Records your mother listened to in the seventies.

Prompted by reading the 33 1/3 Court & Spark book.

Speculation allowed.

Janis Ian - Between The Lines
Bread - The Sound Of Bread
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
Dr Hook - Best Of

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/k/kris-kristofferson-rita-coolidge/album-breakaway.jpg
and stuff like this

Rita Coolidge was hawt.

Carole King - Tapestry

Bad Company - Bad Company

Sky - Sky 2

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/Abba-The_album-f_20060816053854.jpg

all moms otm

man, now I really want to hear "I'm a marionette"

Wow. These are records I listened to in the 70's. How did I slip in here?

http://images.wikia.com/lyricwiki/images/e/e9/The_Manhattan_Transfer_-_The_Manhattan_Transfer_-_Live.jpg

Joan Baez - Come From The Shadows
John Fahey Xmas album
Meg Christian - I Know You Know
Dalglish/Larsen - Banish Misfortune
Randy Newman - Sail Away

Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life
Wings At The Speed Of Sound
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell
Neil Diamond - Moods
Barbara Streisand - Superfly

Woops, I got two BS records mixed up.

Barbara Streisand - Butterfly
Barbara Streisand - Streisand Superman

lol

http://www.israbox.com/uploads/posts/2011-05/1305385793_001b7288.jpeg

oh man my mother loved that.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rWbrnXYgdB8/SKmEQ6HvchI/AAAAAAAACco/IbmcxQpzZnY/s400/heart_dreamboat.gif

http://image.lyricspond.com/image/p/artist-paul-simon/album-paul-simon/cd-cover.jpg

http://im4.ebidst.com/upload_big/7/4/2/1264937064-6734-0.jpg

oh lol

http://991.com/newGallery/Steeleye-Span-All-Around-My-Hat-77982.jpg

every john denver album available
also some gordon lightfoot and arlo guthrie

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CpkwoK6vflM/TCLUA9czplI/AAAAAAAAAuk/FS7ads-_yLg/s320/Boz%2BScaggs%2B-%2BSilk%2BDegrees%2B(1976).jpg

kristofferon, don mclean and john prine iirc

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/w/willie-nelson/album-stardust.jpg

Sky - Sky 2

Was just discussing this last night, how every thirty-something's parents owned a copy which they don't remember them listening to at all

My mother was not really one for pop music, but she expressed some fondness for Joni Mitchell and John Denver once, and had the sheet music book of the Greatest Hits of Simon and Garfunkel (but strangely not the record as far as I know).

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc000/c047/c047981q3s6.jpg

both parents loved this

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uT_dUy8HhA0/SphPgATL4HI/AAAAAAAAAxA/EcqBjFfoqKE/s400/Chic-Chic.jpg

Another vote for Tapestry. Throw in Rod Stewart's Every Picture Tells A Story and Bob Marley's Exodus.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jJAG_tiB6jQ/S-mgYnWy8gI/AAAAAAAADbo/Cf491xbEU_w/s1600/Gary-Glitter-Touch-Me+LP.jpg

Yeah, Tapestry and Court & Spark likely owns this thread.

Pretty much every major Rod Stewart release from the 70's
Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
The Rolling Stones - Goat's Head Soup
Alice Cooper - School's Out

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/8fbf4d578e1d9532860ed7e30a432bed/260373.jpg

http://www.musicobsession.com/Pictures/s/o/soundtrack409472.jpg

stuff i can recall from her record collection

cat stevens - teaser and the firecat
fleetwood mac - rumours
the beatles - abbey road

... more i forget

seeing that foster and allen cover made me think of these guys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qv1DhdPAS8

I'm not sure if my mom listened to any music in the 70s, but we lived across the street from a guy who was a roadie for Willie Nelson, so we had a bunch of Willie stuff in our house in the late 70s.

i feel like a mother now.

Barbara Streisand - Superfly

http://www.jakezim.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/i-love-your-mom.jpg

lol, that's Superman, not Barbra's obscure blaxploitation soundtrack!

http://www.chartstats.com/images/artwork/26255.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl-xf22r5j4

Saturday night fever soundtrack
Jefferson starship - red octopus
Tower of power - s/t

My mum really didn't listen to music much, apart from this :

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/That_Was_The_Year_That_Was.jpg

and some Flanders & Swann albums.

Wot no Carpenters...

Just realised that Sky 2 was 1980, and I certainly have no recollection of anybody listening to it.

