Leeds United Chat • What Songs Take You Back To A Particular Time/Place/Event ?
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I was listening to the radio today and what should come on, but Limmie & Family Cookin' 'You Can Do Magic'.........an absolutely unremarkable record you probably think.......and you'd no doubt you'd be right. However, that record has always stuck in my conscious because as a 8yr kid it was the record that came on when I first dialled a disc. (For those of a certain age you'll recall if you dialled 16 (or 160...I can't remember now) on your (parents) telephone you could hear one of the hit records of that week). My sister and I had nagged my Dad for ages to be able to ring it and when he finally succumbed 'You Can Do Magic' was what came down the line. Must have been 1971/72, but I remember it like yesterday, sat in his office chair in the upstairs back room of the house where we lived at the time in Dunnington, York.
Other ones that particularly stick in my mind, not sure why as they were far from monumental events in my life, when I hear the records are:
David Bowie 'The Jean Genie' - for the reason it was the first record I ever bought and had to save up 5 weeks of 5p pocket money to get it and the experience of going into the record shop on the Stonebow, near (at the time the Polar Ford Garage) to get it.
Grandmaster Flash 'White Lines' - falling off a table in somewhere called the Beach Boys Bar in Lloret de Mar during my first 'boys trip' holiday (1982/83 ??)
Tears for Fears 'Everybody Wants To Rule The World' - memorable boys weekend to a friend's place in Worthing (not a place that is as old and gentile as you may think, well it wasn't in 1985).
Others must have some that have some real significance in their lives.....well certainly more significant than ringing a telephone number, a drunken accident and a boozy weekend...I'd argue that buying your first record is significant though
Other ones that particularly stick in my mind, not sure why as they were far from monumental events in my life, when I hear the records are:
David Bowie 'The Jean Genie' - for the reason it was the first record I ever bought and had to save up 5 weeks of 5p pocket money to get it and the experience of going into the record shop on the Stonebow, near (at the time the Polar Ford Garage) to get it.
Grandmaster Flash 'White Lines' - falling off a table in somewhere called the Beach Boys Bar in Lloret de Mar during my first 'boys trip' holiday (1982/83 ??)
Tears for Fears 'Everybody Wants To Rule The World' - memorable boys weekend to a friend's place in Worthing (not a place that is as old and gentile as you may think, well it wasn't in 1985).
Others must have some that have some real significance in their lives.....well certainly more significant than ringing a telephone number, a drunken accident and a boozy weekend...I'd argue that buying your first record is significant though