Which songs bring back memories.

Caz · 12-02-2009, 20:10

Was wondering which records bring back memories for people, of a certain time in your life because you were having fun, a love connection, a sad time. Which music makes you weep when you hear it again...or makes you go all fuzzy.

Some of mine.

Smile, (written by C haplin)because it reminds me of my gran.

From my youth, and also because they just seem to have that nostalgic thing
The onion song
Young gifted and black

Here comes my baby, (Tremeloes)
Wild thing, Love is all around(Troggs)
Coz had crushes on the lead singers of those groups, lol

Band of Gold (Freda Payne) Dancing at the Golden Palms

I will survive, (Gloria Gaynor)for the usual reason! Shedding unwanted baggage.

Do you really want to hurt me (culture club) Start of a new me.

True love ways always makes me feel slightly sad.

cashman · 12-02-2009, 22:59

i'll take you home again kathleen, Joseph Locke always reminds me of me mam, she loved him, Twilight Time ,Platters first record i ever bought, Shine on you crazy diamond, Pink Floyd, me late missus, Sea Cruise, Frankie Ford, Breathless, Jerry Lee Lewis, Rave On, Buddy Holly. all those have many happy memories.

garinda · 12-02-2009, 23:19

Oh, too many to mention, but two that really take me right back to a warm and happy place are 'Blow the Wind Southerly' - Kathleen Ferrier, and 'La Vie en Rose' - Grace Jones.

Sometimes a song, just as a smell can, takes you right back through time.

Caz · 12-02-2009, 23:24

Bloomin heck, Kathleen ferrier, remember having a lesson about her at school and how she came from a poor family, and how her mother patched up her school uniform...don't know why that bit sticks in my mind lol!

She was a Lancashire lass wasn't she?

cashman · 12-02-2009, 23:55

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Originally Posted by Caz

Bloomin heck, Kathleen ferrier, remember having a lesson about her at school and how she came from a poor family, and how her mother patched up her school uniform...don't know why that bit sticks in my mind lol!

She was a Lancashire lass wasn't she?

yep born in Higher Walton, family moved to Blackburn later at some point.

garinda · 13-02-2009, 00:44

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Originally Posted by Caz

Bloomin heck, Kathleen ferrier, remember having a lesson about her at school and how she came from a poor family, and how her mother patched up her school uniform...don't know why that bit sticks in my mind lol!

She was a Lancashire lass wasn't she?

...as Cashy said yes she was. She worked at the G.P.O. in Blackburn, before beginning a short but glittering and critically acclaimed singing career, and was arguably the finest contralto voice ever to have been recorded.

shillelagh · 13-02-2009, 00:55

Any of Josef Locke .. my dad, Danny Boy, Bing Crosby, Daniel O'Donnell - my mum, butterfly kisses by lauren waterworth - my cousin in ireland, thats for starters ....

Alan Gilmartin · 13-02-2009, 08:48

Me mam went t skoo wi Kathleen, St Peters Mill Hill.

jaysay · 13-02-2009, 12:35

Reach Out, the Four Tops and She'd Rather be with me The Turtles remind me of my youth, A White Shade of Pale Procol Harem is also up there for me

grannyclaret · 13-02-2009, 15:58

oh my papa,,,eddie calvet,,reminds me of my late dad,,
the book,,david whitfield,,reminds me of my late mum,,,
first time ever i saw your face,,,roberta flack ,,,
..even now ,,,,,barry manilow
whos sorry now connie francis,,,my hubby tells everyone thats what our weddind album plays....(its really the 23rd psalm,,,
any 50/60s songs by ELVIS,,BUDDY HOLLY,,JOHNNY RAY ,,FRANKIE LAINE,,,ETC

Benipete · 02-03-2009, 04:03

Build me up Buttercup reminds me of my first love,never new when you had her attention,still after 48 yrs. still think of her.
Still thinking Allison C from Hest Bank.

cashman · 02-03-2009, 19:34

now Benipete ya got me maudling

the one that reminds me of my 1st love (not first girlfriend) is "Groovy Kind Of Love" the Mindbenders. everyone called her Ellie May, cos she was a ringer fer Ellie May Clampett. cracking lass,but stupidly drink came first.

West Ender · 02-03-2009, 21:18

How long have we got? There has always been music in my life and most of it has memories. I really could make a list longer than your arm and mine put together so just a few here.

Grieg, Chopin and Dvorak, George Gershwin, Gilbert and Sullivan, 1920s dance bands, Paul Robeson, Gracie Fields and George Formby, these are all childhood memories. Glenn Miller Orchestra, Elvis, Buddy Holly, Guy Mitchell, Little Richard, all my teenage years. The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Frankie Vallee, I'm a young wife and mum.

There are so many more and I'm still playing most of them. Every one has a memory and an awful lot can make me cry.

Royboy39 · 02-03-2009, 21:39

Doctor Hook........Magic:

Oh....Happy days