It's funny how hearing a song can invoke a memory or emotion. Yesterday when I started my car Jim Croce's Operator was on the radio. This song usually makes me smile because it makes me think of my nephew and mother-in-law. A few times, like yesterday, it makes me tear up. When my mother-in-law was undergoing chemo treatments, Patricia had to remain hospitalized. We would visit routinely and she would have her music playing in the background. If my then 3 year old nephew was visiting she would play Jim Croce's Operator. My nephew would bounce around to the music and the only word he knew was Operator. He knew the timing of the word in the song and he would say it real loud. It would always make us laugh, especially my mother-in-law. We lost Patricia a few months later, but I remember how much she loved those moments with my nephew.
Other songs bring out memories. I think of my friend Michelle every time I hear Sweet Home Alabama. It is her song. She is far more southern than me. A certain NIN song reminds me of my baby sis when we used to club together. Green Day songs remind me of Cheryl surprising us all by rocking out at HATM. Etta James' At Last reminds me of my hubby and how he practiced dancing for our wedding.
Do you have any particular songs that bring back memories or stir your emotions?
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I LOVE the song At Last by Etta James. It's one of my all-time favorites.
The songs that tend to bring back memories for me are strange songs that I didn't even really care for anyway and then somehow they got stuck in my brain with certain moments in time. Like The Boys of Summer by Don Henley always makes me think of me and my mom wallpapering my bedroom when I was about 16. There is another song, I think by Heart, that always takes me back to one time when I was in high school and I woke up around 5am after having a bad dream, and the radio was playing, and it was snowing outside, and I sneaked into mom and dad's room and borrowed one of mom's romance novels, Joanna Lindsay's Fires of Winter, and read it until my dad got up to get ready for work, at which time it was safe to go back to sleep. Another song, I think called '65 Love Affair, used to make me queasy because it was playing on the radio right before my friends wanted to go downstairs and watch Terror Train, a slasher film in which I recall one victim's head rolling out of a foldaway bed. So, weird memories tied to songs I didn't like. :)
Just saw that your NIN friends are coming to the Coliseum in November. Get your earplugs and your dancing shoes ready!
Paradise by the Dashboard Lights--Ken C. (he had a little dance routine . . . I might have helped . . .)
Something Like That--my nephew Bryce (it's highly memorable to hear a toddler sing 'she was killing me in that mini-skirt')
anything rock--my nephew Blake who was already head-banging in his toddler years--I am not a bad influence . . .
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