My father was a huge Impressions and Marvin Gaye fan. I can't say which Impressions songs he liked the most, but i'll guess it was "Talkin' 'Bout My Baby", and when I was two, he loved "Baby Don't You Do It" by Marvin Gaye.
In later years, he would tell me how much he liked "Desiree" by Neil Diamond, and...Air Supply???? He mostly liked easy rock and smooth soul. he thought all rockers were on drugs or gay...or both.
My mother's favorite was Dinah Washington. She loved all those blues/jazz singers like Washington, Nancy Wilson, Lou Rawls, and Sarah Vaughn. But, to my surprise, well, I shouldn't be surprised, that she liked rock, too. Imagine one day about eight years ago, I was driving her to the casino, mind you she was a Black woman in her late 70s, and I happened to have "Sweet Mary" by Wadsworth Mansion playing on the car stereo. Thinking that she probably wouldn't care for it, I skipped the song, and she told me that she was listening to it. I should have known, as she dug Steppenwolf and all that other stuff when I was a kid.
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