Why our choirs strike a chord with me!

WAS brought up in a home that was always filled with music!

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Even before I started to buy singles from Woolworths or John Menzies I would play some of the 45RPM records that had belonged to my parents which was quite a bizarre mix of musical genres.

I remember playing Telstar, an instrumental by the Tornados which later in life I discovered had reached number one on both the UK and US singles chart.

Then there was The Seekers hit The Carnival is Over, one of Dad's favourites.

He was very excited the day I interviewed Judith Durham on Swansea Sound about her career and greatest hits CD (Judith Durham sent me a copy for Dad).

Also in the collection I found Harry Seacombe singing If I Ruled the World and a wonderful piece called Hoots Mon by the band Lord Rockingham’s XI with its wonderful lyrics “Hoots mon, there's a moose, loose, aboot this hoose” and “It’s a braw, bricht, moonlit nicht’:

My dad graduated to LPs and I developed my own musical tastes but I do remember the house being filled with the songs of the Morriston Orpheus Choir from their album titled A Grand Night For Singing.

My dad was quite fond of the Orpheus as his Uncle Albert had been one of the founder members.

I never quite got why Dad enjoyed male voice choir singing as I preferred mixed choirs but the day came when I got it.