I was used to Mitch Miller and Julie Andrews and
classical music. Remember the Reader’s Digest Classics?
That’s the music I was raised on. We weren’t allowed to
listen to the radio. It didn’t hurt us. I’m a 70’s
generation baby, but I feel more like a 40’s baby.
You don’t need to go to pby isle...you were born and raised there!! :)
You said — “ was used to Mitch Miller and Julie Andrews an classical music. Remember the Reader’s Digest Classics? That’s the music I was raised on. We weren’t allowed to listen to the radio. It didn’t hurt us. I’m a 70’s generation baby, but I feel more like a 40’s baby.”
Yeah, with that music, I would guess you would feel like a 40’s baby... :-)
Actually, my mother and father got my brother and I a radio, pretty early in our lives. And also, they got a TV very quickly, too — when TV was relatively brand new. The reason for that is that my parents were deaf and so, I (in particular) had no exposure to “talking” people. I had to be taken out of my home for about a year (over to my mother’s sister’s home and family) and taught how to talk. I knew sign language, but not speech. Therefore, a radio and TV was thought (by them) to be a sort of “tool” to learn (and keep learning) how to talk.
My mother and father were in a deaf church, so you can imagine there was not much “talking” (the speaking kind) going on there. And all their friends were deaf. So, there it was. My first language was ASL (American Sign Language) and my second language was English. I still slip back into an ASL type syntax, sometimes in my typing and talking, and so it makes some things sound strange. Plus, I’ll catch a pure ASL phrase in typing and I’ll have to correct it. Anyway, that was my exposure to the “hearing world” — through radio and TV.
Say..., do you remember, or have you ever heard of the Singing Nun — Soeur Sourire (or Jeannine Deckers)? That’s a good album. It hit the charts way back then, and it was sung in French. It was popular for a while. She’s dead now, but, at least her music lives on.
http://www.famousbelgians.net/deckers.htm
The tune for Dominique (not the words) play here on this web site, when you first access it —
And there’s an actual sample of the song, Dominique, on this Amazon web page, scroll down for the songs...
http://www.amazon.com/Singing-Nun-Soeur-Sourire/dp/B00000I9FP
I always liked that one, and that was the big hit...
Regards,
Star Traveler