FReeper Canteen ~ Tunes For The Troops! ~ 20 July 2013

Just wanted to say thank you for your help with the song.

Drumbo I think you may be right with the Kingston Trio. I forgot about them, but when you mentioned them I remembered my folks had a couple of their albums.

I'm curious, do you remember what your parent liked to listen to? Dad was a big Patsy Cline fan, Mom was the one who bought the Hootenanny album. I think she also had Jay & the Americans, the Kingston Trio, and the Sound of Music.

It's funny but my parents were not big music fans when I was growing up. My own collection of albums dwarfed theirs by the time I was ten. Dad listened to two or three Chet Atkins records on weekends lying on the floor in front of our huge console stereo in the Living Room (which was sort of an off limits room unless someone died or the preacher visited, lol). I recall his favorite track was "Freight Train". He wore the grooves out on that album (which I still have). If he was in a particular spunky mood he played a box set of "The Band I Heard In Tijuana" which was a knock-off of the songs of The Tijuana Brass and a Henry Mancini compilation with "Pink Panther" and "Baby Elephant Walk". The only things he had that were even remotely popular was "The Return of Roger Miller" with "King Of The Road" and "Do-Wacka-Do" and "Meet Claude King" with "Wolverton Mountain" and "Big River, Big Man."

Mom had a few albums by the likes of Ray Conniff and Percy Faith (especially the Theme to "A Summer Place"), as well as some Tennessee Ernie Ford and Walter Brennan (I think I wore out her "Old Rivers" album).

Most of our "family" LPs were Christmas themed with the exception of a few soundtracks like "Sound of Music" and "Doctor Zhivago". When I got older (and my own album collection had grown to many hundreds), I discovered that mom had been a Perry Como fan in her youth and had a collection of 30 or 40 old 78's in the attic. When I was in the Navy in the 70s, I found an autographed promo picture of Perry in a memorabilia store and I had it framed and gave it to her one year on her birthday. She treasured it until she passed away in 2006.

I have so many! Anything from George Jones, He stopped loving her today. To Gary Allen, Today.

Garth Brooks The Dance gets me every time...
Trish Yearwood, I would have loved you anyway...
Travis Tritt, Here’s a quarter! lol
Tim McGraw, Just to see you smile, and so many more
Chris Young, The man I want to be
Easton Corbin, A little more country than that
Josh Turner, Would you go with me
Vince Gill, just about anything, I simply enjoy his music that much!

There is so many more, there is little I don’t like, other than the really new country ie. Taylor Swift, her stuff is for kids really, imho.

How about you?!

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