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
Wow! I had a friend in High School (Up With People)
who had deaf parents. His first language was also ASL.
Because he didn’t use his vocal chords, his voice changed
later than most boys. Did you have that too?
The other day I was at a flea market and came so close
to buying the album of “The Singing Nun”. The cover was
beautiful, but I really liked her music and the way she
sang. I remember Dominique. I think that’s why I took
French in High School.
You’re pretty interesting ST.