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16 Aug 06 - 05:44 PM (#1811579) Subject: Songs Remind of Person, Place, Thing From: Cruiser 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. |
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16 Aug 06 - 08:35 PM (#1811719) Subject: RE: Songs Remind of Person, Place, Thing From: John on the Sunset Coast On Top of Old Smokey - Gordon Jenkins Orch. w/ vocal by the Weavers. That song introduced me to folk music in 1951. Today I hate that particular record because of the orchestration, and if it hadn't have been for the HUAC hearings and the subsequent blacklisting of the Weavers, who knows to what direction folk music might have gone. (I guess even bad things create some good.) You Don't Have to Say You Love Me - First heard that song just mere hours after breaking up from a very serious relationship. (I was the breakee, not the breaker.) Sh-Boom by the Chords on Cat Records (S' of '54). This was a really outrageous record, the third popular rhythm and blues song that was tremendously popular in the LA area (after the Orioles-Crying in the Chapel, and Gee by the Crows). The versions of Sh-Boom done by the Crew Cuts, and on Your Hit Parade, are, in retrospect, funnier than parodies by Stan Freberg or the Three Haircuts (Caesar, Reiner, and Morris) of the nascent rock idiom. Tom Dooley by the... well you know who. The break-out song popularizing folk music. |
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16 Aug 06 - 08:46 PM (#1811730) Subject: RE: Songs Remind of Person, Place, Thing From: Peace Marty Robbins "El Paso". When I delivered morning papers as a kid, there was a restaurant that opened at 6:00 AM. I'd stop for a coffee or hot chocolate in winter and play El Paso three times. It was always a long-enough song that I'd thaw before making the rest of the walk home. It was kind of an unwritten 'rule' that if ya had songs in the jukebox, you could stay until they were finished, even if the coffee or chocolate was gone. "El Paso" saved me about fifteen times a winter. I have never listened to the song since then. |
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16 Aug 06 - 08:59 PM (#1811738) Subject: RE: Songs Remind of Person, Place, Thing From: Cruiser If you can recall, add dates or at least the year of your remembrances. |
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16 Aug 06 - 09:16 PM (#1811753) Subject: RE: Songs Remind of Person, Place, Thing From: John on the Sunset Coast You Don't--1967 My favorite recording of that was by one Damita Jo, tho' I think others had more popular renditions Tom Dooley was 1958/59? I recall it being popular about the time I went back to college after dropping out...er, I mean after taking a hiatus mid-way through my Fresman year. Much better phrasing. Much better. |