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 Post subject: I have strange grandchildren.
PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 5:01 pm 
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My eleven year old grandson has just told me that he has lost his Johnny Cash CD.


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 Post subject: Re: I have strange grandchildren.
PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 5:15 pm 
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Not that strange Carol - my 7yr old son took a particular liking to my CD of Neil Diamond's "Jazz Singer"!!! :oops:

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I don't know - I think it must be a generation thing - my younger kids love my Bonzos CD, and my 'Best of Abba', and their father's Sixties compilations, and ... :D

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Think youselves lucky. My daughter is into 'Glee', some teenage american musical drama.

She now listens to some classic songs on the computer, but sung by the Glee cast. So I say, have you listened to the original of that, it's sooooo much better ? She says she prefers the Glee version %-(

It's the equivalent of those Top of the Pops albums in the 70's, cheap, because all the latest hits were sung by someone else =))

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all our 3 kids like 60's stuff after listening to it in the car :lol:


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PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2010 11:05 pm 
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clarelouise wrote:
Think youselves lucky. My daughter is into 'Glee', some teenage american musical drama.



This it?


When I was young(er) was into :



My mum saw the orchestra in the forties, then again with me, several times under the direction of Buddy deFranco, now under the direction of Larry O'Brien last I heard.

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My eleven year old grandson has just told me that he has lost his Johnny Cash CD.


Why was the statement made was he hoping you would give him money for a CD, as it may not be J.Cash CD he buys. :-?
Maybe just me as I used tatics like this, said I required money for the look & learn mag.
Yeah right straight out and bought the Hotspur. :lol:

There is only so much you can do with music/clothes/hair styles so what goes around comes around.

Your grandson is not called SUE is he. ;-)

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My almost 16 year old son put a CD in my car yesterday when I was taking him to a friend's - Bach's Cello Suite borrowed from his girlfriend :o Very good it was too, I've now got it on my iPod. He is so much more cultured than me, he put's me to shame often with the poetry and classic literature that he reads, in both english & french, and the very varied music he listens too. How many other teenage boys buy Baudelair with their pocket money and read it on the school bus (and I've probably spelled it wrong :oops: )? Mind you his taste goes right through the spectrum to the Cure and Peter Doherty, he's a very 'arty' type (and I'm very proud).

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We were chidren of the revolution we rebelled to having nothing else but classical & traditional folk type music.
We have a new generation reverting back to that, as they are tired of what is going on through groups like Spice girls total commercilasm.

Problem is it is CD,s so can not just give them the LP although you get the comment when you put one on, thats cool grandad.
A thing that goes round and round with a needle stuck in it can play music. There right though when they say not easy to carry around yes but we did remeber record hops bring your own music and someone supplied the record player. 50 people turning up with the same T-Rex single.
Then some people got clever I will get the collection bring the record player and charge people to enter welcolme to the Disco.

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My son has a vinyl collection of more than 400 LPs, classical, jazz and is slowly building it up (his bedroom is just not big enough what with three keyboards, six guitars, amps, art stuff.....) :roll:

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Lisleoise wrote:
My son has a vinyl collection of more than 400 LPs, classical, jazz and is slowly building it up (his bedroom is just not big enough what with three keyboards, six guitars, amps, art stuff.....) :roll:


Looks like you need to build studio in the garden make sure it is sound proofed. ;-)

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No, Roryboy, Patrick is a genuine 'innocent' - very clever but totally not streetwise. If he wanted money for something special, he would simply ask him parents.
My own daughters got to know all the Welsh, Irish and Scottish folksongs that I had learned at school, because we sang them on long journeys in the car. Now I have to do a deal with one 14-year old grand-daughter, because I can only stand Lady Gaga one way, and on return trips she has to listen to my classical CD's, or for a compromise we both like Simon and Garfunkel.
I was newly single when I was 38, and I well remember the popular music of the late 70's and the 80's - Gloria Gaynor, Boney M, Village People (honestly), and Blondie, but I missed out on some good bands. I have just been introduced to Fleetwood Mac.
I think bands such as Queen, 10CC, Procul Harum, The Who, are much better than those I loved in the 1950's - although I do enjoy my 'Greatest Rock and Roll Hits of the 50's' CD. Who can resist 'Blueberry HIll' or ' Rock around the Clock'?
We had some real turkeys too - The toothbrush song, Itsy-bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini, One eyed, one horned, pied purple people eater, The Bubble Car, HOw much is that doggie in the window? The horrible thing is that I still remember every word of most of them.
There seems to be less ageism in music appreciation now - the band lovers of the 60's seem to have remained faithful. I suppose there are still some pockets of teenage stuff that make most people over 25 cringe - rap does it for me, and Britney Spears sound-alikes.


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roryboy wrote:
Lisleoise wrote:
My son has a vinyl collection of more than 400 LPs, classical, jazz and is slowly building it up (his bedroom is just not big enough what with three keyboards, six guitars, amps, art stuff.....) :roll:


Looks like you need to build studio in the garden make sure it is sound proofed. ;-)


Don't you start :twisted: :lol: He's been pestering me all weekend after popping around to an acquaintance who has a very nice studio in a converted small barn next to his house.

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Itsy-bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini

It was re-released and believe made the charts, I remeber it when on holiday youngest daughter would have been about 12. She was amazed I knew all the words as it had just started to be played on the radio.
The reason I knew it, was I won the single as a prize on a shoot gallery at the shows, would have been mid 60,s.

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Lisleoise wrote:
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Lisleoise wrote:
My son has a vinyl collection of more than 400 LPs, classical, jazz and is slowly building it up (his bedroom is just not big enough what with three keyboards, six guitars, amps, art stuff.....) :roll:


Looks like you need to build studio in the garden make sure it is sound proofed. ;-)


Don't you start :twisted: :lol: He's been pestering me all weekend after popping around to an acquaintance who has a very nice studio in a converted small barn next to his house.


You better start getting some quotes for the build, hope he continues to enjoy his music.

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carol wrote:
We had some real turkeys too - The toothbrush song


Some unspeakable person posted that song on this forum not long ago ... My youngest daughter still asks to listen to it most nights before she goes to bed :|

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