Would Never Have Guessed That.

[Barsel]

I asked my 7yr old Granddaughter yesterday who her favourite singer is.
Thinking she was going to say someone I'd never heard of, I couldn't believe it when she said Stevie Wonder!
Thought I'd heard her wrong but she confirmed that's who she meant and went on to name quite a few of his songs.
Also, she likes The Beatles too and asked me to sing Help with her.
It was good fun, but I was surprised at her choices.

[Barsel]

bobbinwales //At 7 we're very influenced in music tastes by are parents.//

Absolutely, but only my Mum, I don't remember my Dad being interested in music.
We had a piano on which Mum could play anything by ear so she loved Russ Conway, Winifred Atwell ,Mrs Mills and Liberace.
When rock n roll came out she tut tutted , but when I begged her to take me to the cinema to see Elvis in Blue Hawaii she absolutely fell in love with him!
Like your Mum Chris, my Mum also loved classical music but she especially liked Straus and her wish was always to go to Vienna for the New Years Eve Concert but unfortunately that never happened.
I am really grateful to my Mum for giving me a love of all different types of music and for renting a wireless from Redifusion that I had in my bedroom so I could listen to Radio Luxemburg and if I remember right, the top twenty on a Sunday night.

[Buenchico]

My mum didn't love classical music, Barsel. (She did little more than tolerate it). It was my dad who was fanatic about it.

However my mother was the Hyacinth Bucket of our estate, who always tried to be 'posh'. (She'd been 'in service' for a Harley Street doctor; everything in our house had to be done "as they did it in the big house").

Listening to classical music was, in her opinion, definitely 'posh', whereas listening to rock and roll was strictly only for 'common' people, whom she totally despised. (That was despite the fact that she'd been born in England's poorest borough, Limehouse, and that we lived on a council estate. As far as she was concerned, our family was very far from 'common').

[Barsel]

Chris your Mum sounds like mine, she was definitely another version of Hyacinth. Although my Mum didn't change the pronunciation of our name, she always made sure it was spelt right and she would always point that out to anyone who put an e instead of an a.
'Err it's an a actually!' said in quite a posh voice.
Also, she was a churchgoer so was on good terms with the vicar there.
My Mum was 'in service' to a wealthy family who had one time been the Mayor and Lady Mayoress and when my Mum had her photo taken with the then Bishop of Manchester, it was enlarged and framed and in a very prominent position in her living room.
Despite all this, I was very proud of my Mum and loved her to bits.