Music Monday - "Moon River", Andy Williams

I've been blogging on a private blog for years, connected with only a few close friends. Somewhere along the line somebody started "Music Monday". I thought it would be a fun thing to do on Nostalgic Tour since I love music and my iPod goes everywhere I go!

My music taste is very eclectic; I listen to everything from Mozart to JLo. (OK, I only have one JLo song, but I do have her on my iPod.) I love the music from my growing up years - almost anything from 1965 - 1982 excites me (well, except for disco). I also listen to jazz, swing, movie soundtracks, classic rock, funk, country, polkas, Sousa marches, University fight songs and so much more.

I listened strictly to Contemporary Christian for many years. I love Third Day, Toby Mac, Steven Curtis Chapman, Delirious?, Jeremy Camp, and my all-time favorite, Rich Mullins. But I missed the styles of various genres, as Contemporary Christian tends to have the same basic sound to it. I need the horn sections of a Chicago song, the funk bass of "Play that Funky Music" by Wild Cherry, and the smooth trumpet of Chris Botti. And I love this "Wandzia Polka"!

I like the variety that other genres bring. As my daughter would say...don't judge.

I've loved music all my life and it's been an integral part of who I am. It's because of music that I'm married to my husband and have the kids I have. I played guitar, violin, clarinet and tenor sax while in school. After graduation I continued with the sax in my church orchestra where I met my husband.

Both of my grandpas were musicians, one played his violin for silent movies at the theater in Greenville, and the other played his clarinet and bassoon in the Shriner band and for the Grand Rapids Symphony. My mom and her mom loved to sing in choirs. My dad played guitar and banjo and even learned to play clarinet when he was in his 40s.

I mentioned on my "About" page that I moved quite a bit as a kid. Because of being in so many different locations, and being a music lover, I'm able to quickly associate songs with a time-period. I remember sitting in my bedroom in Battle Creek and listening to "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen, so I know that was 1975. I remember my friend singing "Babe" by Styx, to me in junior high in Allegan, so I know that was 1979. I remember roller skating in high school to "I Can't Go For That" by Hall and Oats, in Holland, so I know that was 1982. (It used to amaze my husband that I could so quickly name which year a song was popular.)

There are even people who I associate a song or a particular group with, like I always think of Scott M. from Allegan when I hear a Boston song or Dave M. from Holland who liked The Cars.

Anyway...you get what I'm sayin'. Music is extremely important to my life and I love a huge variety. I look forward to sharing my eclectic taste with you here, and hope that you discover somebody new and interesting to listen to along the way.

When I was 4-years-old, my love affair with Andy Williams began, so I thought it would be appropriate for the first Music Monday post to feature Andy Williams and one of his biggest hits, "Moon River". (And here's hoping I can get to Branson this fall to see him live!)



Which singer or song is from your earliest memory?

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