🧵THREAD: Lots of us learned classical music from watching old cartoons

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55. I never cared much for Bugs Bunny

and rarely watched him. I preferred Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, and Popeye. But I heard the Bugs Bunny music when my sister and other brother watched him, and recognized the music from concerts with my mother.

By the time the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, I was in 9th grade and had been very much into 1960s rock for a few years - The Supremes, Beach Boys, Four Seasons. Liked the Beatles right off, but never got caught up totally in Beatlemania. From there, for me, it was Rolling Stones, 3 Dog Night, Mamas and Papas, Bee Gees, and CCR. (Never understood why people criticized me for liking CCR.) Soloists - Helen Reddy, Carly Simon, Judy Collins, Neil Diamond, Bruce Springsteen Bob Dylan, Billy Joel.

Never got into heavy metal, punk, or any of the rest after that. Kind of stagnated musically, except for a few artists on the radio from time to time. Today I prefer classic rock mostly.