[speaker001:] What are your m-, music interests?
[speaker002:] Uh, just about any kind of music except acid rock [static],
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] I, I don't care,
[speaker001:] Me, too.
[speaker002:] for acid rock,
[speaker001:] Oh.
[speaker002:] but, uh, I grew up with country and western,
[speaker001:] Yeah, I did, too,
[speaker002:] but, uh,
[speaker001:] and then,
[speaker002:] just about any kind of music. I even like classical music.
[speaker001:] Yeah, uh, I'm pretty diversified, too. I, I don't, I don't like acid rock either. I, [sniffing] I grew up in a small town so, uh, the only, [static] we only had one radio station so it was country music,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] but then, uh, when I,
[speaker002:] Yeah, I grew up with Hank Snow, and Lefty Frizzell [static] and Hank Williams and all of those old country and western songs.
[speaker001:] [Static] Oh, really. You're older than I am [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] But, uh, I, did you happen to see last night the special on Channel Two with James Galway?
[speaker001:] We don't get Channel Two. My,
[speaker002:] Oh.
[speaker001:] uh, our cable doesn't, I wish we got that what, but,
[speaker002:] That is fabulous.
[speaker001:] Was it? Well,
[speaker002:] We,
[speaker001:] we don't get Channel Two.
[speaker002:] Yeah, when he played DANNY BOY it just almost brought,
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] tears to your eyes, because he can make that flute sing.
[speaker001:] Oh, really?
[speaker002:] Yeah, and, uh, it was tremendous.
[speaker001:] Now, he, he is a, uh, actually, I did, I played flute for,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] almost ten years and, and, uh, so, I, I, I appreciate his too,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] his, his mus-, he, he, he's from Ireland isn't he?
[speaker002:] Yeah, uh-huh, and it was, uh, mostly all Irish tunes,
[speaker001:] Was i-, yeah.
[speaker002:] they had a band with him that, uh, had a harpist and another flute and then a guy that played the bagpipes plus the, uh, tin whistle,
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] and a couple of violins and, uh, drum,
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] and they, they played all the Irish jigs and so forth, it was just fabulous.
[speaker001:] Yeah, I, he, he is really good. Yeah, I, I, I come from a musical background,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] so, uh, uh, I've played fl-, flute, flute and piano, so,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] I, I, I have a b-, big appreciation for music,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] up to a point. I, I'm getting now to the age where I don't like the new stuff that's coming an-,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] and much of the new stuff that's coming out,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] my husband says I'm getting old [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Yeah [LAUGHTER]. I love, uh, I, li-, I especially like instrumentals.
[speaker001:] Do you?
[speaker002:] Yeah. I love to just lay back on the couch and, and turn a good, good instrumental [volume got louder] on and just close my eyes and listen.
[speaker001:] Yeah, that's, that's nice to do, that is. [breathing] I've got a, [LAUGHTER] I've got a, I've got a two year old who's now getting, I'm getting well versed in, in kiddy music [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Yeah. [LAUGHTER] [pause] I'm, I've never played an instrument in my life, I've always wanted too,
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] I've always wished my parents [LAUGHTER] had forced me to learn the piano or something,
[speaker001:] Yeah [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] but, uh,
[speaker001:] I was one of the forced ones [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] 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
[speaker001:] Oh, I could never do that [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] and,
[speaker001:] I was never that brave but, uh, [NOISE] [sniffing] yeah.
[speaker002:] I guess the closest I've ever come to participating in music is singing in the choir.
[speaker001:] Yeah, oh, yeah, I've, I've done, I've done that at church too.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] I haven't done that in a long time.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] So, let's see what els-,. Well, what kind of music do you not like?
[speaker002:] Well, like I say the acid rock, I just do not ca-, an I don't care for rap music either.
[speaker001:] Oh, go-, that's not music [LAUGHTER],
[speaker002:] Uh-huh, no.
[speaker001:] that is not, I don't know what that is, but that's not music [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] If I can't understand the words I don't want to listen to it.
