Galveston by Glenn Campbell. I had just gone on active duty in the Navy and it was on the jukebox in the enlisted men's club. I was pretty homesick at that time.
Glen's christian name was spelt GLEN. But he was a great singer and sessionist, playing on albums and tracks ranging from Sam Cooke to The Kingston Trio, to The Beach Boys to the Spector productions of The Ronettes and The Righteous Brothers. I was surprised to hear that he even played on the first U.S. hit by Union Gap, Woman Woman as part of the Wrecking Crew, as I thought he had packed in his session work by then, due to the expansion of his own career as a performer. But that was a bit of a leap from The Cascades' Rhythm Of The Rain, some five years earlier.
Hi Tom: Goodness, there's so many! When I was really small - preschool age - mom and dad bought me a Sears Silvertone portable record player. We were a large family, so we had to share bedrooms. I shared a bedroom with two of my brothers; one was three years older than me, and the other was one year older. The bedroom was littered with records! Mom joined Columbia Record Club, and she would get box sets. When I was in a mellow mood, I liked album seven of the "Young and Warm and Wonderful" set. The album was called: Lightly Latin." Two tracks in particular grabbed me: "Southern Festival" and"A Day in the Life of a Fool." Both had great guitar! She also bought a box set called "Best of Country." I particularly liked "Devil Woman" and "El Paso" by Marty Robbins, all of the Carl Smith tracks, I loved Ray Price's harmony vocal on "Crazy Arms!" All of the Carl & Pearl Butler tracks! The Johnny Cash tracks! Don Gibson's "Ice Cold Heart" and "Twenty Miles from Shore" by Hawkshaw Hawkins. My older brothers and sister's records ended up in our room. Played "Meet The Beatles" to death! Played a lot of 45's to death too; ones played to death were: "Cara-Lin" by The Strangeloves - "Head Over Heels" by Mike Rabin and the Demons - "The Girl I Love" by The Lost Souls - "Girl Don't Tell Me" by The Beach Boys (Didn't like "Barbara Ann") - "Get Off My Cloud"/"Sad Day" by The Stones - "She Loves You"/"I'll Get You," and both sides of the "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice" and "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind" singles by The Lovin' Spoonful. I can never hear any of these without thinking back to that room and that record player. "Little Girl" by Syndicate of Sound reminds me of how bored I was when my older siblings were in school. One of my brothers had a record player and a drum set set up in the attic. I loved the drums in "Little Girl" and decided to go to the attic and learn it. I probably wore the record out that day because I was determined to get every single hit right. I had no idea that I was up there so long. My brother had a job after school. He surprised me when he showed up on the stair landing after eating supper and bathing. I thought I was in trouble! He said "Wait there," went and got one of my brothers, and said: "Play that again!" So I put the record on and played along with it. When I was done he looked at my brother and said: "Doesn't that little creep make you sick!?" I still think of that every time I hear "Little Girl." When I was in high school, a guy came up to me in gym class and said: "Heard you play guitar." I hadn't been playing long and told him so, but he asked if I wanted to start a band. I absolutely did!!! So we set up a time to get together in his older brother's basement where there was a really nice Fender PA set up. I found out that he only knew one song: "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone." He showed me the chords and we set to work on it. He wasn't particularly concerned with tuning up, and he barred every chord from the opened E to the next octave at the twelfth fret. I tried to get him to play it with fifths, but he wasn't having it! I knew a decent drummer so we got him. It didn't help! We got a guy who said he could play bass, who also wasn't particularly concerned with being in tune, and a guy who said he could sing, and also wasn't particularly concerned about being in tune. We gave it a bit of a go, but it was terrible! To this day I can't hear "Steppin' Stone" without thinking of that horrendous band! There are many, many more but I've gone on much too long! As always, great topic Tom, and great songs!
@@nathanlaney4577 Great stories and nice memories. I had a Sears Silvertone portable record player that my parents would use to learn the Cha Cha. I would play my brother’s Lovin Spoonful, Love, Supremes, Beatles 45’s non stop.
Anything of Woodstock reminds me of my family tent camping in the Adirondacks during festival. Friends who lived near Bethel took much longer getting up there. A Whiter Shade of Pale remunds me of grieving the end of a 17-month relationship in MN. Also in MN Tracy Chapman's Fast Car teminds me of a short relationship. We were traveling grom St. Paul to Green Bay to see her friends. Not a pleasant trip 😅
Love your first pick too! Anyone our age could include a Bacharach/David song to this list. All of mine are oldies. I never get sick of these and have heard them a million times. The Girl From Ipanema - Getz & Gilberto, Itchycoo Park - The Small faces, Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel, Epistle to Dippy - Donovan, Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) - Melanie, Baby Blue - Badfinger, Reelin' in the Years - Steely Dan, Hello, It's Me - Todd Rundgren, Help Me - Joni Mitchell, Poetry Man - Phoebe Snow. Something about this era of my life.
