I Hear That Song And I'm 8 And Its Summmer

[toys2cool]

Anything by Karen Carpenter, Elvis, or the Platters. My mom played these records on the turntable and I remember them as if I were listening to them right now....

true, my mom had Elvis on all the time

[WannabeMego]

Summer of '74---Anyone of these will do...

1. Living for the City - Stevie Wonder
2. Seasons In The Sun - Terry Jacks
3. Midnight at the Oasis - Maria Muldaur
4. Hooked On A Feeling - Blue Swede
5. Band On the Run - Wings
6. Time In a Bottle - Jim Croce
7. Rock Me Gently - Andy Kim
8. Rock the Boat - Hues Corporation
9. Smokin' In The Boys Room, Brownsville Station
10. The Night Chicago Died - Paper Lace
11. Takin' Care of Business - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
12. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John

I SWEAR there has got to be a K-Tel Record with all these songs that I had to have played to death!!!

Reminds me of walkin' around the Brooklyn side of the Verrazano flyin' a kite and goin' to Wetson's to get a burger, then to Korvettes to look at Toys I couldn't have...

[johnnystorm]

"Sweet Caroline" by Neil Diamond comes to mind...I remember it playing on the AM radio one night. My Mom worked as a waitress in the evenings and we had to go pick her up at work, my Dad loading me & my sister into the station wagon and us laying in the back area looking out at the stars in the sky through that open rear window while we waited for her to get done. Wearing our pajamas...and remember when it was perfectly ok to ride in the back of the car without restrictions on car seats, booster seats, even seat belts? Heck, I think the seatbelts were shoved down into the cushions out of the way...not that safety isn't important, but that's how it used to be.

"Sugar Sugar" from The Archie's also falls into that same memory.
Thanks for bringing it up again.

[kryptosmaster]

Billy, Don't Be a Hero always sends me back.
Rich

[Mikey]

Ma Belle Amie always reminds me of summer in the 70's too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWP_Md78mk8

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[SlipperyLilSuckers]

Good thread... wow I have so many. One that sticks out is Katrina and the Waves Walking on Sunshine. It's kinda silly but it always picked me up when I was feeling a little down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z_usl6i9IY

[The Bat]

Elvis Presley-Hound Dog!

[huedell]

this is a tough one...as I obsess over stuff like this...so its stuff
that "has" travelled with me all these years...but here's a good one anyway...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DkETTRg0C8

Any of you know that song? (there's no proper vid for it on youtube I can find)

In the summers of '79-'81 at a camp I was at, a counselor used to play
that 1960s song all the time....I think it is the epitome of "cheese"...but,
man, does it pack a nostalgic wallop.

[The Toyroom]

Good thread... wow I have so many. One that sticks out is Katrina and the Waves Walking on Sunshine. It's kinda silly but it always picked me up when I was feeling a little down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z_usl6i9IY

I LOVE that song! My wife however HATES it

[david_b]

"Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks, or "In the Summertime" with Mungo Jerry.

Yep, I'm so there.

david_b

[palitoy]

"You're so Vain" is one of those things that shoots me right back to our orange and brown kitchen.

[EMCE Hammer]

Heart's 'Barracuda' puts me right back in the seat of mom's woodgrain station wagon. The Star Wars theme puts me right back in my grandma's dining room which doubled as a play room. 'I'll Wait' takes me right back to 1983 and my class trip to Washington DC.

[jp1969]

The Carpenters always make me remember lazy summer days aka the 70s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwxsWIYJI2A

[jds1911a1]

I don't think I can directly draw a parallel to Summertime, but taking me back, waaay back is Pac-Man Fever. I wore that album out. I can almost hear the Frogger song in my head too. Yeah, insane.

Scott

I literally got this as a download a couple months back, I'm suprised it wasn't sampled all day last week for PM's 30th

a song like that for me is Video Killed the radio star.

[Sowth]

Echo Beach by Martha and the Muffins (From the album Toronto - excellent knowledge for school quiz nights!)

Takes me back to the Torquay Surf Club Disco...