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Post by peasapie on Apr 26, 2017 0:10:52 GMT
My husband were playing this game tonight at dinner. Name a song and tell where you were or what it reminds you of. I'll start --
Yes - "Roundabout" - Allison Steele (the Nightbird) on WNEW 102.7 - trying to tune my stereo receiver to get it the very first time I heard it. In my room. With incense burning. 1971 and yup, I'm dating myself!
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Post by peabay on Apr 26, 2017 0:32:09 GMT
Sigh - WNEW. Carol Miller, Scott Muni, Meg Griffin, Pete Fornatale. Great memories of high school.
I also can share a WNEW memory. Sitting in my friend LeeAnn's basement, listening to WNEW and I said to the radio "Carol, play me some Bruce" and Carol Miller, somehow cosmically hearing me, played "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy.)"
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Post by compeateropeator on Apr 26, 2017 1:01:37 GMT
Too many songs to quickly come up with one...I'll have to think on it. But when you mention radio stations of our youth, oh man you take me back. Listening to Chome 97.7 out of Montreal (during the late 70's to early 80's). It was an international big city radio station...oh the things we heard. We felt so sophisticated and edgy.
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Post by corinne11 on Apr 26, 2017 1:08:42 GMT
Oh, this is fun I was about 10? with my sister and my best friend singing into a tape recorder while we played "Mother and Child Reunion" by Paul Simon on our record player. We were particularly pleased with our line "only a moment away" (us singing AWAY a few seconds later!) we thought we were so cool. I still can remember that album cover- he was wearing a hooded, furry coat. Corinne ETA just went and looked it up on YouTube- still such a great song! now added to my ITunes account.
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Post by compeateropeator on Apr 26, 2017 1:26:38 GMT
Here is one. It was not the 1st time I heard the song, but it was the time that had most meaning. June 11th (?), 1983 - hearing David Bowie playing Young American in concert in Gothenburg, Sweden. I swear he was singing it just to us, not the other 65,000 people.
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Post by PolarGreen12 on Apr 26, 2017 1:31:24 GMT
James Taylor's Fire and Rain...weekends at my parent's lake house on Grand. They bought it when I was only 6 and only just recently sold it. They loved James Taylor, The Eagles, Joe Cocker, and Three Dog Night. They didn't play music too much at home, but they always had it going on a stereo on the lake house porch or on the dock. Anything by those four artists always makes me smell the woods and water and feel that slow warm vibe of summer.
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Post by ntsf on Apr 26, 2017 1:33:09 GMT
sitting at a campus library with a broken heart .. listening to Bob Dylan.. "Don't Think twice, it's alright"..
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Post by ~KellyAnn~ on Apr 26, 2017 1:33:57 GMT
We Are The Champions (Queen) and I Love Rock And Roll (Joan Jett)..... played, full blast, on a boom box while riding on our high school wrestling team's bus back in '82,'83 & '84. I was the wrestling manager and got to ride to meets with the guys, while the coaches and cheerleaders (yes, they were called mat maids!) drove separately. Going to the meets, the bus would be quiet because the guys were focused. If the team won, someone would turn on the boom box and everyone would sing in the dark. Hearing those two songs, especially, bring back wonderful memories!
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Post by AmandaA on Apr 26, 2017 1:34:08 GMT
Chances by Five for Fighting (most people recognize it as the song from the end of the movie The Blind Side). It is a song about relationships and pursuing them even when you know the odds are that it won't work out. But in an interview with the song writer, he gave a more general inspiration for the song "the importance of failure".
I have the most vivid memory of hearing this song while I was in the doctor's office right after my first fertility procedure. Just laying there and taking a deep breath and trying to relax after it was done and then hearing this song. It seems like fate in hindsight, because that time didn't work. And it took several more before it did... but we kept trying even though we knew how it might end just like in the song. So every time I hear it now, I can't help but pause and just soak it all in all over again.
And then there is Mambo No5. Ha ha. When DH and I went to Cancun together for our first big trip when we were dating, this song was a huge hit and they blasted it at the pool all day long.
