I didn't grow up in Tulsa, but I grew up listening to KELI & KAKC. From Bill Haley & the Comets, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis etc. , I learned quickly how to rock. Then Jazz, such as Weather Report & Return to Forever and big bands like Thad Jones/Mel Lewis & Buddy Rich.
Somehow or another, I even got heavy into Opera, although all my faves made their careers at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC in the 1920's & '30s. People like Ezio Pinza, Elizabeth Rethburg, Ricardo Martinelli, Beniamino Gigli Lauritz Melchior and the sweetest voiced tenor of that time...Jussi Bjoerling who came a bit later.
For the last 30 years, it's been Blues, all Blues & nothin' but the Blues. From Lightnin' Hopkins, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy and most all electric Chicago blues, Miss. Hill country blues with R.L. Burnside, T-Model Ford, Junior ?? can't remember last), acoustic or electric, I like most all of it.
So, I'd like to hear from others where music was such a big part of their life. Fav artists, style of music, fav bands or orchestras....just all music, all the time.
Somehow or another, I even got heavy into Opera, although all my faves made their careers at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC in the 1920's & '30s. People like Ezio Pinza, Elizabeth Rethburg, Ricardo Martinelli, Beniamino Gigli Lauritz Melchior and the sweetest voiced tenor of that time...Jussi Bjoerling who came a bit later.
For the last 30 years, it's been Blues, all Blues & nothin' but the Blues. From Lightnin' Hopkins, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy and most all electric Chicago blues, Miss. Hill country blues with R.L. Burnside, T-Model Ford, Junior ?? can't remember last), acoustic or electric, I like most all of it.
So, I'd like to hear from others where music was such a big part of their life. Fav artists, style of music, fav bands or orchestras....just all music, all the time.
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