What Songs?

gajinoz

gajinoz

Joined
Sep 2, 2003
Messages
11,650
What songs take you back to your boyhood?

Here is one that does it for me.


[youtube]MKnSAQp5kXA&NR=1[/youtube]




.
 
[youtube]o_FSicQWimU[/youtube]
 
Or if you want to go farther back...

I had this on a 45 and my friends and I would play it all the time.
Must have driven my parents nuts.

[youtube]LsRK3DNoa_Q[/youtube]
 
Had this one as well. Loved this song.
[youtube]l5Aae9ReI5Q[/youtube]
 
I'm not so much talking about what songs you listened to as a boy, but what songs encapsulate your boyhood. If you wanted to tell someone how you saw your childhood in a song, which one would it be?
 
Then lets go back to Little GTO. I grew up in Southern California. Cars were important.
 
I was big on Pink Floyd, anything from The Wall would have worked.
Thinking of lost friends though :(, this works as well as anything.
Good thread, Gaj ! :thumbup:

[youtube]IXdNnw99-Ic[/youtube]

Doug
 
Well most of my early childhood was like this

[youtube]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/45Ts4mGIVW4&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/45Ts4mGIVW4&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>[/youtube]

in the beginning it was on bicycles but I was into motorized vehicle by the time I was 11 or 12.

There was a while in the 70s where it went something like this though

[youtube]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zPxFu7taftE&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zPxFu7taftE&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>[/youtube]

I guess you could say I was

[youtube]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mJS8j9YYB9w&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mJS8j9YYB9w&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>[/youtube]
 
California Girls by the Beach Boys. I married a California Girl and we're still married 27 years later.:thumbup:

Ric
 
Damn, you guys are old. Apart from my parent's music(Beatles, Waylon and Willie), here's what I grew up on:
[youtube]EIikcGo_dgU[/youtube]

btw, Beach Boys Endless Summer was one of my favorite albums as a teen.

Hey kids, forget Jan and Dean, here's Dan and Jean(Ween)!
[youtube]6PAzqBUNlCs[/youtube]
 
One that comes to mind is The Lion Sleeps Tonight by the Tokens. I had the 45 rpm of that song and played it over and over driving everyone nuts.
 
Simple joys, folksy, suburban-to-rural existence:

Copperline by James Taylor

Most of John Denver's themes
 
[youtube]wGEye0b5JXw[/youtube]​


Had the phonograph wired into the alarm clock. It was set at max volume and Departure/Ride My See Saw woke me up each week day at 0500 so I could be out running 6 miles before school each day. That first piano note was really loud....lots of complaints from the neighbors.




j
 
Bufford said:
One that comes to mind is The Lion Sleeps Tonight by the Tokens. I had the 45 rpm of that song and played it over and over driving everyone nuts.
Click to expand...
Here ya' go, Bufford. :)

[youtube]_LBmUwi6mEo[/youtube]

Doug
 
Being as old as I am, I could relate a bunch of songs that were popular in the 50s when I was a kid....They don't really "take me back" as the OP said.

One that does (and my wife as well) is a Tom Russell tune called "Purgatory Row." It's about growing up as a Catholic lad back then, with all the terrors about sin and sex and growing up that are pretty universal.
Can't find the lyrics up...It's on his Box Of Visions album.

Oh yes, "Purple People Eater" was a big hit when I was a kid.
 
Anything by James Brown, Slayer, Led Zeppelin, Black Flag, Jimi Hendrix or Black Sabbath.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top