Do you recall your parents first words when a sibling brought Beatles music home to play on the record player?

Question

My Mother's exact words were, "You are not playing that on my hi-fi! I think the song was: "A Hard Day's Night"

Answer 1

Ah Ha we must be about the same age. I was told it was of the devil. He He i wonder what they would think of today's music....

Answer 2

Actually we saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan for the first time. My entire family was gathered around the TV. My parents liked the music. I remember my mother saying she thought Paul was handsome. My mother went out and bought the album for me! And also bought me a Beatles Button too! The album was Meet the Beatles.

In 1964 I was 13 and my "greatest generation" parents were 41 and 45. But they were really cool! I remember my Dad loved "Herman's Hermits", he loved the song "Mrs Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter". They never minded listening to my music.

That was a wonderful moment indeed!

Answer 3

My parents were always game. they let us kids control the TV. All 4 of us watched the Beatles first appearance on Ed Sullivan. In fact, my dad knew how much it meant to my older sister, and he got out the polaroid land camera, and did a few screen captures, a few decades before anyone had ever heard that term. They were tolerant. Very nice about it.

On the other hand, they wouldn't let me let my hair grow like the Beatles, which I begged for. Can't win 'em all.

Answer 4

My mother said that the music from the Beatles was phenomenal. Indeed, they have "witnessed" the popularity of this statement even to this day. Everyone else who heard the Beatles felt the same way. They also loved the "hairstyle" that was quite different. Peace, Love and God Bless.

Answer 5

I bought home a little 45 RPM of "She Loves You" and my mothers EXACT first words were----give me that damn piece of crap.... I had to hand it to her and she broke it in a thousand pieces... to which I went out and bought another one the very next day....and only played it when she wasn't home---which was easy because she worked...but one day she got mad at me for playing my old record player (NOT the Beatles song--it was a Beach Boy song I was listening to) and she came into my room, grabbed the old DISH DRAINER that I used to put my records on and tossed it full of 45's across the room... (she was a little High strung)...

Answer 6

hiya! In some techniques none and in some techniques tonnes: customarily I grew up with thoroughly diverse tastes from my father and mom. Even interior of comparable genres, like united states, they beloved greater western types and that i beloved bluegrass. at last, I grew to savour or perhaps like multiple the music they enjoyed, in spite of the undeniable fact that it took a on the same time as and that i additionally realised it replaced into long when I left dwelling house that my tastes developed as such. on the same time as i replaced into in close proximity to them, I prevented particularly lots something they beloved. Which, in turn, formed my listening behavior early on. I listened to issues like Anthony Braxton, King crimson, John Cage, sunlight Ra, and that bluegrass i discussed above in step with danger at the start just to be diverse from them. a minimum of in a small sense. of direction, i comprehensive up loving this music and that i in no way regarded back! I nonetheless hear to those forms of issues and those artists, between others, presented me to a extensive variety of latest musical studies and helped formulate the music lover and performer i'm at present. those artists and my father and mom (in that inverse opposite psychology sense) additionally formed my profession as an ethnomusicologist, a traveling performer, an device builder, and particularly lots all different factors of my musical existence. Sorry if I rambled. That replaced right into a exciting question, nonetheless! Cheers!

Answer 7

i'm 53 so Mom was like 26 when the Beatles came along, so she was pretty cool with them.
But when Led Zep and Black Sabbath came along she was left in the dust.
i can't wait to see the other answers. providing we have some of us elderly still alive to answer it! FINE question!
lol

Answer 8

"That's not music..let's listen to some Frank Sinatra".

My dad said that. Now he appreciates the Beatle's music after all these years,

Answer 9

We heard that there was this band of boys from England on the news, then on Ed Sullivan. We weren't impressed....and we thought the Edsel was great.

Answer 10

This is a question I am unable to answer truthly.If I did it would either be deleted by yahoo or collect violation notices like mad!