Posts for Year: 1974

Nightingale

Denton, TX

Get Together

Great song. Sad memory. I was a freshman in high school in 1974. One day after school, I was sitting on my bed listening to the radio while I did my...
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Myke

Washington, DC

First Kiss

They say you never forget your first kiss, and every time I hear Seals & Crofts' recording of Summer Breeze, I rediscover that truth. That airy song was...
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MusicLover

Edgerton, WI

Hated this Song.

Endless Summer. This was one of my favorite albums. Although, I loved it I hated the song Help Me Rhonda. My name is Rhonda and everyone would sing this to...
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SumoDeCatspaw

Thailand

My First Speeding Ticket

Listening to Radar Love always added at least 10 mph to my speedometer. I was listening to it when I received my first speeding ticket on a drive down I-79...
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Lynnster

Memphis, TN

That Unmistakable Scent of...

Some friends and acquaintances and I were recently discussing songs that remind us of being a kid, and many of us involved in the discussion kept bringing up...
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chowhuahua

Corsicana, TX

Let's Bungle

Towards the end of the final semester the year I was in the 8th grade, we had kind of a "school's almost out" party in the gymnasium....You know,...
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alynn

Riverview, FL

The Nice Neighbors across The...

In the summer of 1973 we moved into a nice, three-bedroom, ranch style home in a nice neighborhood of Madison Heights. Although we were only renting, we took...
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Enlightened...

Cleveland, OH

It is not always a person

Ah the good ole days when formative years are behind you, I am eight in the year of this memory, and you start to adopt a view of the world that is mostly...
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Lioness

Natick, MA

My High School Boyfriend

I was 16 years old and the hottest guy in the school approached me and told me he loved me. We began hanging out and he use to sing, "You're...
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Angry Bear

Somerset, NJ

First vivid music memory

Music was always playing when I was growing up.  I wasn't very old but I distinctly remember one day when Janis Joplin's "Piece Of My Heart" was...
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Enlightened...

Cleveland, OH

The Aristocats-- don't think so

 This song and all the others from this movie was a great affirmation of a religious, biblical concept expertly created by the master-mind. Not Hollywood...
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Enlightened...

Cleveland, OH

I always think of lyalya

Originally Artist:  Marty Robbins had an Album:  My Woman, My Woman, My Wife recorded in the Year:  1970--our dad bought a collection on vinyl of the...
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Jane Jane

NorCal, CA

I loved that circle..

Memory, as we know it, is always changing.  At times, it improves and other times worsens, but rarely does it remain constant.  To me, that's the beauty...
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madeliaette

Wollongong (for now, Calif later)

Breathing out smoke

I am uncertain when I first heard the original song, but I recall remembering it by the time a TV show began on one winter vacation during my elementary...
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angus

Concord, CA

Two Harsh Chops

Fall of 1974, I was in Ceramics class. Sophomore year, new school, commuting from Concord to Danville every day. Classroom was a geodesic dome behind the...
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madeliaette

Wollongong (for now, Calif later)

Childhood gift

When I first bought a record with the song Rag Doll on, I was really hunting for something else. As usual, I was sorting through the discs in the second hand...
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Janine B

Unknown

A good giggle in Jamaica

There are times in your life when you hear a song and it makes you giggle and laugh. They are just plain funny, even if you do not understand all the words....
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Janine B

Unknown

I wish I wasn't here

This was a works do at one of the local cabaret centres. It made such an impression on me that I cannot remember if it was the Batley Variety Club or the...
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marcz

Murphy, NC

A Boy and His Tape Recorder

One of my first musical memories involves taping music off the radio. One of my older siblings had purchased a vintage portable tape recorder - the ones with...
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Lynne William

Bowie, MD

The Last Slow Dance

I went to an exclusive, private, Catholic high school for girls in Baltimore City. As I was soon to find out, the highlights of the school social calendar...
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Lynne William

Bowie, MD

She's No Grace Slick

 It was the summer of 1974, and I was thirteen years old. My family lived in a blue collar neighborhood on the outskirts of Baltimore, old row homes on...
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kmils

Westmont, IL

My First Love

     To be truthful this guy was not my first love, but he was a first in a manner of speaking. He was tall, thin, older, he had a job in...
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KSLady

Kansas

First Memory of Popular Music

When I was a small child, my siblings were much older. Some were already married and some were teenagers. For some reason, I have a memory of dancing around...
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madeliaette

Wollongong (for now, Calif later)

Our Record Player

Other than my parents singing, television, and radio, I grew up to the age of seven or eight before my parents introduced an alternative method of playing...
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