[speaker001:] Well, it's, it's, it's not, it's not music, it's just, it's just, uh, uh, talking in a beat, it is just,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] it's not exciting at all it doesn't,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] it doesn't give you relaxation, you can't dance to it, you can't do anything to it [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Right. But,
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] I, and I love, I like orchestra music too. Like the,
[speaker001:] D-,
[speaker002:] Boston Pops or,
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] or anything.
[speaker001:] [Breathing] Have you ever been to the, to, to the Dallas Symphony?
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] Have you? Is i-, are,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] are they good?
[speaker002:] Yeah, they're good.
[speaker001:] Are they? I, I have, I have,
[speaker002:] And, uh,
[speaker001:] never been.
[speaker002:] we went and saw, uh, L-, L-, LES MISERABLES
[speaker001:] Oh, really?
[speaker002:] oh, the music in that was fantastic.
[speaker001:] I, I've heard, I've heard that that is a really,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] I heard that was hard to get tickets to.
[speaker002:] Yeah, it, it, uh, I can't remember how far in advance we reserved,
[speaker001:] .
[speaker002:] tickets but it was out, you know, out at the State Fair Music Hall and, uh
[speaker001:] Yeah. Yeah, that was a real,
[speaker002:] it was well worth the price.
[speaker001:] Was it?
[speaker002:] Yeah,
[speaker001:] I, I bet it was,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] I, I really bet it was [sniffing]. Is that the only, uh, musical, do you go see a lot of musicals?
[speaker002:] Just, just ever so often
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] you know, a real, a real good one like that one and,
[speaker001:] That, that would be, that would be nice [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] I went and saw, uh, I think it was, uh, SUGAR BABIES, that was good, that had good music in it.
[speaker001:] Was it? How, how, I can't, I don't know what that's about.
[speaker002:] Uh, that was the one with Mickey Rooney and, uh, oh, what's that real, oh, not real old, my wife she is old too,
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] dancer, uh, I can't think of her name. I got it right on the tip of my tongue and can't say it, Helen something.
[speaker001:] Uh, uh, uh, I think I know who you're ta-, oh, I know who you're talking about,
[speaker002:] real long legs,
[speaker001:] she's got black hair,
[speaker002:] and dark hair.
[speaker001:] Yeah, okay, I know who [LAUGHTER] your talking about. I can't think ever her name either.
[speaker002:] I can't think of it.
[speaker001:] Yeah, that wa-, that was, that was, I remember that being, uh, here a few years ago.
[speaker002:] Yeah,
[speaker001:] [Sniffing].
[speaker002:] but, uh,
[speaker001:] Oh, oh, the last country music, my, my parents still, uh, really like country,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] music and they, they like, uh, they like the Oak Ridge Boys and the Statler Brothers,
[speaker002:] Oh, yeah, yeah.
[speaker001:] and, and, uh, well, my, my, my,
[speaker002:] The Blackwoods.
[speaker001:] my parents, yeah, my husband likes, uh, country music real well and he, he likes some of the new groups like Shenandoah,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] and, yeah, he really likes Shenandoah.
[speaker002:] Alabama.
[speaker001:] Yeah, yeah, well, yeah, Alabama,
[speaker002:] Uh,
[speaker001:] I think, I think they're a bit over exposed [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Yeah [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] I get kind,
[speaker002:] .
[speaker001:] of tire-, get tir-, tired of every other song being Alabama on the,
[speaker002:] Yeah,
[speaker001:] radio.
[speaker002:] either Alabama or Hank Williams, Junior.
[speaker001:] Oh, I, I've never cared for Hank,
[speaker002:] I never have either,
[speaker001:] Williams, Junior.
[speaker002:] and I never have figured out how he won, uh, entertainer of the year for about,
[speaker001:] Oh [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] three or four years in a row.
[speaker001:] Oh, we, we watch those award shows too, we enjoy watching the country and the Grammies and stuff but I just, I just don't care for him,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] I just never have. I don't,
[speaker002:] I guess probably my favorite all time country and western song or singer is, uh, probably Eddy Arnold.
