a song from the past

Your post has made me start humming and singing it to myself, and smile.

I think that's why programmes on Radio2 such as Sounds of the Sixties are so popular. They take you right back there. A couple of others around at that time, Love Grows (Where my Rosemary Goes) and Sugar, Sugar. I think that was by the Archies. Sunshine all the way!

Isn't it funny that you only have to hear the first few bars of a song from 50 years or so ago, and you immediately know all the words and can sing along perfectly? But ask me something sensible that I did last week and I'm
Loved Sugar Sugar Blinko; one of my favourite songs!

I have been listening to 6music. There was a programme with Roger Daltrey,and those old Who songs transported me back to Sunday afternoons listening to John Peel - hot summer afternoons with the curtains drawn, just like today. I was back in the sixth form again, just for a while. Now the worries of today have started to come back and I shall have to do some washing.

I so miss John Peel.

The Carpenters for me. Especially "We've only just begun"
reminds of the time husband and I met.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kPD4LtA1vo
In tears now!

That carpenters song reminds me of young friends of mine who got married very young.
Their wedding pictures were put onto a video with that music.
I often wonder if they are still together, as they were such lovely people and so much in love.

It's just come to me, I think Love Grows was by a group called Eddistone Lighthouse. I'm not sure if they ever did anything else.

You are right, Chewy, I can recall the words of songs of the 60s and have no idea what I was doing last week. It's great to have those memories though.

And this one of theirs, from before I met him:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nooeMrCws-A
I love the guitar solo too.

I do love music!!
It can do such wonders; verbally transport you back in time for a moment or two.

Not verbally, but I suppose that too..

Funny that this thread is here. I was just thinking about Love Grows (where my Rosemary goes) and humming it to myself while preparing lunch.
Love Grows g.co/kgs/myLcBm

I'm listening to Johnnie Waker's Sounds of the Seventies right now on radio 2. I only discovered it a few weeks ago (Sundays 3pm-5pm), but in that time have heard quite a few songs that don't get regular airtime, but that bring back great memories of my teenage years

I was a Saturday girl in Woolworths when I was 16. I worked on the Pick 'n' Mix counter, or loose sweets as we called it. The girl on the records counter played all the popular songs of the week, usually the top ten from Top of the Pops. She played Gary Puckett continuously. This is a blast from the past.
youtu.be/hn0ZJHVH17I

I can remember being at a disco sometime in the past, sitting in the corner with my hair freshly permed by my mum, and feeling incredibly out of place.
The song was 'Mississippi' by pussycat, I think.

Oh my, songs from the past are so evocative. I can remember playing with the girl next door and we were singing " I want some red roses for a blue lady", then when at Uni it was "Unchained Melody "by Jimmy Young. My friend's mother had a small hotel in Blackpool and the Ted Heath band used to stay there , so we sang all the songs by Dicky Valentine, Lita Rosa and Dennis Lotis--do you remember "How much is that doggy in the window"?

Oh, MissAdventure, I love that song!

Every song from my childhood and youth (and a fair number since, too) brings back such vivid memories. But why do these memories often make me feel sad now? How does nostalgia do that?

Fennel We've Only Just Begun was our first dance song at our wedding...43 years ago last week .We always go back to the church where we married on the day and we always have a wee shuffle around the sitting room to the Carpenters in the evening.

What an evocative thread! although I agree that the memories always seem touched with sadness these days.
Venus in Blue Jeans touches my heart, as my (much older) brother used to sing it to me.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=weaxYMRt4mU
On a more cheerful note (hah!) ....my GC's clamour for "songs on Grammys phone".......'Rafferty's Motor Car"! The Wombles of Wimbledon Common'! etc

I think I can remember skipping down the path, singing "Feeling Groovy"

I Heard It Through The Grapevine always takes me back to strutting my stuff at Uni.

Such nostalgia. I was always a massive Beatles fan and was a teenager in the '60s, so love all 60s music. Some of those above brought back so many memories. My sister was three years older and before I started buying records, hers would be playing around the house. I love them now - lots of Elvi, also Poetry in Motion (Johnny Tillotson I think), Eddie Cochran, the Everley Brothers, April Love by Pat Boone, Petula Clark singing Sailor, Alma Cogan songs, so many more.

Elvis not Elvi!

Young Girl by Gary Pucket and the Union gap - boy that takes me back. And I will not tell you why!!!

Forgot about Gary Pucket and the Union Gap. The 60's was defo the time to be a teenager.Bet the youngsters today dont have half as much fun as we did. Did anyone go to the Stones concert in Hyde Park in the 60's.I will never forget the butterflies released for Brian Jones the drummer from the stones who died. Ah Happy Days!!!