I have no doubt that, had I actually been growing up in the 1930s or 1940s, I would have been grooving to turn-of-the-century beats.

Emma Brockes
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The 1950s and 1960s were a very big time in the history of music. It was a period that saw a lot of firsts, from Elvis’s first appearance on television, to the Beatles first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. That being said, it also saw a lot of firsts that were not good. If you were a teenager in the early 1960s, there was no doubt that you would have been grooving to turn-of-the-century beats as you listened to the radio.

The music coming out at the time included hits from George Jones, Tammy Wynette, and Merle Haggard. If you had been listening to those songs as you grew up, you would have been missing out on an entire era of great music.

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