Songs from the summer of 2000

Subject: Songs from the summer of 2000
From: mactheturk
Date: 12 Aug 00 - 09:29 AM

We often relate songs to particular periods of time in the way certain smells bring back old memories. A heartfelt tune can bring us back to very specific summer thoughts.

For example, the new CD "Appalachian Journey" with Mark O'Connor Yo-Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer will always remain attached to my memory of this years trip to North Carolina.

Do you have similar favorites this summer?

Thanks, Mac

Subject: RE: Songs from the summer of 2000
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Aug 00 - 10:03 AM

'You're in my heart' Rod Stewart, will always bring back summer 1979, when I met my first love.

And Hazel O'Connor doing 'Stay now' will always bring back May 1983 when I met the ultimate love of my life.... excuse me whilst I go and be a bit emotional.....

LTS

Subject: RE: Songs from the summer of 2000
From: P05139
Date: 12 Aug 00 - 10:33 AM

Sorry, but yet more pop songs!

North And South "Tarantion's New Star"brings back memories of 1997.

Spice Girls "Viva Forever" brings back memories of Warwick festival 1998, when I listened to the Top 40 then went and heckled Keith Donnelly!!

Steps always remind me of Summer of ANY year after 1998!

Byee!

Subject: RE: Songs from the summer of 2000
From: Mbo
Date: 12 Aug 00 - 01:42 PM

It's hard to think of what songs remind me of this summer, since it's still this summer. Probably Oasis & The Beatles, since I've been on a binge with them since June. Also, my Carolina Beach Music album "Always Be My Girl" will forever remind me of this summer (and the girl I love, evidement).

--Matt

Subject: RE: Songs from the summer of 2000
From: Crowhugger
Date: 12 Aug 00 - 01:53 PM

Yeah, I'm with Mbo, still in summer spirit; I think it may be October before I'm looking back. When I do, I expect that one stand out will be Psalm Elegy by Strul Irvin Glick. It's for chamber choir and harp or piano, text by Toby Bonguard. Beyond that, it's too early to tell for sure.

Subject: RE: Songs from the summer of 2000
From: Susan from California
Date: 12 Aug 00 - 02:19 PM

Summer of 2000, I think "Cold Missouri Water" (sorry--I don't know who wrote it, con't have my copy of the cd that I heard it on) It's a song about a firejumper in Montana and since I was just in Missoula,MT during what the locals said is one of the worst fire seasons in 50 years--that song will probably bring my trip to mind. It was rather hard to appreciate the amazing beauty of the area when it is impossible to see the mountains because the smoke is so thick :-(

Summer of 1975--Springsteen. I was 16 and a guy I knew took me to Asbury Park for the day to see Madame Marie's and the tilt-a-whirl, etc. I still remember the bikini I wore that day, and the fact that Steve liked it, too :-) ahhhh, youth.

Subject: RE: Songs from the summer of 2000
From: Catrin
Date: 12 Aug 00 - 03:28 PM

Dylan, because I've just been on holiday with a group of friends and he was played lots. Also 'Bright Blue Rose' 'cos I have been singing it all week trying to learn it.

Probably lots of other stuff which I don't know about yet 'cos the summer's not over.

Catrin

Subject: RE: Songs from the summer of 2000
From: mactheturk
Date: 12 Aug 00 - 04:15 PM

Went to see some old friends in Nevada City last month, was listening to Neil Young's new album "Silver and Gold". The first song "Good To See You" struck a chord with us.

mac

Subject: RE: Songs from the summer of 2000
From: Diva
Date: 12 Aug 00 - 04:16 PM

1981 Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes because it was playing in the pub when we went for a drink first time he came to visit. He won't remember. 2000 Aye waukin O because he sang it to me the other night when no one else was there.....and it was lovely too.

Subject: RE: Songs from the summer of 2000
From: Nynia
Date: 12 Aug 00 - 06:27 PM

Songs....Hh-mmmmmmmm


nothing from 2000 but Raglan Road & The Wheel Of Fortune (Turn Ye Round Ye Wheel Of Fortune - Version) have always meant a lot.


Oh yes and a certain Scottish Junior Cup Final viewed in a garage in Ayr, and last years FAI Cup Final Replay.

Subject: RE: Songs from the summer of 2000
From: Willie-O
Date: 12 Aug 00 - 09:01 PM

The one I just wrote!

... There's something good about a no-show star,
Soembody's gotta fill in
Might just sing one you've never heard,
That'll make you feel like you're bound to win
There's even something good about going home early:
The head'll hit the pillow soon
And the five-eleven highway is takin you home
Under a summertime moon.

