what are your music music interests
uh just about any kind of music except acid rock i i don't care for acid rock
me too oh
but uh i grew up with country and western but uh just about any kind of music i even like classical music
yeah i did too and then
yeah uh i'm pretty diversified too i i don't i don't like acid rock either i've i grew up in a small town so uh the only we only had one radio station so it was country music but then uh when i
yeah
yeah i grew up with Hank Snow and Lefty Frizzell and Hank Williams and all of those old country and western songs
oh really you're older than i am oh
but uh i did you happen to see last night the special on channel two with James Galway
we don't get channel two my our cable doesn't i wish we got that one it was it well we don't get channel two
oh
that was fabulous when
yeah when he played Danny Boy it just almost brought tears to your eyes because he can make that flute sing
oh really
yeah and uh it was tremendous
now he he is a good uh actually i did i played flute for almost ten years and and uh so i i i i appreciate his too his his music he he he's from Ireland isn't he
yeah
yeah
yeah uh-huh and it was uh mostly all Irish tunes they they had a band with him that uh had a harpist and another flute and then
was yeah
guy that played the bagpipes plus the uh tin whistle and a couple of violins and a drum and they
yeah
um-hum
they played all the Irish jigs and so forth it was just fabulous
yeah i he he is really good yeah i've i've
i come from a musical background so uh um i've played flute flute flute and piano so i i i have uh
yeah
yeah
a big appreciation for music
yeah
up to a point i i'm getting now to the age where i don't like the new stuff that's coming and much of the new stuff that's coming out husband says i'm getting old
yeah
yeah
yeah
i love uh i like i especially like instrumentals
do you
yeah i love to just lay back on the couch and and turn a good good instrumental on and just close my eyes and listen
that yeah that that's nice to do that that is
yeah
i've got a i've got a two i've got a two year old who's now getting i'm getting well well versed in in kiddy music
uh i'm i never played an instrument in my life i've always wanted to i've always wished my parents had forced me to learn the piano or something
yeah
yeah well i was one of the forced ones
but uh
but i i'd just love to be able to go to a party or something and sit down at the piano and bang out music
oh i could never do that i was never that brave but um yeah
hm
hm
but i guess the closest i've ever come to participating in music is singing in the choir
yeah oh yeah i've i've done i've done that at church too haven't done that in a long time
yeah
yeah
so let's see what
well what kind of music do you not like
well like i say the acid rock i just do not care and i don't care for rap music either
oh oh gosh that's not music that is not i don't know what that is but that's not music
huh-uh no no
if i can't understand the words i don't wanna listen to it
well it's it's it's not it's not music it's just it's just uh uh beat talking in a beat it is just it's not exciting at all it doesn't it doesn't give you relaxation you can't dance to it you can't do anything to it yeah
yeah
yeah
yeah
right
but i and i love uh i look at the orchestra music too like the Boston Pops or or anything
did
yeah
have you ever been to the to to the Dallas Symphony have you is it are they good
uh-huh
yeah
yeah they're good
are they i i have never i've never been
and uh we went and saw uh Les Les Les Miserables
oh really
oh the music in that was fantastic
i've i've heard i've heard that that is a really
yeah
i heard that was hard to get tickets to
yeah it it uh
i can't remember how far in advance we reserved tickets but it was out you know out at the State Fair Music Hall
probably cost
yeah yeah that was a real
and uh it was well worth the price yeah
was it i i bet it was i bet i really bet it was is that the only uh musical do you go see musicals musicals a lot of musicals
yeah
just just ever so often you know a real a real good one like that one and
yeah the
that that would be that would be nice
we went and saw uh i think it was uh Sugar Babies that was good that had good music in it
was it i how how i can't i don't know what that's about
uh that was the one with uh Mickey Rooney and uh oh what's that real oh not real old uh well she is old too dancer um
i can't think of her name i got it right on the tip of my tongue and can't say it Helen something
uh oh oh i think i know who you're talking oh i know who you're talking talking about she's got black hair
