Would Never Have Guessed That.

[Barsel]

I asked my 7yr old Granddaughter yesterday who her favourite singer is.
Thinking she was going to say someone I'd never heard of, I couldn't believe it when she said Stevie Wonder!
Thought I'd heard her wrong but she confirmed that's who she meant and went on to name quite a few of his songs.
Also, she likes The Beatles too and asked me to sing Help with her.
It was good fun, but I was surprised at her choices.

[Bobbisox1]

She’s got good taste Barsel :0)

[Mozz71]

Good girl. At his Seventies peak, Stevie is in my top five too.

[ToraToraTora]

"Jazz Chord" is my favourite Stevie Wonder hit!
https://jail.uk/jokes/stevie-wonder-jazz-chord/

[Barsel]

I must introduce Elvis into her life. :-)

[Barsel]

Oh TTT that's a real 'groan' joke.

[naomi24]

She has good taste Barsel.

How are you?

[ToraToraTora]

barsel: "I must introduce Elvis into her life. :-) " - well she must have a Teddy Bear!

[Barsel]

I'm ok thanks Naomi.
Went for my third blood test today but won't get the results until Friday.
Just keeping my fingers crossed that they don't send me to the hospital.

[Barsel]

TTT she does, and she loves it very tenderly.

[naomi24]

I’ll keep mine crossed for you too, Barsel. I wish you well. X

[Barsel]

Thanks Naomi x

[ToraToraTora]

Barsel: "TTT she does, and she loves it very tenderly. " - what would a fool such as i know!

[Barsel]

Sorry TTT I'm just off to do my tea so there will have to be a little less conversation.
Thanks for the fun.

[ToraToraTora]

well as long as you treat me nice...

[Buenchico]

If you'd have asked me, at the age of 7, who was my favourite singer, I'd almost certainly have said . . .

[Buenchico]

. . . but my favourite musician at that time wasn't a singer at all.

I had a (second hand) record player for my 8th birthday, with this recording (from my musical hero) among the records that went with it. (I gave it to a charity shop about 5 years ago and, on hearing it played again now, I'm starting to regret it!):

[Canary42]

///I had a (second hand) record player for my 8th birthday///

About the time I was 8 I was taken to the London Palladium (I think) and saw the wonderful Winifred Attwell.

[bobbinwales]

At 7 we're very influenced in music tastes by are parents. I'd of said Shirley Bassey and Elvis at that age as thats pretty much all I knew (plus maybe Hole in My Bucket or Wombles or some other tune Ed Stewart played on Childrens Favourites). But by teh time I was 13 I was into music my parents didnt get like heavy prog rock and punk . So ask her again in 5 years and it may nit be something you like

[tonyav]

Excellent taste, Barsel ( now get that Four Tops, Temptations or the Supremes album on the the turntable for her to listen to ).

[Buenchico]

I think that I might have seen Winifred Atwell on the telly once, Canary42, but, other than that, she was unknown to me in my childhood.

I'd never heard of Elvis Presley, Bob, until (at the age of 8) my family went to visit my aunt, uncle and cousins in Essex. Their kitchen wall was covered in pictures of a man I didn't recognise. When I asked who he was, my cousins were amazed that I'd never heard of Elvis!

Of course I hadn't though, because (apart from hearing Russ Conway, Perry Como, Doris Day, et al on 'Housewives Choice' with my mother during the school holidays), 'music' in our house strictly meant Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven and, for a little light relief now and then, Gilbert and Sullivan. I was only allowed to listen to Children's Favourites, on the Light Programme on a Saturday morning, on the STRICTEST of conditions that I turned the radio off IMMEDIATELY afterwards. If my mother heard even the tiniest snippet of Brian Matthew's voice at the start of Saturday Club, I'd be in trouble for the whole of the following week!