Songs that “take you back”...

[TARDISCapricorn]

Hey all! I’ve been listening to A LOT of 70s music for the past few weeks and have discovered a lot of the songs unlock memories in my head from when I was a kid. Since music can have almost as great an effect on your memory as smells, it only makes sense that music can open your mind’s eye pretty wide. What about you guys? Do any old songs take you back to bring a kid?

First up “You Make Me Feel Brand New” and “You Are Everything” by The Stylistics, a pair of tunes that got heavy rotation on the radio (youngsters, ask your parents) when I was a youngster.

 

[RobDownSouth]

David Byrne performing "Once In a Lifetime" on Saturday Night Live la few weeks ago brought back an enormous number of memories from the late 70s/early 80s

 

[IrezumiKiss]

First up “You Make Me Feel Brand New” and “You Are Everything” by The Stylistics, a pair of tunes that got heavy rotation on the radio (youngsters, ask your parents) when I was a youngster.

Well, gott-DAMN, I was about to say sum'n but...you didn't have to shut this thread down in the first post!

I got their Best Of on my iTunes...how you gon' beat The Stylistics?

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even Prince covered their jam. He knew what was up!

 

[oneblueye]

hey...

Hey all! I’ve been listening to A LOT of 70s music for the past few weeks and have discovered a lot of the songs unlock memories in my head from when I was a kid. Since music can have almost as great an effect on your memory as smells, it only makes sense that music can open your mind’s eye pretty wide. What about you guys? Do any old songs take you back to bring a kid?

First up “You Make Me Feel Brand New” and “You Are Everything” by The Stylistics, a pair of tunes that got heavy rotation on the radio (youngsters, ask your parents) when I was a youngster.

Heartbreak Hotel/ Elvis Presley, (the King of RocknRoll)
Cars Hiss By My Window/ Jim Morrison, (the Lizard King)
The Fish Cheer/ Country Joe and the Fish

 

[Wrong Element]

Hey all! I’ve been listening to A LOT of 70s music for the past few weeks and have discovered a lot of the songs unlock memories in my head from when I was a kid. Since music can have almost as great an effect on your memory as smells, it only makes sense that music can open your mind’s eye pretty wide. What about you guys? Do any old songs take you back to bring a kid?

First up “You Make Me Feel Brand New” and “You Are Everything” by The Stylistics, a pair of tunes that got heavy rotation on the radio (youngsters, ask your parents) when I was a youngster.

Christmas 1972 was when I got my own radio for the first time, and the songs that were out at that time and right afterwards really stuck in my memory. Two of the really big hits of the winter of 1972-73 were "Me and Mrs. Jones" and "You're So Vain," which impressed upon me that the world of adult emotions was much more complicated than I had imagined from observing my parents.

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

Almost any top 40 song from the 70's will take me back to family car rides or mom or my older brother listening to whatever. Nice memories usually.

 

[TARDISCapricorn]

Well, gott-DAMN, I was about to say sum'n but...you didn't have to shut this thread down in the first post!

I got their Best Of on my iTunes...how you gon' beat The Stylistics?

https://media3.giphy.com/media/OOzqAh9MiiUvMh8QuU/giphy.gif

even Prince covered their jam. He knew what was up!

Wow!! That’s cool to hear regarding Prince covering The Stylistics. What song/songs did he do?

 

[TARDISCapricorn]

Christmas 1972 was when I got my own radio for the first time, and the songs that were out at that time and right afterwards really stuck in my memory. Two of the really big hits of the winter of 1972-73 were "Me and Mrs. Jones" and "You're So Vain," which impressed upon me that the world of adult emotions was much more complicated than I had imagined from observing my parents.

“Me and Mrs. Jones” is the song I wake up to every morning. LOL! It’s a great song and it, along with others, takes me back to the summers I spent with my sister in Florida. Great times indeed!!

 

[Saint_Ann]

Marshall Crenshaw - Someday Someway - 1982 Letterman

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_iAudjHAVn8/hqdefault.jpg

 

[Stewart_Pidd]

Howard Jones' "No One is to Blame"

or "Love Comes Walking In" by Van Halen bro.

Stew

 

[Bdm20]

Nights In White Satin - Moody Blues

Backseat of the car memories...

 

[TARDISCapricorn]

Heard another couple today that did it for me. “Joy To The World” by Three Dog Night and “Back Stabbers” by The O’Jays. A time when music was actually—-musical.

 

[jaF0]

Puff, The Magic Dragon.

 

[GreyFlannel]

Teddy Pendergrass - Come go with me
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uzYM01Smsug

A House Is Not a Home - Luther Vandross
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CGib6okEeZ4

Change - Searching
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MbIwR6EUmN8

 

[TARDISCapricorn]

Howard Jones' "No One is to Blame"

or "Love Comes Walking In" by Van Halen bro.

Stew

Listened to both of those quite a bit my freshman year at college. Good tunes!

 

[silver gurl]

More Than A Feeling~Boston
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4QK8RxCAwo

 

[Gazzspeed]

Bob Seger - Night Moves

Still resonates

 

[Stewart_Pidd]

Listened to both of those quite a bit my freshman year at college. Good tunes!

They played a lot in our mess hall in Basic that year bro.

Stew

 

[jaF0]

She got the goldmine.
I got the shaft.


- Jerry Reed.