@@Steven-ot2iy Poetry Man always reminds me of getting braces back in the late 70’s. Heard it many times sitting in that chair blaring over the speakers in the doctor’s office. Great tune, great vibe.
My mom loved Latin music. I grew up hearing TJB, Trini Lopez, the Beatles. I remember Sears experiences. U remember playing the M Blues' To Our Children's..... to my sister Diane + her husband. She thought i meant Blues Magoos - We Aint Made It Yet.
Your story of that first record purchase is amazingly similar to mine. We too were at Sears; I was in the third grade and granted a record purchase; all the Beatles singles were sold out (this was near Christmas 1964); I picked a brand new one by the Kinks, “All Day and All of the Night”... those early British invasion beat groups are nostalgic to me, but also the other genres of that time, a truly great era in pop, 1964-65
Great subject Its my wife’s birthday today so lots of looking band ( whats her age ? Are you crazy ) Heres 5 from me Anyway we are childhood sweethearts lot of music rings true for both of us Cat Stevens ; We own all. His albums ; Teaser and Fire cat How can i tell you Growing up in Ireland we lived and died by charts and TOTP I was 10/11 through those glam years and T Rex was always the coolest so Ride a White Swan A few year later Grease was the word on the street Summer Loving and You’re the one That I want between them ruled the charts the entire summer but the night I sided with Bob Geldof when he tore up Travolta’s picture on TOTP i put away childish things and became a snotty teenager Going to disco in our town the last track played every-night New York New York : Sinatra no idea why but this remind me of bad irish discos in early 80s I arrived in US in 88 Lived on LES of NY where the jukebox ruled Freak Scene : Dinosaur Jr was where my quarters went to
My earliest memories were of Carpenters songs, especially "Sing a Song". Glenn Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy" and Styx "Come Sail Away" zap me back to summers running/biking around the neighborhood. I fell in love with Barry Manilow around 1980 and would check out his albums from the library. I can zap back to the Summer of '84 anytime i hear "Sunglasses at Night" and "Warrior". Thats when music became visual and i was experimenting with makeup and fashion.
I can definitely relate to road trips and when I was a kid me and my family drove from fort McMurray Alberta to Montana and south Dakota in the summer of 1983 and some of the songs that come to mind from that trip are j Geils band freeze frame, Jefferson starship miracles, Arlo Guthrie the city of new Orleans and Irene Cara flashdance what a feeling oh such good memories
The Glen Campbell hits like Galveston, Wichita Lineman, Phoenix all do it for me! He started my music passion. I strangely feel nostalgia about punk and hardcore of the late 70’s early 80’s. I rarely listen to it now. (Ok, The Clash.)
A very poignant and honest presentation, thank you. There are songs I strongly associate with places, people, and times in my life. I was struck by your first pick, which was ubiquitous on the radio when I was a youngster and seemed to me to appeal to just about everyone. In this digital world, many songs that evoke nostalgia are on my playlist and having heard them more frequently over the years, they have lost some of their time transport power. Without going into the detail, some of the recordings that seem to put me back into a special time, or place, or in the company of special people, include Jan & Dean’s “Surf City,” “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” by the Buckinghams, Booker T. & the MG’s “Time is Tight,” Marilee Rush’s “Angel of the Morning,” Grazing in the Grass” as done by the Friends of Distinction, “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” by CSN, Charley Pride’s, “Kiss an Angel Good Morning,” “Andy Pratt’s “Avenging Annie,” “Ventura Highway” by America, “A Good Feelin’ to Know” by Poco, “Blitzkrieg Bob” by the Ramones, “I’m in Disgrace,” by The Kinks, “Still the One” by Orleans, Cruel to be Kind” by Nick Lowe, “Union City Blue by Blondie. I need to stop. If you have a copy of your band covering the Three Degrees, I would love to hear that!
Work Song / Don Caron Orchestra (my introduction to contemporary music) Louie, Louie/Haunted Castle / The Kingsmen Be My Baby / The Ronnettes Go Now / Moody Blues Hang On Sloopy/ The McCoy's Dirty Water / The Standells Like To Get To Know You / Spanky & Our Gang If You Don't Want My Love/ Robert John Tighter, Tighter / Alive & Kicking Eric Burdon & War / Spill The Wine
I can empathize with many of the tracks you discuss here. Music definitely has a nostalgic factor for me as well, not necessarily as a function of, say, a family activity we did growing up, but of the time I first got a transistor radio and started buying vinyl 45s, 1966-1967. So many memories of hearing songs on AM radio during the summers of those years, they’ll forever be part of my identity. There were some other, lesser years which influenced me as well, like the early-to-mid 1980s period.