Willie-O 2000

Subject: RE: Songs from the summer of 2000
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 12 Aug 00 - 09:12 PM

A song I'll associate with this summer? Hmm. I hate warm, sunny weather, so I usually try to forget the whole damned season. But it was nice and chilly in the early summer, and back then my favourite song was probably 'I fjol gjett je gjeita' by Triakel.

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: Songs from the summer of 2000
From: Margaret V
Date: 12 Aug 00 - 09:46 PM

Susan, the song was written by James Keelaghan, and can be found on his CD "A Recent Future." It's a great song, I sing it all the time, but I frankly much prefer Richard Shindell singing it on his "Cry, Cry, Cry" collaboration with Dar Williams and Lucy Kaplansky. Hmmm, I wonder if that's a thread that already exists: the thread where we say which songs we like better when done by someone other than the person who wrote it? Best, Margaret

Subject: RE: Songs from the summer of 2000
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 09:08 AM

2bsongs sung by Richard Grainger, called Everytime and Days at an end bring back one particular memorable festival..... ah..... better not go any further, have discovered SO is posting anonymously here, he won't tell me his handle......

LTS

Subject: RE: Songs from the summer of 2000
From: Morticia
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 01:31 PM

My song of recent summers always tends to be the ones sung either most frequently or most hauntingly at the Towersey Folk Festival at the end of August......last years was Westerin'Winds.....don't know yet what this years will be. Songs from summers when I was young and full of hope? Too many to count :)

Subject: RE: Songs from the summer of 2000
From: P05139
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 01:59 PM

I've just thought, Scooch! For Sure reminds me of Summer 2000!Sorry!

Subject: RE: Songs from the summer of 2000
From: Mbo
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 02:07 PM

Hey how do you know my childhood nickname is Scooch? Are you in with that mystery Hearme person?!

Subject: RE: Songs from the summer of 2000
From: Naemanson
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 03:02 PM

I don't relate songs to time but to people and places. One year my sister went to school in Virginia and I was stationed nearby. We drove the Smoky Mountains listening to Jim Croce in the 8 track.

Amazing Grace will always remind me of the woman I almost married and who broke my heart most completely.

Willie Nelson's "On The Road Again" and Schooner Fare's "I See the Light" will always remind me of my wife and our travels and travails.

Subject: RE: Songs from the summer of 2000
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 03:09 AM

Summer of 2000 - Three songs that I'm currently learning to play on the accordion. "Pernod", by Johnny Cunningham and Michael O'Domhnaill, "Plum Creek", by Grey Larsen, and also, my favorite piece of Finnish music (so far), "Viimeinen Valssi" (The Last Finnish Waltz).

Carol

Subject: RE: Songs from the summer of 2000
From: alison
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 04:29 AM

I'll let you know when we have summer, it's still winter here

but

"forever Autumn" by Justin Hayward
"cruel Summer" by bananarama
and
"5.7.0.5" by City Boy

all bring back memories of great summers

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Songs from the summer of 2000
From: Gervase
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 07:09 AM

The songs that stick can be weird. Back in the summer of '77 I was in France and the woman with whom I was truly, madly, deeply etc was on the other side of the Channel.
French pop music, as any fule no, simply sucks, so the radio playlists are nearly all anglo - which meant that that summer I couldn't escape from the Julie Covington version of Don't Cry For Me, Argentina as I moped around in a love-struck, teen-angst, lost sock in the laundromat of life sort of way.
The good news is, I still love the woman for whom I was pining. The bad news is, I can also sing the song word-perfect (which is odd for a bloke!).

Subject: RE: Songs from the summer of 2000
From: Kim C
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 10:15 AM

Don Henley's Boys of Summer always strikes a chord with me (no pun intended). It reminds me of summers past and present. "I can tell you my love for you will still be strong/After the boys of summer have gone...."

Subject: RE: Songs from the summer of 2000
From: Pinetop Slim
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 01:38 PM

"Now Is the Cool of the Day," June 15, 2000: I'd heard Jean Ritchie sing it before, but not with the poignancy she did that night at the Hindman Settlement School. She told how a proposed new road will tear away half the yard from her cabin in Vico (you may have seen the place in the opening scenes of Bill Moyer's "Amazing Grace" or on "High Hills and Mountains" album cover) and that drove home the meaning of this eco-anthem.
"Credo," June 21, 2000: Hayseed doesn't get played much in New England (not that we're snobby or provincial or inclined to prejudge somebody by a rubish name or anything like that). I'm pretty sure I'll always know where I was -- northbound on Kentucky Route 15 -- the first time I heard him singing this, with Lucinda Williams harmonizing.

Subject: RE: Songs from the summer of 2000
From: P05139
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 02:00 PM

Mbo, I didn't realise that!