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    Anything by James Taylor puts me right back to early college days...
    So does Creedence...but the older I get, those really brainless
    songs from the 50's get me nostalgic.  Those were the days when
    my closet friend was the radio.  Songs like "Blue Velvet" get me
    misty-eyed.  And whenever, WHEREVER I hear the Stones doing
    "Honkey-Tonk Woman" I will start dancing.  I could be in a meeting,
    I don't care ;_)!
    
    Anyone remember "The Name Game" and "Dancin' in the Street" (the
    REAL version)?  Good grief, I sound like my parents!!
    
    Jane
    

    Sometimes certain 1968 to 1972-ish songs do make me cry . . . cry with
    relief and gratitude that I survived those incredibly painful days,
    lived to become a competent, happy, productive, adult, and that I never
    have to go through those teenage traumas again.  Thank God for
    adulthood, and no thanks to moldy oldies.
    
    --bonnie 

    "Tequila Sunrise", the back of a van, a girl named.....
    oh never mind.

    California Dreaming, 
    Pink Floyd
    Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
    
    Ah yesterday!

    
    	There's something about songs from Elton John's "Madman across
    the water" album that really takes me...
    	
    	Joe Jas
    

    
    Jeez, I wonder if I should answer, only being a couple years escaped
    from college, but...
    
    Stevie Nicks's "If Anyone Falls In Love"  I was in a particularly hairy
    piece of my college career when that song was big (I had just changed
    majors).  Every time I hear it, I remember getting into the back of a
    big old Cadillac Fleetwood limo one of my friends had after pulling an
    all-nighter, and going up to Worcester Airport, and drinking Chambord
    while the sun came up.
    
    Okay, so it's odd.
    
    DFW

    
    
    Wake up Maggie I think I got somethin' to say to you.....
    
    
    Everytime I hear that I'm 17 years old in potsdam NY in late august,
    laying on a metal cot in a cinderblock room wondering just what
    the hell I was doing there.  Ahhhh the memories ...??  They all
    got better from there - Mark

"Hotel California" by the Eagles and "Truckin'" by the Dead take me back
to my hippie-type truckin daze. Livin' in the back of my truck, no rent
no worries, no place to be, no fixed address, and a whole country full
of sights to see....sigh....

"think I'll pack it in and buy a pick-up, take it down to L.A...."

							Neil Young

Jenna

    Musical memories? Tons of them. Funny what effect music can have
    on you. Like having to turn off the radio in my car while driving
    to work during my divorce.
    
    About the earliest memory is evoked by (I think) 'Trumpeters Delight'.
    Takes me back to a warm summer evening in OOB, ME listening to the
    Montreal Citadel Band in the pine grove of the SA CampGround.
    
    Anything, slow-danceable, from the late 50s brings back memories
    of Jr High dances and certain members of the opposite sex 8-).
    
    Bob Mc

    Anything by the Platters, but especialy My Prayer, Lonely Tear Drops
    by Jackie Wilson, In the Still of the Night by the Five Satins,
    every now and then I dig out all the old albums and play them over
    and over on a Saturday morning while attempting to clean house.

    "Venus" by Frankie Avalon
    
    swoooooonnnn
    :^)

    Anything by Gabrieli.  Or Monteverdi.  Really takes me back to those
    good ol' Renaissance days...
    
    
    But seriously:  "Your Song", by Elton John.  Takes me back to high
    school.  I love the song, but as far as remembering/reliving high school,
    once was enough; I'm never going through that again...
    
    MM

    
    "Help" Beatles and "Hound Dog" Elvis were my very first singles
    on my very first record player...way back when....
    
    

    'Sweet Jane' off the Rock and Roll Animal album (at max. volume!);
    also 'All The Way From Memphis' and Hendrix doing 'Wild Thing'.
    These songs bring back memories of 4 years of total irresponsibilty
    at ULowell (1977-80). 

    First record I ever owned was cut off the back of a Super Sugar
    Crisp box:  Sugar, Honey, Honey by the Archies.
    
    Also, anything by Bread or Jerry Rafferty makes me wistful.
    
    Several of Berlin's more suggestive songs remind me of...ahem.
    
    -Jody
    

    re .-1:
    
    that song was banned by the PMRC *AND* the American Dental Association!

re .17 (Sugar, Sugar)

Yeah, my sister and I got that one a LONG time ago, too.  Wonder when it will
come out on CD?

Just got the Anthology of Bread CD, sigh...


re .18 (PMRC banned above song)

Forgive my ignorance, who's the PMRC?


other songs/groups from "way back" that remind me of the past:

Harry Chapin, Jim Croce, Carole King, off the top of my head.  Thanks to the
wonders of multiple buffers:  Eagles, Beach Boys, Queen, Simon and Garfunkel,
la Tuna (who???) and a lot more :-)

Jill

    
    re: .19
    
    Point of information.
    
    The PMRC is the Parents Music Resource Center, the people that brought
    you warning labels on rock records.
    
    That's all I'm going to say about them.  Just thinking about them
    makes me nauseous.
    
    DFW

    What gives the PMRC the right to ban anything?  Do they believe
    that they are so good as to be able to decipher the meaning of every
    piece of music, or whatever?  I am always furious when I hear of
    a group banning or burning anything such as books, or records, or
    free ideas.  This country was created to allow the free passing
    of ideas, etc.  If the persons do not like to listen to the music,
    then they don't have to.  But for those persons who do, then they
    have the right to.
    
    Sorry for going on the soapbox.  I got carried away.
    
