Q: What kinds of music did you listen to? Did you have any favorite artists?
A: "folk" rock: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Harry Chapin, James Taylor,The Eagles, Beach music; "Contemporary" Christian: B J Thomas
Q: When did you listen to music? What activities were you involved with as you listened to music?
A: Always in the car and in my room as a teenager as I "studied" or just hanging out with my friends or brothers
A: Always in the car and in my room as a teenager as I "studied" or just hanging out with my friends or brothers
Q: Were any of your family members professional musicians? If so, who and what did they do?
A: No even though they might say they were
Q: What sort of concerts did you attend?
A: The Eagles, Bob Dylan, Contemporary Christian artists
Q: What kind of music inspired you?
A: Contemporary Christian without a doubt
Q: What do you think of contemporary popular music like you might find on the radio?
A: A lot of it is just noise to me but some I like
Q: How do you react to your children’s choice of music?
A: Some of it I like
Q: Were their any songs that had special meaning to you?
A: I remember listening to Desperado by The Eagles as a teenager when I was lonely
Q: What was your earliest childhood memory that involved music?
A: My Daddy singing "Three Little Fishies" in the car "boop boop dittem dattem what-tem Chu". He would also sing to wake us up sometimes.
Q: Do you remember any particular dances that you danced?
A: Line dancing, electric slide, the "bump"
Q: What sort of music did you learn in school? In church?
A: Patriotic songs and since I was in parochial school, hymns; typical hymns and some folk
Q: How has your musical taste changed or evolved throughout your life?
A: Amazed by the words to some of the songs that I sang as a teen that I wouldn't allow my kids to sing!
Q: Have you been exposed to music outside your own culture?
A: Not really..but in my early 20's contemporary Christian music was new and helped me to form many of the values I live by today. Most of the Christian music I had heard before was stiff, sacred music.
Q: How did that affect your own musical tastes?
A: I began to listen to almost exclusively contemporary Christian and it helped lay the foundation for my beliefs.
Q: Who inspired you to listen to music?
A: My father and then my brothers..then after I became a Christian, peers who listened to contemporary Christian
Q: What did your parents listen to?
A: Andy Williams is the only artist I can remember, but they also loved to dance and enjoyed jazz.
Q: Did you ever play an instrument or sing?
A: Clarinet and then sang in choir
Q: What technology did you have to listen to or make music?
A: Transistor radios, record player, cassettes and 8 track
Q: How longs did popular trends last when you were younger?
A: Not sure, didn't recognize them as "trends" when they were happening--I guess a couple of year
My mom listened to a lot of rock music too when she was younger. I like that your mom's taste in music and changed with her faith as well.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you learned some new things about your mother, Lydia. This is the second blog I've read where the interviewee specifically mentioned the Eagles "Desperado." I like that song a good bit as well, but I'm more fond of Linda Rondstadt's version. And I remember the "Three Little Fishies" song as sung by mother, too!
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