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Post by AussieMeg on Apr 26, 2017 1:43:31 GMT
'Galveston' by Glen Campbell – little 7yo AussieMeg sitting on the lounge room floor singing along using a hairbrush as a microphone. It wasn’t my favorite song on the record, but it was the only one that had the words written on the back of the record cover.
'Some Girls' by Racy – my best friend and I were the bell monitors in grade six, 1979. Every morning we had to go into the Principal’s office and play a record which was the sign for kids to line up for assembly, then ring the bell at 9am for the start of the day. The only records they had were really daggy instrumentals like Baby Elephant Walk and Popcorn and Pink Panther Theme, so my friend and I would bring in records from home. We only got to play Some Girls a few times before we were banned from playing it. I remember going home and telling my parents, with all the naïve indignation an 11yo could muster: “We’re not allowed to play it anymore because it’s too suggestive” and rolling my eyes. Looking at the lyrics now, I can totally see why the song was banned at primary school full of kids from 4 to 12 years old! Some girls will, some girls won't Some girls need a lot of lovin' and some girls don't Well, I know I've got the fever but I don't know why Some say they will and some girls lie
Any song by Air Supply reminds me of sitting on my BFF’s front lawn in 1981 at 14yo, full of teenage angst and heartbreak “I’m all out of love, I’m so lost without you……” and we’d be all teary about breaking up with our boyfriends.
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Post by CarefreeSadie on Apr 26, 2017 1:45:16 GMT
Inagoddadivita by Iron Butterfly, the album, over 17 minutes of moody rock. Sitting on the floor of my oldest sisters appartment trying to be cool at 13 watching a bunch of college kids get drunk and/or stoned.......my misbegotten youth.
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Post by femalebusiness on Apr 26, 2017 2:02:16 GMT
White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane. At a canyon party with all of my friends who were all musicians or singers. We all camped out and there were a bunch of bands that played all weekend long. We got very, very stoned on some really good weed and laughed our asses off. My ribs hurt for a week after from laughing so much. Fun times!
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Post by peasapie on Apr 26, 2017 2:02:58 GMT
Too many songs to quickly come up with one...I'll have to think on it. But when you mention radio stations of our youth, oh man you take me back. Listening to Chome 97.7 out of Montreal (during the late 70's to early 80's). It was a international big city radio station...oh the things we heard. We felt so sophisticated and edgy. Yes! We were...
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Post by peasapie on Apr 26, 2017 2:04:33 GMT
sitting at a campus library with a broken heart .. listening to Bob Dylan.. "Don't Think twice, it's alright".. Oh this made me sad in the way of early loves...
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Post by peasapie on Apr 26, 2017 2:06:29 GMT
White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane. At a canyon party with all of my friends who were all musicians or singers. We all camped out and there were a bunch of bands that played all weekend long. We got very, very stoned on some really good weed and laughed our asses off. My ribs hurt for a week after from laughing so much. Fun times! I walked to my first block party, across from the high school I would be attending that fall, and this song was playing. We got high for the first time with some "older" kids, and Grace Slick was wailing in the background. White Rabbit. Wow.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Apr 26, 2017 2:21:24 GMT
When I was going through my divorce I lived with my mom for a short time. My brother was on dialysis and living there too. For a while that spring I was unemployed and I would drive him to dialysis and we would blare Kid Rock All Summer Long and sing at the top of our lungs. I think of my brother every time I hear Kid Rock.
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Post by ellen on Apr 26, 2017 2:38:51 GMT
My husband and I were bringing our dogs to the kennel the morning we were going to be moving our daughter across the state to begin college. The song "Wide Open Spaces" by the Dixie Chicks came on the radio. I love that song and hearing it the day my daughter was moving away left me all teary but also knowing this is how it's supposed to be.
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Post by anonrefugee on Apr 26, 2017 2:47:27 GMT
I'll go with your 70s theme, otherwise there are too many! Steve Miller Band, The Joker, junior high school.
Yes, I am so old it was organized as a junior high school, not middle school.
