Dave that's pretty interesting to hear. When I'm listening to older music sometimes, I wonder what would happen if it was played on the radio again...would people react the same way? If a song is timeless or somehow relevant, it could be a hit all over again. The kids now hear something that is a cover or uses a sample from 30 years ago when music was great, and think it is completely original. They have no idea.
I try to influence what my boys like too. They both like music with a "beat", like R&B or hip hop. I let them listen to Booker T & the MGs, some James Brown, the Meters, some disco, jazz, and other reasonably innocent, but still cool stuff like that.
I chose the screenname Highway Star because it is a song about a fast car, and also because of the gut-wrenching highway gears in my Chevelle, along with the fact that it seemed to make sense because I was also doing 200 miles of highway driving a day for work at the time, with no end in sight.
