P.S. First Exposure to popular music...

I think it is worth mentioning some history...

My first memories of popular recorded music were pretty simple. They were a joy, too. I remember (many, many times) riding along in the family's Mother Ship (that's one of those living-room-as-a-driving-BOAT station wagons of the 60s) with my mom - going who knows where to run who-knows-what errand...

The A.M. push-button radio spewing out scratchy low-fi music from the little speaker in the center of the hard metal dashboard. Purple People? Elvis. The Kingston Trio. Fabulous, multi-polyphonic Christmas music sung by unknown "orchestras."

The seats in the Mother Ship were vinyl. The smell of the hot car was of vinyl. The music blaring through the speaker was played from vinyl.

Plastic never sounded quite so good.