Really nice video, Tom. Thank you for sharing those stories. For me a song that always brings on nostalgia is Growin' Up by Bruce Springsteen. I am not a Springsteen fan, but I grew up on the Jersey Shore, and I watched his rise from leader of greasy, rock and roll and R&B bar bands (he was dynamite then) to globally-famous, media-manufactured working class hero (not my cup of tea). Nevertheless his song Growing' Up brings back memories of being young and hanging around Asbury Park, Long Branch and all those other places that informed Springsteen's early albums. In those days I was trying to become an adult, and not having an easy time of it. Eventually things worked out OK, but it took a long time to get there, ha ha. Growin' Up always takes me back to the time and place when I was trying to sort things out.
you mentioned your mother and herb alpert (a great record) and i immediately thought of my mother and glen campbell. i was just about to type a comment and spoiler alert: you're aware that glen's jimmy webb covers especially are wonderful. the three degrees track is perfect and although i thought i didn't know the ABC track, i certainly did. great video per usual.
Some of these tracks remind you of where you were when you first heard them, making you imagine that that was where they were recorded, sometimes out in the fields (Turn Turn Turn), or even in an underground tube station (Arnold Layne), or in a railway station (Happenings Ten Years Time Ago).
I had a childhood friend (she's passed on) who loved to write down song lyrics (mostly wrong). My favorite is Temptations: Ball of Confusion..."solid gold Indian man...." I laugh and cry.
Purple Haze, Hendrix. I got into an Ocean City MD bar when under age, got my hand stamped for the first time and Purple Haze was playing on the sound system.
I remember seeing ABC in some magazine back in the day and was really curious to see what they sounded like so I bought their LP. That's funny it was on the Mervyn's playlist. I could have just gone there.
This is a great topic and it made me think: when I hear certain songs, sometimes it's defo my own nostalgia, but some of them are really just made that way - to tug those particular strings, and I'm not really sure if I'm just *supposed* to feel nostalgic when I hear them. Or both 🤔 Like, I've heard "By the time I get to Phoenix" as a well grown woman but that song certainly sounds to me like something to induce nostalgia. (For a time/place that I never really experienced!) It's so weird. Or Roy Orbison's "Mystery Girl", which checks both boxes for me: those were my school days but also the whole sound just reeks of nostalgia, in a good way ofc. I have to count in the success of the song itself as well, or how many times have I listened to it along the course of time. One of my personal nostalgia faves is "Always On My Mind" (by Pet Shop Boys, and to this day I prefer it to the original and I have already been crucified in some comment sections over that preference😂). Now, that song was played so many times in the last 40 years, it doesn't quite carry that nostalgic kick as hidden gems that have collected dust in some forgotten corner of RUclips and then popped out to teleport me back to my second grade or whatever. (And then I play them to death anyway, maybe to build the second layer of nostalgia 😂)
The Replacements used to play "Temptation Eyes" live pretty frequently around their "Let It Be" era. They also did a studio version that popped up on one of their 'deluxe' reissues (I think, or maybe I just have it on a bootleg).
Windy - Association (giant chocolate chip cookies at the swim club snack bar) Romeo's Tune - Steve Forbert, Don't Do Me Like That - Petty (both in heavy rotation the week that I got my Camaro) Summer - War (laying on the beach in Atlantic City listening to them sing, "in Atlantic City or out in Malibu"
Here are a few songs that bring on nostalgia. I grew up in the eighties, in France. I don't think I make a mistake but these songe were hits we could hear everyday on the radio : - Kim Carnes : Bette Davies eyes, - The Pretenders : I go to sleep, - The Korgis : Everybody's got to learn sometimes, - David Bowie : Let's dance, - Tears for fears : Shout, - Talk talk : Life's what you make it, -The Police : Every breath you take, - Cock Robin :When your heart is weak, - The Beach Boys : Kokomo, - Terrence Trent d'Arby : Sign your name.
@@tomrobinson5776 Thank you. In fact, it reminds me of summer holidays with my parents or school trips. Good times, but it's over. Listening to these songs today, it's like watching old photos of my youth, that turn yellow... I would add the Stranglers with "Always the sun".
Great subject matter in that it's completely different for everybody and often hard to explain why a certain song affects you the way it does. Two of mine: Why Can't we Live Together- Timmy Thomas (1973) Love and Loneliness - The Motors (1980) First year I was on my own, and this is one that gives me a happy/sad feeling.
