What albums did your parents have in heavy rotation at your home

Oh, and at Christmas Mom would play some Ray Conniff and his singers album.

Natalie Cole's greatest hits.

Grieg, "Song of Norway"

Mario Lanza "Classics"

Various strains of weed and Grateful Dead concert recordings.

OBC recordings:

My Fair Lady

Sound of Music

South Pacific

Every Beatles album, Streisand, Broadway show cast albums, and assorted others like the 5th Dimension, Peter, Paul & Mary, the Kingston Trio, etc.

Mine also had the Herb Alpert one (my dad's favorite). My mom always played Dionne Warwick's Greatest Hits and Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits. They also had one of those Exotica albums with a volcano on the cover.

My dad's favorite song was "Who's Going to Run the Truck Stop in Tuba City When I'm Gone" by whoever that was.

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

Beatles

Mommas and Poppas

Carly Simon

Herb Alpert

Sandpipers

Lots of classical

[quote] Mine also had the Herb Alpert one (my dad's favorite). My mom always played Dionne Warwick's Greatest Hits and Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits. They also had one of those Exotica albums with a volcano on the cover.

Exact same. Plus Lynn Anderson.

Mine had both of your, OP. Also Bitches Brew by Miles Davis and Nancy in London by Nancy Sinatra.

Englebert Humperdink and Patti Page.

Ugh!

My parents were squares!

[quote] Englebert Humperdink and Patti Page.

Interesting combo; as those two are from different eras.

From my earliest years, I remember the Evita soundtrack, Peter, Paul and Mary, Fleetwood Mac...I don't know about full albums. My mom often played a single song on repeat for hours.

My parents had the Herb Alpert and the Tiajuana Brass albums. I remember the album cover with the lady covered in whipped cream. We actually didn't live too far from Tiajuana at the time.

My early memories include Whipped Cream and Other Delights by Herb Alpert, The 1910 Fruitgum Company, and Ian Whitcomb's Mod Mod Music Hall. Later, with the advent of 8-track tape we got a cover album of Jesus Christ Superstar that became a favorite. After a lot of research I finally found a digital copy of that recording -oh, the memories it brought back!

Elvis

The Eagles

Bee Gees

Mamas and the Papas

Simon and Garfunkel

The Carpenters

Barry Manilow

At age five I learned my months off the Julie London Calendar Girl gatefold album cover, my older sister would quiz me.

Engelbert Humperdinck was my mom's absolute fave, followed by the Paint Your Wagon soundtrack.

She also played lots of comedy albums (remember those?) - Phyllis Diller, Tom Lehrer, George Carlin.

The ones I remember are Dion and The Belmonts, The Platters, The Dell Vikings and The Everly Brothers.

Gonna paint our wagon

Gonna paint it fine

Gonna use oil-based paint

Cos that wood is pine

(Ponderosa pine) whoo-hoo

Herb Alpert here too. Also Roy Orbison, Elvis and Johnny Cash.

Frampton Comes Live

Supertramp Breakfast in America

Urban Cowboy

OP, ha! My parents had "Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass: The Lonely Bull" and the "Whipped Cream" album. Plus the movie soundtrack to "Paint Your Wagon," Barbra's "The Way We Were" album (my father's favorite) and, at Christmas, "Mitch Miller's Christmas Album," "Montovani Christmas" and Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians' "The Sounds of Christmas."

My mother would put on the 1812 Overture, loud, when she wanted to send my father a message. Our Aunt Hildegard loved to sing in duet with Lee Marvin doing "I Was Born Under a Wandering Star," because her menopausal voice and all those Salems left her a Wagnerian basso.

My mother sang the Andrews Sisters catalogue but required no recorded accompaniment. Just the ones without Bing Crosby.

"Interesting combo; as those two are from different eras. "

As were my parents.

Gil Scott-Heron "Pieces of A Man" and anything Dionne Warwick.

Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.

Elvis Presley.

Tom Jones.

My mother liked to play a few of my sister's albums, to the point they gave her copies for our console stereo. I think America was one group.

They had an old Dinah Washington record I loved to play. I think it was my dad's or they got it as a wedding present.

Dad had a lot of Merle Haggard and the like but I have to giggle thinking about it - he was the straightest man alive (and still is) but had a few Streisand albums, a Cher album and yes, Judy. But he also liked Julie London, I think....so it was sort of more in that Playboy here's a few lady artists for a listen sort of style, I guess. He didn't listen to them too too often.

These are the albums that made up the soundtrack to drives to my grandmothers house & mountain house:

[quote]Prince - Purple Rain

[quote]Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA

[quote]Lionel Richie - Can't Slow Down

[quote]Lionel Richie - Dancing on the Ceiling

[quote]Stevie Wonder - In Square Circle

[quote]Steve Winwood - Roll With It

At home there was a lot of Prince, The Commodores, The Moody Blues and Sade.

