Friday night music is: Songs that remind you of your youth..

[slowmotion]

And this was always a juke box fave when I started drinking in pubs @15-16, I say that because I'm pretty sure it was the 77 version which wasn't released but led to the band getting a record deal and re-recording it in 78, I dimly remember trying to buy it but the bloke in the record shop saying "Never eard of em son" then a few months later it was everywhere



View: https://youtu.be/0fAQhSRLQnM

BTW it was only on one pub's jukebox in the village (choice of 9 pubs and 4 clubs in Enderby)

I've got an original 45 of that on vinyl. The guitar track is a lot better than the version that became more widely known, in my humble opinion. I think it's the one they played on The John Peel Show.

 

[PeteXXX]

This always takes me back to being about 8


View: https://youtu.be/28Gj5Bfj90Y

Steve Peregrine Took went to my school.. Shooters Hill Grammar

 

[Blue Hills]

100% this....

View: https://youtu.be/4D2qcbu26gs

seem to recall that I went through a period thinking that was called
I want to be your dog

 

[Blue Hills]

So @Sharky rebuked me for dissing The Spinners. My brain went back to my childhood....
I went to St Saviours school in Ellesmere Port, a catholic school. Every now and then we’d get a visitation from Father Francis, his cassock, guitar and sandals. It was always excruciating. I can remember sitting in the assembly hall thinking that there had to be more to life and music than this...


View: https://youtu.be/k-1UqfMT_qw

did he do requests?

 

[Adam4868]

seem to recall that I went through a period thinking that was called
I want to be your dog

What a nob....it's quite clear it's "I wanna be a door ! "

 

[Cycleops]

View: https://youtu.be/JosUZjWUAkQ

First LP I bought.

 

[cyberknight]

If you're going to have that, you gotta have this. I couldn't believe it. I thought it must be illegal.

i didnt want to post everything and steal all the good ones

 

[mistyoptic]

View: https://youtu.be/SHhrZgojY1Q

 

[DRM]

View: https://youtu.be/i8O3xCpC6M8

This for some reason got my attention on this particular episode of TOTP, it was the talk of the class at school on the Friday morning

 

[swee'pea99]

When I saw this thread, TBH nothing really came to mind. Closest, Sugar Sugar by the Archies - first record I ever owned. Or Runaway, Del Shannon - I remember being enthralled by the falsetto for some reason. But this suddenly came on the randomiser and I was instantly back to my childhood with, as best I can remember, the first record I ever loved:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op2U-qGUDkg&ab_channel=45RPMsingles

 

[Blue Hills]

Friday night music is: Songs that remind you of your youth



Bobby Goldsborough ~ Summer, the first time..

also guilty of this:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZiEY3O-FWk

My mum had it and it got played a fair bit when I was young.
I think playing it in the presence of anyone under 10 should be a criminal offence.
caution: contains angels.

Nice para from wiki gets it, including the "transfixed":

Today the song is sometimes dismissed or disparaged, its contemporary popularity notwithstanding. It has been called "innocuous pop",[11] "classy schlock",[12] more "dreadful" than Pavarotti,[13] and, hyperbolically, the "Worst Song of All Time" by a writer whose ambivalent antipathy left him "transfixed" by "one of the biggest songs of the year."[14] In a 2011 poll Rolling Stone readers ranked "Honey" the second-worst song of the 1960s.[15]

 

[Dave 123]

did he do requests?

No, otherwise he’d have buggered off!

 

[craigwend]

View: https://youtu.be/xPkKgrmgFTw


A stalwart of our school disco at the insistence of the youth club leader...

 

[WILL911]

the Equals BABY COME BACK blaring out of the juke box in a big coastal amusement arcade that i briefly worked in at 17 in the late 60's, folowed closely by the Free Allright now.. those were memories and the weather was better too....will

 

[WILL911]

Sitting in a London Hostel assoc hostel bedroom in 72 in NORF LONDON, smoking and listening to the DOORS, It was a wet horizontal rain blasting windows very stormy outside and Jim Morrisons rendering of the famous hit Riders on the storm came on, the three guys there all started about the first time they heard the Doors.. later that evening we heard for the first time LA Woman. still a fave for me after so many years.. memories.. will