a song from the past

Wonderful post. So many of those songs stir vivid memories for me as well. Although its funny how it seems to be only songs remembered from about the age of 15 up to perhaps the mid twenties which bring back these type of memories. I can't really say that songs which became popular as I got older have the same effect when I hear them now. It could be because life becomes serious when you hit the mid twenties, marriage, homemaking and children take up your time, and lying on your bedroom floor on a Sunday afternoon listening to Top of the Pops with your friends becomes a thing of the past, probably replaced by shouting up the stairs to your own children to turn the music down.

Mrsdof
I didn't think of that surprise 'gig' he did, as although technically 'The Phil' is a pub, we only ever visit when we're going to eat before going on to 'The Philharmonic Hall', or 'The Everyman' Theatre.
Next time we're there will probably be 17th September as we'll be seeing 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' in concert!
If you ever find yourself in the Hope Street area of Liverpool, go to 'The Philharmonic Pub' and ask to be allowed to see the Gents loos, they're amazing!

I've been an Elvis fan since I was 14, (now 76) 2 friends gave me a ticket to see an Elvis tribute as a birthday gift. we went about 3 weeks ago, it was really good and I knew the words of every song, strange that some things I want/need to remember I can't but the words to the songs I can remember. Other things I remember are our telephone number when I was a child, the number plate of my Dad's first car (I was 10 at that time) these are things I will never ever need again but I retain the memory.

Led Zeppelin Whole Lotta Love - instantly takes me back to dates with my husband when we were 15 as does Je'Taime. We saw a Led Zeppelin tribute band a few weeks ago and he loved it (he hates my music normally) and Cream's Disraeli Gears reminds me of a previous boyfriend. I too loved Amen Corner and saw them in the local theatre as well as the Move and Free. Honey by Bobby Goldsboro makes me think of hiding my radio under the bedclothes, any of the Monkees songs reminds me of an old friend and playing in her front room and even earlier Rawhide or the theme to Bonanza lying in bed at night waiting to hear them from downstairs. All the old songs of the 60's have special memories but equally modern songs do too. Too many to mention - I've seen so many bands over the years.

A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procal Harem, takes me back to the long hot summer of starting senior school!

Sorry. The Things We Did Last Summer
Musn't get carried away.!

I have many memories with songs and tunes significant to where I was and what I was doing .One in particular is by The Letter Men with The Things We Last Summer.It reminds me of days walking through the fields, in a summer which seemed to go on forever, then relaxing on the river bank with a certain young man of the moment. If I want to drift back into the past You Tube provides me with this.

All the usual suspects from 60s and 70s. And every summer there was Tom Jones. Pussycat, Green green grass, Delilah. The last was in UK in 67, Italy in 68 and Greece in 69. Je t'aime and Lay Lady Lay definitely Oxford days.

Much later I heard an Egyptian playing a brilliant version of the Stevie Wonder song I just called to say I love you, one evening on the banks of the Nile at Luxor. Wow.

I think all girls on the record counter in Woolworths played top of the pops on Saturdays , as I remember it clearly too, MiniMoon

Me too luckygirl!

Margs
Amen Corner, we loved them! Saw them at the Royal Albert Hall. I had a crush on the bass player. My friend and I set out one Sunday to find their house. We'd read it was in Harrow on the Hill and we found it due to Andy F-L's Marcos car outside! We were too timid to do anything like knock though. We just hung about.

A very old memory, though I haven't heard this song lately: WW2, we were living with grandparents.
Granny played the piano and made me sing to her friends, Bless This House.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_2RUs7E_qE

Hated Sugar Sugar. I loved The Monkees (good songs, a lot written by Neil Diamond), and The Who. And Love Affair with Everlasting Love. Oh, and Marmalade.

Two other songs you couldn't escape from around that time were Green Green Grass of Home and Release Me. Ugh!

Charles Aznavour in concert singing Happy Anniversay . I was with my late husband and it was our wedding anniversay. Still makes me cry when I think of it.

My first great love aged 12 was Buddy Holly (inconsolable when he was killed) and I still have a CD of his on in my car 60 years later. Bobby Vee, Bobby Rydell, Ricky Nelson, Del Shannon, Neil Sedaka - oh such happy memories of carefree schooldays!

I adored the Beatles and later in the 60s I was very keen on The Lovin' Spoonful with John Sebastian. 70s was Abba, The Eagles and Doctor Hook and of course the unsurpassable Queen.

Just a short burst of melody and all the lyrics - and all the memories - come flooding back!

Juggernaut. Although Paul did do a concert at the Cavern recently, as janieuk said, on James Corden’s carpool karaoke show he popped into a Liverpool pub and did a few songs. It was brilliant and you can see it on YouTube. Definitely worth a look.

I have been listening to lots of the songs mrntioned and they really do take you back to people, sights, places, smells and clothes etc. I think the sadness which tinges our nostalgia is a sense of loss. I don't think we appreciated what we had at the time but we certainly do now!

Sorry...spend/mornings

The first record I bought was Poetry In Motion - Johnny Tillotson but I collected pics of Bobby Vee. Used to spfnd Saturday mirnings in the Kardomah in Church St and dance in the Rialto ballroom, Cavern, Blue Angel, Chequers and a million other northern clubs. On visits to London we would eat at the Old Kentucky Pancake Kitchen - Leicester Square and Dinty Moore's, an underground bar with sawdust on the floor.
Lol...memories...

Looked on YouTube and surprised to find that I remembered most of the lyrics and all of the tune. Yes...my yoyth was a very very innocent, carefree and happy one. TG.

Johnnie walker every Sunday for two hours in 16/17! Again!! Fab show so is Paul ogrady on after him x

I used to think Andy Fairweather Low was the hottest thing back then. When I saw him a few years ago on Shooting Stars, not so much!

Wasn't "Jesamine" No.1 for quite a while? Lovely, lovely song.

And a group called Amen Corner were pretty hot around the same time - I recall buying all their singles but the fave was definitely one called "Bend me, shape me". My salad days, but were did the years go......?

so many songs bring back so many memories.
i listen/sort of watch to vintage tv and they play music from the 50s onwards.
i have an alexa echo dot and get loads of music from amazon (for free). several songs i haven't heard for years are available from there and i've selected some of these as well as newer favourites and my alexa shuffles the 400+ of my favourite songs and plays them all day - better than any radio or jumping up to change tape/vinyl/cd.
one song which takes me back to the 60s and the fairground us "wipeout" by the surfaris - the first thing you hear is a loud laugh and i, for one, am transported back to the fair on torquay's harbourside - those gorgeous boys, the heat, the candyfloss!
mind you i left torquay almost 31 years ago but that laugh on that song wipes 50 odd years right away.
i love all those old memories, sad and happy - so many songs, so many memories.

I'm a music lover (pop/rock etc, but just listening as I'm not musical myself). I'd be lost without music in my life. I love golden oldies particularly late 60s wen I was in my mid teens. So nostalgic. My favourite song at the moment with the lovely weather we've been having is Summer Breeze by the Isley Brothers. Just reminds me of long summer days of my youth and my first loves.