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Post by padresfan619 on Apr 26, 2017 2:50:09 GMT
R Kelly - I Believe I Can Fly
On the school bus singing with my friends
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Post by crazy4scraps on Apr 26, 2017 2:51:20 GMT
Oh, so, so many. But the one that popped right into my head? None other than Hotel California, which I would sing to myself over and over while walking to my part time job after school when I was done with sports practice. It was a 3/4 mile walk to work and it felt three times that long in the winter when there was a ton of snow and no one had shoveled their sidewalks. Then I would sing it some more walking the half mile home after my shift was over.
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Post by quiltz on Apr 26, 2017 3:56:23 GMT
1970's - The Who and watching Tommy live on stage in Toronto.
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Post by Belia on Apr 26, 2017 4:17:36 GMT
"Radio Gaga"- I think that was Queen??? It was the music video playing when my mom unplugged the cable TV... permanently.... because (she said) all my sister and I did was lay around and watch MTV and drive her nuts.
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Post by lisacharlotte on Apr 26, 2017 4:45:32 GMT
Seals & Croft "Summer Breeze" puts me at Seal Beach CA. It wasn't a new song then (late 70s) but it must have been the right time to hear it. I can almost smell Coppertone when that song comes on. Pet Shop Boys "West End Girls" takes me to London in the 80s. I loved those years when i was young and the whole world was full of possibilities.
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Post by chendra on Apr 26, 2017 4:52:09 GMT
Riding the school bus back to junior high after a field trip to the aerospace museum, Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" began playing on the radio. We all sang "Hey! Teacher! Leave us kids alone!" quite enthusiastically to the teachers who were our chaperones.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2017 7:38:46 GMT
What difference does it make - The Smiths. Riding in the school mini bus on a trip with our needlework teacher. The trip was deadly dull but the song changed my life! Music wasn't really my thing till Morrissey came along with his flat vowels, his Gladioli twirling and his lyrics that spoke so loudly to me. A friend bought the Hatful of Hollow album and we spent hours listening to it in her bedroom.
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Post by tuesdaysgone on Apr 26, 2017 9:57:04 GMT
I have bittersweet memories every time I hear Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb." My husband was in ICU in a medically induced coma for 27 days. During that time the nurses always kept 70s rock playing in his room, per my request.
I can remember sitting there for hours not knowing when/if he would recover and listening to these lyrics... "Is anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me."
He doesn't remember much of that month, but he does have framents of memory that involve hearing music.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Apr 26, 2017 12:54:04 GMT
I have bittersweet memories every time I hear Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb." My husband was in ICU in a medically induced coma for 27 days. During that time the nurses always kept 70s rock playing in his room, per my request. I can remember sitting there for hours not knowing when/if he would recover and listening to these lyrics... "Is anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me." He doesn't remember much of that month, but he does have framents of memory that involve hearing music. I cannot find the words I'm looking for to describe it. It kind of gave me chills. Hugs to you going through something so tough.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Apr 26, 2017 12:55:40 GMT
"A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation" by Marty Robbins from 1957 (how's that for dating yourself ). One of my earliest memories is of my dad singing that song, dancing with me as I stood on top of his feet. I was probably around 4 years old. It's an old song that you never hear anymore, even on musak. Dad passed in 2008. About a month later I was in a local pharmacy/gift shop that always had musak going. This song played on the overhead speaker and I nearly lost it. Funny thing is I have never heard it again since that day. I like to think perhaps it was a quick visit from Dad.
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Post by scrappert on Apr 26, 2017 13:13:40 GMT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwrHCa9t0dMI hope that link works... My boy Lollipop - Millie Small My sister and I listening to my mom's old 45's. She had this one and we made up a dance routine for it. We still talk about it to this day and that was 30 some years ago?
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Post by mommaho on Apr 26, 2017 13:47:53 GMT
I love all these memories! Our local station (and still on today) was WTUE and my BFF and I would sit in front of the stereo with our tape recorder waiting to hear those first cords of whatever was our favorite song of the week!
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