    Ed..
    

    I'm not in favor of most of what the PMRC is doing -- I think their
    methods are actually going to exacerbate rather than ease the problems
    they see -- but I do feel obligated to clarify a couple of
    misconceptions here.
    
    The PMRC is not in favor of banning, burning, or otherwise restricting
    distribution of any music to adults who are old enough to know what
    they're doing.  Their concern is with offensive, explicit, or violent
    materials falling into the hands, ears, and eyes of children too young
    to understand what they're seeing.  
    
    They came up with a labelling system in which records that contain
    offensive lyrics are marked as containing offensive lyrics.  I am not
    sure of either the nature of the label or the procedure for deciding
    whether a label should be assigned, but I believe the procedure
    is voluntary.  
    
    The concept behind the labelling is pretty much the same as the concept
    behind the rating of movies -- that the person going into a particular
    movie or listening to a particular record ought to know what he or she
    is getting into. 

    --bonnie

    
    For the record, I'm against movie ratings, too, but I see Bonnie's
    point.
    
    I did not intend to start this note down a PMRC rathole.  Such topics
    are better suited to SOAPBOX.  Besides, I got another one:
    
    "Lucky Man" by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.  I hear that one and I'm
    eight years old again, making big ship models in my bedroom,
    discovering FM radio...
    
    DFW

    Barry Manilowe's (sp?) song I think it's called "Old Songs"
    
    the chorus goes:
    
    And maybe the old songs
    will bring back the old times
    maybe the old lines
    will sound new
    
    Maybe she'll lay here
    head on my shoulder
    maybe old feelings 
    will come through
    
    Maybe we'll start to cry
    and wonder why
    we ever said good-bye......
    
    

    
    	Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", Elton John's "Benny and the Jets"
    	and "Someone Saved My Life Tonight", Wings' "Band on the Run",
    	and many more (the ones above are starting to release a flood
    	of other memory openers...) all take me back to my care free
    	high school days.
    
    	Joe Oppelt

    re .24
    That song was what I was referring to with the title of my note.

    Year of the cat by Al Stewart reminds me of my first job.
    I still cannot understand why I like it..
    
    I'm not in love by 10cc reminds me of sitting on the couch with
    my first love denise.
    
    Maneater by hall and oats reminds me of a wild and wonderful weekend 
    in Vail.
    
    Strawberry letter #23 was the song playing the first time I ever
    went to a night club. 
    
    All give clear mental pictures and a touch with many of the feelings
    i felt at the time. Some are very nice others painful.
    
    Aquarius for instance reminds me of the night my grandfather died.
    Mahogany by dianna ross sends me back to graduation from high school.
    
    -j
    

    mmmmm ! the nostalgia just a song heard can do to a body....
    	
    	`crimson and clover' by tommy james and the shondells, brings
    	to mind my first date and the smell of REAL leather seats.
	and when joan jet did the remake of it....modern memories.
    
    	`it don't come easy' by by ringo starr, gads! my first job.

    	`eve of destruction' by barry mcguire...the days of vietnam
    	protests.
    
    	`tupelo honey' van morrison and a certain special person.
    
    	gawd there is so much more.... to me music is a way to file
 	my treasured memories to be brought back at another time.
    
    	d
    	

    
    anything by...
    Simon and Garfunkle....
    early Elton John (pre Madman across the water)...
    Moody Blues, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Grand Funk Railroad, Uriah Heep,
    Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, Tommy James, Carol King, Gary Puckett,
    Niel Diamond 
    Gawd....
    just play me anything recorded between 65 and 75 and the memories
    flow like an endless river....

    One song that brings back memories to me is "I'm not in love"
    by 10CC.  I was hearing that during a summer when I really was
    in love, but wasn't sure of what was going to happen.
    
    When I hear it now I remember that time quite vividly...
    
    				Steve

    Millions of them !!
    
    Groups of us girls walking home from school singing "... going to
    the chapel and we're gonna get maaaaried..." 
    
    Sitting in my room, listening to " ...'twas not so long ago, you
    broke my heart in two.." and thinking it was written just for me!
    
    I won't bore you all with any more, but I have had a wonderful
    time remembering so many old songs, and what they have meant to
    me at one time in my life.
    
    Thanks, Bonnie for the most fun note I've read yet !!
    
    jacki
    
    
                               
    

    Come on, there has to be some more of you with some great memories
    of old songs......?
    
    "Devil Went Down to Georgia" by the Charlie Daniels Band - 
    my cousins and I in Franklin Square, N.Y. dancing and singing
    all the words as we went down the street.
    
    "High Infidelity" tape by REO Speedwagon - driving to our friends 
    summer house in Pennsylvania in his '57 Chevy, windows rolled down, 
    potato chips, Ring Dings and Diet Pepsi's all over the car; stuck 
    in traffic on the bridge in N.Y. singing at the top of our lungs:
    
    		You take it on the run baby,
    		If thats the way you want it baby,
    		Then I don't want you around.....
    
    "Fire" by the Pointer Sisters - Walking home from Junior High with
    a bunch of girls in "designer" jeans, cowl (sp?) neck sweaters and
    clogs, singing and dancing (in a "cool" way of course):
    		
    		I'm riding in your car,
    		You turn on the radio
    		Your pullin' me close
    		I just so no
                
    		I say I don't like it 
    		but you know I'm a liar
    		Cause when we kiss
    		Ooh,  FIRE!!
    
    Thanks for letting me reminisce........
    
    					Denise