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Strangely enough, John Barry is the composer I would link to memories of my parents too.
(I've deffo wrote this before around here).
Whenever I played John Barry in my room, in my younger years, one of them (or both) would tell me that the music was lovely. It was usually SOMEWHERE IN TIME or HIGH ROAD TO CHINA (or my tape dub of RAISE THE TITANIC...that was a particular favourite for them).
My mum also loved the End Theme from Goldsmith's LOGAN'S RUN and my dad loved Goldsmith's RUDY, although he always mentioned it was an old Irish tune he knew.
He also loved that main gorgeous theme from Morricone's ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (Jill's America?).
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Frank and Dean mostly.
Plenty of films themes, from stuff they had seen themselves or they heard emanating from my room!
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Funny.... I was just thinking about this a little while ago....
My stepmother LOVED Somewhere in Time and the theme from Mistral's Daughter.
Last week I was listening to 1941... my father fronted his own big-band orchestra for decades, and I remember way back in 1979 when I got the LP for 1941, and was playing it. Of course when "Swing, Swing, Swing" started playing, my father came in the room and asked me what it was, and really liked it.
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I cannot get through Horner's 'Cocoon' without just uncontrollably blubbering. Between the Big Band stuff (my parents met right before WWII and my dad marched once to Glenn Miller's group playing American Patrol live in Clovis, New Mexico!) and Horner's gift for writing heart-rending melodies, I lose it. Every. Single. Time.
That's why I can't listen to Cocoon, even though I bought the Intrada release!
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The only music my dad ever mentioned liking was The Sound of Music. My mother liked Mancini and other 60s instrumental staples. She bought me my first lp, which was From Russia With Love.
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Oct 9, 2018 - 12:44 PM
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leagolfer
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Mom - Dad weren't into film/music, doe they did like certain Bond songs & particular musical songs, hard to remember they didn't like much. 
Now n then I go to the pub do a karaoke night, when I'm up singing a couple of numbers, I choose Matt Monroe, From Russia with Love, Dad's #1 - Sha-Na-Na, Born to Hand Jive, Grease, 1 of Mom's fav, both songs are good numbers. I'm no great singer but its a goodnight out - folks applaud it for some reason.
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I see your 7 dwarves as first trip to cinema, mcGann, and raise you Mary Poppins!
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Every score I put on reminds me of the hours my Dad and I would sit and listen to scores as we did housework or he helped me with my homework. He is the one that introduced me to them from birth and I will continue to listen and hopefully pass it on to my children. Playing HOOK and A SUMMER STORY was how he put me to sleep after my Mother died.
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