music and where we were at the time

[BigBill]

Ever connect where we were to the song at that time?

Tina Turners comeback, What's Love Got to do with it

I was assembling 155mm Howitzers for the US Army.

We listened to Tina all night long. Every time I hear that song I think of my 155 howitzers playing in the sandbox. I wish I was there with them.

Ok what song and where we're you?

 

[dmar]

Hey Bill, so I guess you can't sleep either... I had a good chuckle picturing the ironic scene of a bunch of guys working on 155 Howies while rocking out to Tina Turner's "What's Love Got To Do With It. That's some strange brew!

To the point of your thread, there are so many times that songs take me back to a specific time and place. That's one of the great things about music... You can instantly transform back to a teenager/your youth, even if it's just for a moment. Certain smells will do that for me, as well.

I heard an old bluegrass song on Sunday that we used to play for my son when he was a baby. It took me right back to those days, and it was a nice moment. Much better than laying here at 3:00am, not able to sleep, because I've got too much on my mind...

 

[BigBill]

Yup can't sleep and listening to music with Pandora while on my kindle.
Yup rocking out to Tinas return album while assembling the 155's for battle. That's my picture near my name. 30 mile range with 55 gallon drum accuracy, she can launch rockets, lay mine fields and take out mine fields.
The quality of my workmanship was depended on keeping the 11 guys it took to operate it alive. They gun and run constantly. I wanted to purchase one for my front lawn.

 

[RonJ]

I'll Never Find Another You---The Seekers

Walking my girlfriend home from work late. Listening to all the cat calls and whistles from the cruisers. She was a stunning, leggy redhead. Circa 1964 just before I enlisted.

 

[smokey04]

Second tour in the land of the stinking rice paddy[Viet Nam] listening to Tony Bennett crooning,"I Left My Heart In[APO] San Francisco" Nick

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

I was 14 (Summer 1971) and learning to be a interior painter. We had a radio we found, it would only pick up the local soul station. The three of us rednecks got lessons on style and rhythm. Ivan

 

[Donn]

CCR, Bad Moon Rising/Lodi always put me right back in Basic Training at Ft. Knox.
Simon & Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water. Back in Vietnam.
Derek & the Dominos, Layla. Cruising Lakeshore Drive, (Like the end of Gran Torino).

 

[BigBill]

Let it be by the Beatles. Reuniting with my dad passing by block island going to coxes ledge deep sea cod fishing. I had a pocket radio.

 

[Smoke]

Dec 14 1980 Rod Stewart's Passion was playing on the radio when they announced that John Lennon had been shot. Immediately after announcing his death they Played the Long and Winding Road.

 

[Len]

"Here comes that rainy day feeling again," by the Fortunes.

Best and worst memory song...worst; hot, steamy, scary army life, hearing it while waiting for take off and mission.

Then, six months later, on the beach at Holland, Michigan, hearing it on WLS from Chicago, while catching rays with "the one that got away" gorgeous "Alice" who was rocking a pastel yellow bikini and a golden tan.

Len

 

[brucev]

Sitting in the HS parking lot fiddling with the car radio. Was going to punch in WDEN country. Blundered over some other station and heard, "I was standing on the corner in Winslow, Arizona... Such a fine sight to see! It's a girl my Lord in a flat bed Ford..." and you know the rest. From there on out... no more straight country, just more and more of the Eagles, Atl. Rhy. Section, etc., etc., etc. Cool.

 

[twobit601]

High school out on dates in the 69 F100 pickup....Eagles, Heart, Willie N., Bob Wills, CCW, Bob Seiger, Foreigner, ZZTop, and the list goes on.

 

[joeintexas]

Peter Paul and Mary's Leaving on a jet plane. 1969 Shemya AFB, Alaska. One way in one way out. C-130.

 

[the ringo kid]

Dec 24th 1991, the day I learned my mother died @ 6:30 pm, the radio was playing: "All By Myself" but I cant remember who sang it? possibly Elvin Bishop or possibly Gilbert O' Sullivan.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

'Billy Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge'
Was with my bro in Memphis, we were nearing his apartment. We sat there in his VW and listened to all of it.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Sitting in the HS parking lot fiddling with the car radio. Was going to punch in WDEN country. Blundered over some other station and heard, "I was standing on the corner in Winslow, Arizona... Such a fine sight to see! It's a girl my Lord in a flat bed Ford..." and you know the rest. From there on out... no more straight country, just more and more of the Eagles, Atl. Rhy. Section, etc., etc., etc. Cool.

Me too! Here is the corner. My only comment is 'that ain't no flatbed! That is a 2 ton farm truck!'

 

[ldausmc1369]

"We gotta get out of this place, girl there's a better place for me ad you!" Most vets will remember. The Animals. Athem of 1stMarDiv 69

 

[carpriver]

My oldest son like to listen to my music, his favorite song was Barbra Ann by the Beach Boys, every time I here that I can see him setting in his rocking chair with my heard phones rocking to the Beach Boys

 

[moe smith]

Working on a remote jobsite in the Caribbean September 14, 2001. Connected to the outside world by a small AA battery fueled transistor radio. Listening to Mass for the victims of 9/11 at the National Cathedral. Battle Hymn of the Republic. I'll never forget it.

 

[Donn]

Dec 24th 1991, the day I learned my mother died @ 6:30 pm, the radio was playing: "All By Myself" but I cant remember who sang it? possibly Elvin Bishop or possibly Gilbert O' Sullivan.

That would be Eric Carmen.