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Who do you credit for your love of mucic?

For me, it was my Mom. When I was a kid @ 6-7 years old, she had a nice, small 78rpm player in the living room and a stack of records. I used to get up early in the morning and quietly play Frank Sinatra, Al Jolson, Perry Como, Jo Stafford and the big bands. My Mom made it a point to take me to every musical movie she could. Man, I reveled in Dan Daily, Fred Astaire, Doris Day, Carmen Miranda and Xavier Cugart. Then there was The Wizard of Oz, Snow White, and all of the cartoons that featured really good music at the time.

At one point in my childhood (circa 1941-1943), my Mom worked at a concession down at the beach in Ocean Park (right next to Santa Monica). There was a dance hall across the boardwalk that featured the big bands of the time. I'd walk over there and sit at the door listening to the greats like the Dorsey Brothers. Yes, it was during WWII ... and I was just a tyke, but even then I was in love with music. The shame of I all? I have absolutely NO musical talent other than being an accomplished listener.
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czarivey
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None of my parents or relatives ever shown any interest in music at all...
I had my 2 main toys: phonograph and 1/8 accordion(post WW2 trophey). So I was listening to phonograph, then playing accordion what I listened in phonograph. I was finding records from deserted homes, garbage, some neighbors would just give it to me when my grandma asked if there are any around. When phonograph failed, I was able to listen by spining records with finger at constant speed. When I tried to fix the spring, it jumped out of casing ceiling high and I couldn't put it together. I was so upset for long time so my dad bought me tube console finally watching me play accordion he had no idea how to retrieve the sound from :-)
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theo
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God and his participation in the development of the human ear. Along with being the youngest of seven in a house of Elvis fans and my sisters records. Also I have a neighbor that bought "seemingly at the time" every R&R record known to mankind. We listened for hours and I thnk back on how poorly he treated those records...Argggh! The equipment started with my first portable record player that some may remember had the speaker between the platter and tonearm. What a catastrophe of design that was! The speaker vibrating the record as it played. Once I was smart enough to wire a headphone jack and listen it just kept getting better with each new piece of equipment. But in the end, it has to be the ears:)
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tostadosunidos
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Brian Wilson. His compositions and arrangements got me listening more and more deeply than I would have imagined possible before.
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