Good morning, Rock & Pop. Was music something prominent in your household when you were a child?

Just for you, my boring story.

I was born in 1946, and have memories of hearing dad's big band favorites on a little record player. He was a machinist, played trombone, and enjoyed being in a barbershop quartet. Mom usually had a little AM radio on in the kitchen, and enjoyed listening to a local broadcast of a variety show that sometimes included music. I spent a lot of time there, especially enjoying serials like The Adventures of Sky King, while eating my breakfast. Turns out I was actually named after the song Danny Boy, after she heard that same station from the nurses desk in the birth hospital. Sometime during my childhood, they got our first TV, and I clearly remember The Lawrence Welk Show. I kinda liked Pete Fountain, and my interest was quickly rewarded by them getting me a clarinet, a nice used one as they could afford. (I played it a couple of years, and my first band was actually a dixie-land trio. Our big gig was a free-bee at a Home For Unwed Mothers.) On Sundays, we went to church as a family, and I greatly enjoyed the hymns, and the big pipe organ they had. We would stand up and sing, fearless, making our joyful noise. In the summer, we often went to a city park on Sunday evenings to hear the city orchestra, which was grand. At about age 12, I started messing around with my younger brother's Sears Silvertone acoustic guitar (purchased for him when I got the clarinet, to keep things fair). Then things got out of hand.

Within a few years, I quit school, started smoking, discovered motorcycles, and the devil's music, rock and roll. I remember seeing Presley censored from the waist down on The Ed Sullivan Shew. Using money I worked hard to earn, I bought my first electric guitar in a department store, but kept it at a friend's house where we would practice endlessly, but not at my home. At age 70, can I relate to today's punk/metal kids? Do bears poop in the woods?

Here's a few links that carry my young life pretty well...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DquA6KyHTos ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NjssV8UuVA ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYYr4-Red-U ...

Music was very prominent in our household when I was growing up. I've credited my parents before with how much they loved rock and influenced my taste in music. In short, vastly. As for your BQ, I don't have kids and aren't around them but if I were I'd take great, great joy in exposing them to the music I love. And to the Red Sox, of course!

The first cover I ever heard and knew as a cover was definitely Elton John's version of 'Pinball Wizard', but I didn't know it at first. I was about eight years old when that started dominating the FM airwaves and all I knew was how much I loved it. Eventually some DJ played The Who's original instead and I remember being like hey, wtf? (yes, I used textspeak in 1974. I was precocious). I was wondering what somebody else was doing playing Elton's song, until someone finally clued me in. One of those very distinctive memories from childhood.

Pinball Wizard - Elton John (The Who)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=cgg-ryFdrOI

Not really my whole family listens to different things. Like Brandon, I found the music I liked on my own. These songs really helped jump start my interest in rock and metal back in 2010 when I was in 7th grade.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xv_7rOK10s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EApnhO2OIrw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPU8OAjjS4k

Hey liv! Maybe it was not as prominent in my house as some others, but I do have strong early memories of hearing my parents' music and developing my tastes. I've often talked about how finding some of my Dad's old tapes really got me into rock -- this was an early favorite by Genesis.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vecyEqs9Xlk

I've less often talked about my mom's music. Having been a teen in the '70s, she grew up with a lot of the music I love and enjoyed some of it, but her tastes also veer a great deal towards smooth R&B from the '80s and '90s. Not at all my cup of tea -- yet she swears up and down that I would bob my head and groove along to Mariah Carey's "Dreamlover" when I was a wee bairn. I don't remember that, but I do remember listening to Madinna's "The Immaculate Collection" quite a bit, which is why I do enjoy some of her early material.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PLWef37ajVY

Aloha Liv!

I've used this for an answer before, and many of the users who commented on the thread didn't realize that Juice Newton's version of this song was a cover:

"Angel of the Morning" - Merrilee Rush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1wyTK9bnjU

As a child of about 5 year old, I absolutely loved this song. Of course, I could not fathom the subject matter (which was pretty controversial in 1968). My mom teased me about it for years after I got older.

BQ: Music exposure was going to happen in my house for my kids. It's too big of a part of my life. Of the three of them, two turned out alright. My oldest loved Blink-182 and Green Day growing up, despite my much better influences; now, she's a big-time Hipster and only likes bands no one has ever heard of. If a band becomes popular she can't like them anymore.

To be honest, not really. Music was played around the house in my childhood & adolescence, but it wasn't something that was emphasized back then. I had to find the music that I liked on my own, and my family didn't really help me with developing my musical interests.

Here's a song that I liked as a kid:

Linkin Park - "Numb"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-qZxMY7FZf8