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Music Appreciation

The Polack MSgt

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1. My Grandmother on my mom's side played this on the gigantic cabinet phonograph/radio

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Fri Oct 25, 2019, 09:51 AM

Oct 2019

All the time. She had dozens of Time Life's albums -If you remember those

It was her opinion that Jazz and "Boogie boogie music" were just not proper when children were present.

So Opera and Broadway music ruled the house. Unless my Granddad and uncles were home - In which case it was mountain music and Benny Goodman records

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Georges Bizet, CARMEN Romantic Era Opera [View all] appalachiablue Oct 2019 OP

My Grandmother on my mom's side played this on the gigantic cabinet phonograph/radio The Polack MSgt Oct 2019 #1

Lucky you with a family that appreciates music. It definitely appalachiablue Oct 2019 #2