963
Masters Apprentices – Fully Qualified 1965-72
The Loved Ones – Magic Box 1967
Blackfeather – At The Mountains Of Madness 1971
Spectrum – Spectrim Part One 1971
Spectrum – Milesago 1971
Various Artists - Morning Of The Earth 1971
Chain – Towards The Blues 1972
Digby Richards – Harlequin 1972
Spectrum/Murtceps – Terminal Buzz 1973
Ariel – A Strange Fantastic Dream 1973
Galapagos Duck – The Removalists 1974
Skyhooks – Living In The Seventies 1974
Marcia Hines – Marcia Shines - 1974
Ayres Rock – Big Red Rock 1974
Ross Ryan – I Am Pegasus 1974
Max Merritt – A Little Easier 1975
Richard Clapton – Girls On The Avenue 1975
The Dingoes – Five Times The Sun 1977
Little River Band – Diamantina Cocktail 1977
Crossfire – Direct To Disc 1978
ACDC – Highway To Hell 1979
Icehouse – Flowers 1980
ACDC – Back In Black 1980
Cold Chisel – East 1980
Men at Work – Business As Usual 1981
Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons – The Sound Of 1983
John Farnham – Whispering Jack 1986
INXS – Kick 1987
David Hirshfelder - Welcome to the Nightclub of My Mind 1989
Icehouse – Great Southern Land 1989
The Backsliders – Hellbound 1991
Diviynls – Make You Happy 1997
Bachelor Girl – Waiting For The Day 1998
Jim Conway – Jim Conway 2008
Sal Kimber and the Rollin’ Wheel - Sal Kimber and the Rollin’ Wheel 2011
The Backsliders – Starvation Box 2011
Russell Morris – Sharkmouth 2012
Russell Morris – Van Diemans Land 2014
Dan Sultan – Blackbird 2014
Tal Wilkenfeld – Love Remains 2019
The Cruel Sea – Straight into the Sun 2025

Tal W is amazing especially those clips where she opened for the Who. Magic Box was the first album I bought. Is that Jim Conway from Captain Matchbox? Loved them and their covers of old songs

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Tal W is amazing especially those clips where she opened for the Who. Magic Box was the first album I bought. Is that Jim Conway from Captain Matchbox? Loved them and their covers of old songs

It is the same Jim Conway. Blues stuff and hard to get a hold of now, but it looks like you can get it here.

https://www.discogs.com/release/12816526-Jim-Conway-Music-Deli-Presents-Jim-Conway?srsltid=AfmBOoojjfoe0DizvH5cOr_MHOP08I4qcYlf7uMyRvtg3VWqyKbCgD68

You can also listen on Spotify.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Is that Jim Conway from Captain Matchbox? Loved them and their covers of old songs

One of my friends went to school with the Conway brothers at Camberwell High. He was part of their music group back then. They had a wind up gramophone and scoured op shops for old 78's to learn the sort of songs they were interested in learning how to play. They were wonderful to watch on stage.
Fun fact: Jim Conway absolutely hated being called Tim (Tim Conway from McHales Navy fame).

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

High school peak period