Following on from this post on the Ken Bruce thread, (click on once to magnify) couldn’t be arsed to write it all out again. 
So just for a bit of fun for a change …What old records and music you hear on on the radio while you are trucking along, take you right back to certain parts of your life.?
For instance I know ‘We’ll meet again’ and ‘White cliffs of Dover’ take Maoster back to his army days.
So what about everybody else?
I’ve always been sensitive to this syndrome.They aren’t always favourite records and sometimes for obvious reasons, like Alice Cooper Schools Out takes me straight back to Summer 1972.
One of the earliest memories for me is Cast Your Fate to the Wind it was when I first started school and also associated it with the strong smell of the VP Wines factory in Kingston next to it and near our house at the time.Also according to my late Mum I point blank refused to go through the gate there on my first day and she had to take me back home, no surprise there.
Then Carpenters Close to You, Shirley Bassey Something and Smokey Robinson Tears of a Clown playing on Radio Luxembourg on my Dad’s car radio during the first foreign road trip to the South of France and Switzerland.
Then Bay City Rollers Bye Bye and Rubbettes I Can Do It when I left school in Spring '75.
Then Elton John Someone Saved My Life and Eagles One of These Nights during that hot Summer.
Then Summertime City when I started work in September.
Then Pet Shop Boys West End Girls and Big Audio Dynamite EMC2 takes me straight back to driving the old DAF 2800 which was my first artic and a lovely old truck, up to Dewsbury and the smell of the coal heaps a bit like old engine oil, when passing Bolsover in the case of the former while it was playing.
There are others but those stand out for some reason.
One of the first time going to London with my dad in his lorry, parking up on Tooley street lorry park and getting a wash in the public toilets on the main road !
We used to eat at a cafe just down the road where the owner played the same three records, they being George McCrae - Rock your baby, KC and the Sunshine band - Queen of Clubs and one other that escapes me.
Arguing over the radio, I wanted Radio 1 (Noel Edmunds, Tony Blackburn et al) - the man behind the steering wheel wanted Radio 2 (Jimmy Young et al)
Got to see Tower Bridge open before my dad ever did, now that DID cheese him right off !!!
Pennineman:
One of the first time going to London with my dad in his lorry, parking up on Tooley street lorry park and getting a wash in the public toilets on the main road !We used to eat at a cafe just down the road where the owner played the same three records, they being George McCrae - Rock your baby, KC and the Sunshine band - Queen of Clubs and one other that escapes me.
Reminds me of the typical playlist on the jukebox at the pub where we went during polytechnic college lunchtimes.
I ain’t lyin, it’s been so long, you can have it all, I can’t leave you alone.
I preferred all those to rock your baby.
Also KC produced/wrote George McCrea’s records.
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I ain’t lyin, it’s been so long, you can have it all, I can’t leave you alone.
I preferred all those to rock your baby.
Also KC produced/wrote George McCrea’s records.
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Really? Didn’t know that, good bit of music trivia to know.
Been So Long is a great track
It’s gotta be this track for me…
Carryfast:
I’ve always been sensitive to this syndrome.They aren’t always favourite records and sometimes for obvious reasons, like Alice Cooper Schools Out takes me straight back to Summer 1972.
One of the earliest memories for me is Cast Your Fate to the Wind it was when I first started school and also associated it with the strong smell of the VP Wines factory in Kingston next to it and near our house at the time.Also according to my late Mum I point blank refused to go through the gate there on my first day and she had to take me back home, no surprise there.
Then Carpenters Close to You, Shirley Bassey Something and Smokey Robinson Tears of a Clown playing on Radio Luxembourg on my Dad’s car radio during the first foreign road trip to the South of France and Switzerland.
Then Bay City Rollers Bye Bye and Rubbettes I Can Do It when I left school in Spring '75.
Then Elton John Someone Saved My Life and Eagles One of These Nights during that hot Summer.
Then Summertime City when I started work in September.
Then Pet Shop Boys West End Girls and Big Audio Dynamite EMC2 takes me straight back to driving the old DAF 2800 which was my first artic and a lovely old truck, up to Dewsbury and the smell of the coal heaps a bit like old engine oil, when passing Bolsover in the case of the former while it was playing.
There are others but those stand out for some reason.
you can still smell the old coal heaps up that way,i’m sure…must still be in the air.