The song I remember hearing the most is "Jesus is Love" by the Commodores, a local DJ played it every morning at the end of his show.

Evie - Gentle Moments

Evie - Mirror

Evie - Never The Same

People, people who need people....

Miss Streizand, as my father called her, all six of her first albums. Also Broadway show LPs like Hello Dolly and Cabaret. To straighten it out, he also played Tijuana Brass, Mitch Miller and Dean Martin. Sometimes Ella Fitzgerald, Sinatra. My mother loved the Supremes, but we had none of their records...I kept to myself and played Beatles.

My dad was cheap, so there was no stereo in the house. However, the stationwagon did have an 8-track player. There were only two eight-track cartridges: John Denver's Greatest Hits and Peter, Paul, and Mary's Greatest Hits.

Stan Getz - My parents were dancing fools. My mother loved Tchaikovsky ballets. And we heard a lot of Herb Alpert on the HiFi stereo which looked something like this:

I should mention that at Christmas, it was ALWAYS Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters. No Johnny Mathis or Andy Williams or Doris Day or even Miss Streizand.

2nd Chapter of Acts - Mansion Builder

Donna Fargo - Fucker Face

This.

They loved the messages Marcy would deliver to us when it was played backwards: "Satan is My Father, and The Year is One!" and "Turn Me On, Dead Man, Turn Me On."

My parents were probably much older than most responders here and still even played old 78s of the Big Bands and 40s era. Stuff no one even remembers like Dorothy Shay and the Park Avenue Hillbillies. But that damn Herb Alpert Whipped Cream album sure got around because that was one of their favorite new albums. I also remember Roger Miller and lots of Broadway musical albums.

My parents never listed to music themselves that I remember except classical and opera, and "Evita".

They did have a collection of folk music albums and musical recordings, though, from when they were younger. I would love listening especially to the latter: recordings of the songs from movie musicals ("The Music Man," "West Side Story," and "Carousel"), several OBC albums ("Damn Yankees," "Gypsy," and "My Fair Lady"), and studio recordings ("Annie Get Your Gun," with Robert Goulet and Doris Day, "Lady in the Dark" with Risë Stevens. and the original British concept albums for "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Evita").

It's not surprising to me that as an adolescent I listed mostly to Broadway and as an adult mostly to classical and opera. The folk music never interested me.

I remember my mother listening that Electric Avenue song over and over and over, often whilst cleaning/dancing around the house. Someone mentioned Prince and I remember her LOVING that song 'Cream.' Also she had a crush on the lead singer of INXS and I used to get grossed out when she talked about him.

Agree about anything by Tijuana Brass, OP. Also Sergio Franchi, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, etc. Funny thing growing up in the 1960s, your parents would buy and listen to stuff by groups like The Four Seasons, The Beach Boys, or The Supremes, or else Tom Jones. But your older teenaged siblings would NEVER be caught doing that. They were more into The Beatles, or Stones, Cream, Zappa, Grateful Dead, Johnny Winters Band, Mamas & Papas, and so on.

Father: The Andrew Sisters. Mother: Sinatra.

The ones I remember -

Dolly Parton-Whichever had that toe curler "Me and Little Andy" on it

Mac Davis-Baby, Dont Get Hooked.on Me

Olivia Newton John-Come on Over and If You Love Me, Let Me Know

Linda Ronstadt-Hasten Down The Wind and Simple Dreams

Emmylou Harris-Luxury Liner

Debbie Boone-You Light Up My Life

Donna Summer-On The Radio-Greatest Hits 1 and 2

All on 8 track of course. My dad had a bunch of Herb Alpert records among others but I dont think I ever saw him listen to them once.

Connie Francis: A Dark Stranger at the HoJo

Madonna: A Gang Bang of a Good Time

Lisa Hartman: Autotune Afternoons

Liza Minnelli: Ssshengians, Slurring, and Momma’s on. The Ssshitter.

Jennifer Lopez: Another Woman’s Voice (singing in this record)

Themi Lovato: They Call Me seutbglhoutveyzkfbr, Media Whore

Andrews Sisters Jo Ann Castle Teresa Brewer Mrs. Miller (ugh!) Herb Alpert

r40 your post made me chuckle and remember my mom also loved Prince. I probably took this post a little too literally when I first responded as I listed "albums" but Mom had some Prince and Aerosmith cassettes.

I remember coming home from school and seeing her vacuuming, dancing as Let's Go Crazy played in the background.

