FEELING OLD AND NOSTALGIC

its pouring out today, so was sitting in the bunkhouse listening to bear and sam playing upstairs in the hayloft, buck and abbey moving around gnawing on the wooden posts and the barn swallows screaming in and out. sort of got to thinking about music and the first songs I really actually remember ........my mums family all singing apart from Highland and Scottish tunes, did Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Petula Clark, and then Cilla Black, Lulu, Dusty Springfield, Cliff Richards was the british equivalent of Elvis, oh god, the twist, the locomotion, even if I dont remember who sung what. we move into Motown arriving Buddy Holly .Beatles of course, but Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Troggs*Wild thing),,,,then the big movements.......arlo guthrie, donovan, joan baez, joni mitchell, dylan, and on and on crosby stills and nash before young, simon and garfunkle, mamas and the papas, JOHN DENVER, GORDON LIGHTFOOT, hendrix......spinning and dancing in a KALEIDESCOPE OF COLOURS........

who still sets you to singing from BEFORE?//

Bob Segar and the Silver Bullet Band, The Eagles, a local favourite April Wine.. , Carol King.. can't think of the others right now.. oh oh.. Gary Puckett and the Union Gap.. lol.. and someone I can't remember but the song was Ferry on the Mersey.. and this lands the place I love.. la la la la .. lol
Wishing I was in bunk house with ya Joan with the rain beating down and listening to all that past stuff.. sigh..

Gerrry and the pacemakers.....Ferry cross the Mersey.............great tune.

or it was Freddy and the dreamers...........dont remember...but can still sing.hum the tune.

it was Gerry and the pacemakers.. I looked it up.. always like that song..

Lovely description Joan, I could almost hear the dogs, the drops and the ponies. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. One of the first songs that I can ever remember hearing on the radio was "Downtown" by Petula Clark.

haha Freva.. I remember that well.. I think is was around the year I went to expo in 67'

Thank goodness for computers, I looked it up. It was 1965. All I can remember was driving everyone nuts by TRYING to sing along. At first everyone thought it was cute, then I'm sure it got irritating. When I hear the Eagles, I somehow manage to envision myself 18 again. Isn't great how just a few bars of music can conjure up memories?????

apart from all the antiwar songs etc....I loved John Denver....he can make a 7 hour truck drive turn into liquid gold............SUNSHINE ON MY SHOULDER ALWAYS MAKES ME SMILE.

what about "Knock Three Times on the Ceiling"? I used to really belt that one out. Remember the K-Tel records? They were awesome!

Okay gals, I hear the Magnum P.I theme song today on the radio and felt old...but reading this reminds me I'm still so young. I don't know what the heck you all are talking about :36_1_41[1].gif

well Cinderelly.. go jump back into your Roses.. pumpkin will ya.. while we old folks bring back memories.. I got shoes older than you.. :roll:

you too.. lol..

April Wine was big on the other coast too Wissy! They came every year around my birthday and I never missed them. I love the Doobie Brothers to this day...still got the cassettes...now I have to make noise and dance...and try to remember the 70's...Woo Hoo!...ps...shut-up Dexy.... :nocmnt.gif:

I like to think that we are like fine wine...aged to perfection. My hubby, thinking he is a smartie, would say that wine sometimes turns to vinegar.....we have an anniversary coming up...MAYBE!!!

Back to the music...LOVE the song...Ain't No Sunshine!!!!!

April Wine was big on the other coast too Wissy! They came every year around my birthday and I never missed them. I love the Doobie Brothers to this day...still got the cassettes...now I have to make noise and dance...and try to remember the 70's...Woo Hoo!...ps...shut-up Dexy.... :nocmnt.gif:

I still have some 8 tracks kicking around...just because....nothing left to play them on.

even the BEACH BOYS...bit campy now, but there SUMMER SONGS were cool...and
CINDERS....I WILL TAKE AWAY YOUR COACH IF YOU DONT :nocmnt.gif: