And perhaps the first few years of your life........

I'm thinking of vinyl or 78rpm records around the house when you were growing up.

Music your parents, grandparents or other relatives listened to.

Or perhaps material you discovered for yourself later.

A few to get you started.........this should be interesting.

Pomp & Circumstance - Sir Edward Elgar (1931)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMyW_syD61I
Conducted by the composer, excellent sound quality for 1931, a film of the session is here http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=81826 with a short scene showing the control room.

Julie London - Cry me a river (1955)
Timeless classic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByUOFV5TusE

Those under 40 may not have heard
Peggy Lee - Is That All There Is? (1969)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VscVP_Gt_s

An earlier version of a song made famous in the 1950s by the Platters
Charlie Kunz and his Orchestra "Smoke gets in your eyes" (1934) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt3O039Ls7Q

A record from 1956 that influenced musicians who became famous later
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKnviMIILUs
LONNIE DONEGAN "Rock Island Line"

One from the World War 2 era
Stardust - Artie Shaw And His Orchestra (1941)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUCe-b1IQeU

Finally, a popular song from 1949
"The Darktown Poker Club" - Phil Harris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aufCfiS0AA

So what are yours?

I was born in '92 but I've grown up listening to older music. My mum had a vinyl jukebox so I couldn't get away from it!

Lucille by Little Richard is an absolute tune!!
Listen to a lot of Queen & the Sex Pistols.

I was born in 1992 and it was all about Michael Jackson in our house.

That's pretty good taste.

I was born in 1990 but l listen to a lot of Abba and 80s music (stuff like Blondie, Human League, Mel & Kim, Bananarama... can't think of anyone else right now).

You might like this one from 1985
Sal Solo - "Music and You"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_TWCjzN9Uk

He was in this band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff6gWyyFEyc
Classix Nouveaux - "Is It a Dream?"

I was almost entirely brought up on older music, I was born in 1994, and my mum loved Paul McCartney, the Beatles, Queen and Tina Turner, my dad loved Pink Floyd, Electric Light Orchestra, John Lennon, the Rolling Stones and Fleetwood Mac.

I spent a lot of my early childhood with my grandparents too as my parents worked a lot, so I got to love from them, the Kinks, the Who, Supertramp, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Lonnie Donagan, Donovan, Bob Dylan, Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, etc plus my grandfather used to be in a band and has taught me to play the guitar well and bass guitar quite proficiently as well as how to produce music and some keyboard chords, on top of that he was a McCartney fanatic so Paul's my favourite.

Only my mum and her George Michael and Bon Jovi records in our house.

I do listen to a fair bit of older music though, current oldie favourites being Nico and The Kinks.

I hope he let you hear Peter Green
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtmW2ek7WkQ&feature=fvst
peter green's fleetwood mac - need your love so bad

I like a bit of classical music - especially Mozart, who lived in the 18th Century, so I think that counts.

I also like the 1940s big band sound of Glenn Miller and his Orchestra - my dad was a fan of his during WW2. He also had a fab album of the jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald performing Cole Porter classics like 'I get a kick out of you' and 'Everytime we say goodbye'.

Have a listen to this from 1968
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUFmJy6o6xo
Nirvana - Rainbow Chaser
(no connection with a later group of the same name)

Glenn Miller was recording in the 1930s
here is one of his recordings from 1935
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkUetkwX6fQ
A Blues Serenade, Glenn Miller

Oddly enough, he did, and he taught me that song

He has good taste, do you know this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bng3agUOYiI
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower

How can you not know it?

My parents played a lot of 1960s and 1970s music while I was growing up which has shaped my tastes. The majority of my favourite albums are from that time period.

off the top of my head and from 'before my time'

1930s - Billie Holiday with the Teddy Wilson Orchestra playing 'Miss Brown To You' - tight, driving, jazzy.......good solos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTnoIDRxEbc

1940s - Jo Stafford - Long Ago And Far Away - not sure of the circumstances of this song but I imagine women sitting at home thinking about their men fighting around the world......a sort of American 'White Cliffs Of Dover'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiSrKbj_pHQ

1950s - Ella Fitzgerald - Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - perfection. Brilliant lyrics, brilliant accompaniment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoJP4g9TB0Y

My time was the 60s.......

im a massive Cher fan and love all her music even from when she started in the 60s, with 'I got you babe' and 'all I really wanna do', [I was born in 1991]

As an act an encompassing their ouevre, it has to be Blondie for me - I was born in 79. I love that they're still going and have every album

Well, I was born in 1945 and there wasn't such a thing as the charts or even the hit parade. One song which has lasted over the years is this from 1939!

https://youtu.be/U016JWYUDdQ

People who like jazz, are aware that the "standards" are timeless. i.e. tunes written in the past hundred years never date in jazz, there's always a different rendition being recorded.

I'll give an example of a recording posted on the "Jazz from Catalonia" thread I started.

This was recorded in the last few months and could have been written on the day it was performed. It's been recorded by the world and his wife over many decades.
Some might be surprised to learn it was written in 1917.
It's got a long introduction, but it's a beautiful tune when it gets going.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0OeBrQBPNc

There's no end of "jazz standards," good tunes from every decade in the last hundred years that have been played and sung by jazz musicians and singers.