Evocative songs

[Gemini]

Some songs can take you right back to time and place, and it is as if you are still that person, despite the passing of years.

Recently I heard Amoureuse by Kiki Dee. I love it and it take me right back to being 19, in my London flat, the light through the slats in my louvred bedroom door, and my first love.
I feel I am that young girl when I listen to that, and it's hard to believe that I am in fact a 64 year old grandmother!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEcJMJK8_Us

Music play funny trick on our minds.
Which song or songs can take you back?

[Nanto2girls]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9md5oW00q4

This takes me back to when we got married.it was released about the same time.
Always takes me back.

I was only anout 10 when this Elvis hit was released,but i remember my dad playing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9md5oW00q4

[Oma]

Has to be David Cassidy" I think I love you " I remember exactly where we were what we were doing and that it was a wonderful sunny day the first time we listened to it on a little radio at the beach eating ice cream
All those years ago I couldn't imagine being a grandmother with a GS who is 14 on Monday ,
It seemed like a life time away now so much has happened since then but every time I hear it I see that day in my mind

[Grauntie Mag]

Sitting on the Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding. It takes me back to my bedsit and flat days and my best pal N. We had such a good time. No cares or worries and a party every weekend. We dressed in clothes we modified from jumble sales...then life got in the way.

[Mimi]

These are the days of our lives by Queen
The lyrics remind me that I am indeed older and not to regret some of the things that have happened in my life because I have my beautiful children and grandchildren

You can't turn back the clock you can't turn back the tide
Ain't that a shame
I'd like to go back one time on a roller coaster ride
When life was just a game
No use in sitting and thinkin' on what you did
When you can lay back and enjoy it through your kids
Sometimes it seems like lately
I just don't know
Better sit back and go with the flow

and the final verse is very poignant as it was the last song recorded by Freddie and when he whispers at the end I still love you it means so much to me


Those were the days of our lives, yeah
The bad things in life were so few
Those days are all gone now but one thing's still true
When I look and I find
I still love you
I still love you

[Qwerty]

Love all the songs ladies but Eloise is my favourite too , I used to do his mums hair when I was about 20 and so a lot of my friends lived in the area , I didn’t but used to meet them socially near work and the 2 brothers when to the Same nightclub and believe me they were the most handsome men I had ever seen in my life , so dark and wore the latest fashion and smelled delightful , I didn’t stand a chance lol 😢

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cQywZYoGB1g

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U_9M6kRfJes

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JaYTNsS_m2w

[Plantaholic]

Of course my music memories are very different, Little Richard, Bill Hayley was music I listened to but my children introduce me to music they loved and my son introduced be to Queen which I still love so reminds me of sharing it with him out of earshot of OH, he only ever listened to classical music, I

[Nana]

I've got a lump in my throat just reading Mimi's, Grauntie's & Qwerty's posts. Mimi I really cried the first time I saw Freddie sing that song. So sad. Qwerty I have memories of the three songs you chose too. Grauntie I remember sitting in the 6th form 'common room' when I heard it on the radio that Otis had died. I have vynils with all the aforementioned.

When I hear Ruby Murray singing "Que Sera" I'm taken back to being a very little girl walking holding my GDad's hand along Primrose Valley cliff tops. I remember because he kept asking me to sing it over & over again.

[Grauntie Mag]

Nana, you have jogged my memory! Saturday evening at Mrs P’s house waiting for Ma and Pa to come home from the shop and Perry Como singing Catch a Falling Star on the radio.

[Daisy]

I shall have to reread this thread on my desktop so I can listen to the music properly.

Music has has been a huge part of my life, with different songs taking on meaning and emotion at all stages of my life. I’ll have to have a think and try and narrow it down to three hundred or so! 😍😍😍

[Oma]

Nana I loved Ruby Murray , O'Mallys Tango , What was she like ,etc , I still have a old LG and a tape of hers 😊

[Daisy]

Ahhh - journeys down memory lane - all great choices, ladies.

Plant - Bill Haley, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, early Elvis and Cliff - they were all part of my teenage dreams.

I've been trying to put some of my all-time 'memory' songs into some sort of order in my head, and I can clearly remember walking to the youth club, aged about 15, with tears streaming down my face at this Buddy Holly song going through my head. It was the last song he recorded and it seemed so poignant (and still does).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOTv9jY4X5E

[Glammanana]

Listening to Love on a Mountain Top by Robert Knight takes me back to when John and I first met and spent our whole summer living in Newquay every time I hear it I go back to being 21 again.

[Shemadee]

I joined in with the singing during High Mass but unfortunately I was singing Que Sera Sera! I was only three at the time!

[Daisy]

Shem - was it in Latin?