My mom's record collection is mostly made up of Jackson 5 and Osmonds. Yes, all group and solo albums.

ABBA - Arrival
Gene Pitney
The Righteous Brothers
Charley Pride
The Seekers
Peter Paul & Mary
John Denver

lots of joni judy joan joanie james
carole carly cat carlos

joni, csny, carole king, west side story.

I asked my mom about this over the phone and she said in the 1970s she "didn't believe in music." ??!??

Dan Fogelberg!

This is funny, my mom liked oldies, still listened to fifties and sixties music in the seventies.

My mother used to listen to Cliff Richard and the Shadows but I think this was only because I used to buy her the records. This was her (or my) favourite:

http://991.com/NewGallery/The-Shadows-String-Of-Hits---238648.jpg

Would like to pick up the phone and ask her like Abbbottt did but she passed away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-c_p6J9u_g

Mom has taste.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyG2nlFGSPQ

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/616CMj7dDxL._SS500_.jpg

That is such an awesome album cover

Captain & Tennille
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3459/3183226854_94241b3d23.jpg

I like to think that the two bulldogs did all the singing

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f*ck.
i'm the only person who grew up to the soundtrack of never ending sh*te

[they too had all the sky albums .. wft was that all about !]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LNH9iIM9I8I/TD5x1BXuHbI/AAAAAAAADho/PvjGxyVB07g/s1600/ndishot.jpg

http://blog.iso50.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/4865961481_9a415899a6_o.jpg

http://991.com/newGallery/Fats-Domino-The-Very-Best-Of-411718.jpg

My mum was a teenager through most of the 70s, she told me the kids at her school divided into 3 main camps for music, you either liked T-Rex, Led Zeppelin or Gary Glitter. Sadly she plumped for the latter.

Apart from that all I can think of from the 70s in her record collection was a soul compilation that was pretty good, a Middle Of The Road 7", and a Nilsson LP. She had a couple of Genesis and Police records but I think they were early 80s ones.

Gilbert O'Sullivan
John Denver
Rod Stewart
Janis Ian

^ based on the lps in the rack

the singles were hidden away and were a better mix and quality.

she also thinks she saw the beatles, but can't remember!

The 70s were my mother's 20s. She didn't hear much pop music until she went to university in 1969, because she didn't have a radio and my nan turned it off if any came on. Surprised she didn't hear any at friends' houses or the cinema, but anyway, that's what she says.

I think she had a vague dabbling with the Mitchell/Baez strain of folk at university, bought the flowery dresses and the acoustic guitar and I remember her playing "Both Sides Now" on the piano occasionally during my childhood a decade later (other occasional piano songs included "Windmills of your Mind"), but apparently she didn't buy any records until the 70s mini-fad of lite interpretations of the famous bits of classical music, e.g.

File under "like Sky 2, but did actually get pulled out from time to time" (possibly only for my amusement): Tomita - Snowflakes are Dancing
http://i078.radikal.ru/0810/76/8048861ee726.jpg

I guess my mother bought the Sky album because she was pretty into John Williams (where "pretty into" means "owned one record by; played it every couple of years")
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff297/pingu2541/Database/100_1396.jpg

and James Galway and his terrifying beard
http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-150-2041179-1264109727.jpeg

My mother was first and foremost a 60s girl. Stuff she enjoyed in the 70s included "Bridge Over Troubled Water", but also a lot of left-wing Norwegian singer-songwriters.

surely i wasn't alone in having to endure this one over and over and over again

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61sLqjtBXaL.jpg

I actually thought it was an 80s release, so was going to create a new thread, but it seems to have been released at the end of the 70s, so qualifies for this thread !

Yeah, Tapestry and Court & Spark likely owns this thread.

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when I was maybe 13 I started idly going through my mum+stepdad's LPs and the one that interested me the most was Court & Spark, because I'd just got a cheap Guns N' Roses biog out of the library in which it said that Slash's mum did the artwork

My dad LOVED that Lloyd Webber album. My mum liked Bread, Wings, Rod Stewart, Rolling Stones, Linda Ronstadt, Barbara Dixon, Gerry Rafferty, James Fucking Taylor, Simon & Garfunkel and the Beatles' Let It Be.

http://991.com/newGallery/Dr-Strangely-Strange-Kip-Of-The-Serene-450284.jpg

this goes for pretty sweet money iirc and is probably the kvltest thing my mum was into I guess - she seemed to be into most of the big hitters of Britfolk's LSD munching set tho

HOLY CRAP! VARIATIONS! YES!

