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My mother is Irish, so The Dubliners, Chieftains and later, and most influentially, Planxty. She also had a soft spot for things like John Denver - cheesy as heck but I remember loving the records from downstairs as I fell asleep.
My father was a bit more adventurous. He saw "Ray Davies and the Kinks" once but wasn't impressed due to their noisy and unkempt nature. He had some jazz LPs that I remember playing. I think the one I loved was by Kenny Ball and it had the wonderful Midnight in Moscow on it. In a rare moment of bonding, he took me to see Stephane Grappelli, which I remain thankful for.
Needless to say when I bought 'Take Me Bak Ome' by Slade and stuck it on the record player I got more than a gobfull from him
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.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Amongst the classical, easy listening and male voice choir records, my Dad had one or two great LP's that I loved as a kid, and still do. Tubular Bells. Oxygene by Jean Michelle Jarre. Also tapes of the band Sky, sort of prog/classical with some great classical guitar. Don't know much about Sky but we listened to them a lot in our home the early 80's.
He also likes the blues; in the 90's, Dad bought a series of magazines called the Blues Collection that were about a different Blues artist every issue, and came with a tape of the artist's tunes; they gave me a good intro to the blues.
I also collected those "Blues Collection" tapes - didn't get them on CD as I didn't have a CD player at the time! I got up to about 48 out of 64, then they had to miss one out because of some copyright issues, so I cancelled the rest...
The Beach Boys
Abba
Simon and Garfunkel
Elvis
I know every word
I just had a listen to Cannonball from the first album, it sounds very dated now.
Dad, country!