Reminds me also that when I was a kid (early 60s), my mom drove us to school and would sing along with the radio, which was always tuned to “awful” easy listening stations. But imagine my surprise when I started getting into jazz in college and knew all the tunes! Polka Dots and Moonbeams?? Autumn Leave…
Reminds me also that when I was a kid (early 60s), my mom drove us to school and would sing along with the radio, which was always tuned to “awful” easy listening stations. But imagine my surprise when I started getting into jazz in college and knew all the tunes! Polka Dots and Moonbeams?? Autumn Leaves?? Springtime in Paris?? Those and a million other tunes were my mom’s inadvertent gift to me.
But also classical music. One of my first classical LPs was Stravinsky’s Firebird and Petroushka Suites with L. Stokowski. (Which I still have.) I had no idea about the composer, just loved the music and listened to it all the time - at 6-7. A lot later in college, these two pieces were on the roster of works we heard in Music Lit 101. I remember bursting into tears because of the intense feelings from my childhood they evoked.
OMG “The Train and The River” Yes!!
Reminds me also that when I was a kid (early 60s), my mom drove us to school and would sing along with the radio, which was always tuned to “awful” easy listening stations. But imagine my surprise when I started getting into jazz in college and knew all the tunes! Polka Dots and Moonbeams?? Autumn Leaves?? Springtime in Paris?? Those and a million other tunes were my mom’s inadvertent gift to me.
But also classical music. One of my first classical LPs was Stravinsky’s Firebird and Petroushka Suites with L. Stokowski. (Which I still have.) I had no idea about the composer, just loved the music and listened to it all the time - at 6-7. A lot later in college, these two pieces were on the roster of works we heard in Music Lit 101. I remember bursting into tears because of the intense feelings from my childhood they evoked.