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The song that takes you back to your youth.

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Bbnan Wed 19-Oct-16 18:53:49

At 17 Janis Ian (1976)when I was 17

I want to stay with you for the rest of my life(Gallagher and Lyle) 1976 first song we danced to

You light up my life(first dance at wedding) Debbie Boone)1977 our wedding was in 1979
Very happy memories

tanith Wed 19-Oct-16 18:49:52

Sorry that was 1964

Cherrytree59 Wed 19-Oct-16 18:48:36

On the embarrassing level as a 70s teeny bopperthlblush
Sugar baby love. Bay City Rollers
Puppy love. Donny Osmond
Here it is Merry christmas. Slade
On a more sensible level
I'm not in love. 10cc
Bridge over troubled water. Simon & Garfunkal
Bohemian Rhapsody. Queen

Sorry can't give exact dates
Can only remember that they were early seventies

When we were married in 1981.
My aunt slipped a single (that just happened to be in the charts at that time) into the pile of cards and telegrams (remember them?) Which were to be read out at the reception.

The record was by Godley and Cream
'Under your thumb!'

tanith Wed 19-Oct-16 18:48:18

Many Beatles songs but the Animals , House of the Rising Sun really takes me back.

KatyK Wed 19-Oct-16 18:48:05

Ooo yes Silence is Golden - loved that and Every Time You Walk in the Room by the Searchers. I could go on forever - but I won't!

KatyK Wed 19-Oct-16 18:46:43

So many... Most of the Beatles and songs like Pretty Flamingo,
I got you babe, Joanna by The Walker Brothers, San Francisco by Scott McKenzie, Eve of Destruction by Barry McGuire, Young Girl - all '60s stuff for me smile

ninathenana Wed 19-Oct-16 18:34:31

Silence is Golden, my first slow dance with my first boyfriend at the youth club [sigh]

gillybob Wed 19-Oct-16 18:09:35

Oh yes lemondrizzle (I so wanted to add cake to the end of your name). smile

Donny Osmond's Puppy Love and then the Bay City Rollers Bye Bye Baby. Happy carefree days before it all went wrong

Greyduster Wed 19-Oct-16 18:04:14

1962 - the year I left home. Brian Hyland - "Sealed with a kiss"; The Four Seasons - "Big girls don't cry". Later it was anything by Burt Bacherach.

JackyB Wed 19-Oct-16 16:36:19

Maggie Mae by Rod Stewart - takes me back to the carefree summer of 1972 when A levels were over.

lemondrizzle Wed 19-Oct-16 16:16:30

Following on from the recent "sad song" thread can we share which song instantly takes you back to "your era" and give the approximate year.
For me it's 1968 and there are many (great music in the late 60s)....Everlasting Love by Love affair, Young girl by Gary Pucket and the Union Gap, The Mighty Quinn by Manfred Mann to name a few.