One song that "speaks" to you

[WildBill]

Roy Orbison live - "It's Over"

[WildBill]

I first heard this song at the end of an episode of TV series "Mad Men", George Jones "Cup of Loneliness"

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"If you hear any noise, it aint the boys."

[WildBill]

Luka Bloom - Playing a great cover of Glen Campbell's "Gentle on my Mind"

[WildBill]

Luka Bloom - You Couldn't Have Come At A Better Time" - Some more Irish music.

[WildBill]

Luka Bloom sings "An Irishman In China Town" I think the lyrics are hilarious.

[philip964]

Thanks for this thread and all the posts. I listened to many of the songs again thank you.

For me I have many songs that speak to me. But more than speak to me they tag a memory. I hear the song and I am transported in time to a point I remember hearing the song. Maybe not the first time but to a time it was significant in my life. I see the room I was in, the people I was with, the image and the feeling of that time and place stay with me for the song. Not every song I hear does that, but when they do it is like time travel.

Harry Chapin, he died in a car accident, rear ended by a truck in fog. Yeah we all wished we had spent more time with our children. Imagine, some of the greatest lyrics ever written.

Layla by Eric Clapton has stayed with me my whole life. Other songs have come and gone, but this one has stayed. Not sure why. Maybe because it is about the blues. Clapton was in love with his best friend's wife, Patti Boyd. His best friend was George Harrison of the Beatles. So he could only pine about the love he would never have. Patti ended up marrying Eric years later. Patti has the distinction of having three famous rock songs written about her. George Harrison's "Something" who Frank Sinatra felt was the greatest love song ever written, "Layla" and "Wonderful Tonight" by Eric Clapton.

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[WildBill]

Professor Longhair - "Junco Partner"

[WildBill]

Marshall Crenshaw - "Someday, Someway"

[74novaman]

Layla by Eric Clapton has stayed with me my whole life. Other songs have come and gone, but this one has stayed. Not sure why. Maybe because it is about the blues. Clapton was in love with his best friend's wife, Patti Boyd. His best friend was George Harrison of the Beatles. So he could only pine about the love he would never have. Patti ended up marrying Eric years later. Patti has the distinction of having three famous rock songs written about her. George Harrison's "Something" who Frank Sinatra felt was the greatest love song ever written, "Layla" and "Wonderful Tonight" by Eric Clapton.

Thanks for this, I never knew that about the song. I like a lot of Claptons stuff, but Layla and Wonderful Tonight are high up there on the list of great songs.

For another song that always "gets me" (darn, I guess I'm just an emotional sort of fella ) I'm going to have to reach WAY back in time.

My paternal grandfather was one of the finest men I've ever known, and I've known some great men. He survived the dust bowl in the panhandle, was the first member of my family to attend Texas A&M (which has now become a family tradition), was the first family member to graduate from college, survived polio (even had to be in an iron lung for a while), survived a tractor tipping over on him and breaking his back, only retired when his doctor made him because his back was so bad, and farmed in the same county for almost 60 years.

A random stranger who had season tickets next to him at Kyle Field had this to say about him to my dad on another forum after he learned that he passed away:

I had the pleasure of sitting to your Dad's right since 1991 and I remember your mother well. I recognized your Dad from your pictures right away. Your Dad was a wonderful man and we miss him, even though we only met during a game or two per season..

Your Dad and I would share our concerns about how the game was playing out, but I always knew that things were serious when he started humming Aggie Band music. I would cuss my head off, bellow at Slocum from the second deck, but he was in this Zen-meets-Panhandle-Farmer peace and I remain jealous to this day.

The last time I saw your Dad was at a night game in 2009. I remember because it was the first time I brought my daughter to a game. Your Dad made it a point to tell my daughter that he remembered when I brought her mother to games when I was trying to convince her to marry me.

Everyone in our section missed your parents in the 2010 season -- we beat Tech! We were all afraid age had caught up last season when unfamiliar people took their seats. Please tell your mother that the large man who sat next to them grieves for your loss and wishes her the best as do about a dozen good Aggies who sat around them.

I got to spend an afternoon a year with your parents for almost twenty years and I am a better person for it.

The last sentence really sums up my grandfather. He was a very religious, loving man who was patient, kind and gave generously to both family and absolute strangers. There is not a single day that goes by that I don't miss him and I am a far better man for having known him. He will remain the paramount ideal of how to live life well for as long as I am alive. If I die having been half the man he was, I will have lived a very good life.

My dad's response to the guy:

Again, thanks for your very kind words. I hope you won't think it's bragging for me to say I'm not surprised he was a positive influence on you, because I know he was for many, many people. He was a loyal Aggie for 65 years, a loving husband for 64 years, a deacon in his church for 51 years, and an amazing father, grandfather and great-grandfather. We should all aspire to do as well.

All that rambling to say that when I was on the farm with him, he was always singing (but not well. Alas, the inability to sing worth a darn was passed on to my father and myself as well). He sang a lot of gospel music, but his favorite song to sing a few lines from was "Hey, Good lookin" by Hank Williams Sr. Every single time I hear the song I think of my grandfather. I miss him every day.

Picture of him from the mid 80s:


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[Valk]

Layla should be a gimme, Yes?

Clapton also has another song about Pattie called “Bell Bottom Blues”.

[WildBill]

Paul Simon - "Kodachrome"

This song brings back a lot of good memories. I graduated college, got a job, paid off my student loan, bought a new car, a Nikon F and a great sound system.
I must have listened to "There goes Rhymin' Simon" a thousand times. Every time I hear this song it reminds me of those days and a special person.

[WildBill]

Roy Forbes does a cover of Hank Williams - "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"

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[WildBill]

Israel "IZ" - "Somewhere Over The Rainbow"