When I was growing up every family had a radio and most cars and trucks had radios but kids didn't own anything that could be plugged in. Most houses had one electrical socket in each … It was an odd thing to be given a choice in music. All the music we had ever heard was on my father's car radio, or one of those old albums, but when it got right down to it, there wasn't enough music I had heard to know what I really liked. There weren't that many radio stations and … …

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