My adopted mother, who came from a Mennonite background, sang Brahms' Lullaby in German, along with some other traditional tunes. I always "heard" music, mostly through radio, even if my parents were not particularly musically inclined. Probably the fondest memory is of listening to records on an old hand-crank "Victrola" in a mountain cabin in the Sierras during and just following WWII. My favorite was "The Merry Go Round Broke Down" (the old Warner Brothers cartoon theme song).