Tuesday, August 4, 2015

What song sends you back?




Summer 1976. I was a blistering 10 years old,
and it was the first year my folks let me go to the city pool alone.
I'd ride my bike down, and spend all day there,
10 minutes in the water, 20 minutes in the shade.
Yeah, I didn't choose the Ginger Life, it chose me.
Laying on a thin towel on the hot concrete
listening to KPUR 1440 AM
and my first exposure to "rock music".
This song brings it all back.
I can even hear the laughter and yelling of the kids,
splashing, life guard whistles.

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16 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 4, 2015 at 10:40 AM

    Summer of 76... I was learning what an air raid siren sounded like and how to duck and cover under a desk.

    Exile1981

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  2. 1911A1August 4, 2015 at 10:46 AM

    Summer of '72. Sweet City Woman. You're not old enough to hear the details.

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  3. UnclezipAugust 4, 2015 at 12:05 PM

    '69, Ten Years After - Goin' Home. Lord, I feel old.

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  4. wirecutterAugust 4, 2015 at 2:42 PM

    The Jackson 5. Maybe Donnie Osmond depending on the mood. Or the Bee-Gees. Oh yeah. Good times.

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  5. hiswiserangelAugust 4, 2015 at 3:04 PM

    Just because there wasn't music when you were young, doesn't mean you have to be sarcastic.

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  6. AnonymousAugust 4, 2015 at 3:49 PM

    Stairway to Heaven. The last song played at every school dance in the '70s and '80s.

    Al_in_Ottawa

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  7. DoninSactoAugust 4, 2015 at 5:11 PM

    Fall of 76. Afternoon Delight. Just got married. Still love that woman. Too bad she left.

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  8. RBAugust 4, 2015 at 6:17 PM

    Well I'd say its a close tie between the Partridge Family theme song and The Illinois Enema Bandit by Frank Zappa.

    ..wait...I should take that back, that doesn't look right...

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  9. ChickenmomAugust 4, 2015 at 6:37 PM

    Ah, you are all still young pups! The best was "In The Still of The Night" by the Five Satins. - Those were the good days!

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  10. stlviewAugust 4, 2015 at 10:52 PM

    Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album - every high school party I went to in the mid 70's seemed to play that album.

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  11. Leigh in WhitehallAugust 5, 2015 at 2:31 AM

    George Thoroughgood's: I Drink Alone , or really anything off of the Bad To the Bone album.
    It just wasn't a keg party without it.

    Leigh
    Whitehall, NY

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  12. ROgerAugust 5, 2015 at 6:19 PM

    Jim Ed Brown and the Brown's, The Three Bells. The first song I remember my Dad singing. I might have been 3 the first time I remember it. He sang it until I was 43 and he died

    Roger

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  13. RoswellAugust 5, 2015 at 7:47 PM

    "Fooled around and fell in Love", one of the GREAT guitar solo's to this day!!

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  14. StretchAugust 5, 2015 at 8:30 PM

    Wouldn't It Be Nice, Beach Boys - Sarah G.
    Beach Baby, First Class - Rosy
    Three Times A Lady, The Commodores - Debbie
    The Time of My Life (Dirty Dancing), Medley & Warnes - Sara N. Ran 2 stop signs between theater and her apartment after movie.

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  15. hiswiserangelAugust 5, 2015 at 8:33 PM

    Stretch, you're a slut.

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  16. AnonymousAugust 5, 2015 at 9:14 PM

    rodeo dance...scootin a boot and polishing my buckle on her wranglers while Judy Collins rode thru Ian Tyson's "Someday Soon".....

    vaquero viejo

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Play nice. None of you are too old for a spanking.