[Ingélou]

Every so often I get a spontaneous ear-worm from the 1960s - my youth heyday - which lets me relive for a moment the joy of watching teens music programmes or jiving & twisting at school lunch-hour record sessions.

Your youth-heyday is likely to be a bit later, but please use this thread to post a sudden memory & make any comments thereon - purely for interest.

Thank you.

 

[Ingélou]

Today's ear-worm for me is 'The Best Part of Breaking Up is in the Making Up' (1964) by the Ronettes.

Points of interest for me - the sad tale of what happened to Phil Spector, obviously.

Also, listening to it, the sound seems more blurred and less stomping than I remember it.

But what I noticed at the time, and still notice now, is the 'feminine wiles' aspect. She reminisces about how he apologises and then gets a delightful making up, and even though she sings later that 'it doesn't matter who was wrong', I think the message is clear!

 

[Art Rock]

Sweet - Hellraiser

I was 16 and started to get mildly rebellious, growing my hair and enjoying songs like this (glam rock), to the consternation of my rather conservative parents. Every time I hear it again, I smile and think back.

 

[Taggart]

This always resonates because it reflects a time in my life when things had been shaken up and were beginning to resolve.

 

[jegreenwood]

This always resonates because it reflects a time in my life when things had been shaken up and were beginning to resolve.

I still recall a party from my last year in high school where someone put on side one of this album, and it played over and over again all night. Pretty much my introduction to Neil.

Here's another one from the same era. Interesting - I've heard his re-recording(s?), so many times since I switched over to CD, I forgot the tempo of the original.

 

[prlj]

 

[Kjetil Heggelund]

I only heard classical music before I turned 11, but then I discovered Queen! I had the Greatest Hits LP then, so here is maybe my favorite on there...I still absolutely love this one and most of their catalogue. We were living in Nairobi when I discovered pop music.

 

[starthrower]

1970 is the year that I really started focusing on specific songs and the way they drew me in as a listener. This Chicago song is one of them. That simple piano part had a mesmerizing effect on my eight year old mind.

 

[schigolch]

I was on my early twenties.

I was also perfectly aware that my youth (my "youth-heyday" in this thread parlance) was slipping from me very fast. The days of splendour in the grass, of glory in a flower, were ready to gone, and never come back.

Since my childhood, I was terrified of a nuclear war of annihilation.

And then, this song was published:

 

[Rogerx]

Stay Awhile (Dusty Springfield song)

 

[Jay]

teen music programs

I saw the Mothers on "Wing Ding," a Washington DC after-school dance party show in '66. Bizarre!
Anyone remember Lloyd Thaxton?

 

[Ingélou]

Don't That Beat All - Adam Faith (1962)

I was still at junior school, not yet a teenager, and before this record my tastes were mainly for Scottish songs sung by Kenneth McKellar. But I had been invited out to tea by my best friend Elaine and we were watching Ready Steady Go and Adam Faith came on to plug this record. His career was slipping and later in that year the Beatles' first hit came out, Love Me Do.
But anyway, I watched Adam Faith come on to sing his song, his feet obscured in the mists of swirling carbon dioxide as was the fashion then, and I fell in love with him. It was my first 'crush' though most of my life I've liked dark-haired men. The only other blond man that I've had a crush on was David McCallum as Ilya Kuryakin.

So, this record marks the stage where I started to fancy boys. And that's just about the only merit it has!

 

[starthrower]

I saw this one on TV back in the day. I couldn't sing like Karen but I did start playing the drums the following year in 1971.

 

[NoCoPilot]

The 'Seattle Sound' started early. These guys used to play around town.

 

[NoCoPilot]

oops

 

[Manxfeeder]

Anyone remember Lloyd Thaxton?

Lloyd Thaxton, the original lip syncer! In the late '60s he opened his shows with a Dawk - a plastic hippie holding up a protest sign. I even had one of those.

 

[Manxfeeder]

Just My Imagination - The Temptations

One year in high school, I had a terrible crush on a lovely young lady, but I was too shy to do anything about it, so this song really hit home.

 

[Rogerx]

Gene Pitney – Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa

 

[Forster]

Every so often I get a spontaneous ear-worm from the 1960s - my youth heyday - which lets me relive for a moment the joy of watching teens music programmes or jiving & twisting at school lunch-hour record sessions.
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Some quality songs posted so far. The most irritating kind of song that worms its way randomly out of the blue and into your ear is such as this:

Who knows why it popped into my head yesterday, and apologies to anyone I've now infected . This was the kind of party song (from 1967) that kids in my class loved, and doubtless we made up our own verses, some unrepeatable on a polite CM forum!

Of the three members of Scaffold, Mike McGear remained famous for being Paul McCartney's brother, John Gorman became a regular on children's TV's Tiswas, but Roger McGough was and continued to be a famous poet with greater longevity than either of his companions.

For those with the view that pop/rock was so much better in the 60s, let it be known that when this song was in the UK charts (no 14 on 6 December, exactly 55 years ago this week) it nestled alongside Des O'Connor, Tom Jones, Englebert Humperdinck, Felice Taylor (who she?), Dave Dee etc... Even the cult Traffic were singing Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush.

The Beatles were, of course, number 1, with the suitably silly McCartney penned Hello, Goodbye.!

 

[Ingélou]

Some quality songs posted so far. The most irritating kind of song that worms its way randomly out of the blue and into your ear is such as this:

Who knows why it popped into my head yesterday, and apologies to anyone I've now infected . This was the kind of party song (from 1967) that kids in my class loved, and doubtless we made up our own verses, some unrepeatable on a polite CM forum!

Of the three members of Scaffold, Mike McGear remained famous for being Paul McCartney's brother, John Gorman became a regular on children's TV's Tiswas, but Roger McGough was and continued to be a famous poet with greater longevity than either of his companions.

For those with the view that pop/rock was so much better in the 60s, let it be known that when this song was in the UK charts (no 14 on 6 December, exactly 55 years ago this week) it nestled alongside Des O'Connor, Tom Jones, Englebert Humperdinck, Felice Taylor (who she?), Dave Dee etc... Even the cult Traffic were singing Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush.

The Beatles were, of course, number 1, with the suitably silly McCartney penned Hello, Goodbye.!

Oh gosh, yes - and don't forget the horrible 'Granddad we love you' by Clive Dunn (1970) or the vile 'Lily the Pink' (1968), also by Scaffold.
I shall have nightmares tonight!