The Mom and Dads

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The Mom and Dads was a Western-styled folk music group from Spokane, Washington that specialized in waltzes, polkas, and general easy listening. The quartet, made up of one elderly woman and three middle-aged males, featured Doris Crow (b. 1905, d. 1998) on piano, Quentin Ratliff (b. 1934) on saxophone, Leslie Welch (b. 1912, d. 1983) on accordion, and Harold Hendren (b. circa 1919) on drums. Most of their fame was in Canada, (where they first gained fame when a Disc Jockey at a high powered radio station in Great Falls, Montana played their first recording, The Ranger's Waltz which was composed by Quentin Ratliff, the group's Saxophonist and this broadcast carried into the Canadian province of Alberta), and also in Australia. Their peak was in the early 1970s when they appeared on music charts. The Mom and Dads were seen in a string of late-night television commercials in the United States during the mid-1980s.