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...would have to say I have an honest disagreement with you on songwriters and even what the best of being a boomer was.
Songwriters: A great many of those we enjoyed in the classic rock, folk, and Motown era were born well before the boom.
And as for ultimate songwriting talent, I think of those of a much earlier era -- the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, Dorothy Fields, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, et al.
And as for the best of being a boomer, I must say in retrospect that it was great to go everywhere on foot and by bike, to have Halloween, the Memorial Day parade, etc., etc.; to watch local kiddie programs on the weekdays and cartoons on Saturday, to see The Wizard of Oz and The March of the Wooden Soldiers on TV once a year and only once a year, because that's the way it was done.
It wasn't a perfect world or even a perfectly safe world, but it had its simple pleasures.
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