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Dan's avatar

Fun story - thanks. I grew up with very little music in the home and wanted something more like your story for my family. My kids have also been exposed to a wide range of musical genres since they were small (in fact, our favorite road trip games are invented around music), and I've made it a point to lean into their music as well. I'm pretty impressed with the general openness and musical literacy that I see in my kids' friends... when I was growing up, you were either in the pop, rock, or metal tribe or you were an outcast, and I tried to straddle all of them. It's fun to have no boundaries and still be expanding horizons.

Well done, Franco.

(I put together a Spotify playlist of the above for anyone who's interested: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7izmzYyDMfqqSK9pOqyusc?si=Q8BRgS7OTqqQLoquL0EwWg&pi=u-HPTTEa_XQW-5&nd=1&dlsi=641d1416984446b6 )

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Andreas Stullkowski's avatar

There is a good Biweekly podcast, The History of Rock Music in 500 Songs, that covers the begin of popular records in the 1920ies to now (he is now at Episode 170 - Hey Jude).

All the songs you mentioned here are covered, and he gives good background.

The Drifters and Fats Domino are covered over several episodes, since they were so fundamental to modern music.

https://500songs.com/podcast/flying-home-by-the-benny-goodman-sextet/

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