I almost died one day when she saw an Aerosmith video on MTV as several of my friends were visiting and she said, "Now, him....he could park his shoes under my bed!"

(For any of you who read the Christmas memories thread...this is one of many reasons why I miss her ❤️)

PS as someone who has searched hundreds of record stores, thrift shops and the like for vinyl albums over the last 5 years.....

Those Herb Alpert albums are in every one of them.

I saw Herb Alpert play in Palm Desert a few weeks before the pandemic hit. He was excellent. He had to sit for some of the show, but he sounded like he did decades ago.

He's eleventy years old!

I do like his stuff, as with Sergio Mendes' music, as well.

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass was so universally popular - confirmed again in this thread,

The Tijuana Brass was actually ALL Herb Alpert, he played all of the trumpets and it was filled in with studio musicians in the recording studio. The group was a fabrication as described by Alpert. Not that it matters much.

I didn't know he was Jewish, I always thought he was from Mexico. I also didn't know A&M records was Alpert & Moss. Herb is loaded.

Leon Russell played on the Tijuana Brass albums as well.

My parents were Columbia House members, so a lot of their records came from there.

They had a lot of hits collection:

Herb Alpert, The Supremes, and The Dave Clark 5 come to.mind.

They also had albums by The 4 Seasons, Jerry Vale, Tony Bennett, Sinatra, and most of Englebert Humperdinck.

There were also a LOT of Christmas albums: Johnny Mathis, 4 Seasons, and Mitch Miller

I remember an instrumental album titled Italian Guitars, and one by some Italian who had a song called The Telephone Song. (I think the singer's name was Nicola Pavone

My parents were obsessed with ABBA and Boney M and I used to sing along to those tapes all the time. Mom and dad, thanks for helping me realize I was gay even before my teenage years!

Not really in our home, but my dad went through some sort of weird mid-life crisis where he joined a record club and got all these cassettes to play in the car. I remember this live Donna Summer tape where Donna would go through these exaggerated moans for Love to Love You Baby, as well as the Silver Convention Greatest Hits tape with naked ladies on the cover covering their boobs with their hands. Several of the Silver Convention's songs had very suggestive lyrics (which were also easy to remember, since most of their songs had simple, repetitive lyrics), and my mother wasn't impressed when we would sing them in the car.

My father took off to Indonesia to work for 9 months and my mother had an affair with a man who would soon become my stepfather. She handed him divorce papers at the airport when he flew back to the States. After my stepfather and mother married, it was either Crystal Gayle's or Roger Whitaker's greatest hits in the car, all the time. It was excruciating. My father got the last laugh when he bought a new Porsche with a kick-ass Blaupunkt stereo where he would play the Police's Synchronicity and popular radio during our visitations.

Bonus story: My sister had the cassette single for "I Want Your Sex", which she left in the car. When it started playing during a trip to the store, my other sister, aged 8, started singing along and got into trouble for it.

Jim Croce, Harry Chapin and the Eagles. A lot of James Taylor.

We had 8 tracks in my home. (Yeah, I know.)

Neil Diamond - Stones Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden Tammy Wynette - Apartment #9 Anne Murray - Snowbird Charley Pride - Kiss an Angel Good Morning Soundtrack to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (which always terrified me)

We listened to a lot of Fucker face I love you. Fucker face I need you….

Elvis, Johnny Cash, Judds, anything gospel and country.

Saturday was cleaning day and my father would pile about 6 LPs on the stereo that we listened to while we worked. The soundtracks from Man of La Mancha and Fiddler on the Roof were always played along with Perry Como, Sergio Franchi and Sinatra.

R59 did you listen to Fucker Face?

A shit ton of opera. And Neil Diamond. And The Fifth Dimension, the Woodstock Album, the Beatles, Glenn Campbell.

My father didn’t listen to records but my mother had all of the Streisand and Nancy Wilson albums from the 60’s and Garlands A Star is Born soundtrack album, Jack Jones.

CDs and depended on the parent.

My dad listened to a lot of 80s New Wave and 90s alt, so Squeeze, Clash, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lemonheads

My mom was more into Joni Mitchell (Hissing of Summer Lawns was a big one) and REM

While they get along well, they each mocked each other's music--my dad thought my mother's music was sappy "chick" music and she thought all the Chili Peppers songs sounded the same.

Oddly enough the one album they agreed on was the soundtrack from Pulp Fiction which got played in the car as a compromise a lot--it came out when I was 10 I think. At one point I could recite the whole "Royale With Cheese" bit by heart. (See link)

This is a better link to the Pulp Fiction soundtrack

[quote]she thought all the Chili Peppers songs sounded the same

You're mom was right, r64. Under The Bridge is the only properly good RHCP song.