When my kids and I are listening to music I often wonder what songs will trigger some amazing childhood memory for them. I have a bunch. Starting from when I was really small all the way up to adulthood music will take me back. I am amazed when I hear an old song I haven't heard in ages and I still know almost all of the words! The brain is an amazing thing.
I kinda stole this idea from DIY Sara but I don't think she'll mind. Here are a few of my favourite songs my mom loved. They take me right back:
This one is the comfort and love of my mom. She adored Anne Murray and even while she was nearing the end, Anne Murray's greatest hits CD was playing over and over. I think this song might actually have been on when she died. Fly away snowbird...
Ahhh, the 70's. Every single song on this album represents a part of my childhood.
LOVE it. Timeless.
And this song. Oh this song...
My mom would blast this song from our record player downstairs for my sisters and me while we were upstairs in bed before we fell asleep. She would sometimes stand in our doorway and sing it to us. And now, I sing it to my kids. "If I should live forever and all my dreams come true my memories of love will be of you". *sigh*.
What songs take you back to your childhood? Next time I'll share a few of the songs my sisters and I boogied too...yes, boogied. It was the 70's!
I kinda stole this idea from DIY Sara but I don't think she'll mind. Here are a few of my favourite songs my mom loved. They take me right back:
This one is the comfort and love of my mom. She adored Anne Murray and even while she was nearing the end, Anne Murray's greatest hits CD was playing over and over. I think this song might actually have been on when she died. Fly away snowbird...
Ahhh, the 70's. Every single song on this album represents a part of my childhood.
LOVE it. Timeless.
And this song. Oh this song...
My mom would blast this song from our record player downstairs for my sisters and me while we were upstairs in bed before we fell asleep. She would sometimes stand in our doorway and sing it to us. And now, I sing it to my kids. "If I should live forever and all my dreams come true my memories of love will be of you". *sigh*.
What songs take you back to your childhood? Next time I'll share a few of the songs my sisters and I boogied too...yes, boogied. It was the 70's!
Yup. That's me at 12. Thank you 1980's!
First of all, are you sure that's not Josh with a wig on in that last photo?!
Aaahh...the songs of our childhood. I remember my parents' stereo cabinet and the records we flipped through; certainly Anne Murray's Greatest Hits, but also The Bee Gees, Kenny Rogers and a healthy dose of Elvis.
Thanks for sharing a fun trip down memory lane.
Kenny Rogers will be in my next post about boogieing. I mean, The Gambler?! Ultimate fave.
Isn't that pic freaky? Everyone says he looks like Mike but COME ON. Even he thought it was him! Bizarre.
okay. I know the entire Free to Be You and Me by heart (and now I am singing it!)..but I have never heard of the other songs you posted. ha!
Also, your Josh is YOUR TWIN! He looks sooo much like you!
The William wants a doll song from Free To Be You and Me cannot now be played (even though Will is a Will not a William) without bawling about grandma getting him a doll....oh god....
I'm late on my Thursday Song post...uh oh...i'm being replaced...
Love Free to Be You and Me. I also love Snowbird, it reminds me of your mom...I must have been around for some of her playing it.
Lullabies my dad sang me (I sing them to my kids and the songs break my heart a little everytime): Hobo's Lullaby, You Can Close Your Eyes by James Taylor.
Dad used to quiz me on the the Beatles all the time. The Band, James Taylor.
My mom played Carole King, the McGarrigal sisters, Kim Carnes.
I could go on and on and on....and I haven't gotten to my teen years yet.
Maybe we should all do a post like this!
BTW - I remember that hair do!
My first dance in Grade 6 - all we had was a 45 of Two Outta Three Ain't Bad by Meat Loaf and we just played it straight the whole night.
Gotta be John Denver's Greatest Hits for family drives.
The first song I ever heard on a Sony Walkman - Coming to America by Neil Diamond. Chills, not so much for the song but remember the first time you put those earphones on and the music seemed to be in your brain. Am I old?
First of all, Free To Be you and Me? Classic. Loved is SO hard! Someone gave me a CD when my son was about two, and when "Parents are People" came on, I burst into tears. (God, I could cry right now...) it means different things on "this" side of life, you know? Whoa.
I know all the other songs too... and Anne Murray was a staple in just about EVERY good Canadian home, no? (Except for Ali's - she's a baaaaad Canuck.) But it's amazing how music drags you back and roots you to times of old - you can even smell the smells. Crazy. Good.
free to be should be required for all people of the planet. i didn't know it was a video!!! i gotta youtube it immediately!!!
I am so right there with you on those songs. Maddy LOVES Perhaps Love, and she'll play it on my iPhone and say, "here Mommy...you can remember Gramma by this". *sob*.
Yes, OMG Josh is mini-you (well, not really mini!). But I have to admit, when I saw that pic (which I completely remember, because I think I was the one on the other end of the Polaroid lens, hence the withering look on your part) all I could think was GAWD that looks like Charlotte! More the withering look bit, though. I have been living up to Bobo's rep as a master-embarrasser of children lately.
Wow so many memories and it is so interesting to see how many people remember the same music. Kenny Rogers was my first record and I still sing the Gambler all the time. It is so nice to see such similarities with childhood memories of music as I am now raising my child in the UK and they have never even heard of Anne Murray or Free to be You and Me. Even when I go to the toddler music groups I don't know half the songs or the words are different. It surprised me that it was so different and I felt like I had lost my connection with my childhood so it is so great to have these reminders. Thanks!