One big difference between then and now is that the radio stations didn't stick to specific genres. At least not the ones in smaller markets. There was no pre-programming and there wasn't enough of a market to divide genres. Our stations in the 70's played everything that fell within the rock-pop range, So everybody was familiar with a wider range of music. I miss that. I find that I can't listen to any one station now for very long before I get tired of that type of music and hearing the sames songs over and over. I would love to have an old school station that played everything so that I wouldn't get tired of the same songs being shoved down my throat. (My co-workers like listening to the radio in the morning and I am deathly sick of it. But I don't want to rain on their parade so I just put in ear plugs and try to ignore it.)