From the lyrics, What “scene” is this song trying to set?

What setting is this song trying to set. I really don’t understand it.

[b][quote]I'm a 45 spinning on an old Victrola.
I'm a two strike swinger, I'm a Pepsi Cola.
I'm a blue jean quarterback saying "I love you" to the prom queen, In a Chevy.
I'm John Wayne, Superman, California.
I'm a Kris Kristofferson Sunday morning.
I'm a mama and daddy singing along to Don McLean, At the levee.

I'm Mark Twain on the Mississippi.
I'm Hemingway with a shot of whiskey.
I'm a TV dinner on a tray trying to figure out the wheel, of fortune.
I'm a Texaco star, I'm a Gibson guitar.
I'm still a teenage kid trying to go too far.
I'm a jukebox waiting in a neon bar, for a quarter.[/quote][/b]

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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

Attempting to define himself, yet some of that can't possibly fit.

For instance. Victrola just simply can't fit. It wouldn't even fit my parents who were born in 1920.

Not going to go into every line the doesn't fit.

Yet "mama and daddy" is referring to the "Momma's and Poppas". They were often harmonized to by adults in the 60s. Hence singing to, not harmonizing to, Don Mclean's song: American pie.

Lots of inferences in those lyrics that only certain Americans can understand.... Texico star... A gas station whose Logo was a star. Yet Gibson guitar really doesn't fit. Texico would run you off the lot!