Do you associate some songs with a definite period or person in your life? Want to share a few?

[bobbieinok]

* Sixteen Tons---guys were singing it before assembly (jr yr in HS, I think)

* Moments to Remember---senior girls in HS were singing it in a group (I was a junior)

* Wake Up Little Suzie by Everly Brothers---it was playing on the jukebox in the student union during FreshmanWeek (fall, 1957)

* Until the 12th of Never by Johnny Mathis---it was the favorite song of a great friend in college whom I met my freshman yr

Will probably add more later. Mostly because I like remembering them

[MaryMagdaline]

1. What's Love Got to Do With It? Rush hour traffic I-95 in Miami - windows open and music blaring

[leftieNanner]

2. Here Comes The Sun - Beatles

In fact, the whole Abbey Road album - a senior year in high school ski trip. My friend Joanie had a cassette player (very cool!) and she played that one tape a lot.

[Skittles]

3. as someone who grew up as a GI brat

many, many songs take me back to a particular place

for example, when this song came out my life so troubled I thought it could have been written for me

[empedocles]

4. 'Louie, Louie'. Clowns spent too much time trying to 'translate'

[Permanut]

5. Flowers on the Wall - Statler Brothers..

on a tinny little radio in Navy boot camp in San Diego, November 1965.

I keep hearing you're concerned about my happiness
But all that thought you're giving me is conscience, I guess
If I were walking in your shoes I wouldn't worry none
While you and your friends are worrying about me, I'm having lots of fun

Counting flowers on the wall, that don't bother me at all
Playing solitaire 'til dawn with a deck of fifty one
Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo
Now don't tell me I've nothing to do

Last night I dressed in tails, pretended I was on the town
As long as I can dream it's hard to slow this swinger down
So please don't give a thought to me, I'm really doing fine
You can always find me here and having quite a time

Counting flowers on the wall, that don't bother me at all
Playing solitaire 'til dawn with a deck of fifty one
Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo
Now don't tell me I've nothing to do

It's good to see you, I must go, I know I look a fright
Anyway, my eyes are not accustomed to this light
And my shoes are not accustomed to this hard concrete
So I must go back to my room and make my day complete

Counting flowers on the wall, that don't bother me at all
Playing solitaire 'til dawn with a deck of fifty one
Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo
Now don't tell me I've nothing to do
Don't tell me I've nothing to do

[empedocles]

6. Roy Orbison - that amazing, haunting voice

[LakeArenal]

7. When Little Black Spot in the Sun today played

I was sitting at a surf hotel bar in Clearwater Beach at sunset and dolphins were swimming around in front of us.

[blue neen]

18. "King of Pain" by The Police

I love that song!

[bobbieinok]

8. Sound of Silence--one of the most haunting songs I've ever heard

I first heard it in the fall of 65. I was just out of grad school, teaching in Gainesville FL, and was getting some stuff in a drugstore. It was playing on the store's radio. I was stunned! I had never heard anything like it.

[leftieNanner]

14. Have you heard the version of it by Disturbed?

Incredible! The guy's voice is so beautiful and passionate.

[bobbieinok]

17. Thanks for posting!

[zipplewrath]

9. Best of Bread

8th and 9th grade every party ultimately put this on towards the later part of the party. Dancing and making out always ensued. If you couldn't find a partner, you just weren't trying.

[TlalocW]

10. Centerfold by J. Geils Band reminds me of Taco Burgers

From Taco Tico when I was a kid because the, "Na na nana na na," part was my Little League team's, "Hey batter batter, scha-wing," and we always went to Taco Tico after the games.

TlalocW

[Brother Buzz]

11. Paul Petersen's She Can't Find Her Keys was the FIRST song I ever heard....

on an AM transistor radio.

[bobbieinok]

12. Poor People of Paris--1st heard it in jr high, I think. It was on the radio at a slumber party

[msongs]

13. sunny day drive across old SF bay bridge into a fog shrouded city - Whatcha see is whatcha get by

the dramatics

[Doreen]

15. There are 4 songs that I could hear over and over and over and not get sick of.

I never allowed myself to connect a song to a person. I knew to many people who loved a song and connected it to a relationship and then the relationship went bad and all of a sudden they hated the song.

I connect songs to feelings I had at particular times in my life that described in general what was going on at that time.

There is only one song of the 4 that do not explain what was going on in my life. I just totally fell in love with it.

Simon and Garfunkel's - Sound Of Silence

Twisted Sister - The Price

Metallica - The Unforgiven

Those are the ones that defined certain periods of my life.

I absolutely love High Kings version of Green Fields Of France.

Now, I must admit at this time I really lik Bonnie Tyler's - Holding Out For A Hero. The reason for that is because it reminds me of what we are doing holding out for Joe Biden to be our president.

[gibraltar72]

16. Big John

A girl in my class said she loved it I loaned her my 45. We've been married since 1964.

[qwlauren35]

19. Best of Chicago

I had the album my sophomore year of college and I WORE IT OUT.

I also had Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder.

Just as I was falling asleep I usually heard Color My World, or Brighter Star.

[Ahpook]

20. Interesting question

I was kinda sorta on some hallucinogenic substance at a beach bar in Ponce Inlet, Fl. I had just brought a puppy home from the local shelter and trying to figure out what name fit him.

This song came on and it fit him/us perfectly. And no, this was waaay before the movie or any of that stuff.

Joker was a lab mix and lived 16 happy years His nickname was Houdini since he was the craftiest dog ever. Open doors, climb chain link fences, or go under them if needed. He was also a 2 time vet at the Ponce Inlet police station. They loved him and knew him

[Phentex]

21. Too many to list but I find it fascinating when...

I am immediately transported back to a place or time when I hear certain songs. Sometimes I even smell the place, the ocean, or the cologne...