Quam,

You are a rare example. Usually when almost all people are in that age bracket, they are repelled by the music of their parents.That is the reason for punk, rap, hip-hop, and each successive generation creates something different from what there parents listened to.
I liked Buck Owens too at that age.Why? Because he had a televison show called Hee Haw that had a bunch of good looking women on it.
Most people,whether they are general consumers, or grow up to be musicians, look to their own age group or that of just above it for their initial musical leanings. If that didn't happen, there would have never been an "American Bandstand" Tiger Beat, or Teen Beat" magazine and the shifts in musical trends over the years.
The Beatles would have never gotten out of playing Skiffle music and Elvis would have been singing gospel. Every generation rejects the music of their parents in masse. And while some of us might have enjoyed that and later embraced it (classic rock is now one of the top formats out there) the mainstream of society,which is the primary buying public, hence what is marketed to by record companies, television and movie studios, commercials, usually rejects what comes before them and go their own way. That is nature.

MAB

Last edited by Marc Barnette; 08/13/09 01:10 PM.