uh
real long legs and dark hair
yeah okay i know who your talking about i can't think of her name either yeah that was that was that was i remember that being uh here a few years ago
i can't think of it
yeah
but uh
oh oh the last country music my my parents still uh really like country music and they they like um they like the Oak Ridge Boys and the Stadler Brothers and
yeah
oh yeah yeah
and uh well my my my my parents
Blackwoods
yeah my my husband likes uh country music real well and he he likes some of the new groups like Shenandoah and uh yeah he really likes Shenandoah
yeah
Alabama
yeah oh yeah Alabama well yeah yeah Alabama i think they're i think they're a bit too over exposed i get kind of tired get tired tired of every other song being Alabama on the radio
yeah
but i
yeah either Alabama or Hank Williams Junior
oh i i i i've never cared for Hank Williams Junior
i never neither and i never have figured out how he won the entertainer of the year for about three or four years in a row
i oh we we watch those award shows too we like we enjoyed watching the country and the Grammies and stuff but i just i just don't care for him i just never have i don't
yes
yeah
i guess probably my favorite all time country and western song or singer is uh probably Eddy Arnold
is is it okay uh i i i think i i know who that is uh-huh i think my parents have have uh some of his records
hm
yeah um
but i got about i've got about a hundred and or had a uh some uh i sold some of them i had about a hundred and fifty old
seventy eight RPM records of country and western songs
wow
Smiley Burnette i don't know if you're old enough to remember him
i've heard the name
he was uh played in the old western movies he was the sidekick of Gene Autry i believe or they i think his name when in the movie was Froggy
huh
had had a real raspy voice
i've i've never seen a Gene Autry movie hm
and uh some of those old ones of course Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys and Ernest Tubbs and
no i never have
yeah
Red Foley and
yeah those go back quite a ways
yeah i took them up here to Collectors Rector Records and was able to get a little money for them
yeah
but uh
my mother mother and dad used to own a restaurant and they had a they had a uh nickelodeon of course in the restaurant and when they would come and change the records
it's hard to find
oh yeah
yeah
the guys would and the guy would give her the old records
well that would that's neat
so uh
that's where i learned about
that would be great great if they weren't too worn out at the time
yeah course there's not a whole lot of market for seventy eight RPM records
is there not you you'd well you'd think there would be
well the problem is that most of the record players now will not play them because you have to have that needle that uh particular kind of needle
well that's true
oh yeah
and uh they just won't play on a
modern day uh
well that's a shame
phonograph
because i i we go to antique stores a lot and you see seventy eights
yeah
uh a lot at at the store at at at or in record stores you'd
yeah
think there'd be a market for i i'm sure you could find old players for them but that'd cost a fortune if you could find them that worked oh
yeah
yeah
course they you know just don't have the quality of records nowadays either because you you you get that scratchy sound
no
um-hum well those things were big and thick weren't they
yeah yeah
now you could kill somebody with them and the one you buy go out and buy one now and they're just so thin and flimsy and
yeah they warped real easy
yeah
they just they're not meant to last at all
no
no neither are tapes i i i buy we buy cassette tapes and machines will eat them you did so you're best bet any day anymore these days is a compact disk those things are practically indestructible
yeah
yeah
yeah
yes
but i i guess you know the old country and western music you back then when i was a kid there wasn't that much TV so that's all you had to listen to was the radio
oh no
radio yeah
and uh
that that's just what just what you had back plus i think it was better back then to the TV there's too much TV now
yeah
and the radio is you know more exciting really than than television kept your imagination
yeah
yeah
was it it it kept it it just didn't vegetate your mind like television does
yeah i remember mother and dad always turned on the Grand Ole Opry
oh yeah
and
was that on the radio every week
yeah
what what day what day was that on do you have you can you recall
i i seems like it was on a Friday Friday or Saturday
Friday