Downtown; Help; Morningtown Ride; Life on Mars; Casey Jones; Sara; Freebird; Angie; Shine on You Crazy Diamond; Crow on the Cradle....waymarkers on a road that continues.
I remember songs back to the beginning of Rock and Roll, the first iteration of a new genre that would go on to affect every other genre in ways great and small, before fading out. Some were more significant than others, some stayed on the playlist-of-the-moment, far longer than others. Some are recognizable within two or three notes, some tug at the heartstrings, and some push the envelope. The Rock Era was one of change, growth, and diffusement, as ideas percolated, gained attention, and became mainstream, to a pounding beat. A generation came of age, and now stands near the exits, waiting for time to call their name. We won't see their like for another couple centuries, similar to the late-1700s to early 1800s, that saw a similar explosion in "classical" music. Our music changed mores, attitudes, and the course of history (not always for the better, unfortunately), informed a generation, and made Entertainment into the powerful monolith it has become (again, not always for the better). Rock 'n' Roll was once a powerful force in the world, but its time seems to have passed, in a world hell-bent on reversing the course of the last century. The inmates have taken over the asylum, and today's generation is consumed by tiny screens filled with utter lies, propaganda and divisiveness. A political party threatens the freedom that bred rock and roll from Country/Folk, Big Band, Gospel, Jazz/Bebop, and Pop, narrowing, instead of widening, the focus in a desperate attempt to cling to power in the face of reality, the waning numbers of "White people", as clear a refutation of the principles of Rock as could be imagined. Music of the future will be blander, less memorable, and more disposable, because costs will not allow experimentation. What will kids of 2040 listen to and remember of the last 20 years? I doubt their memories will be as evocative as ours have been. Where is the "new" Bob Dylan? The "next" Beatles, or Elvis, or Joni? Who will write protest songs, in a time when one cannot take off from work, to pursue "artistic integrity"? Who will write the songs that capture the essence of the times we participate (who even wants to remember the last 20 years?), the fads we indulge ourselves, or the events that color them? Nostalgia may become a rarity, in these (unnecessarily) polarized times. EoD The Song that Epitomized the Insanity of the Early '60s BYT People's Park, and the Moratorium, DYBiM? A Rock Anthem in a Summer of Rock Anthems TFI Casualties of the Drug Era WGGOotP The National Anthem of the Rotten Republik of VietNam P(tMD) Say Farewell to Childhood AO I Love Rock and Roll MR An Outlaw Fantasy Writ Large, before We Understood "Outlaw" Fantasies O The Generation Gap in Full Flower SaN The Birth of Cool Best of My Nostalgic Favorites 01 E V E O F D E S T R U C T I O N Barry McGuire 02 B I G Y E L L O W T A X I Joni Mitchell 03 D O Y O U B E L I E V E I N M A G I C ? the Lovin' Spoonful 04 T H E F R E N C H I N H A L E R Warren Zevon 05 W E G O T T A G E T O U T O F T H I S P L A C E the Animals 06 P U F F ( T H E M A G I C D R A G O N ) Peter, Paul & Mary 07 A L L E Y O O P the Hollywood Argyles 08 M I D N I G H T R I D E R the Allman Brothers 09 O H I O Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young 10 S U C H A N I G H T Elvis Presley
Folsum Prison Blues. Charming topic, Capo. Yes, ABC...there is something about being in a record shop when or @ a release and being there. Not sure collectors who wr born after 2000 get this. But anyway.( Band on the Run was huge @74 during road trips).
Galveston by Glenn Campbell. I had just gone on active duty in the Navy and it was on the jukebox in the enlisted men's club. I was pretty homesick at that time.
That was the first 45 I ever bought!! I was 9.
Glen's christian name was spelt GLEN. But he was a great singer and sessionist, playing on albums and tracks ranging from Sam Cooke to The Kingston Trio, to The Beach Boys to the Spector productions of The Ronettes and The Righteous Brothers. I was surprised to hear that he even played on the first U.S. hit by Union Gap, Woman Woman as part of the Wrecking Crew, as I thought he had packed in his session work by then, due to the expansion of his own career as a performer. But that was a bit of a leap from The Cascades' Rhythm Of The Rain, some five years earlier.
@@paulgoldstein2569 I understand that he did not read music.
@@Cap683 So many top stars couldn't read music.
I had the same experience with Don Henleys A Month of Sunday’s riding the bus to the METS station after enlisting.
