Those who grew up in this era can probably remember older people saying that things had once been better: people were more responsible and less demanding. Life was more fun, they claimed; to them, most of the popular music of the 1960s was an abomination. Dad idealized the time when his parents were young (c. 1900). Both parents loved the popular songs (good songs, mostly) of a Scotland and an Ireland that their forebears probably would not have recognized..