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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...
Read Memory 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...
Read Memory 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...
Read Memory 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...
Read Memory 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...
Read Memory 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,...
Read Memory 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...
Read Memory 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...
Read Memory 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...
Read Memory 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...
Read Memory 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...
Read Memory 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...
Read Memory 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...
Read Memory 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...
Read Memory 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...
Read Memory 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...
Read Memory 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....
Read Memory 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...
Read Memory 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...
Read Memory 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...
Read Memory 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...
Read Memory 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...
Read Memory 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...
Read Memory 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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