Hi Tom:
Goodness, there's so many! When I was really small - preschool age - mom and dad bought me a Sears Silvertone portable record player. We were a large family, so we had to share bedrooms. I shared a bedroom with two of my brothers; one was three years older than me, and the other was one year older. The bedroom was littered with records! Mom joined Columbia Record Club, and she would get box sets. When I was in a mellow mood, I liked album seven of the "Young and Warm and Wonderful" set. The album was called: Lightly Latin." Two tracks in particular grabbed me: "Southern Festival" and"A Day in the Life of a Fool." Both had great guitar! She also bought a box set called "Best of Country." I particularly liked "Devil Woman" and "El Paso" by Marty Robbins, all of the Carl Smith tracks, I loved Ray Price's harmony vocal on "Crazy Arms!" All of the Carl & Pearl Butler tracks! The Johnny Cash tracks! Don Gibson's "Ice Cold Heart" and "Twenty Miles from Shore" by Hawkshaw Hawkins. My older brothers and sister's records ended up in our room. Played "Meet The Beatles" to death! Played a lot of 45's to death too; ones played to death were:
"Cara-Lin" by The Strangeloves - "Head Over Heels" by Mike Rabin and the Demons - "The Girl I Love" by The Lost Souls - "Girl Don't Tell Me" by The Beach Boys (Didn't like "Barbara Ann") - "Get Off My Cloud"/"Sad Day" by The Stones - "She Loves You"/"I'll Get You," and both sides of the "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice" and "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind" singles by The Lovin' Spoonful. I can never hear any of these without thinking back to that room and that record player.
"Little Girl" by Syndicate of Sound reminds me of how bored I was when my older siblings were in school. One of my brothers had a record player and a drum set set up in the attic. I loved the drums in "Little Girl" and decided to go to the attic and learn it. I probably wore the record out that day because I was determined to get every single hit right. I had no idea that I was up there so long. My brother had a job after school. He surprised me when he showed up on the stair landing after eating supper and bathing. I thought I was in trouble! He said "Wait there," went and got one of my brothers, and said: "Play that again!" So I put the record on and played along with it. When I was done he looked at my brother and said: "Doesn't that little creep make you sick!?" I still think of that every time I hear "Little Girl."
When I was in high school, a guy came up to me in gym class and said: "Heard you play guitar." I hadn't been playing long and told him so, but he asked if I wanted to start a band. I absolutely did!!! So we set up a time to get together in his older brother's basement where there was a really nice Fender PA set up. I found out that he only knew one song: "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone." He showed me the chords and we set to work on it. He wasn't particularly concerned with tuning up, and he barred every chord from the opened E to the next octave at the twelfth fret. I tried to get him to play it with fifths, but he wasn't having it! I knew a decent drummer so we got him. It didn't help! We got a guy who said he could play bass, who also wasn't particularly concerned with being in tune, and a guy who said he could sing, and also wasn't particularly concerned about being in tune. We gave it a bit of a go, but it was terrible! To this day I can't hear "Steppin' Stone" without thinking of that horrendous band! There are many, many more but I've gone on much too long! As always, great topic Tom, and great songs!
@@nathanlaney4577 Great stories and nice memories. I had a Sears Silvertone portable record player that my parents would use to learn the Cha Cha. I would play my brother’s Lovin Spoonful, Love, Supremes, Beatles 45’s non stop.
A few songs that immediately come to mind that bring back a certain time for me are;
1. 'Paperback Writer',
2. 'Windy'
3. 'Summer in the City'.
@@keithkarlinsky6632 Summer In The City for me as well. 😉
Anything of Woodstock reminds me of my family tent camping in the Adirondacks during festival. Friends who lived near Bethel took much longer getting up there. A Whiter Shade of Pale remunds me of grieving the end of a 17-month relationship in MN. Also in MN Tracy Chapman's Fast Car teminds me of a short relationship. We were traveling grom St. Paul to Green Bay to see her friends. Not a pleasant trip 😅
Love your first pick too! Anyone our age could include a Bacharach/David song to this list. All of mine are oldies. I never get sick of these and have heard them a million times. The Girl From Ipanema - Getz & Gilberto, Itchycoo Park - The Small faces, Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel, Epistle to Dippy - Donovan, Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) - Melanie, Baby Blue - Badfinger, Reelin' in the Years - Steely Dan, Hello, It's Me - Todd Rundgren, Help Me - Joni Mitchell, Poetry Man - Phoebe Snow. Something about this era of my life.
@@Steven-ot2iy Poetry Man always reminds me of getting braces back in the late 70’s. Heard it many times sitting in that chair blaring over the speakers in the doctor’s office. Great tune, great vibe.
My mom loved Latin music. I grew up hearing TJB, Trini Lopez, the Beatles. I remember Sears experiences. U remember playing the M Blues' To Our Children's..... to my sister Diane + her husband. She thought i meant Blues Magoos - We Aint Made It Yet.
