You Are by gary a. mcmahon on #SoundCloud
I find that most of us are to some degree fans of our parents’ music because that was what we listened to as children. I remember my father not being very impressed with the Beatles when they played on Ed Sullivan here in the States.
No, he was, first and foremost, an Eddy Arnold fan. “Make the world go away….” Part of it was loyalty as Eddy Arnold played a show for the U.S. Air Force while dad was serving and waiting to get shipped to Korea. He was fond of other crooners too though….Andy Williams, Perry Como types. Didn’t seem to care for Sinatra much, but that was probably because my grandfather believed Frank Sinatra to be basically a gangster and a bully. Funny thing, I ended up not being much of Sinatra fan too, but loved Eddy Arnold, Andy Williams, and Perry Como- those silky voiced guys.
The song I posted here, You Are, was my feeble attempt a few years ago to pay homage to the singers of my childhood (before The Beatles became my Fab Four!).
(Low production values, I was just sort of making up the music on the fly – but you get the idea. Sort of what you would get if you mixed Eddy Arnold with Neil Young, minus the talent!)
Another Picture On The Wall 
I have a very diverse taste in music, the Beatles/a variety of rock and roll, Perry Como, Dean Martin, Harry Connick, Michael Buble etc. I never liked Frank Sinatra, his voice was average, but he had the support of his cronies in the mafia, (I watched a documentary that included the “rat pack’s” close affiliation with the Mafia)….My parents tolerated my music as long as I kept the volume down. Your attempt with “You Are” is a very nice homage to a type of music that will always be iconic, fine vocals too.
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Thank you Laura. Man, you didn’t even want to mention Frank Sinatra around my grandfather. Whoa Nellie! He’d tell stories about Sinatra hitting on a married woman while she was having dinner with her husband – although I am certain grandpa did eat at the same establishments as Sinatra. Nope, no Sinatra albums in our homes. My very earliest independent choices were the Everly Brothers, Ricky Nelson, Johnny Horton, Roy Orbison and then came folk withThe Brothers Four, Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul, and Mary. But that all changed with the Beatles. Now, I get a little fatigue with all the Beatles promotions. Love Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, Joni Mitchell and I thought Grace Slick was one on the finest vocalist of any era and genre. Love Paul Simon too. Oh yeah, I like Rosanne Cash a lot too. I played my Herman Hermits album 4 million times too as a kid along with Gary Lewis and the Playboys!
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Did not eat….
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Oh man, I saw Peter Noone, BJ Thomas etc. at a street concert, I did see Paul McCartney and Wings, the Doobie Brothers, Huey Lewis and the News and I loved the Dave Clark 5, but my very first concert was The Association (I loved their harmony,) on my 16th birthday, one I’ll never forget. Linda Ronstadt, Carly Simon, Judy Collins and yes Grace Slick we’re just part of the line up. I also liked Whitney Houston and her cousin Dionne Warwick , oh yeah I had all of Gary Lewis and the Playboy’s albums, I wore those pretty thin.
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My love for the Beatles has always been pretty high but Paul McCartney’s song writing has weakened over the years, when they parted I really loved George Harrison, his son not only looks like him but has his father’s about to write and sound like him. Ringo is also a big favorite. I watched all the episodes of Get Back, with their iconic rooftop concert, I loved it, it was great, I’ll always love the Beatles, in my opinion they changed the face of rock and roll music, they were music rebels. My son grew up with them, he loves them too of course he loves heavy metal, not in my wheelhouse at all.
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The crooners were part of my childhood as well. Once the Beatles came along, we kids barely listened to anything else.
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My earliest TV memories were of Perry Como and Andy Williams. But my era was defined by the Beatles, I never liked the Rolling Stones for some undefinable reason, though millions did. My first 45 rpm I ever bought was “Wipeout” by the Safaries, though I came to like their flip side even better “The Legions last/lost Patrol”. I turned to classical music and opera in the late sixties. I was on a school trip to Rome when I saw Aida staged in the outdoor colosseum, and upon returning to England I immediately purchased 33 rpm of famous arias etc. Then again I like Burl Ives, Pete Seeger, Johnny Cash, Everley Bros etc.etc.etc.
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And then came the 8 track tapes which sometimes might split a song in half! Followed up with the always stretchable cassette tapes which required a sharp pencil to try to rewind it back in. Today, entire albums are rarely listened to unless it is put out by Taylor Swift. (That was some school trip – to Rome!)
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