Childhood memories: Music

It's funny how we connect music, sounds, and also tastes or odours with impressions, feelings, memories...

Sometimes, when I hear very old-fashioned music, I feel pitchforked back to a time way back when. Must have been the time before school started, although I was quite fond of school. At least until 9th grade. Then other things started to be more important to me. I made it through high school diploma anyhow.

But I digress.

Do you remember the following songs? They represent the sound of my early childhood:

• Middle of the road: "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep", "Soley, Soley", "Sacramento"


• The Fifth Dimension: "Up, Up and Away"


• The Archies: "Sugar Sugar"


• The Marmelade: "Ob-la-di Ob-la-da"


• Tom Jones: "It's Not Unusual", "Delilah" (OMG...)


• Jeff Christie: "Yellow River"
  
• B. J. Thomas: "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head"
  
• Dionne Warwick: "I'll Never Fall in Love Again", "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?"


• Tony Christie: "Is This the Way to Amarillo?"
  (remember, they had no GPS in those days...)

To be continued...

These songs (although they wouldn't appear on my favourite playlist) take me back to a time when the sun was always shining, as it seems...