Your story of that first record purchase is amazingly similar to mine. We too were at Sears; I was in the third grade and granted a record purchase; all the Beatles singles were sold out (this was near Christmas 1964); I picked a brand new one by the Kinks, “All Day and All of the Night”... those early British invasion beat groups are nostalgic to me, but also the other genres of that time, a truly great era in pop, 1964-65
@@user-ky6wp3qx4c No doubt about it. 😉
Great subject
Its my wife’s birthday today so lots of looking band ( whats her age ? Are you crazy )
Heres 5 from me
Anyway we are childhood sweethearts lot of music rings true for both of us
Cat Stevens ; We own all. His albums ; Teaser and Fire cat
How can i tell you
Growing up in Ireland we lived and died by charts and TOTP
I was 10/11 through those glam years and T Rex was always the coolest so
Ride a White Swan
A few year later Grease was the word on the street
Summer Loving and You’re the one That I want between them ruled the charts the entire summer but the night I sided with Bob Geldof when he tore up Travolta’s picture on TOTP i put away childish things and became a snotty teenager
Going to disco in our town the last track played every-night
New York New York : Sinatra
no idea why but this remind me of bad irish discos in early 80s
I arrived in US in 88
Lived on LES of NY where the jukebox ruled
Freak Scene : Dinosaur Jr was where my quarters went to
My earliest memories were of Carpenters songs, especially "Sing a Song". Glenn Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy" and Styx "Come Sail Away" zap me back to summers running/biking around the neighborhood. I fell in love with Barry Manilow around 1980 and would check out his albums from the library. I can zap back to the Summer of '84 anytime i hear "Sunglasses at Night" and "Warrior". Thats when music became visual and i was experimenting with makeup and fashion.
I can definitely relate to road trips and when I was a kid me and my family drove from fort McMurray Alberta to Montana and south Dakota in the summer of 1983 and some of the songs that come to mind from that trip are j Geils band freeze frame, Jefferson starship miracles, Arlo Guthrie the city of new Orleans and Irene Cara flashdance what a feeling oh such good memories
The Glen Campbell hits like Galveston, Wichita Lineman, Phoenix all do it for me! He started my music passion. I strangely feel nostalgia about punk and hardcore of the late 70’s early 80’s. I rarely listen to it now. (Ok, The Clash.)
A very poignant and honest presentation, thank you. There are songs I strongly associate with places, people, and times in my life. I was struck by your first pick, which was ubiquitous on the radio when I was a youngster and seemed to me to appeal to just about everyone. In this digital world, many songs that evoke nostalgia are on my playlist and having heard them more frequently over the years, they have lost some of their time transport power. Without going into the detail, some of the recordings that seem to put me back into a special time, or place, or in the company of special people, include Jan & Dean’s “Surf City,” “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” by the Buckinghams, Booker T. & the MG’s “Time is Tight,” Marilee Rush’s “Angel of the Morning,” Grazing in the Grass” as done by the Friends of Distinction, “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” by CSN, Charley Pride’s, “Kiss an Angel Good Morning,” “Andy Pratt’s “Avenging Annie,” “Ventura Highway” by America, “A Good Feelin’ to Know” by Poco, “Blitzkrieg Bob” by the Ramones, “I’m in Disgrace,” by The Kinks, “Still the One” by Orleans, Cruel to be Kind” by Nick Lowe, “Union City Blue by Blondie. I need to stop. If you have a copy of your band covering the Three Degrees, I would love to hear that!
@@tkingsley5761 You listed some great tracks. Music and smell take me back to a certain time more than a photo. Strange..
Work Song / Don Caron Orchestra (my introduction to contemporary music)
Louie, Louie/Haunted Castle / The Kingsmen
Be My Baby / The Ronnettes
Go Now / Moody Blues
Hang On Sloopy/ The McCoy's
Dirty Water / The Standells
Like To Get To Know You / Spanky & Our Gang
If You Don't Want My Love/ Robert John
Tighter, Tighter / Alive & Kicking
Eric Burdon & War / Spill The Wine
I can empathize with many of the tracks you discuss here. Music definitely has a nostalgic factor for me as well, not necessarily as a function of, say, a family activity we did growing up, but of the time I first got a transistor radio and started buying vinyl 45s, 1966-1967. So many memories of hearing songs on AM radio during the summers of those years, they’ll forever be part of my identity. There were some other, lesser years which influenced me as well, like the early-to-mid 1980s period.
