There's not a lot happening here at the cottage so I found this post from November 2016 and completely updated it , I've crossed off all the older bits of music I had listed 2 years ago so I could include more favourites.
It's the Tracks Of My Years...........................
If you have ever listened to The Ken Bruce programme on Radio 2 weekday
mornings you will have heard a celebrity choose 10 music tracks that
have featured in, have a special meaning or are favourites in their lives.
Here are my tracks of my years and the reasons for choosing. 5 today and more tomorrow
Don't know why I like this but I just do
The Kinks- Waterloo Sunset from 1967
For some reason this reminds me of summer holidays at the Beach Station Caravan Site in Felixstowe. Mum owned a caravan there which was let out but we would go down quite a lot in the summer holidays. We roamed the site making friends with other children whose parents owned caravans there and with people who were just there for a weeks holiday. A girl whose name I can't remember ( but her Dad owned a butchers shop in Mendlesham) and I would sit by the check-in place on Saturdays to see if any nice looking boys were arriving...........We were about 12 or 13 years old!
This is a song from what was to have been a musical about John Betjeman . The musical never got made but I have a CD of his poems that were set to music and performed by all different artists. David Essex is more gorgeous now than he was back in the late 70's
The theme from Dances With Wolves by John Barry 1990
Just a couple of minutes of this and I'm in floods of tears......... weird. I didn't know much about Kevin Costner before this but managed to acquire lots of his DVDs afterwards
Take That - Back For Good 1995
Yes I was a 40 year old Take That fan!
More Tomorrow
Sue
Great choice of music, Sue - we have similar tastes, I too am an ageing TakeThat fan! The first single I ever bought with my pocket money was David Essex's Rock On, think it was 1973. I did like his long curly hair and twinkling blue eyes, and he's aged beautifully.
ReplyDeleteDavid Essex has such amazing eyes.
DeleteHello sue, yes it's gill in Ireland at last. Back in the modern world again. Love your choice of music, it's got me thinking.
DeleteYou have got 3 of my all time favourites here Sue!.Born Free all ways makes me teary for some reason!.I can remember going to see the film with my Mam n Dad when I was a kid...Waterloo Sunset,also reminds me of a summer holiday and my mate from school Julie....Back For Good,..Well I was a Take That fan too!.Ive still got their CD and video!.I cant bare to throw them away!.N I was far too old for Mark Owen,but still thought he was errrr...lovely,lol.xx
ReplyDeleteWaterloo Sunset must have been a hit during the summer so it reminds us of holidays
DeleteDavid Essex still brings a lump to my chest and I am 80.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the memories Sue.
Hazel
David Essex has such lovely eyes and still looks pretty good
DeleteIntersesting selection and now I need to think about my own. David Essex-silver fox-agree. Gary Barlow-would love to see him in concert.
ReplyDeleteI was a Artist at the Royal Variety Performance at the GIRLS With the WI it was magical and I remember Gary Barlow came and thanked us for singing.
DeleteHazel c uk
How lovely to meet Gary Barlow - he always seems a good bloke
DeleteOf your selection Sue, I agree about Matt Monroe, he was quite under-rated I think and Born Free is a sad song. David Essex I loved, he has such a cheeky smile. I have a long-standing interest in the Native Americans and saw Dances With Wolves a few times, always in tears at the end. The film theme doesn't mean much to me, but the photograph stills are also sad. I never was a Take That fan. The only one that I would include is Harry Nilsson's Without You, I have played that song over and over again.
ReplyDeleteMatt Monroe was a favourite of my mum - he had such a lovely voice
DeleteLovely choice of music. My beetroot was a success and absolutely delicious. Thank you for your advice on how to cook it!
ReplyDeleteGlad it cooked up Ok
DeleteI always loved Dessert Island Discs!
ReplyDeleteI grew up with groups such as the Beatles, and singers like Joan Armatrading then progressed to the Stones, Bowie and later groups that were not particularly top ten like Barclay James Harvest and Pink Floyd -
My first LP was Fairytale by Donavan and my all time favourite singers are Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison and Eva Cassidy. I also have a John Betjamin LP in my collection.
Take That was a generation after me.
whoops typo mean desert of course!
ReplyDeleteI prefer Desserts to Deserts any day!
DeleteYou may have given me an idea for a post :-)
ReplyDeleteFrom your list, I think only Waterloo Sunset would make mine but I do love Matt Monroe now I'm old and David Essex: he's gorgeous!
I would love to hear other peoples favourite music choices
DeleteOk Sue,I will tell you one of mine..Everlasting Love by the Love Affair.Ive still got their LP,which was a Christmas pressy when I was 14!.Its still got programms from seeing them live dated 1968.I got to meet them...swoon,lol.I also love all music from the 60s.They dont make em like they used to!!,xx
DeleteI had Everlasting love as a single and knew all the words once.
DeleteSue,I still know all the words,lol.I sing it alot cause I Youtube Steve Ellis.He still sounds great!Ive still got the single as well,along with Rainbow Valley.I go to Brighton alot and he lives there...Ive never bumped into him though,lol.If I did I would go back to being that nervous school girl and blush...if thats still possible at 63,lol,xx
DeleteWe have and did have, very similar tastes. David Essex was one of the three David's on my bedroom wall for quite a long time so it was lovely to hear Myfanwy again.
ReplyDeleteI had Davy Jones from the Monkees on one side of my bedroom and George Best on the other.
DeleteOh my gosh, Sue. Another two of my teenage heartthrobs!
DeleteI smiled about your choice of Take That, I took my eldest daughter to see them in Cologne 1994. Such happy memories.
ReplyDeleteLiving out in the wilds of Suffolk I never got the chance to go to any concerts - sadly
DeleteI think the soundtrack from Dances with Wolves is one of the best I've ever heard. I was listening to the credit music and it was so lush.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Best used to co-own a bar in Hermosa Beach ,CA where I lived when I was single. It was a meat market bar and I didn't go down there very often.
My walls had George Harrison and Mickey Dolenz.
Yes I have the CD of the soundtrack of Dances With Wolves - bits of it make me cry as I know what's happening in the film
DeleteShortly after the movie came out I went to South Dakota and drove through some of the areas that were used. The US Government has basically made the reservations 3rd world areas in the country that belonged to the Indigenous Peoples.
DeleteLove the themes from Dances with Wolves and Born Free.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Huge thanks for this - it sparked several happy hours of musical meanderings and memories of my own. T
ReplyDeleteLove your music choices especially David Essex and the Kinks who were a favourite band of mine. Dances With Wolves also makes me cry. On your next post the version of Sound of Silence was new to me but what a beautiful version!
ReplyDeleteDances with Wolves has to be one of my favourite movies....I have watched it countless times and still very tears at the end. The soundtrack is fabulous. Another favourite is Last of the Mohicans and I love the music from that as well.
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