Old pop song never forgotten

‘Those were the days ,my Friend’ keeps coming back to me lately. Can’t think why !?‍♀️ ??

There’s a racehorse running these days called Grocer Jack and I keep thinking of Exert from a Teenage Opera by ( I think) Keith West. I loved that song. Don’t think they ever produced the teenage opera though.

Diana. Despite much money being spent on piano lessons for me, by parents who regretted that they had given them up, it was the only thing I could play properly without music.

‘The first time ever I saw your face’. Enough said ?

Where Do You Go To My Lovely. I only have to hear the opening accordion music to be transported back to when I was 13. It was the first record I bought and I played it endlessly, fascinated by the mysterious Marie-Claire.

Peter Gallagher, Mark Wirtz and Keith West collaborated to produce A Teenage Opera in 2017!!
It was performed on stage in Bracknell that year.

youtu.be/cWNRNGj6cdY

Bright Eyes, from Watership Down. It was playing on the radio whilst we were taking our dead cat to the vet , and that`s the memory that it always brings to mind, way back in 1981.

Sweet Baby James - James Taylor. Takes me back to the days when I had a sweet baby James.

“Annie’s Song” by John Denver.

Another mum on the maternity ward when I had DD, back in 1974, played it on a guitar in the evening, and we all sat round and listened. (This was when you were in hospital for a week after childbirth). Always brings that time to mind.

At her wedding, DD chose it for their first dance.

Hadn’t cried up to then, but as the music started, the tears fell.

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Will you still love me tomorrow
Memories of first crush?

Whiter Shade of Pale it seemed to be number 1 forever in 1967 when I was 13.

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."Bridge over troubled water." I had just split with my first proper boyfriend and was enjoying my student days, when he turned up with that record two terms later. We've been together ever since.

That’s a lovely story, Yammy.
My song is an odd one. It was one of my mother’s favourites and often pops into my head and is a lovely reminder of her.
Sucu Sucu.

Welcome Home Peters & Lee.

What I’ve got in mind. Billy Jo Spears.
I’ll leave it there. ?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2mkdzzIqKs

Here is Keith West - Excerpt from a Teenage Opera MayBee70

Charles Aznavour singing "Geliebte" in German - brings tears to your eyes.

MiniMoon

Peter Gallagher, Mark Wirtz and Keith West collaborated to produce A Teenage Opera in 2017!!
It was performed on stage in Bracknell that year.

youtu.be/cWNRNGj6cdY

Oh wow! Thanks. I don’t know why that song meant so much to me back then. I can listen to many songs from my youth quite happily but some tug at my heart strings in a big way and that is one of them. Even now, if I’m feeling a bit emotional about anything I stop listening to music because I know that listening to a particular song will take me back to that period of my life.