Really nice video, Tom. Thank you for sharing those stories. For me a song that always brings on nostalgia is Growin' Up by Bruce Springsteen. I am not a Springsteen fan, but I grew up on the Jersey Shore, and I watched his rise from leader of greasy, rock and roll and R&B bar bands (he was dynamite then) to globally-famous, media-manufactured working class hero (not my cup of tea). Nevertheless his song Growing' Up brings back memories of being young and hanging around Asbury Park, Long Branch and all those other places that informed Springsteen's early albums. In those days I was trying to become an adult, and not having an easy time of it. Eventually things worked out OK, but it took a long time to get there, ha ha. Growin' Up always takes me back to the time and place when I was trying to sort things out.
@@GreenManalishiUSA Very cool. Those early Springsteen albums are great.
you mentioned your mother and herb alpert (a great record) and i immediately thought of my mother and glen campbell. i was just about to type a comment and spoiler alert: you're aware that glen's jimmy webb covers especially are wonderful. the three degrees track is perfect and although i thought i didn't know the ABC track, i certainly did. great video per usual.
Some of these tracks remind you of where you were when you first heard them, making you imagine that that was where they were recorded, sometimes out in the fields (Turn Turn Turn), or even in an underground tube station (Arnold Layne), or in a railway station (Happenings Ten Years Time Ago).
One Clear Moment by Linda Thompson: when it''s time ,again, to pack up the car and leave.
I had a childhood friend (she's passed on) who loved to write down song lyrics (mostly wrong). My favorite is Temptations: Ball of Confusion..."solid gold Indian man...." I laugh and cry.
Purple Haze, Hendrix. I got into an Ocean City MD bar when under age, got my hand stamped for the first time and Purple Haze was playing on the sound system.
@@davidmencarini4446 That’s awesome 😉
I remember seeing ABC in some magazine back in the day and was really curious to see what they sounded like so I bought their LP. That's funny it was on the Mervyn's playlist. I could have just gone there.
This is a great topic and it made me think: when I hear certain songs, sometimes it's defo my own nostalgia, but some of them are really just made that way - to tug those particular strings, and I'm not really sure if I'm just *supposed* to feel nostalgic when I hear them. Or both 🤔
Like, I've heard "By the time I get to Phoenix" as a well grown woman but that song certainly sounds to me like something to induce nostalgia. (For a time/place that I never really experienced!) It's so weird. Or Roy Orbison's "Mystery Girl", which checks both boxes for me: those were my school days but also the whole sound just reeks of nostalgia, in a good way ofc.
I have to count in the success of the song itself as well, or how many times have I listened to it along the course of time. One of my personal nostalgia faves is "Always On My Mind" (by Pet Shop Boys, and to this day I prefer it to the original and I have already been crucified in some comment sections over that preference😂). Now, that song was played so many times in the last 40 years, it doesn't quite carry that nostalgic kick as hidden gems that have collected dust in some forgotten corner of RUclips and then popped out to teleport me back to my second grade or whatever. (And then I play them to death anyway, maybe to build the second layer of nostalgia 😂)
The Replacements used to play "Temptation Eyes" live pretty frequently around their "Let It Be" era. They also did a studio version that popped up on one of their 'deluxe' reissues (I think, or maybe I just have it on a bootleg).
@@senatorjimdracula1603 That’s right. I have a live bootleg of it as well. 😉
Windy - Association (giant chocolate chip cookies at the swim club snack bar)
Romeo's Tune - Steve Forbert, Don't Do Me Like That - Petty (both in heavy rotation the week that I got my Camaro)
Summer - War (laying on the beach in Atlantic City listening to them sing, "in Atlantic City or out in Malibu"
Here are a few songs that bring on nostalgia. I grew up in the eighties, in France. I don't think I make a mistake but these songe were hits we could hear everyday on the radio :
- Kim Carnes : Bette Davies eyes,
- The Pretenders : I go to sleep,
- The Korgis : Everybody's got to learn sometimes,
- David Bowie : Let's dance,
- Tears for fears : Shout,
- Talk talk : Life's what you make it,
-The Police : Every breath you take,
- Cock Robin :When your heart is weak,
- The Beach Boys : Kokomo,
- Terrence Trent d'Arby : Sign your name.
@@MarwinEthel-Mollusk These songs you listed definitely bring back a particular time in my life. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 Thank you. In fact, it reminds me of summer holidays with my parents or school trips. Good times, but it's over. Listening to these songs today, it's like watching old photos of my youth, that turn yellow...
I would add the Stranglers with "Always the sun".
Great subject matter in that it's completely different for everybody and often hard to explain why a certain song affects you the way it does.
