Songs That Cause You Nostalgia

[BHopkins]

'Once upon a time
In your wildest dreams I wonder if you know, I wonder if you think about me.'

Any day dreamers?

I don't hear anything from Moody Blues very often. But their songs always make me feel melancholy.

 

[Snagglefoot]

Band On The Run. Summer of 1974. What a great summer that was.

 

[Malo83]

 

[dishdude]

The first time I heard this song I was in college driving my old man's 1998 Breeze home from an all night EDM concert. When this song came on at 8 AM a friend in the Plymouth declared it the best song he'd ever heard. To this day I can't disagree and every time I hear it I go back to that moment.

 

[Jetronic]

On road trips my dad used to play cassette tapes he made. All of the songs on them bring back memories and associated feelings, but some stand out because the songs sounded different from regular pop.

PhD - I won't let you down is definitely up there.

 

[Propflux01]

We'll Meet Again​

Song by​

Vera Lynn
We'll meet again
Don't know where, don't know when
But I know we'll meet again
Some sunny day
Keep smiling through
Just like you always do
'Til the blue skies drive the dark clouds
Far away
So will you, please, say hello
To the folks that I know?
Tell them I won't be long
They'll be happy to know
That as you saw me go
I was singing this song
We'll meet again
Don't know where, don't know when
But I know we'll meet again
Some sunny day
We'll meet again
Don't know where, don't know when
But I know we'll meet again
Some sunny day
Keep smiling through
Just like you always do
'Til the blue skies drive the dark clouds
Far away
So will you, please, say hello
To the folks that I know?
Tell them I won't be long
They'll be happy to know
That as you saw me go
I was singing this song
We'll meet again
Don't know where, don't know when
But I know we'll meet again
Some sunny day

 

[Sonic]

As a kid in the 70’s into the early 80’s my parents would play music on Saturdays on the big home stereo record player. If my dad was playing something it was the Doors or Beatles. Mom’s playlist was Abba or Boston usually. Hearing those songs takes me back to those lazy Saturdays where I didn’t have a care in the world.

 

[levi]

Double Nostalgia for me.

 

[Lubener]

My favorite group of all time, the Statler Brothers. Harold Reed passed away recently and when I heard the news, I watched the last song they sang together at their last concert before they retired. What a classy bunch of guys.

I enjoyed the Statlers and Oak Ridge boys (RIP Joe Bonsall 7/9/24). Both are very similiar.

 

[Inked]

Dicky and Duane at their best. I remember hearing this song for the first time and the harmony of their guitars was captivating to me just as much now as it was then.

R.I.P. boys.

 

[GON]

My favorite group of all time, the Statler Brothers. Harold Reed passed away recently and when I heard the news, I watched the last song they sang together at their last concert before they retired. What a classy bunch of guys.

Thanks for mentioning the Statler Brothers. Not an often spoke about group today, and a group that song great stories that one can connect with.

I heard this Statler Brothers song (Class of 57) last week on a https://www.1009classiccountry.com/. This song is very melancholy and one I think a lot of us on BITOG can reflect upon:

 

[GON]

Theme (great) theme of this thread is Nostolgia, not the best or greatest song.

One widely used definition of Nostalgia is sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with positive associations, but sometimes also for the past in general, 'the good old days of yore'.

Answering the question asked in this thread is easy for some, challenging for others. I am in the latter. So many songs have awesome messages/ impact/ rage/joy, etc..... Yet I am struggling to find a song that I can pick out that beings be back to "Happy Days". Here are two theme songs that take me back:

 

[John Galt]

Don McLean’s American Pie always brings me to a stop. NO matter what I’m doing I need to listen to the words once again…

 

[Kira]

The contemporary hits of 1973 all send me back in time as I had custody of an uncle's 1966 Chrysler Newport.

It had no AC but did have an AM radio.

As a younger guy I remember seeing signs for Don McLane bar appearances nailed to telephone poles.

 

[vavavroom]

Just about anything that came out between 1980 and up to early Oasi in the early to mid-'90s. As a kid I did listen to a lot of music from the '70s. Don't Bring Me Down, Take it Easy, You Drive Me Wild, Run Through the Jungle, and Black Dog were among my favorites.

 

[Bottom_Feeder]

Band On The Run. Summer of 1974. What a great summer that was.

Yeah, 'Band on the Run' reminds me so much of growing up. I have no connection to it to a specific life event like some other songs, I just remember hearing it on the radio often during that time frame.

 

[Thomas Campbell]

 

[PF52]

"Summer Breeze" was a big hit in the summer of 1972. I was 7 that year..... That Fall, we moved away from my childhood home in Ohio, but every time I hear the opening bars of that song, I am 7 again and we're still there with the big back yard with the woods behind us, and the creek, and the giant tree where we used to put up a tent and spend the night, and the great rural roads where we learned to ride bikes, etc, etc.... My parents never used to have music around the house but I must've heard it a bunch of times on the jukebox when we went to Pizza Inn.

 

[RDMgr]

The entire Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore East album...Statesboro Blues, Whipping Post, In Memory of Elizabeth Reed and every other song on it. One of the best albums ever recorded.

 

[Bottom_Feeder]

Anything from Cat Stevens and Seals and Crofts takes me right back to hearing them on the 8-track player in my dad's '76 Toyota pickup.