My parents records were entirely classical (including some opera) and Broadway shows.
I listened to them quite a lot when I was growing up, and indeed I still like classical and musicals to this day, though I don’t listen to those genres exclusively anymore.
But my childhood was kind of weird, musically speaking. I don’t think I listened to much pop music at all until I was maybe twelve years old. We simply never had it at our house.
My Folks had a lot of albums I love, and when the moved to Florida a few years ago, I got a bunch of them, Harry Chapin, Vivaldi, George Carlin.
But my favorite is my Mom’s Bookends album. I inherited the poster in it long before I got the Album, and I still have both!
Yeah, it’s pretty badass. But that little duh-duh-duh-da-duh-duh-duh thing in double octaves isn’t too bad and probably could get you a time share in somewhere not good if you play it for the right people.
Most of the rest of it is just awful to play – all the arpeggiated octaves in RH. Not good. Not good for anyone. Love the music, but Liszt was a sick asshole, pretty much, or a giant raging egoman.
Sorry I said that about Liszt – he was one of the most deserving-of-accolades composers, IMHO. It’s true he was a raging asshole about writing stuff almost nobody could reasonably play. Yeah, yeah, Alkan and everybody else who wrote difficult things = teh suxxor. But Liszt was, dare I say it, “transcendent.”
Great comedy stuff- Bill Cosby’s “Wonderfulness” and “Bill Cosby is a very funny fellow: Right!”, Flip Wilson’s “Cowboys and Colored People” and “You Devil You”, Bob Newhart’s “The Buttoned Down Mind Strikes Back”, Lily Tomlin’s “This Is A Recording”, Rowan & Martin’s “The Humor of Rowan & Martin”. But my prize record is one my mom got from her dad- Benny Goodman’s 1938 Carnegie Hall concert. One of the best gifts I ever got for my mom was finding the Carnegie Hall concert on CD for her.