Wow @ Dr Strangely Strange. Weirdest thing in my parents' collection was proggy stuff like Man and Gentle Giant.

http://npknet.com/images/Jackvynil/1232albums196.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3D4uW44cDSw/TQfUOVtTQzI/AAAAAAAAH3Q/s-Bv44xS1xA/s400/LP%2BNew%2BChristy%2BMinstrels%2BRamblin.jpg

http://www.recordsale.org/cdpix/a/al_hirt._boston_pops._arthur_fiedler-pops_goes_the_trumpet.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vh1wX-tAL.jpg

Most mysterious collection my mother had:

http://beatlesblogger.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/bangladesh-008.jpg

And opening up the booklet inside and seeing all those pictures of Leon Russell just threw me off more.

Mom just listened to the Bob Dylan sides.

Ha! That one was prominently present in my mum 'n dad's collection as well! Always was impressed when opening the box, felt like something to be treated with the utmost care. The item, the music not so much tbh.

don't recognize the Sky 2 LP. UK? in the US we had this

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/HookedonClassicsv1.jpg

my mom was mostly a passive listener, the stereo was dad's domain and much of the same as the rest here w/o rock (lots of Bread and Jim Croce). we had a 8-track in the van and they belonged to Columbia House

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5219/5474310591_d71579f572.jpg

pretty sure this is my mum's soul comp:

http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-546822-1204908110.jpeg

The Eagles - greatest hits
Some Don Mclean comp
T Rex - The Slider
Some Bread album
Dark Side Of The Moon
Loads of ex-jukebox 45's that they used to sell cheap in newsagents. From memory Elvis, The Strawbs, Nick Lowe, the theme from Convoy, Ricky Nelson and Slade.

I found this last time I was home, forgot what a lovely tune it is too!

http://i59.tinypic.com/2h4jnr9.jpg

http://cdn.discogs.com/zor0x2mN1cgFEAWpQ21lcOX5CfA=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-257820-1347887030-5243.jpeg.jpg

http://www.getmusic.com.au/store/media/catalog/product/cache/2/image/500x500/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/j/u/judy-collins-a-maid-of-constant-sorrow-4208002-1413747588.jpg

http://www.shakedownrecords.com/images/A/VRS105_25.jpg

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/928/MI0001928038.jpg
http://cdn3.pitchfork.com/albums/1265/homepage_large.83f1e121.jpg
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/280/MI0002280455.jpg
http://assets.rootsvinylguide.com/pictures/isaac-hayes-live-at-the-sahara-tahoe-enterprise-ens-2-5005-2-x-vinyl-lp-album_6329034
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41XXXETQ4YL.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/Curtis_Mayfield_-_1971_Live_album_cover.jpg

your parents listened to Can? wow

Mom got that from a friend who worked at a radio station. It was a promo copy.

Nowadays it's mostly adult contemporary/Norah Jones/etc.

in-a-gadda-da-vida

http://cdn.discogs.com/TNnJqgVmHvdNtbIDlgc4_lmIwiA=/fit-in/600x604/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-438320-1258431725.jpeg.jpg

http://eil.com/images/main/Rimsky-Korsakov-Scheherazade-526985.jpg

... not the right copy but I can't remember which one she had.

Slightly on the romantic side, my mother.

Have we discussed this

http://www.southernfm.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Hot-August-Night.jpg

I was v interested in this cover as a small VegGrrl

It's upthread and, yes, I'm sure it's been discussed on ILM before!

Endless Summer.

Every Beatles record.

John Denver, yes. Tom Lehrer, yes. Judy Collins, yes. And the totally CLASSIC Getz/Gilberto record (I still listen to it frequently and I will love it forever).

But mostly she liked musicals and show tunes - Rodgers & Hammerstein, Lerner & Lowe, Cole Porter - and everything classical.

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/348/MI0002348923.jpg

My mother never played music in the house, and never bought an album after 1977, but her vinyl collection included some albums that post-dated the divorce in 1972. I remember Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Barry Manilow, Chuck Mangione, Carpenters, Carly Simon, and the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. I believe the whole collection netted one Cocteau Twins CD when traded in 1988.

http://img.cdandlp.com/2012/12/imgL/115790469.jpg

I love that song! That album cover is tight.