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Age 0-5, 1971 to 1976

I remember my dad used to play me a lot of music. I mean a lot in quantity and variation. He always has the car stereo on and would make the effort to expose us as many to different styles as he could. I can’t recall most of what he played but I remember I used to ask for “The Donkey Music”, which was kind of clippy cloppy stuff you heard in westerns. He used to play Steve Wonder, too and tap on the steering wheel. I remember the music to Doctor Who used to terrify me.

My mother used to play Helen Reddy, Kenny Rogers, Abba and Roger Whitaker, and I still know a lot of their songs by heart even though I haven’t heard them since, which is the sign of an aural thinker. I liked The Jungle Book soundtrack which I used to play over and over on my tape player. It was one of those toploading things with a built in speaker and a handle. My dad used to play a lot of jazz, but more about that later.

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