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.

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

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

Exile1981

1911A1 said...

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

Unclezip said...

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

wirecutter said...

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

hiswiserangel said...

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

Anonymous said...

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

Al_in_Ottawa

DoninSacto said...

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

RB said...

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...

Chickenmom said...

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!

stlview said...

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.

Leigh in Whitehall said...

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

ROger said...

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

Roswell said...

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

Stretch said...

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.

hiswiserangel said...

Stretch, you're a slut.

Anonymous said...

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

vaquero viejo