I grew up in Miami, FL (b. 1955). The popular AM radio station in the 60's was WQAM with the disc jockey Rick Shaw. Back then, they mostly played Top 40 and "bubblegum pop" music. But it was also my introduction to the Beatles, Stones, Beach Boys, Byrds, Dave Clark Five, Jefferson Airplane and many others. Whenever the Surfaris "Wipeout" would play we would try to mimic the beat of the drums with our hands on a book or tabletop. I never quite got it right. I clearly remember when my older sister got a transistor radio. We could listen to the music that we wanted to, whereas in the car my parents had control of the radio.
By the late 60's, my older brother had a stereo in his room and we started listening to albums more than the radio. So my tastes were heavily influenced by his record collection. I remember albums by Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Buffalo Springfield, Paul Butterfield, Love, Quicksilver and Spirit. In the 70's, I began my own record collection... many of which I still have in a crate in the back room.
One thing that I remember is that buying an album was expensive back then. In my late teens and early twenties money was tight. So you really had to consider an album purchase as an investment! When someone would buy an new record we, too, would gather around the Hi-Fi for a first listening. As someone learning to play guitar in the late 60's and early 70's there were no YouTube videos. We would have to figure out new songs by listening to the records. If the lyrics weren't printed on the album cover or inner sleeve, I would sit in front of the turntable and write the songs out longhand on a legal pad... periodically picking the needle up and moving it back to replay a section. Same with trying to figure out chord changes!
Some singer/songwriters and bands had songbooks published, but they were as expensive as buying an album. Often, I would go into a music store and thumb thru a songbook, find a song I wanted to learn and memorize the chords. Then go out to the car and write the chords down on my legal pad. For a complicated chord progression, it would sometimes take several trips into the music store. I remember learning Phil Ochs' "There But For Fortune" and the Grateful Dead's "Uncle John's Band" this way. Also, several James Taylor songs.