Two of mine:
Why Can't we Live Together- Timmy Thomas (1973)
Love and Loneliness - The Motors (1980)
First year I was on my own, and this is one that gives me a happy/sad feeling.
Downtown; Help; Morningtown Ride; Life on Mars; Casey Jones; Sara; Freebird; Angie; Shine on You Crazy Diamond; Crow on the Cradle....waymarkers on a road that continues.
I remember songs back to the beginning of Rock and Roll, the first iteration of a new genre that would go on to affect every other genre in ways great and small, before fading out. Some were more significant than others, some stayed on the playlist-of-the-moment, far longer than others. Some are recognizable within two or three notes, some tug at the heartstrings, and some push the envelope. The Rock Era was one of change, growth, and diffusement, as ideas percolated, gained attention, and became mainstream, to a pounding beat.
A generation came of age, and now stands near the exits, waiting for time to call their name. We won't see their like for another couple centuries, similar to the late-1700s to early 1800s, that saw a similar explosion in "classical" music. Our music changed mores, attitudes, and the course of history (not always for the better, unfortunately), informed a generation, and made Entertainment into the powerful monolith it has become (again, not always for the better). Rock 'n' Roll was once a powerful force in the world, but its time seems to have passed, in a world hell-bent on reversing the course of the last century.
The inmates have taken over the asylum, and today's generation is consumed by tiny screens filled with utter lies, propaganda and divisiveness. A political party threatens the freedom that bred rock and roll from Country/Folk, Big Band, Gospel, Jazz/Bebop, and Pop, narrowing, instead of widening, the focus in a desperate attempt to cling to power in the face of reality, the waning numbers of "White people", as clear a refutation of the principles of Rock as could be imagined.
Music of the future will be blander, less memorable, and more disposable, because costs will not allow experimentation. What will kids of 2040 listen to and remember of the last 20 years? I doubt their memories will be as evocative as ours have been. Where is the "new" Bob Dylan? The "next" Beatles, or Elvis, or Joni? Who will write protest songs, in a time when one cannot take off from work, to pursue "artistic integrity"? Who will write the songs that capture the essence of the times we participate (who even wants to remember the last 20 years?), the fads we indulge ourselves, or the events that color them? Nostalgia may become a rarity, in these (unnecessarily) polarized times.
EoD The Song that Epitomized the Insanity of the Early '60s
BYT People's Park, and the Moratorium,
DYBiM? A Rock Anthem in a Summer of Rock Anthems
TFI Casualties of the Drug Era
WGGOotP The National Anthem of the Rotten Republik of VietNam
P(tMD) Say Farewell to Childhood
AO I Love Rock and Roll
MR An Outlaw Fantasy Writ Large, before We Understood "Outlaw" Fantasies
O The Generation Gap in Full Flower
SaN The Birth of Cool
Best of My Nostalgic Favorites
01 E V E O F D E S T R U C T I O N
Barry McGuire
02 B I G Y E L L O W T A X I
Joni Mitchell
03 D O Y O U B E L I E V E I N M A G I C ?
the Lovin' Spoonful
04 T H E F R E N C H I N H A L E R
Warren Zevon
05 W E G O T T A G E T O U T O F T H I S P L A C E
the Animals
06 P U F F ( T H E M A G I C D R A G O N )
Peter, Paul & Mary
07 A L L E Y O O P
the Hollywood Argyles
08 M I D N I G H T R I D E R
the Allman Brothers
09 O H I O
Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young
10 S U C H A N I G H T
Elvis Presley
@@TheAnarchitek Great synopsis on the importance and history of music and this insane world we’re currently living in. You nailed it 100%. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 Thank you! The results of a misspent youth!
Peter Nero The Summer of '42
Folsum Prison Blues. Charming topic, Capo. Yes, ABC...there is something about being in a record shop when or @ a release and being there. Not sure collectors who wr born after 2000 get this. But anyway.( Band on the Run was huge @74 during road trips).
Music is the perfect vehicle for time travel, which is why I named my channel that way 😉
@@EricVDB66 Nice, I’ll check out your channel. Just subscribed. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 Many thanks Tom, hope you'll find Music you like on this channel ✌️
One more thing Cape...You have to bring out the Shades and the Hat for just one video....
Do it for Mankind!!!!!!!!!
@@newspapertaxis1 I did on the Earth Day video, but at your request I will again. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 Can't wait... The tension mounts!!!!! Thanks!!
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
and I'm not a fan.
Cameo - Word Up
sometimes the 80s were cool.
What instrument did you play in your band?
Guitar and lead singer, songwriter.
We have 4 albums on Spotify. Let It Come Up & Up To Here are the best of the four.
@@tomrobinson5776 Wow, that's cool. I'll check them out.