[speaker001:] Is, is it?
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] Okay, I, I think, I, I know who that is, uh-huh. I think my parents have [sniffing] have, uh, some of his records.
[speaker002:] But, uh,
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] I got a, 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 R P M records of country and western,
[speaker001:] Wow.
[speaker002:] songs, Smiley Burnette, I don't know if you were old enough to remember him [music] him.
[speaker001:] I've heard the name.
[speaker002:] He was, uh, played in the old western movies. He was the sidekick of Gene Autry I believe
[speaker001:] Huh.
[speaker002:] or they, I think his name in, in the movie was Froggy and,
[speaker001:] I've, I've never seen a Gene Autry movie,
[speaker002:] had a real raspy voice,
[speaker001:] Huh.
[speaker002:] and, uh,
[speaker001:] No, I never have [sniffing].
[speaker002:] some of those old ones, of course, Bob Wills, Miss Texas Playboys
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] Ernest Tubbs and Red Foley an,
[speaker001:] Yeah, those go back quite a way [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Yeah. I took them up here to Collectors Rector-, Records and was able to get a little money for them
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] but, uh,
[speaker001:] It's hard to,
[speaker002:] my m-, mother and dad use to, uh, own a restaurant,
[speaker001:] Oh, yeah.
[speaker002:] and he had, uh, they had a, uh, nickelodeon, of course, in the restaurant,
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] and when they would come and change the records the guys would, the guy would give her the old records
[speaker001:] Well, that wou-, that's neat.
[speaker002:] so, that's where I got my,
[speaker001:] that would be gr-, great if they weren't too worn out,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] at the time.
[speaker002:] Of course, there's not a whole lot of market for seventy-eight R P M records.
[speaker001:] Is there not? You, you'd, well you'd think there would be.
[speaker002:] Well, the problem is most of the record players now will not play them because,
[speaker001:] Well, that's true.
[speaker002:] you have to have that needle, that, uh, particular kind of needle
[speaker001:] Oh, yeah.
[speaker002:] and, uh, they,
[speaker001:] [Breathing].
[speaker002:] just won't play on a modern day, uh
[speaker001:] Well, that's a shame
[speaker002:] phonograph.
[speaker001:] [Sniffing] because I, I, we go to antique stores a lot and you see seventy-eights,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] a, a lot at, at the stores, a-, a-, at record stores, you'd,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] think there'd be a market for, I'm, I'm sure you could find old players for them but that would cost a fortune,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] if you could find them that worked [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Oh.
[speaker002:] Of course, they, you know, just don't have the quality of records nowadays either because,
[speaker001:] No.
[speaker002:] you, you get that scratchy sound.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh. Well, those things were big and thick weren't they?
[speaker002:] Yeah, yeah.
[speaker001:] You could kill somebody with them [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Yeah, th-, warped real easy.
[speaker001:] And the ones you buy, go out and buy one now and they're just so thin and,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] flimsy and they just, they're not meant to last,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] at all, ne-, neither are tapes. I, I bu-, we buy cassette tapes,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] and machines will eat them,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] and so, the best bet, any, anymo-, these days are compact disk, those things are practically indestructible [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] 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 T V,
[speaker001:] Oh, no.
[speaker002:] so that's all you had to listen to was the,
[speaker001:] Radio.
[speaker002:] radio, and, uh,
[speaker001:] [Sniffing] Tha-, that's just what, just what you had, we-, plus,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] I think it was better back then to, th-, there's too much T V now
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] and the radio is, you know, more exciting,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] really, than, than television, kep-, your imagination
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] i-, i-, kept and yo-, it just didn't vegetate your mind like television does [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Yeah, I remember mother and dad always turned on the Grand Ole Opera.
[speaker001:] Oh, yeah.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] [Sniffing] Was it on the radio every week?
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Wha-, what day, what day was that on, do you, ha-, can you recall.
[speaker002:] Uh, uh, seems like it was on a Friday,
[speaker001:] Uh.
[speaker002:] Friday or,