Is there a song which instantly---
 

takes you back to a person or event as soon as you hear it?

A Cornish beach, late at night, sat in the sand, holding hands(etc.). The waves breaking and out in the bay, lights from the boats flashing on the water. In the pub behind us, all the doors and windows open, someone kept playing ' The land of the rising sun ' on the juke box. Romantic!
Then the couple next to us told us the flashing lights in the bay were the lifeboats looking for a little girl who had vanished that morning and the couple walking slowly up and down the beach on the edge of the waves were her parents.They'd been doing that all day and were still doing it when we left much later.
As soon as I hear that song I can see those lights flashing on the waves.

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La Vie En Rose - Grace Jones.

Mykonos, 1984.

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Ravels Bolero -
...and it doesn't conjure up Torville and Dean for me
...rather an experience which the piece of music was designed to signify and which was listened to 'during' ;)

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garinda, more detail, please!
MargaretR, 15 minutes and 50 seconds! Not bad.

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Jackson Browne, "The Load-Out/Stay" ... 1982 .... watching the Northern Lights .... Ile-a-la-Crosse, Saskatchewan .... listening to the wolves, and the ice on the lake.

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Johnny Tillotson-'Poetry in Motion'(1960?). I can still see her walking towards me.

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Mr Blue Sky by E.L.O. - 1978 - was off school with tonsilitis for ages and they kept playing it on the radio -I was stuck inside and it was gorgeous outside.

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It was just a really happy time.

I'd just completed the first year of my degree course at Liverpool art school.

August '84 I'd spent working on the costumes for a film company.

In September I went to Greece by myself, aged nineteen, for three weeks.

I met some fabulous people, fell in love for the first time, and generally had the time of my life.

Windmills, Brandy Alexanders, partying on Tina Turner's yacht, reading Rupert Brooke and James Baldwin, dancing on the roof of Pierro's club with Amanda Lear, dazzlingly bright whitewashed streets strewn with rose petals, poodles in diamond collars, finally being who I was meant to be, feeling free.

The sound track to it all was Grace Jones hauntingly beautiful version of Piaf's La Vie En Rose.

Hearing it now...I'm right back there.

:)

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Grace Jones - La Vie en Rose (Official Video in High Quality) - YouTube

It's still a going out tune, I play when getting ready.

Hell's bells, it's Friday night, what the bloody hell am I doing in, posting on here?

:eek::D:eek:

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I once refered to one of our esteemed members in her younger days in that way Gordon:D

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When ever I hear of Grace Jones I remember that fateful interview with Russell Harty a few years ago:D

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When ever I hear Reach Out by the Four Tops it reminds me of my first wife

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When you started living you certainly started LIVING.
So how do you beat that when you go out on a Friday night in Accrington?
Can't say I like Grace Jone's version- a bit harsh. Who sang it originaly, was it Edith Piaf?

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There's been a thread similar to this recently. I haven't chanmged my mind - Unchained Melody, though it doesn't bring one partyicular moment back, rather a time. Likewise a Brook Benton song the title of which I have forgotten, that was in a coffee bar when I was 19. John Denver's 'Annie's Song' does it too. I think I'll stop there as I'm getting romantic.

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Yes, the Little Sparrow, Edith.

La vie en rose - Edith Piaf - YouTube

Which I also love.

But that reminds me of the summer before.

Working for the Dutch lesbian Countess in Mousehole.

:D