Theatre, listening to live bands, reading, music, theatre, dancing, working-out, traveling, theatre, antique-shopping, did I say I love the Theatre yet?
In no particular order or genre: The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey and his Big Band, Andy Williams, Van Halen, Incubus, Led Zepplin, The Doors, John Mellencamp, Pink Floyd, The Nashville Blugrass Band, The Del McCoury Band, Allison Kraus and Union Station, Def Leppard, The Delaners, AC/DC, Keith Urban, Janis Joplin, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Pat Benetar, Guns N' Roses, Patsy Cline, The Beach Boys, Nickel Creek, Journey, Bon Jovi, Neil Diamond.........and more that I just can't think of off of the top of my head at the moment. My favorite muscial theatre songs would come from "Annie Get Your Gun," "Grease," "Guys and Dolls," "Cabaret," "South Pacific,"...........I could go on.....
"You Can't Take It With You," "Singin In The Rain," "Rear Window," "The Women," "The Philadelphia Story," "The Birdcage," "Orange County," "It's a Wonderful Life," "Some Like It Hot," "A Streetcar Named Desire"(with Marlon Brando!), "Mrs.Souffel," "The Misfits," "Dial M for Murder," "Rebel Without a Cause," "North By Northwest," "Arsenic and Old Lace," "The Quiet Man," "My Man Godfrey," "It Happened One Night,".......and, as you can tell, anything else directed by Frank Capra, Alfred Hitchcock, and George Cukor.
Don't watch it....
Absolutely anything written by Agatha Christie, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Tennessee Williams. "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn," and "To Kill A Mockingbird" are two great books. Every book ever written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and autobiographies on John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, Jimmy Stewart, Kathrine Hepburn, Tony Curtis, Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Sydney Guillaroff, Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, James Dean, Henry Fonda, or anybody who basically raised themselves from rags to riches.