Oh the sheer horror of it all...

boogieman

My mum had loads of those Music For Pleasure albums by people like Nana Mouskourri and Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass. I also remember some sort of Sensational Sounds of Stereo album too, which just consisted of car, train and plane noises panning from one speaker to the other.   

equalsql

boogieman said:

My mum had loads of those Music For Pleasure albums by people like Nana Mouskourri and Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass. I also remember some sort of Sensational Sounds of Stereo album too, which just consisted of car, train and plane noises panning from one speaker to the other.   

Oh yes. Tijuana brass was a BIG thing in my childhood household.. especially this one:

breakstuff

I remember this being on permanent rotation when I was a kid.Utterly horrific.Still having therapy now thirty odd years later.

 

Philly_Q

We had these.  Not horrific at all really.  I think my dad did have some James Last and Nana Mouskouri albums, but I don't remember him ever actually playing them.

We also had one of those big stereogram things, I used to listen to the Friday Rock Show on it every week.

ICBM

boogieman said:

I also remember some sort of Sensational Sounds of Stereo album too, which just consisted of car, train and plane noises panning from one speaker to the other.   

I had a record called 'This Is York', which consisted solely of steam train recordings from York Station in the golden age of railways.

Actually really good for testing speakers... huge dynamic range and low end .

boogieman said:

My mum had loads of those Music For Pleasure albums by people like Nana Mouskourri and Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass.

This one?

https://internetfm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/herbalpert.jpg

mudslide73

Elvis, Lonnie Donegan, Duane Eddy, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, The Stones, DSOTM... but mainly The Carpenters and Senior Service fumes in my Dad's smoking lounge Cortina.

Cliff Richard and similar from my Mom - inadvertently exposing me to loads of Hank and Bruce of course.

equalsql

mudslide73 said:

Elvis, Lonnie Donegan, Duane Eddy, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, The Stones, DSOTM... but mainly The Carpenters and Senior Service fumes in my Dad's smoking lounge Cortina.

Cliff Richard and similar from my Mom - inadvertently exposing me to loads of Hank and Bruce of course.

Now that's what l call a good musical education @mudslide73 . Sounds like your Dad is a cool character

mudslide73

I think he was just born at the right time. He's definitely responsible for my putting musos on a pedestal.

Philly_Q

We had a few of these as well.  The "Now" of its day, but no original artists included.

boogieman

ICBM said:

boogieman said:

I also remember some sort of Sensational Sounds of Stereo album too, which just consisted of car, train and plane noises panning from one speaker to the other.   

I had a record called 'This Is York', which consisted solely of steam train recordings from York Station in the golden age of railways.

Actually really good for testing speakers... huge dynamic range and low end .

boogieman said:

My mum had loads of those Music For Pleasure albums by people like Nana Mouskourri and Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass.

This one?

https://internetfm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/herbalpert.jpg

No, don't think I've ever seen that one! Actually it's the Beatles one @equalsql posted above. Pretty sure she still has it. 

The York album sounds ummm, fascinating 

frank1985

Cheesy Italian pop hits..all day, every day