Fall 1969. 17 y/o, 64 Mercury convertible. Dating my first serious girlfriend, this playing on the radio.
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Posts: 8504 | Location: Livingston County Michigan USA | Registered: August 11, 2002
Originally posted by MelissaDallas: Also question-what am I doing wrong when I copy the Youtube link and paste as URL that it doesn’t display anything but the link?
Just out of college, single, first job, great co-workers, still doing things with my college friends, no cares. Hearing this song even now takes me back to those days and makes me smile.
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Posts: 3691 | Location: W. Central NH | Registered: October 05, 2008
Whole bunch of songs take me back to high school days in the 70"s, girls, skipping school and drag racing. But, when I hear any of the songs from the Beach Boys Endless Summer album it takes me back to my junior year in HS, cruising the main street of our town in a 1963 Impala SS with Carol sitting as close to me as she could. 8 Track of course.
Jeez I miss the innocence of those days.
Posts: 2585 | Location: North Dakota | Registered: August 17, 2007
One of these Nights by the Eagles. Takes me right back to 75 after graduation. Had a 70 Dodge Challenger with Mind Blower amplified speakers. Me and my best friend played it at least once a night that summer at full volume while hitting 100mph at the same time.
What a summer that was!!!
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Posts: 3856 | Location: WNY | Registered: April 11, 2009
Proud Mary by CCR. My dad used to sing this while strumming his acoustic when I was a young boy and I can still remember exactly how it sounded. I think about him every time I hear that song.
Yeah, one of my friends had a ‘62 Bel Air bubble top with an 8 track tape deck. I remember this song in particular because there’s a point, only about a minute-and-a-half into the song where Jimmy Page is messing around with a violin bow (and feedback, and a pick edge…), Bonham is just lightly touching a ride cymbal and keeping time with a high hat, Plant is just being Plant. The sound starts going from R to L channel and front to back, actually revolving around the car. It’s pretty much a relief when Bonham re-enters the song with machine gun rim shots and Page’s lead riff. Like it was yesterday.
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Posts: 13759 | Location: Wyoming | Registered: January 10, 2008
Originally posted by wreckdiver: One of these Nights by the Eagles. Takes me right back to 75 after graduation. Had a 70 Dodge Challenger with Mind Blower amplified speakers. Me and my best friend played it at least once a night that summer at full volume while hitting 100mph at the same time.
What a summer that was!!!
We bought the Mind Blower speakers in the seventies when they first came out. The first cassette we bought was Van Halen’s first album. Had a 69 GTO and we cruised all night cranking the speakers. I miss those day’s.
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Posts: 1467 | Location: Northeast,Ohio | Registered: November 11, 2011
I'll follow the sun...a melancholy Beatles ballad. I had never heard it, when in 1978 we discovered the sheet music on my buddies piano, during his clan's wake.
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Infantry Scout in Vietnam, 1965-1967. Nancy Sinatra... Boots (These boots were made for walking). We did, for days and weeks at a time, jungle and rubber plantations and rice paddy.
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Posts: 7369 | Location: Arkansas | Registered: November 06, 2010
More than any other song, The Voice by The Moody Blues takes me instantly back to a particular moment in time. When I hear this song, I am teleported back to a fraternity party one evening in 1981. It's as though I can still feel the autumn breeze through the open windows and smell the various odors associated with that old, ramshackle house.
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