What music sparks your memory?

[tedscout]

I have become the photo keeper in my family, and I have just come across some photos from a trip back to UK in 1975-80. I remembered the visit but not the year - but every photo I looked at I wanted to sing a certain song.

"Pilot of the Airways".

So I googled it and it was able to nail the date for the visit- Summer (uk) 1980.

Has anyone else done that. Remembered an event or place in time because of remembering the music?

Cheers, Ted

[Podenco]

yes I do quite often I will tell some family member or friend the year something happened based on what was number one at the time. I think music in general brings back all sort of memories. I can not listen to some songs that were about and played alot when I was pregnant because they can make me feel sick

[angelfish58]

I can not listen to some songs that were about and played alot when I was pregnant because they can make me feel sick

Thank goodness it's not just me     On the plus side songs from the summer of 1983 remind me of looking after my new baby,particularly Bad Day by Carmel and Big Log by Robert Plant.

[ann255]

Quite a few songs bring back memories for me.  They bring back images of what I was doing at the time and where.  Angela Jones (back in the late 1950's I think) reminds me of a sunny, summer day and I was walking through Victoria Gardens in Rochester. I was a carefree teenager.  Whenever I hear it, I immediately feel the happiness and freedom that I did then.

[shanew147]

Thank goodness it's not just me     On the plus side songs from the summer of 1983 remind me of looking after my new baby,particularly Bad Day by Carmel and Big Log by Robert Plant.

I'd forgotten about that Robert Plant song - brings back memories..

going back in time a little ... one of the strongest memories I have connecting a song and an event, was on a cycling trip when we stopped for a break in Drogheda near a music shop and 'You Aint' Seen Nothing Yet' by Bachmann Turner Overdrive blasted out.. hearing the intro still gives me goosebumps!



Shane

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Whenever I hear the song "Sky Rockets in Flight - Afternoon Delight", takes me back to walking around the lanes in Brighton.  Can't remember who sang it, but I always remember where I was when I first heard it belting out from a shop.

[angelfish58]

Whenever I hear the song "Sky Rockets in Flight - Afternoon Delight", takes me back to walking around the lanes in Brighton.  Can't remember who sang it, but I always remember where I was when I first heard it belting out from a shop.

I think it was The Starland Vocal Band 

[ReadyDale]

I can not listen to some songs that were about and played alot when I was pregnant because they can make me feel sick

Some records I hear make me feel sick too (UB40 for example) - nothing to do with pregnancy though (would make a fortune!!)
Seriously though, happens quite a lot. Also bizarrely, some songs I don't actually remember from when they came out, can make me remember that time just by the "feel" of them - The Casuals' Jesamine takes me back to when I was very small in the late 60's, even though I don't remember ever hearing it until many years later.

[roopat]

All kinds of music evoke strong feelings and memories in me, starting as a young child in the 50s and listening to 'Love and Marriage,' 'O my Papa', Hernando's Hideaway' etc....
My mum always had the radio (ooops wireless) on, and then at primary school we were exposed to a lot of popular classical music, wonderful!

But once when I was very unhappy at work (and couldn't leave for financial reasons) I used to play my Barry Manilow ( ) cassette on the way home and the track "I made it through the rain" helped me to think that other people felt like me and I would get through it  - and I did 

Corny but effective.

Pat