Musical influences

It's fairly obvious that we who were born in the 1940s, 50s, and early 60s grew up listening to a very different kind of music. We were a part of the shift from semi-personal songs that hinted at love and sexuality, gender roles, and responsibility (think "Goin ' to the Chapel," "It's my party," "Mr. Postman) to deeply personal, intentional songs about freedom, choice and charge, and moral choice (think "Ohio," ""For What It's Worth," "Masters of War") Any of us born during those decades can list those songs. We hear them as background music in commercials about cars. We foolishly believed that what we stood for was common, typical, what it mean to be an adult human.