Puff the Magic Dragon makes me cry

Mamacaz that is so weired, I feel the same but for me its because it brings back memories of my childhooh

Mary's Boy Child has the same effect on me, Purpledaffodil - DD's first Nativity play. They sang it beautifully despite the clomping about on the stage as they all got into position.

And the best thing about the 4d phone call was that it was unlimited. My boyfriend and I used to talk for hours! Drove my parents wild and it was very cold and uncomfortable sat on the floor in the hall which was the only place to put a telephone in the 1960s. Must have been worse for him in a cold smelly phone box though
Back to thread, how about 'Away in a manger' especially when sung by Reception children dressed as angels with plenty of tinsel halos? Not a dry eye in any school hall at Christmas.

I can remember sprinting to our nearest phone box with 4d clutched in my hand to ring my best friend to let her know that I'd just had a letter from my French pen friend who I was just about to visit. She had enclosed a photo of her with her older brother and he was..........GORGEOUS!!!

I didn't dare phone from home

Me neither rosequartz - it didn't come in until I was about 20!

I feel so old now, janerowena! 10p - we had never heard of decimalisation when I was a teenager.

That's the one! Thank you. 4d? It was about 10p in my day! We used to use the phonebox when we didn't want nosy parents listening in. It was only just before I left home that I was in my mother's room and realised that you could just see the box from the house. I bet she knew where we were when we thought we were being so discreet and sliding out.

Sylvia's Mother by Dr Hook?

We didn't have a phone, I had to take 4d and use the phone box at the top of the road.

So many lovely songs that I had forgotten. I remembered another one in the bath but I can't remember the title or who it was by. It was a phone call, and there's a line 'Please Mrs Avery, I just want to tell her' (I think) and then it goes 'And the operator said, just 40 seconds more'... and it drives me potty because I want to know what happened. It also reminds me of those days when love affairs and lives were ruined by fathers refusing to allow their four daughters to use the phone.

Oh, Scarlet Ribbons ... I can hear it now. Such touching words. Harry Belafonte song wasn't it?

It's 'Those were the Days' that does it for me!

I actually used to have a local called the Tavern, when I was a student.....

They just don't make them like they used to do they?

Will they say the same in 50 years' time about One Direction?

Such meaningful and emotive comments.
I love these sorts of threads.
For me it has to be the ones that my dad sang to me when I was little: "Magic Moments", "Que sera sera" and "Tiptoe through the Tulips" as he worked long shifts as a foreman at Siemens and I treasured the moments I spent with him.
The Moody Blues: "Go now," affects me deeply and just sums up the atmosphere of the 60s.
But the most powerful is Loreena McKennett's "The Lady of Shallot" which sends a shiver down my spine just recalling the title.

Oh! I can imagine that Merlot. It must sound lovely on a flute, especially when played by a grandchild.

Most of Gilbert o'Sullivan's songs bring a tear to my eye.

He wrote some achingly poignant stuff.

including this one

My nine year old DGD plays Annie's Song so beautifully on the flute I well up at the first few notes.

We used to sing this in the car when we were on family holidays Sometimes I would like to go back. (We weren't actually in America. More likely the Yorkshire Dales )

Portuna, the Glen Campbell tape was played endlessly on car journeys when DC were young (partly because we loved it and partly because we couldn't afford to buy many tapes at the time!).

That is SO lovely!

That's a very haunting one, how sad.

This one, Sunrise, Sunset from Fiddler on the Roof.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLLEBAQLZ3Q

Where the parents wonder how their children became old enough to marry and move away.

Wichita lineman by Glen Campbell always brings a tear to my eye.Brings back happy and sad memories from my teen years.So sorry to hear he has Alzheimer's disease

I just remembered why it would set me off - a boyfriend bought it for me as a teen just before he and his parents moved away.

No, no transport, just came into my mind and that was it! I was off!

Are you sure you've got the right song, janerowena?

There's nothing about leaving on any form of transport in Annie's Song!

Oh, definitely. I just thought of 'Annie's Song' and as I have just dropped my son off at the coach station to return to his Uni city, I was a bit weepy. Then that song came into my head and I was off! Still, a good blub is very cathartic. Although 'I'm leaving on a National Express Coach' doesn't have quite the same ring as 'I'm Leaving on a Jetplane'.