My Dad, who was a dour Yorkshireman, loved The Shadows and thought Cliff Richard ruined them. I agreed with him. He was big on Mario Lanza and the Black and White Minstrels as well. He was in a record club and bought loads of music from the movies, Oklahoma, South Pacific etc. I must have been about ten when he took me to see the Sound of Music and I fell in love with Julie Andrews.
He would take me to gigs when I started in bands with all the gear on the back of a flatbed truck he borrowed from work, picking up everyone and dropping them home afterwards. He sat in the truck during gigs rolling his fags for the rest of the week. He only came to one gig though with the rest of the family and they left at the interval as it was too loud for them. Afterwards,he was telling anyone who would listen how great the band were and how proud he was of us. We lost him in 2007 to cancer on his 84th birthday and I miss the bones of him.