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I'm a Boomer who had young parents. They exposed me to" their kind of music" while growing up, simply by playing the records. Big Bands, Swing, the Dorsey brothers, Glen Miller, etc. Additionally, they enjoyed "Race music" and played that as well. All of this I absorbed and came to appreciate. As I got older, my transition to Do-wop, Blues, and Rock and Roll was easy, as was the evolutionary changes in Rock itself, over the years. Still, like many, there is a particular style of music that I prefer, largely due to the memories they invoke and what my life was like at that time.

I did the same with my own children who are all now in their 30s and 40s. They know and appreciate music back to the Big Band era, grew up listening to (now) Classic Rock, and have moved to their own type of music but still retain the knowledge and appreciation of earlier popular music.