We all know the how the power of music stimulates our senses. Hearing a song can bring flashback memories of people, places, things, smells, and just about anything else from the cobwebs of our minds.

I was just listening to an Internet radio program (Super Oldies.com) and heard "The Wayward Wind" by Gogi Grant from 1956. I instantly remembered what I was doing and where I was when I first heard that haunting melody long ago. At the time I lived at Eagle Mountain Lake in Texas on a windy rise. It was way out in the country and I was about 7 years old. My older sisters were playing the radio and getting ready to go the "Rec" for a sock hop. I was outside with a pellet gun shooting bull frogs from a small pond we had near our well house.

That was over 50 years ago and I had forgotten my frog shootin' days until I heard the song a few minutes ago. I guess the SPCA would get me for shootin' now.

For me a smell can also bring back a song memory and vice versa.

What songs jog your memory for long lost events, etc.?

"The Wayward Wind" Gogi Grant (born 9/20/24)
Debut: 4/28/56
Peak:   #1
Weeks: 28
Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2002 Billboard.