OOooh @Ina I. Wonder , I feel for you with the theft of your precious music, I would have felt the same as you...but thank goodness we can now access it on youtube etc.. I still have all my original singles and albums from my teen years up in the attic..music is my soul..I'm so glad you enjoyed the same music as me. I too got into country music many years ago....as well as Folk....and I love it, especially older country style music..which used to be called country and western. ..but of course the pop music which was around in the late 60's to the mid 70's were my teen years and I love that too. I really have a very eclectic taste in music overall....but I don't like new pop..not keen on heavy rock (except Pink floyd, Genesis and some Black sabbath)...and absolutely hate Rap!!
That's why I always check out the music when I see you've posted on this thread. Except for Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, and a couple more I too wasn't into Heavy Rock very much, and I too sort of skipped over Genesis. I don't care for Rap or Heavy Metal either. Other than church music, of which I can still remember most of the lyrics, I had never been allowed to listen to what my father called, "The Devil's Temptations ". Then when I married in 1965 at the age of 13, my husband introduced me to a radio. I fell in love with Joan Biaz as a folk singer, much to his disgust. Did those of you in England listen to much folk music as you were growing up? I know you're a good five or six years younger than I, but I know my children had an appreciation of music as young as 7 or 8. I made sure of that. At 13, when music first connected me to my emotions, I found it a great solace.
Oh yes as a teen I always loved folk music ..not until I was about 18 in the early 70's but yes Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell , Dylan , James taylor ( my fave).... and of course my ever beloved Celtic Scottish and Irish Folk... My mum had the wireless on most of the day so I learned to love music from being tiny.. and in Scottish & irish households family parties are regular occasions where everyone is expected to sing either solo or sing as a group and play musical instruments. I was my grannys' favourite singer so she would always have me sing in front of a group of her friends as well... embarrassing for me as a small kid and she would always have me sing sad songs and the folks would always be very emotional at this tiny tot singing songs like ''Nobody's child' which was her favourite and always wanted me to sing in front of an audience...
I've never heard "Nobody's Child" before, what a soul wrenching song. Where did that song come from? I'm terrible with names, but I don't remember Karen Young. I'll have to go listen to some more of her songs. I should be able to find her on YouTube, don't you think. Something tells me that you just might have a whole room dedicated to music, or some other room's contents must be piled into one corner as your collection spread out. My bedroom is about 20x28, and Michael and I had our GREAT big 1969 stereo set up in there. You can bet we shoved the bedroom section into about 1/3 of the room, but the stereo went bye-bye along with the albums.
I just noticed your Merle haggard tribute to Mike , Ina...he had good taste...I'm a HUGE Merle Haggard Fan R.I.P my favourite of all of his are these.. ...and your video of 'One tin soldier' is one of my favourite songs of all time but by Coven
Wasn't Merle Haggart a fine looking young man. Young Mike was a the lead singer in a band called Feet First. They never went anywhere but the local clubs, but he sure enjoyed it. Mike was born 2&1/2 months premature, and it caused him to have a short memory deficit, but singing allowed him to repeat things over and over, so it helped him to build those avenues in his brain. The picture below is what is left of his band. The older man on the far left is a guitar player beyond any I ever heard, electric or acoustical. He is 75 now, and he is the man that trained young Mike. Mike played an acoustical guitar. I still go to listen to them when they play out on patio gigs. I haven't been in a bar since '81 when I was 29. The man at the microphone was young Mike's best friend. Sorry about the wordage of the t-shirt, but I couldn't figure out a way to blurr it out.
OOoh yes I was totally in love with Merle when he was younger...wow, what a looker...now he really did look like a man's man... Great photo , and great memories of young Mike and his band for you. My daughter also played in a Band, she's a Bass guitarist although she can play drums and any woodwind instrument too...(what a lot we have in common Ina)..... She had a record reach number 2 in the local charts when she was about 19 years old ans till at music college.. she's been a member of several bands since she first started but always the only girl in the band...and by the time they were around 19 or 20 they were playing gigs in places like the roundhouse in London... which is a big venue where most of the very well known pop stars started out... She started off playing mainly Dylanesque stuff...'' Like a rolling stone'' etc...then she started writing her own stuff...then she and her friend a saxophonist covered Dave stewarts lily was here...and I played it on cassette tape to a record producer without saying who it was and he really thought he was listening to the original song...they were so good I wish I had a copy of Daughter's stuff on my computer but sadly it's all on cassette tape.... I do have a photo of her with one of her bands somewhere I'll see if I can find it... In the meantime here's Dave stewart and 'Lily was here'...
here's one photo of her in her rock chic days she was about 17 or 18 in this one.. with dyed burgundy red hair ..and another in a promotional picture of her band They all look so young there and now they're in their 40's...
She is so beautiful Holly, and I know the pride and love she brings to your heart, and yes they grow into their own middle age before we know it. It is strange the way similar events have crossed our two paths. I guess it just shows you that life does repeat itself. Did your daughter make music her career? If not, I'd be surprised if it doesn't still play a large part of her life. Your love of music was one of the gifts you passed along, and it seems to have blossomed in this child. It is good to know that we have provided better childhoods for our children, and we got to help them along the way when they let us. I know that you and I were given the gift of being able to provide what neither of us really had. Makes me wonder how some don't see the gift, as in your first post of Karen Young above.
I was teaching Portuguese to an American student this afternoon and we sang this beautiful song about 2 people who can't live apart. The song compared things that can't be - ever - separated like a plane without its wings, soccer without a ball, Romeo and Juliet, and so on.
Thanks Lara, that was lovely and also Hungarian . There's a folk dance called the Csardas. It's danced to the quicker tempo that's played at the end of this video. Welcome back!
It's a dance that's is usually done at every Hungarian ball and I've danced it a few times with my hubby in Chicago.